Rich_Winsor

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  1. On 3/12/2024 at 5:37 PM, StephenM said:

    I've attached an image of exactly what I'm wanting to recreate for a window.

    Don't like to see legitimate inquiries go ignored.

     

    Had a play with this. There are a lot of things going

    on here. Basically I ended up stacking 3D Solid cubes

    (set to a glass material) to make the glass blocks.

    Converted cubes into an Architectural Block and set

    it into a hole in the wall. Used a 3D Molding Polyline

    around the opening for the Casing. Hopes this gives

    you somewhere to start.

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  2. To get you started select (highlight) the room you 

    want to work on. Select 'open object" to go to the

    Room Specification DBX. Select 'Moldings' and

    uncheck the 'Use Floor Defaults' box. You now

    can use the controls to in the DBX to manipulate

    the base boards. If you click 'Replace' it will take

    you to the library where you can choose any style

    you wish. Hope this helps.

     

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  3. On 2/25/2024 at 3:19 PM, glennw said:

    This tool has been like this for yonks (as long as I can remember.

    Thanks for the meaning. You learn something

    new every day. BTY, just for the record, 'as long

    as you can remember' and 'a very long time

    aren't necessarily the same thing. ;)

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  4. 6 hours ago, DBCooper said:

    but shouldn't she be facing the other way?

    Well, thank you Mr. Cooper. For someone who ostensibly

    jumped out of the wrong end of a perfectly good airplane

    I can see where you might be confused. ;)

     

    I’ve done my due diligence on this one. The episode I was

    paying homage to wasn’t technically a ‘drag race’ but rather

    in the vernacular of the day it was a ‘chickie run’.  The two

    participants speed toward what could ultimately be their

    demise and the first one to bail out is the chicken. I took

    some liberties in my updated version but basically the young

    lady starts the participants while facing them and then turns

    and runs up the road as they blow by her. Here is the scene

    from filming the original:

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    The view I captured is obviously from the other direction and

    a second or two before their image. (As a side note if you ever

    find yourself in a chickie run I would strongly advise you not to

    wear a jacket with loops on the cuffs, but I digress) I was using

    some powerful design elements like the one point perspective

    to draw you into the center of the image where the young lady

    is vignetted by the plumes of smoke. All of this is a distraction/

    misdirection if you will, so you won’t realize the major flaw of

    the image in that she isn’t casting a shadow.

     

    What gives us the right to take such liberties?

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    TMI? Now aren’t you sorry you asked? B)

     

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  5. Ok, ok, enough already. Just wanted to do one more

    take on ‘drag style’. This is my updated homage to

    Rebel Without a Cause.

     

    Sometimes I wonder if you people realize the amount of

    effort that goes into creating these one off Chief images.

    To find a model to use for this scene I found it necessary

    to meticulously cull through literally hundreds of images

    of scantily clad, attractive young ladies waving checkered

    flags to find one in an appropriate pose and with a background

    I could easily make transparent. I know, it’s a tough job but

    somebody had to do it.  :)

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  6. So... I'm sitting here for the second night in the past

    3 listening to the drone of the Generac because the

    bankrupt giant utility company can't keep the power

    on. No cable or internet so I took the opportunity to

    have a quick play with my Chief interpretation of 'drag

    style'.

     

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  7. The easiest way is to use some image editing

    software to crop your 8x8 image down to a 6x8

    image and then use that image to create a 6x8

    material. 

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    Very cool tile BTW. It's a dogs head from whichever

    direction you view it. 

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  8. @DarlingInc I would be very cautious about upgrading just

    the GPU on a 9 year old computer. These new video cards

    are physically enormous and require oodles of power. There

    is a good chance the card will not fit in your motherboard and

    case and your power supply probably can't supply the cables

    needed to power it. 

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    By the time you upgrade your case, motherboard, power supply

    and video card you're probably better off shopping for a new rig.

     

    As for what level of performance to choose for the components

    I prefer to settle in one version below whatever is the latest and 

    greatest release. Usually available, cheaper, and more reliable

    without much of a drop off in performance.

