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Adding on to what Rob said, you can save your terrain model as a symbol in your library and place it as many times as you want in any configuration you want..same with the neighbors house

Send image to plan and then plan to layout, then you can crop out. Just change your layout box border accordingly.

Welcome to our community Eric, glad you chimed in. Could you give an example of a detail you'd like drawn and I can give you an example of how quickly it can be drawn in chief using the tools that you may not be aware of or familiar with. Sketchup definitely has a great approach with its input-as-you-draw technique, CA differs but is still very fast with the right methods.

Duet Display is available for Mac and Windows, or you can use the built in Sidecar app

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What mark is suggesting is a workaround to having proxy models. Mark, I just want to hijack your thread for a sec and encourage people to go chime in about this at my PBR requests thread in the suggestion forum. This really does work and is a great tip. This was a hot topic at the booth, I got asked this several times as well. +1 to Mark Along with Mark's tip, I suggested to set furniture/entourage symbols on a room-by-room layer basis as PBR will only process activated layers...if the geometry isn't there, no processing of said geometry occurs. Further suggestions were to batch process textures to reduce resolution. Purge CAD blocks Purge Macros Reduce Undos

Might need to report that. If you could fill out your signature with computer spec and version info someone may be able to better help you. Is it any library item and a new plan?

Got married, thank you. As Rob said, define the room as "open below" and it should fix it for you

Take a look at this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html?playlist=100 Also when you get a chance, please fill out your signature so we can better serve you on future requests: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/18908-signature-here-at-chief-talk I'm guessing you are sending the same plan view to layout multiple times. With the method of sending plan views to layout you would need to establish a new plan view for each separate view you would like to send to layout.

Hey Rock, Long-TNS You mind posting a plan, I'm not quite understanding the construction assembly that would allow a window to be placed between floors.

Diversify. I train in electrical, I'm a consulting GC, I offer product renderings, I offer interior (FF&E) design, media production and photography, logo design, photoshop and sketchup training all on top of rendering, drafting, performance calcs etc. Go get certified as LEED builder, get certified as a HERS rater..etc. I absolutely have elaborate budgeting schemes but they are all automated. I put my spare time toward learning new trades and getting new certifications etc. If you net enough projects for the month and they only span 3 work weeks, block off the last week for personal development and research/marketing.

Absolutely, though I have a very diverse set of services I offer, I'm pretty sure if I just stuck to design/drafting ONLY I would still break it, no problem...I am in California where the dollar is short, but still charge various clients around Canada/US the same rate. Work on your efficiency and it should be in sight. Macros help I'm also never off the clock.

I put as little spec in plans as possible, for me, it only invites scrutiny. What I found was that just because one plan checker wants a million details on this particular plan doesn't mean he wants it on the next. It becomes very apparent when another checker sees the plans and asks why on earth I put so many details. I simply budget in 1 revision set because of this.

If a 1060 is too slow than you won't see much improvement in a top of the line gfx card either IMO..time to look at what you are modeling and work on methods to trim the model. Try posting an example plan here with all texture files associated with the plan. Someone can analyze your textures and plan and give you better advice.

Per typical CA function, you can simply select a rail section, drag while holding tab to key in a coordinate shift.

It's a dead platform but for Raytracing in CA, it's hard to beat the X99 Xeon processors on bang-for-the-buck. They can be purchased on eBay for pennies. My rendering machine uses a chip that can be found for $300 on eBay and this machine recently benched 19th globally overall from available benchmarks for the rendering software I use. I've really gotten my money's worth. I'll probably build another one in a couple years. Easy to draft in a fast laptop and kick it over to the desktop for rendering. If you'd prefer the PBR method you should definitely take a look at some of @TheKitchenAbodePBR threads in the forums

Change that exterior room to something other than "deck"

Care to drop your contact info here for everyone and possibly a sample? I'd be interested, sending you a PM.

Not that they couldn't, just not much value in it for them, they've already sold the job after-all. Most people who contract with me for renderings take a hard look at the hours they've invested in creating renderings and they realize I charge less than what their hours amount to and with better results. When PBR was released, decent looking visuals were in arms grasp, but it takes a special character to say enough is enough when it comes to plugging in the hours. When people take a look at their historical data they may find that they spent 24 hours on their last project to produce 2 renderings at a company billing rate of $100/hr, yet I would've charged them $1,000 for a better looking set of images. I've been getting a lot of these calls this year alone as people took a hard look at the financials in Dec and see an increase in design administration cost. That being said, I focus on several major points as a rendering artist. Scalability-Can I spend the same number of hours per sq ft, or room, to produce the same level of product every time. Necessity-Are high end renderings necessary to sell a product Audience-Is my client a visual person, can they already visualize a design with lesser mediums. Marketability-Is this design something that can become marketable material, promotions etc. Value-How many hours will be necessary to convey the design. Does the size and overall cost of the project warrant the number of hours and cost of the rendering. Economics of Scale- I often times find myself convincing clients to increase their scope, it helps to know a good broker/lender and what projects will lend themselves to financial lending success in the future. Lets skip your kitchen remodel, do the addition first, refinance after the addition and we will design for both now and I will provide renderings. Or...ask your builder for multiple renderings projects to be done at one time. References-Why do anything if you never produce more work. Will your client give out referals, can you call on them later. Will the extra hours you put into a rendering be the tipping scale for a reference, or are you working with an NDA and you'll be lucky if you are ever called again. Truth of the matter is I only barely compete with rendering companies oversees...it just comes down to value. Keep tabs on yourself, track everything. Renderings take you longer than you may think, and are you getting paid for that?

Why didn't you already have an indemnification clause? Even if you aren't charging you can be held professional liable. Take a look here, a few years old but good clause(s) with explanations: https://aepronet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PNN_2016_02_templates-for-reasonable-contract-clauses.pdf $85-$100 is typical on the west coast, I like to bid a project based on historical data. Occasionally I use allowances or set a range with a not-to-exceed clause. Site measurements and produce an as-built/bid sets will cost $800-$1,200. Full permit sets, including several design iterations, will be an additional $3-$5K, or simply an allowance of $5k with a clause about allowances. I see design-build firms charging in the $2-3K for site measurement and architectural sets. They typical make no profit at that price. Need to be clear that an engineer will be needed as well as title 24 etc. Also need to be very clear about knowing current building code as annotations and paperwork alone can blow your contract price with nothing covering your accrued hours. I keep in constant contact with the client about the milestones and accrued costs of the design, and You absolutely should be charging for this service as it can eat up tens of hours.

Revit has plugins, it can arguably produce better visuals in every regard, thank goodness for CA's .3DS exporting capability

I work with people from all over the world and have in past worked for local companies on a full time basis. My experience is that I almost never have to leave the office. So long as I have someone to perform takeoffs, I can work at a remote location and I work at all hours of the day and night. If you're interested at all please contact me. I'd be happy to lighten the work load. You can see some samples of my work at www.behance.net/renerabbitt cheers, Rene Rabbitt renerabbitt@gmail.com (925) 300-7004