Rich_Winsor

Well, there you have it. Chopsticks comes thru again.

If I'm not mistaken Alaskan_Son did a nice video demonstrating how to build that. The bad news is that I wouldn't know where to start a forum search for said video. Perhaps you should look him up or vice versa.

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Upon further review.... I see what you are saying. For some reason the center of the sidewalk now snaps to the street side of the curb, thus creating the problem. In X8 the center of the sidewalk used to snap to the sidewalk side of the curb. Looks like a bug to me. You might want to report it. While you're at it ask them why the center of the sidewalk is used as the snap point? Seems like we should be able to choose either edge as the snap point. I didn't see anything in the defaults to change this behavior.

Move your sidewalk over so that it lines up with the inside of the curb in plan view.

Aw shucks, you beat me to it Michael. That's just how I would have done it. You are the man! Another +1.

Where's Bill Emery? I'd bet that Bill could pull off something close to that. Many moons age he helped me pull off a swaybacked roof in Chief. His approach involved curved invisible walls and Polyline Subtraction to form curved roof edges. Seems like a similar approach might work here.

I'm not seeing any difference in the two images. Have you tried exporting the ray trace as a .PNG file type?

Nigel is the man! You got a hold of the right rep. If there is a solution he will find it. That guy can troubleshoot anything.

I recently got 8 points for telling a bad joke. The only deal was that 5 of them were positive and 3 of them were negative. Can't prove it though as the post has subsequently been pulled.

Here's an example of Polyline Subtraction I was playing with a while back.

Good stuff as usual, Michael.

You should receive hazardous duty pay for dealing with those misguided bozos. Imagine an American city that would bar their fire department from having the flag displayed on the fire trucks.

Pretty sure, but you couldn't tell because I attached the wrong thumbnail. Doh! Also looks like it's working for you now also.

For what it's worth, everything seems to be functioning correctly now. I have no idea why as I haven't done anything different on my end to change the behavior.

No Chop. There is no reason to go back and view the topic since there have been no replies since my post. Here's what I get as I type this response. Sam Ting

You know, I never pay much attention to these features and things like this are probably why. So I sign in to the forum, read about a dozen of the new responses and then go to sign out. As my mouse pans up to the top right corner of the screen to hit the sign out drop down menu I catch my avatar and not my name and the mini profile window opens. I just happen to notice that the window says that I am currently viewing the topic "Architectural 3d rendering services". This is all well and good except for the fact that I haven't viewed that topic since I made the last post in it on Wednesday at 2:05AM. In fact I have had two separate and complete (log in and log out) browsing sessions since I viewed that thread. So where exactly is Chief gathering the information displayed in that field?

A heroic effort Michael and very informative, however if you happen to check out the pics of the actual structure posted in a different thread it looks to me like getting a squashed dome roof will be the least of the OP's worries. The whole structure is composed of (for want of a better description) free flowing forms that are not necessarily composed of any regular geometric shapes. As I said in the other thread this is not the type of structure that Chief is suited to modeling.

I'm guessing the OP is talking about something like this. Here is a little project I have been fooling around with in my spare time. Modeling a structure completely out of molding polylines as Joe outlined in post #3. Check out that floor plan and try to guess what the building looks like. And here is the actual structure under construction.

The text is 3D text from Chief's Bonus Catalog. You can find it in the 3D Library under Specialty/Other/Misc. There is only one style of font but this was one of those happy circumstances where the only font was a dead ringer for the actual letters on the building. BTW, that reflection in the center doors is the only known photo of me in existence.

Isn't this what it's really all about? This is after all a Chief message board. If someone decides to use a different software program to do post production work on their Chief images that's irrelevant to me. I'm working with Chief. And doesn't it also stand to reason that even if you do intend to drag your Chief content into another application for said post production work, it will still be beneficial to start with the best possible images that Chief is capable of producing?

Here is an example of using Material Regions to cut the grooves in the cement wall. The columns are stacked P-Solids with a skinny P-Solid in between to represent the grooves but all the grooves in the walls are Material Regions set to "cut finish layers of parent object".

That's an interesting one. Here's what I get when I open your plan and hit "H".

I believe "thanks a tun" would be an appropriate reply here.

Here you go Marina. I originally edited your plan in X9, but I see from the paths to the missing textures that you were using X8 instead. So here is your plan in X8. There are two saved camera views. You can open either camera and start a Ray Trace. In the Ray Trace Current View box click on the Edit button and you will go to the Ray Trace Options dbx where you can see all the settings that were used for the shot. You can also open the Camera dbx's and see all the camera settings there. Hope this helps and here is the second camera image. 4512_Fair_Oaks-X8.plan