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With over 25 years of experience, I have designed homes all over the United States. My design philosophy is to get to know my clients by listening to their needs very carefully. I can then produce a design that fits both their functional needs, as well as their style. I also work with other design professionals when they need assistance meeting a deadline or just have too much work and not enough time. Please take the time to view my website at www.designersink.us to view samples of my recent work. You can also check out some of my work at www.facebook.com/designersink. I can also send you examples of recently completed construction document plans sets upon request. It is always my goal to EXCEED my client's expectations. I look forward to an opportunity to exceed yours!

I haven't tried it, but I would think you could name the rooms Living Room 1, Dining Room 1, etc. for Unit 1 and Living Room 2, Dining Room 2, etc. for Unit 2. If you add Room Name to your schedule, it should separate them out on the schedule. If you don't want the numbers to show on the plan, you could manually place the Room Names you want and not show the actual room name in the dbx. They would all be on the same schedule, but at least they would be separated.

You will also find this is common when you import a file from the 3D Warehouse and try to change the texture on it inside Chief. The new texture will sometimes look pixelated. If you check the Global Symbol Mapping box, it will fix the issue in most cases.

Select the wall you want to paint (you may have to break the wall so the paint doesn't extend into other rooms). Then use the Wall Covering DBX to apply a wall covering from top to bottom.

You can just use the material painter to paint the windows white or whatever color you chose. You can also go into the material definition and change the transparency to 0%. In a vector, there is a setting in the Camera -> 3D Views settings to make the glass opaque.

I use Teamviewer to Remote into my computer. It is free for personal use and fairly cheap for commercial use. I haven't had any issues seeing anything on my remote desktop that I see on my computer desktop with this program. I've been using it for years. I also use it to remote into my mom and mother-in-law's computer to quickly troubleshoot issues they are having. It is much easier than explaining things over the phone. Great program.

I can print it to a .pdf for you to get you through until you get if figured out with Customer Service. Just send me the files and page sizes you need them in. If it hangs on me too, that might help diagnose the issue since we would know it is not your computer configuration.

I get that on longer videos pretty often. The solution I found was to download free program from Anysoft called Any Video Converter. I then just convert the video file to a "custom .AVI" at the higher resolution (even if the file is already an .avi file. The file then opens fine for me. For some reason, if I keep the video under 29 seconds, it opens fine without having to go through these additional steps.

You can access your computer remotely from another computer using software like Teamviewer. Basically, you would have the software on your office computer, then remote into that computer from a laptop or even your iPad or Android Tablet. I've even pulled it up my cell phone to look at stuff real quick. Obviously, it would not be optimal to design a home on your cell phone, but with a laptop, you can do anything you can on your office computer remotely. The images on the laptop are just just images of what your main computer is doing, so you can use the horsepower of your desktop computer to run the software, but have the convenience of the laptop to take with you to see clients. You just need a good internet connection.

I know this thread has been kind of hijacked at this point, but I think this is something the original poster should see. I just finished a complete re-do that a licensed architect with outstanding credentials (on paper) completed for a client for a fee of about $20,000. They just wanted me to model it to give them a better visual of the project before they built. While looking at the plans, I immediately noticed numerous items were not up to code, there was a wood burning fireplace in the basement, but he forgot to put in a chimney or any venting, the basement, 1st floor, and 2nd floor walls did not line up, and the list goes on and on. The architect had worked with the client for almost a year before I got involved. After unsuccessfully trying to get the architect to make the required corrections, the client finally just paid me to redraw the construction documents from scratch so he could get it permitted and begin construction. After really taking time to connect with the client to understand their desires, we ended up coming up with a completely different layout. The client commented that the architect was designing building he liked himself, and not necessarily what the client wanted. Just my opinion, but I think it is more about knowledge of the designer or architect than simply having a piece of paper that says you are an architect that makes you good at this profession. As in this case, many licensed architects concentrate on commercial designs and have much less knowledge of residential design requirements and current design trends than a good home designer. I think clients should see if you have a good connection with the designer or architect first, then let the portfolios and past client references do the talking as to if they are qualified to handle your project or not. There are good building designers out there, and you can save a lot of money by using them and still get a quality product. I know architects don't like the competition, but this is America baby! I'm with Perry on this one.

I'm at 36 seconds.

It looks like you haven't placed any lights in the room. Try adding some lights or even some light sources to the room and make sure they are turned on.

I sent you an e-mail with my contact information. I am located here in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Please let me know if I can help. Thanks,

I would image it will depend strictly on your computer setup. Before my last upgrade, I would turn stuff on and off to keep my surface count down, but I don't seem to have those issues with my current setup. After looking at your post, I looked down at the project I was working on and saw my surface count on an exterior view of the house was over 18,000,000. I usually fill the house with furniture from the 3d warehouse, so that usually gets the surface count up there pretty high on my projects. Chief handles it well, but only with the higher end computers. I have done several apartment complexes with multiple buildings, parking lots, landscaping, cars, etc. Chief has always handled it well for me. The attached image is the view I was looking at.