Rich_Winsor

It would be nice if Chief would augment their 3D modeling capabilities to include drawing 3D lines and being able to extrude shapes along those paths. In SolidWorks for example you simply draw a 3D line along the path you want. Then you create a sketch plane at the end of the 3D line perpendicular to the line. In this sketch plane you can create whatever cross section that you want the feature to have. Once you have your sketch you extrude it over the length of your 3D line and voila, you have your 3D feature.

Not sure about everything you are asking for but as far as the siding showing on the wrong side of the wall all you have to do is use the "Reverse Layers" tool and it will put the siding back on the outside and the sheetrock back on the inside.

Don't know what happened but the link worked this time. Thanks Joey.

Link didn't work for me?

That's the one I was talking about. I thought I had saved it but my User Catalog is such a hopeless mess I couldn't locate it. I saved it again and now I have 2 identical symbols called Gutter Downspout so I guess I found the original one. I couldn't use it at the time because I needed the rectangular cross section and I couldn't figure out how to put a 90° bend in the bottom.

Don't get me started on this issue again. I think this is one of the most neglected aspects of the software. Efficiently removing water from the roof planes and away from the structure should be of primary importance to any good design and the placement of these features also play a significant role in the aesthetics of the building façade. I have always wondered why this area is almost completely ignored. I haven't checked recently but when I was looking into this a couple of years ago I couldn't find a single example on the CA website that featured downspouts in the renderings. Now that I have gotten that off of my chest, the answer is that no, there are no automatic features and there is darned little available other than in the the library Mick listed. I think (Glenn?) may have posted an example also. You can cobble the parts together manually but the process is laborious. Here is an example I did back in my HD days using the library items Mick referenced.

Yusuf, you better return the Mona Lisa before they realize it is gone.

Why does the simple act of changing from Standard to Vector view change the color of my roof planes? Edit: Sorry, brain fart here. It's been a while since I worked on this plan. Forgot that I had fooled around with different shingle colors using the adjust materials definition tool.

Oh ye of little faith. Where there's a will there's a way.

Thanks fellas, I don't care what everybody says about you, you guys rock. It's so much easier to play the dumb a$$ and ask for help than to do the research to find the answers.

What keeps the water from falling out of the lake?

I know that Einstein proved we can bend light but I sure can't. Any ideas, suggestions, approaches to achieving these kinds of effects? BTW, I have the dove covered. that was the easy part.

This was in this month's CA newsletter.

Here's my take on this. Is not an "as built" set of drawings as defined in the AIA standard exactly the same as a set of "measured" (exitsting) drawings? Since in most cases owners don't supply us with "as built" drawings of their houses (drawings of exactly how the house was built or last remodeled) we often have to go and measure the structure and prepare such drawings as a starting place. We are making "measured" (existing) drawings in lieu of having a set of "as built" drawings to work from. But would not both sets of plans be the same?

Well then, it's only a matter of scale.

Hi Ann, take a look at this plan. It was easier to draw a new building than to rework yours. In this plan both roofs have a 1 in 12 pitch. If that doesn't work for you just select the roof planes and change the pitch in the Roof Plane Specification DBX. The reason your back wall is misbehaving is because your roof planes don't extend far enough to reach outside of the walls. Hope this will get you on the right track. garage1a-rev.plan

Can't speak to X5 options but here is what is available in X7.

Here's my quick take based on your PDF file. Is this what you are looking for?

Interesting, I guess my CPU is having a good day. I reran the ray trace using all the textures this time and it beat the previous (no Textures) version by a second.

I don't know of a single person who has updated to a SSD who would ever think of going back to "spinning disc" drives. Get the biggest SSD you can afford and you won't regret it.

When a mouse goes bad.

In this case I would recommend a preemptive gripe.

Here's what I get with my 8 Intel Core i7-3770K CPU cores chugging along @ 3.50 GHz. Same deal as Larry. Missing a lot of textures. Edit: Oops, forgot that the export picture feature doesn't show the ray trace time. 10 passes - Ray Trace Time 3:11

This conversation has taken an interesting turn. Just who is the arbiter of good taste in design? Just who should be empowered to impose their will and taste upon everyone else? I have a sister who happens to live in one of the Eichler homes in an exclusively Eichler neighborhood that Richard references. I find it amusing that these tracts that were generally considered by the locals to be the lower quality houses in less desirable areas are now considered worthy of protection. I would venture to say that any new house (foreigner) built in one of these neighborhoods would stand out like a sore thumb by exposing the insipid Eichler's for what they are. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. A local gal penned this little ditty in the sixty's about just such a development. How ironic that these "little boxes" are now deem worthy of historical preservation.

Or depending on just how close you need the tile to match you could take an existing flooring sample from the Library Browser and adjust the Pattern and Texture using the Adjust Material Definition tool.