Rich_Winsor

Dave, I find your proficiency both inspirational and annoying. +1

I've been repeating this until I'm blue in the face (well actually green in the face). All this aftermarket stuff is great but not germane to a Chief software forum. What is germane is anything that leads to improved results with Chief software. I don't think you can argue the point that starting with the best possible image from Chief will yield the best results when taking it to post production software. If I were a moderator I would remove all these non Chief type of posts. If you want to see how Chief would import to a post production software I would suggest that you log into one of their forums and ask what is the best way to import a Chief file.

You guys are killing me. I would hope that that there are programs out there that can produce outstanding results, but this is a Chief forum. I am all about achieving the best possible results using Chief software. If you want to go somewhere else fine but, let's focus on what's possible with Chief.

lol! Reminds me of the old adage: There's no such thing as a free puppy.

According to this link, no. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00027/what-operating-systems-does-chief-architect-run-on.html

Can't say about the 4K display functionality and your hardware setup but you should also consider operating system requirements. According to this link: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00027/what-operating-systems-does-chief-architect-run-on.html X2 will only run on Windows XP, Vista and 7. You may have some issues getting full functionality out of your 4K display with Windows 7.

If you want to control your operating system then go back to Windows 7. If you don't care if Microsoft controls every aspect of your operating system then go with Windows 10.

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.