Renerabbitt

i need to import text styles from a plan template. anyone know how?

I just don't like component grouping based on a material since twinmotion cant distinguish one room from another, so if you have the same color paint in chief architect on a through wall, you wont be able to change room color from room to room in twinmotion

no plugin, just export as 3ds or dae and import into twinmotion

Open Corner Wall Assembly:

you can do an early renewal, call them up tomorrow

if you are up to date on renewal then it should be in your locker in public beta form

M1 will still raytrace I believe in X16, try it out

is that an M2 chip? that can do a PBR raytrace in X16

just curious, what machine do you have?

thought I'd throw in a lil plug. I've spent a ton of time developing ceiling height macros. check out this vid. you can always try and recreate this function yourself

youd have to script in logic for owner vs referenced or simply make a new macro that is referenced, or put in %referenced.area%

downside is sometimes you jus dont have enough room in the box, though some panels support GFCI slims, not all do. If we've gotta squeeze more breakers in for code on an existing box, then go the route of a GFCI outlet

You can always turn on a label for electrical connection to show a branch circuit label or you can use polylines that can produce a schedule that looks like a panel schedule

You would die from pain if you saw Yoda's plans

well now I gotta try this

In a 3d view, your mouse cursor position shows you the z value of your terrain's surface if the terrain is selected. that z value is the offset from your first floor. Thats a pretty quick and easy/dirty way of doing it. Example Video: 240606 (3).mp4

This is close to NKBA and is how I have it set up in my kitchen and bath templates and my pro plan's Kitchen SPV

more often than not someone is UV mapping a texture to an entire mesh instead of divisioning elements out the way we do in chief. This is common practice in order to reduce the texture resolution and maximize graphic memory resources. You would need to remap the texture. Also, 3dsMax supports really really high poly counts. I wouldn't advise purchasing them in the future as they can really slow down the program to a hault. Reccomended Cap is 50K poly assuming a low vector line count after smoothing is applied. A 300K poly item with a ton of vectors can hault chief. Sometimes I can get away with a matterport scan of 600K but its a real chore

Well..first off...its not NKBA if you are dimensioning to Cabinets in a plan view. Should be dimensioning to casing line 1, center of fixture line 2 then overall line 3. I like to add in cabinet labels personally

You and @robdyckdont use match lines? My muni wont take 3/16

different plan templates for different scales would be a lot easier

Rene or Rabbitt is fine So I read through the rest of the post. A couple of things to keep in mind. A room defined by room dividers set to a room type that has a mono slab may be a much better approach. Style Palettes can be created from a room type and a style palette can offer a single click spray for applying or swapping your custom fields. A style palette can only swap all custom fields, so its never a bad idea to utilize code/comment etc. as these can be swapped independently or in groups using style palettes, especially because they can be renamed in schedule as well as material fields and can also automatically report to a material list. Another benefit of this approach is that materials can generate their own designation of length and width of roll without you needing to manuall adjust a macro. see screenshot: Which means you could add a layer to your floor assembly in order to achieve this, thus further automating since you could make multiple mesh materials for a quick spray and swap. You could of course drop a text box in a CAD detail with globals for setting the values easily and then drop a callout linked to that cad detail on your drawing sheet for quick access to all of your global parameters so that its easier for your end user. Also keep in mind you can make a custom unit of measurement in preferences. All this to say you could have custom placed library objects linked to various style palette single click sprayers to adjust yoru settings with one click as well as other custom materials to adjust the reporting material also linked to custom placed library objects on your toolbar for single click actions. have fun

You can find several posts where I point out that we simply do not need a complete model(mesh) to create construction documents. it takes me roughly 30% additional hours creating a model I could do a takeoff from..simply not worth the time. Check the math on your end, a good framer will do takeoffs in 2-3 hours and cost a few hundred bucks, vs the several extra days of work it will take to do an accurate takeoff. I could name a hundred other users that would tell you the same, and even one recently that went for it anyway and just came back a year later and said the same thing. Please put your efforts into something else I beg!

How is the Xidax?

Custom_Fields is a hash so you would call it similar to other keys in Chief. It is in the Manual: here is a super quick video, hopefully helps: 240529 (3).mp4