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Agreed! It's been a while since I had to do something similar with half exposed round timber trusses...thanks. As for the multiheight first story...I set the open area to 13' ceiling height. Then built a second floor only over the lowered (8' ceiling) area. I've not bothered about the windows crossing between these areas yet, and with the open ceiling I've had to turn the interior attic walls to invisible so the exterior attic gable walls remain on. Much more effective than two complete stories so far.

Thanks for sharing. In this case the 'open to below' single story spaces have 10' garage doors in them. So setting the second floor to the top of the 8' interior spaces messes with the walls. Fixable but just another hassle. Next time I'll try just two stories over the stacked space. And raise the roof/ceiling in the single story space to match.

Make sure the video defaults are correct in X1 Render Preferences setup. Since its working in all the other programs it should be working in X1. Swap the settings on items like hardware acceleration...don't remember X1 Preferences.

Small Commercial project has two common issues. This is truly a single story space. It is a metal bent framed building w/ concrete block infill walls. In one corner are lower ceiling bathrooms. Issue One: Model as Two floors or One? There is only one true floor in this building, yet there are small two story or covered spaces inside the building. How do you tend to handle this scenario. Issue Two: One wall has three finishes: Above one of these 'interior' spaces the exterior wall is the simple block finish. The wall in the interior space has the two commercial finishes for bathrooms on the furred out portion. Standard drywall over 4' of solid surface. Another item is modeling a steel bent roof. Steel structure is under Purlins. Insulation between purlins. Bents are tapered so no good way to model them and no ceiling surface. What options do you have for this? Didn't find any sketchup models for tapered bents in the 3d warehouse either.