DRAWZILLA

He really only needs the floor plan, I would share it with him, he is your guy, He is not in the design business he's in the HVAC business. Anyway anyone can steel your designs if they want to, and you may never know about it. Try not to think about someone stealing your designs until it happens, then you may try to do something about it, but until then think forward not backward. I have been copying home designs for 45 years, to remodel them (new and old plans). Never been a problem. All someone has to do is change a few things , then it's fair game.

This issue has been around forever, I have turned it in many times, with no fix so I gave up.

Joe goes out of town sometimes, I use some of his macro's but I don't think he had to update for X11.

did you add some, lights to the scene, and your video card is pretty old ,but ray-traces use mainly the CPU try a PBR instead.

search the lib, they are there now

I think the brick ledge is not working as it used to. I used to be able to get any surface ( brick or drywall ) to go lower than the floor level by adjusting the brick ledge level. Not anymore.

Looks good to me , should last a long time

did anyone try the new pattern/ texture sync button?

I would use a p-solid for that as a soffit is either sloping or flat. but not both

That should be fine, just check for update of the video card drivers

Just not directly.

I don't think so.

Could be a video card issue, update drivers.

You can also set up the default ,rooms DBX ,so it goes faster for you. There you can change multiple rooms

BYW, if you have multiple page templates in you plan put the page templates as the last pages so it won't interfere with your pages numbering.

Thanks again guys, very informative .

Ya think it might have something to do with the macro cap. thing?

I set them using anno-sets.

Never really had a problem with that, it must be some setting though, or bringing a plan forward.

TRY THIS, In the render tab of preferences set your hardware edge smoothing to High.

Then I guess make a pony wall with the lower a partition wall and the upper not.

.try to check those railing walls as "Partition walls" in the wall DBX. New tool. . They will not go through

All I know is I have many of Joe's macro's from a few versions back and they still work fine for me.

That used to work for me but I don't have X8 on my computer anymore.

I have set up a layout system of already sent my sections, elevations etc. and all views to my layout ,thus never having to mess with them other than adjusting their location and window size for different plans. The anno-sets are always the same as I sent them.