Rich_Winsor

Is this one of those trick questions? Don't we call those skylights?

Wow! X12, seems like it was just yesterday but I could hardly find my way around. I didn't see anywhere to create purlins but for a work around you can use Rafter Lookouts for purlins. I just deleted the lookout on one end and extended the lookout from the other end the length of the roof. It's a bit tedious but you can adjust the dimensions of the lookouts and set their bottom heights as needed.

The question is why not? I requested this feature years ago and all I heard from Chief was crickets. This would be so useful to users of all abilities that I would think it would be at the top any kind of list prioritizing potential improvements to the software.

Best posted to the General Q&A forum. For a quick hack you can use a 3D Solid but you won't get an open space above the windows in an interior view.

Don't think you will find it in the library and if you do it will be 2D as Gene mentioned, but if you are a glutton for punishment you can model your own 3D siding panels. Create a closed Standard Polyline in the shape of your panel cross section and save it to your library as a molding. Here are a couple of samples of 3D siding that I have modeled.

I think you're selling Chief short.

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you hanging. Don't you just hate it when real life impinges on your message board experience? Here is a sample plan for you to peruse. Curved Roof.plan This is where "modeling it to suit your needs" comes in. This is a sample of what Chief is capable of. You need to tweak it to suit your situation. Hope some of this helps. If you need someone to step in and model it for you I would suggest listing this over on the Seeking Services forum.

Yeah but... your logo is backwards on your baseball cap.

The inside structure is there. You just need to model it to suit you needs.

I had a quick play with this. Experiment with the "Curved Roof" tools and you should be able to get the roof shape you want.

Just monkeying around.

Ok, ok, so it's not really an Accessory Dwelling Unit. But it is a way cool tree fort in a 100 year old black walnut tree complete with the Jolly Roger and a spyglass to tell when the adults are coming.

Aren't we over thinking this. Create a 3D solid the size of the tile you want. Use the Chamfer Lines tool to bevel the edges and apply the "Mirror" material to the 3D solid. Use the Multiple Copy tool to distribute the tiles on the wall.

As this is my 1,000th(not counting Chat Room and censored content) contribution to this forum I wanted to make it a meaningful one. So I have decided to share my design for a split level ADU that we built on the property. Although we didn’t bother with getting it permitted I’m sure with all the recent relaxing of requirements we would have had no trouble getting it permitted had we gone that route. Feel free to use any of the design elements if you are thinking about taking on a similar project.

Not sure if this is what you are after. Have you looked at DWG TrueView? Its from Autodesk and its free. https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg-trueview/overview

Like Jason said it's a little hard to see what's going on. The glass on the porch floor looks better than the glass that is/is not in the window. I think it will look better if the individual panes are broken rather than a big section of the glass missing across multiple panes. Be sure to add some spiderwebs and cobwebs in the corners of some of the panes. Your textures are looking great except that the grain is running the wrong way on the horizontal window muntins. (hate when that happens) Keep up the good work! Really like what you are doing by trying to get the best possible output from the tools Chief supplies instead of just telling everyone to use some different software programs for renderings. I had to go back to X6 to find this broken window I had a play with. As I recall I set the window glass to no material and made the broken pane from a thin 3D solid set to the standard glass material.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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? TMI? Now aren’t you sorry you asked?

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.

Depends on how long ago you broke it. A simple Undo will remove the break if you just applied it.

Is this one of those cases where life imitates art?

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'.