     

     

     

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  9. 5 hours ago, robdyck said:
    6 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

    Pretty sure Rob was just being humous.

    Yes, it was just a joke!

    How dare you Robert! You should realize by now

    that humor is frowned upon in these forums and

    often even censored. People get so wrapped up

    in their little crises that they lose sight of the fact

    that laughter is in fact good medicine.

    https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-health/laughter-is-the-best-medicine.htm

     

    BTW, I thought your original response was both funny

    and appropriate given the amount of info supplied.

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  10. On 12/26/2023 at 12:27 PM, Kbird1 said:

    Hi Mick,

     

    Thank you for your interest in Chief Architect Software.

     

    At this time the furthest out we are extending SSA renews is through 12/31/2025.

    Unless of course you are a special individual. B)

     

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    I ran all the numbers and by far the best deal for existing

    SSA holders is to extend your SSA for 2 years. At this rate

    you are paying $49.58 per month for 24 months. You will need

    to call sales to get the 2 year deal as it is not available online.

     

     

  11. 12 hours ago, TCB_BdnMY said:

    I dont mean to offend... but maybe i do... looking through your posts, are all of your "answers" this cryptic and rude? This response adds nothing to the conversation, and pretty much only serves to your ego.

     

    12 hours ago, DeLayDesign said:

    This is why I blocked "Solver"

     

    Wow! To each his own but you guys are way off base IMHO.

    I would venture to say that Eric has spent more of his time

    helping posters to this forum than 99% of the members here.

     

    Over time I can see where he has come to the conclusion

    that It is far more worthwhile to teach people to do things

    for themselves than it is to do those things for them over

    and over again. The old "teach a man to fish" thing.

     

    I can see the wisdom of this approach. Are we here to learn

    the program or only to be spoon fed solutions?  Emogi-3s.png.d5004aee6ac5752e1577ef11f035e2f9.png

     

     

     

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  12. Do you want to hide them or just make them fit the

    window opening? If you apply the window treatments

    from inside the "Window Specification" DBX the

    pulls will resize to fit the dimensions of the window.

     

    It looks like you applied them directly from the core

    library to the window.

     

    Depending on the view type you use you can hide

    the pulls by changing their material type to "opening

    (no material)". They will be hidden in Standard and

    Physically Based views but will still show in Vector

    and line views.

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  13. 7 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

    I don't mean to be offensive, but I have never understood the desire to keep trying to make a mac work in our industry,

    I'll probably get lambasted for this but I have never

    understood why Chief insists in devoting  so many

    resources catering to such a small market share. 

    Doesn't make sense on any level to me. :ph34r:

     

  14. So you’re measuring an as built for an addition and there is a large feature

    (tree, structure, utility pole etc.) on the lot and you would like to get a good

    quesstimate of its size. Here is a quick and easy way using only a stick or

    pole of known length and your cell phone:

     

    Measure the length of the pole and then stand it up beside the feature you

    want to measure.

     

    Back up a ways to reduce distortion and take a photo.

     

    Import your photo into a Chief plan and measure the length of the pole in the

    plan. If the pole is the correct length (run out and buy a Lotto ticket because

    it’s your lucky day) but it most likely will measure shorter than its actual length.

    Divide the known length of the pole by the measured length in the plan. This

    will give you the resize factor you will need to enlarge the photo.

     

    Select the photo in the plan and use the Transform/Replicate to enlarge the

    photo by the resize factor you calculated.

     

    The photo is now to scale and you can pull any dimensions you may want

    from the plan.

     

     

    In this example we wanted to get a good ballpark figure for the height of some

    redwood trees on the property. I had a 17 foot piece of pvc pipe which we stood

    up for the photo.

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  15. Nice enough walk-thru but what's up with that reefer?

    It's at least upside down and backward (maybe inside

    out to boot). There is no way to flip or rotate it to make

    the "chilled" read right and if those handles are really

    down there then there is no way Perry or me is ever

    gonna use it. 

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