ChiefChris1

Well...I can do it with a 30 sided polygon. I guess that will work for now.

Is there no way to create a round skylight in our roof so that it creates a roof opening? I can not convert a polyline with a rounded edge into a roof-opening.

I am looking for a land-survey, engineer licenses in Tennessee. (Nashville area). Dealing specifically with residential project - storm water management - overflow area. The homeowner wants to fill in and re-direct water flow in the SWM easement area in their backyard. The city says it's OK as long as we can provide sealed/approved drawings. Contact me here Thanks in advance.

I do suppose I could re-install an older version if I would need to. But for now, I think I'll just remove them.

Other than the rare occurrence of someone asking for a drawing to be done in an older version of Chief.... IS THERE ANY reason why I should keep past version installed on my computer?

I'll search again, thanks Perry. Found them HERE

I'm in need of some Residential Elevator CAD details for use in Chief. Would there be anyone here that could help me out with those? I have notes & specs. Attached MFR specs (PDF) Contact me directly here: selahdesignservice@verizon.net TIA Symmetry Elevating System.pdf

guru.com has been good for me over the years.

I set three raytraces to process overnight. The settings were the same on all of them. The variables are camera position and lighting. Two of the raytraces turned out well, the third one looks like there was a disco-ball. I remember this issue before - but I don't recall what the cause of the disco fever is. Is it too many lights? Not enough lights? Or...something else.... I guess I should say....it's more like someone spilled glitter. It's NOT the disco-ball effect. Attached the two good raytraces. The THIRD is the one with speckles....particularly on the wood panels and the white ceiling finish looks grainy. The first two, the ceiling looks pretty good, but the third is looks sandy.

Thank you Dennis Yes, this particular section of model is in the center of the 10th floor a high-rise building in Harlem, NY. (see attached image). NO windows at all here.

Yeah, I thought about doing something like that...but adding as many lights as I would need to make the effect would increase the raytrace time exponentially exponentially.

At this point in my time into this particular project, I will just use 4" round cans.

YEP. I learned that... :-\

Maybe I'm searching wrong - but I couldnt' find any there Dennis.

I am looking for 4" Square recessed lights.

Could we do that in a blank plan - perhaps a molding polyline - and then creat a light symbol with it? Then it would have light properties as a symbol.

I'm not concerned about that Lew. Thanks for your concern. My 3rd raytrace. I sent these three to my client and he said "Wow what a difference. These will work. Sorry for the lack in faith" I was sending 'final view with shadows' images for him to review before making a higer-quality raytrace. He didn't think I could provide a better image.

Here are two images I just ran on my antique work-horse. I don't remember how many passes these were...but each processed for about 40 minutes. (I am cleaning my keroseine heater and putting a new wick in...so, I'm keeping busy while my computer thinks...It's almost time to turn the heat on in the house...)

I'm not just sitting idle for those 27 minutes. I click raytrace, and then go do something else.... I'm not losing money/time while my computer processes the image.

The other issue is.... There is SUPPOSED to be a cove light around the raised wood-panel ceiling. From what I understand, we can't do that in Chief?

These all look OK. Thanks for the tips. This is what I have now....5 passes, 27 minutes. no adjustments

Each pass takes a few minutes on mine. I've attached the custom materials in this model. textures.zip

same as they were when I built it. ACTUALLY...I'm STILL running XP! It's nice to be "back" here...and I'm seeing a lot of old familiar names (now with faces)

I have no idea what football team that is on the TV. It is possible that my computer isn't up to all it should be. I've been using the same computer for 8 years. It was TOP of the line, maxed out when I built it.... I'll post the plan....there are three camera views I want to raytrace. Magnum - Elevator Lobby Render.plan

For example... This attached image I set for 12 passes. It took over 2 hours. It's horrible.