Rich_Winsor

I don't know if this is what the OP was talking about but there were a whole set of features that apparently haven't been brought forward to this version of the forum. There was a list of all the active users ranking them from the highest total of posts on down to people with just 1 post. There was a list of the highest rated content (based on reputation points) given to a post. You used to be able to see who else was viewing the thread you were viewing. I'm sure there are some more I'm not thinking of at the moment. While they certainly aren't game changers, I found them all useful on occasion. Maybe some of these features are still lurking here somewhere and I just haven't found them yet.

I did one of those many moons ago. It involved using Polyline Subtraction. I can't find the plan right now but I have a couple of saved images. BTW, has anybody heard from Bill Emery lately. I'm sure Bill could build that roof. He was a big help to me at the time.

Is the window that you have Chief open in maximized? Try hitting the Maximize/Restore Down button in the upper right hand corner of the window.

Chat room posts don't get counted in your post total. Didn't get counted in the previous version of the forum either. Who knows why?

You know, ya'll see this as an opportunity for more work, but I can't help thinking this is just going to lead to a major reduction in the quality of life for everybody involved. Our infrastructures weren't designed for the added level of use this type of expansion will generate. Who wants to fight for parking places in front of their own property? Who wants to see dozens of trash cans lining the streets on pickup day? Who wants to hear the neighbor's in-laws arguing over the back fence? Or their pets carrying on? Or the rowdy kids blasting music at all hours? How are emergency services going to access all these places? Has anybody really thought out the consequences of this law? If it leads to squalid overcrowded conditions and decreased property values what have we gained? Geez, if you want to live like sardines in a can move to Tokyo. JMHO

Don't know about you guys? These vids all play fine for me. But Bob, walk thru doesn't do it justice. It's more like a mad dash thru.

Don't know what to tell ya Chop. The vid plays in all of those Win10 apps on my rig.

Hey Chop, it runs on my Win10 machine running XVID 1.3.3. It is in gray scale (no color) though.

lol! Thanks for the reply Dan. No, "followers" would not have been my choice either. Hey, I'm just a guy doing drafting on a computer, not a messiah. Seems kind of condescending to be asking to be a follower as opposed to a friend. JMHO

To answer my own question I found it here.

I have never been a fan of change just for the sake of change. I must admit that so far I don't see anything of great enough significance to warrant a revamping of the forum. It's like when the local market decides that they are going to rearrange all the items in the store. All this does is inconvenience all the regular customers and it isn't going to bring in more new ones. Things I have noticed so far include no numbering of the posts in a thread. No friends in my profile section (I didn't have many but where did they go?). And what happened to my post count? I worked hard to accumulate over 500 posts and now I'm back down to 496. And what happened to the preview post feature? I used that a lot to proof my entries.

No file attached but scroll down the list and check out this thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/11617-how-to-draw-an-arched-entry-porch/

Have you tried the suggestions in this thread? Your mouse can be programed specifically for different applications. While you have Chief open in an active window, open the 3Dconnexion Home dbx/window. Navigate to the Advanced Settings screen where you will find you can control all aspects of how the mouse functions while using Chief.

Very nice indeed Chop but the question remains unanswered. We can't tell from the images. Were you able to accomplish the mitered corner joints? How does it all look in Vector View?

2D trees don't cast shadows. You need to use 3D trees if you want the shadows to show.

I haven't had much occasion to use the sidewalk tools, so I was disgruntled to discover that Chief apparently has no provisions for making control or expansion joints in sidewalks and slabs. I don't know anybody who pours concrete without such joints and it's little touches like this that add believability and realism to a scene. This is what a standard 48" wide sidewalk looks like in our neck of the woods. Not just an unbroken expanse of concrete. To accomplish this effect I had to make an array out of 50 2' x 2' segments of sidewalk. And Lord help you if there is a driveway involved.

Whoever hung those "shutters" apparently was unclear on the concept of what a shutter is. Granted they are obviously intended to be purely ornamental as shutting them would not cover the window. I don't think you can get that arrangement using Chief's Window Tools. Chief want's to have shutters that will cover the window area when shut (and rightly so).

Yeah, I had a play with the three wall approach. The catch is that you can't get a tight enough radius unless you use a very thin wall. This, of course, leads directly to the 5 wall approach. BTW, for some reason that curved wall section really slows down my machine too. Didn't crash it though.

Seems easy enough but I haven't been able to make it happen. I don't need a curved wall. I need a curved corner on the 90° intersection of 2 straight walls. I can achieve the effect using a molding polyline but then it doesn't behave as a wall. I tried a vertical quarter round molding at the intersection but the walls snap together at the corner and override the molding section. Any thoughts?

I'm always on the lookout for interesting seamless textures. I found these on the web somewhere and "lifted" several of them to add to my library. They have a sort of Art Deco(ish), or is that Art Nouveau(esque) flavor. Here is a little vignette I threw together using a couple of them for wall covering. BTW, I forgot that this RT was cooking so this might be a personal best for me of 275 passes.

Can't say about HD Pro but I'm pretty sure Chief sells actual printed manuals and user guides on their website if you want to get a "hard" copy.

While on the second floor try the Reference Floor Display.

No problem, I enjoy seeing how Chief's capabilities stack up against other programs. Might I ask, what software was used to render your examples? P.S. I really didn't work all that hard, but my CPU asked for a day off after that session.

Sorry for the tardy response CB. The image on the left is a symbol of the false ceiling that I saved to the User Library. I made the shapes out of p-solids and solid subtraction (or maybe it was Hole in Polyline Solid). Once you have the shape you want take a 3D view with only the shape in it (nothing else). Then from the "Tools" drop down menu select "Symbol" and then "Convert to Symbol". Once you have the Symbol you can resize it to fit any shape room by dragging the edit handles. That is what is pictured in the thumbnail. There is no doubt that all that indirect lighting takes a heavy toll on Ray Trace time. As a workaround I put all the indirect light sources on their own layer (Lights, Indirect). That way I can turn them all off as I work with the rest of the image. I believe there are 226 indirect light sources in the scene along with the 8 additional lights in the room. I had a play with it over the weekend. Here is a recreation of one of your thumbnails done entirely in Chief with standard Library content. Well, actually I made the armchair in the foreground and the end table lamps. It was a case of it was easier to make 'em than it was to fake 'em. I basically concentrated on the ceiling effects and didn't do any adjusting to the lights in the room. It could use some more passes (I think this was 40 passes) to smooth out some of the graininess but it should give you an idea of Chief's capabilities.

Anyone have an explanation for this? I meticulously duplicated the camera positions of Cameras 1 & 2 so they are identical. So why do they display differently in Plan View? We really need copy and paste functions for cameras and Undo and Redo functions as well. Is there some technical reason why these functions won't work for cameras?