Rich_Winsor

Jo Ann?..... Is that you? .....

Try this.

There was a situation similar to this a while back. You might want to check out this thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2786-what-came-first-house-or-plat-or-does-it-matter/

If you notice you can upgrade the Asus to a SSD for $70. It's only 256GB but if you can live with that it's well worth it.

If you are looking for 2D people this site has a bunch of them. http://skalgubbar.se/

Your image is too small to see what's going on but I will take a stab at it for you. I'm not sure what software version you are using. It looks more like HD and not Chief. Here is what might work for you. Check the "By Layer" box for line weight for main layers #4 & #5.

I should live so long. No, I did an image search for cityscapes to use as a background and found that image. It wasn't what I was originally looking for but I thought it was cool and it had approximately the right perspective to use for the shot. I've got no idea how the original was made. Keith, that's why I call it "watch your step". Besides there is no way for the inspector to get up there to check for handrails. Actually I've been experimenting with constructing some handrails but with the geometry of the situation I don't know if I can pull it off.

Personally I don't know what the moaning and groaning about the stairs tool is all about. I don't see anything wrong with the stairs. Here is an offering from my impossible construction series of images I like to call "Watch Your Step". This is a 100% genuine non-edited, non-retouched, non-exported for rework Chief generated image.

I found the fittings on 3D Warehouse under pipe fittings. They had several sizes and included alignment marks which they claimed would facilitate making the connections. It all looked good on paper but when I imported the symbols they wouldn't perform as advertised. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears and lots of tweaking X, Y & Z coordinates to line things up. Luckily I only had to do one branch and then mirror it to the other side or I might still be pecking away. I don't know what the deal with 3D Warehouse is. Everybody says go there and every time I do I have some type of problem with the imported symbols. I think it's about time I take the bull by the horns and put some serious study into rolling my own.

And now for something completely different. Kind of like the 3D pipes Windows screensaver.

There is one that is about as simple and generic as you can get in the Library Browser. Of course you will have to get Glenn to show you how to locate it because I am still clueless.

You need to use a different Codec for walkthrough recordings. The ones Chief supplied OOB didn't work for me either. XVID is a good one. Google it and download it (it's free) and then select it in the Codec Options section in Preferences.

Well, I don't know if this thread is closed or not, but I will cast my vote for a decent search feature for the Library Browser. Seriously, I just did a search for a mailbox. How hard can that be? You can enter any combination of the word, upper case or lower case, singular or plural, hyphenated or two word and you will get the same result. Zip, Zilch, Zero, Nada. You can enter simply an "M" and scroll thru the dozens of items listed but you won't find a mailbox. In fact after you enter the first three letters you will get no results to scroll thru at all. Yet they are there. Maybe the question should be just what can you find using the search feature?

Here you go Robert. Be advised that reverse engineering my plans can lead to severe mental anguish. Culvert-10.plan

He's a real Nowhere Man Sitting in his Nowhere Land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

For what its worth I had occasion to revisit this topic as I needed to model a culvert that was slightly more sophisticated than just a pipe in the ground. I ran into the same problem the OP had in that whenever I lowered the culvert into the terrain it filled the hole in the culvert. I experimented with Bill’s approach of putting plugs in the ends of the hole but I couldn’t make it work. However what did work for me was to place the culvert into a terrain hole of the identical size. Anyhoo… this is what I came up with.

You've probably found it by now. Check in "Preferences" down near the bottom under "Render" you will see the "Video Card Status".

Well then I guess I'm with Jintu on this one. "God only knows"

Look in the lower right hand corner of the post.

Perry, what do you consider "a very large file" to be? I did a 6 1/2 minute walkthrough of my 2 acre site plan and the file size was a tidy little 390 MB. Sheesh! If I continue to flesh out this plan the walkthrough might not fit on a DVD. I'm a little confused by what you are calling "screen capture videos". So what you are doing is piecing together a series of individual screen shots with a voice over as opposed to an actual animated (for lack of a better word) video? Care to post a little sample? BTW, not to hijack the thread but this was my first foray into using Dropbox and I must say that I am completely underwhelmed by the experience. My crappy little 20 second 4.5 MB fly around file posted above displays much better (crisp image and smooth as butter rotation) with the Windows Media Player than it does when displayed on the dropbox link. Is this one of those you get what you pay for deals and since I didn't pay anything (i.e. free version) I'm getting what I paid for? And oh yeah, that annoying "sign up for dropbox" window that appears on the link, am I right in assuming that it would go away if I cough up the 10 bucks a month for the pro version?

Hey ARCBC30, You can have the camera height change during the exterior fly by. Here is a quickie. One complete 20 second revolution about the structure starting at ground level (20") and finishing at 40'. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jlcr0ujddtlfeg/test%20walkthru-22.avi?dl=0

I don't know Glenn, the messed up orientation doesn't seem to be a problem for me. Maybe the cat is trying to tell me something.

I was just messin' with ya Glen. I suspected there was more to it which is why I put a question mark after my original reply. The OP mentioned that he wanted to rotate the plan and the terrain and the tool in question does do that. Actually I may be the second person to have actually used the tool. I used it to rotate a long skinny site plan 90° so it would fit the shape of my monitor. So far the only drawback I have noticed is that I have had to rotate my sun angle 90° also.

Well see, there you go. I knew it was a trick question. Why on earth would anybody use the "Rotate Plan View" tool to rotate the plan view? BTW, I strongly advise not using my suggestions too.

Wow, how magnanimous. $200 off on a $14,500 rig and a two week build time to boot. I won't go a penny higher than 14K and I want it by Friday. Seriously there have been several threads on this topic. A search of the forums for "upgrades" will lead you to some of them. This was one of the better ones. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/504-best-computer-for-running-cheif/?hl=upgrade