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LA county--hate it but have done a ton there. Nice to have someone in the neighbor hood close by.

Yes renders are not raytraces. If you are doing a raytrace, you can up the resolution but it will take longer to do.

This is something I did that is similar to what you want. I fount this pattern somewhere but I don't remember where now

Are you sure you are doing a raytrace, or a rendering?

I still say the trusses will delete the rafters underneath them. Changing them to floor joists might work.

I f you put all your pdf's in the plan file, then it always knows where it is, and you don't need "save in plan"

Joey, Orange county, That's where most of my work is, I've done over 4000 projects there over the last 40 years. Your a neighbor. Have you been there long, we also have a few others here.

Did you open the pdf and check save in plan? I save all my pdf's in the plan file but if you don't make sure you check this.

Trusses will delete any stick built framing automatically so you will have to do it manually. There is also a bug where mixing stick built framing on a second floor over trusses will delete some of the trusses below. I told chief about this several versions ago. The answer is to do it manually. You may have to fake some section views with cad lines and p-lines to look correct.

Try the room wizard, that's a quick way to get started with the layout. Its in the space planning section of tools

I'll bet he is still wondering how anyone did this. teach a man to fish thing.

Ok, that it, I'm out.

If you leave that gap between walls don't forget to call it a room, of some kind (I call them Closets, so its included in the S.F. ) or your square footage and foundation will not be correct.

Yes you are Scott, and you can go first in the door, I'll bring up the rear. It depends where his office is.

Jim, I don't want to come alone, you know, that saw in half thing.

I guess he will have the just change the cad block to indicate GFCI. simple

there are some horiz. outlets in the lib.

Thank you Mr. Trout.

And of course multi-line labels for all that and everything else.

How is it possible to be in SF and LA.

I think the icons chief creates only work in Chief.

The first thing I do around here is check the parking requirements. That can make all the difference with the design.

oops, forgot to post.

Lew I didn't ask him to use another program for other uses. I simply said have you tried. Simple as that. Why do you always want a fight about which program is best, let me guess, you use it. Other people have different setups, while one program may work one your machine it may have conflicts on another.

I use a reference layerset just about every time I send a view to the layout, for a lot of reasons. Mostly so you can see the first floor exterior walls and roof on the 2nd floor and visa versa. It's the only way to fly.