Rich_Winsor

If your roof planes are properly constructed the fascia boards will match up.

Need a little more info to tell just what your problem is.

I know it will destroy the magic, but would you mind to post another rendering from another POV after the contest?

So… you want me to spill the beans (as we say over here).

Such a simple yet powerful illusion. Think about it. All the

walls are exactly the same height (count the bricks). They

are not tapered or skewed in any way and all of the corners

are at exactly 90°. All the surfaces of the water (save for the

waterfall) are perfectly level. How can that be?......     

All the distortion is in your mind……with the help of a little

embellishment with PSP.

I have a few observations on this topic. I was under the

impression that one of the main reasons this new forum

format was implemented was superior spam prevention.

When spam is present I would like to be able to simply

mark it as read and be done with it. I don't know how

everyone else reads this forum but personally I just log

on, click on the "first unread post" dot beside the first topic

on the page and go from there. When I get to the bottom

of each thread I don't go "Back to General Q&A" but merely

hit the "Next Unread Topic" link. There is no way to know if

the next unread topic is spam or not so it is quite easy to

inadvertently open an unwanted topic. If I have to go back

to the General Q&A page after reading each thread it will

make using the forum a very unpleasant experience.

Here is my latest entry in CA's Pool design contest.

In paying homage to the great M. C. Escher I have

created a self-filling pool. The secret is all in your

point of view.

Right clicking on the "User Catalog" in the Library Browser

will give you the options for adding new content to your library.

....So my Mom and her Husband are moving back to San Diego after 10 years in Oregon.  They have two cars to bring down along with a horse,  four dogs,  3 cats and a parrot....... all in two cars.

 

 

Hope you don't have to drive the car that has the horse inside.

Jonathan, I had some grandiose goals when I set out.
I was initially working with a circular exterior wall and
a hemispherical dome on top but when I started poking
holes in that roof rendering it brought my rig to its knees.
So in the interest of expediency I stripped it down to an
octagon which rendered quite acceptably. The real kicker
is that I still have this new GTX 780 Ti video card sitting
here on my shelf because up til now I just haven't had
the time or real need to install it. It will be interesting to
see what kind of improvement the new card will give me.

Jon, I like the "flavah", although I didn't realize that ice hockey

was all that prevalent in the Asian culture.   I'd give ya a

"like" in the contest but unfortunately I don't have nor do I

intend to get a Facebook account so I can't vote.
 

Forgive me while I indulge in some shameless self-promotion. Here is my entry in Chief’s Custom Ceiling Design Contest. I have been playing around with a lot of different concepts lately (round structures, cupolas, curved roof planes, sun light angles, etc.) and I had this crazy idea to combine them all into a custom ceiling design. Since we are in the period between Memorial Day and the 4^th of July I settled on a patriotic theme I call “Hail to the Red White & Blue”. Initially I had circular exterior walls for the structure but the roof became too complex and the time it took to redraw after every edit or change of view became prohibitive so I went with an octagonal exterior which rendered much faster. The design features an oculus in the top of a cupola set on top of a domed roof. The dome is pierced in eight locations by star and bar openings which accent the cupola and cast striking sun light images on the inside of the structure. Since the contest rules limit the entries to a single image file it is hard to effectively do justice to everything that is going on so I have attached some additional images. Check out the contest submissions here:

 facebook.com/ChiefArchitect

If you “like” it enough I could get a free memory stick out of the deal.    

I believe "they had it coming" is a valid defense in many jurisdictions.

Pretty much as Mick called it. Just draw 3 manual roof

planes and lock and adjust the Ridge Top and Fascia

Top heights as needed.

Dang it David, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I can't explain it Joe.  I think others have mentioned this.  Maybe it is our particular computers.  All I know is if I take too long to type my answer and then hit the post key,  it does not get posted.  Everything I typed disappeared into the abyss.  

I too have experienced this phenomenon and it's definitely

exasperating when it occurs. It certainly would be nice to

have this problem addressed but there are things you can

do to minimize your losses. First off I always go directly to

the "More Reply Options" window to compose all my posts.

I have on occasion been dumped back at the forum sign in

page when I hit the More Reply Options button after starting

a post in the Quick Reply Window. Then, of course, you can

copy your response to the clipboard before hitting the post

button (never a bad idea if you have a substantial amount

of time invested in composing the post). Finally if all else fails

Chief does Auto-Save the content of your post at periodic

intervals and you can often retrieve all or some portion it if

you navigate back to the original thread and re-open the

reply window. Look for the "View Auto Saved Content" link

located at the bottom left hand corner of the posting window.

I'm a little rusty at this. Not sure if this is any better.

Give it a whirl. The resolution looks pretty good in

a sample view.

Interesting, I never really thought about it but if

you put a default window into a default exterior

wall (with a default floor to top dimension of 80")

and take a couple of cross sections this is where

the 80" is measured.

See if this works for you.

I whole heartedly agree with all of the above.

However, since Chief seems loath to abandon 

the feature I was just suggesting a simple way

to make it more effective.

Nelson:

 

I really like the nice look to your range top and hood.  I always struggle with SS appliances and have never been happy with the results I get.  What material are you using there and what setting/properties did you use for your view(s)?  Thanks.

 

PS:  I think everyone who starts doing ray traces is unhappy with the OTB dark ceilings. 

Curt, you might want to check out this thread from

the new HomeTalk forum. Kat has supplied some 

very nice materials for SS appliances.

https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/15-kitchen-appliances/

OK, so I have this idea how to make "Reputation Points"

more meaningful. Generally speaking what type of posts 

would be the most helpful? Obviously the ones that were

deemed by the OP to have solved the problem (i.e. the

ones selected as the "Best Answer"). I propose that any

post given the Best Answer designation should automatically

generate a Reputation Point for the poster. I think that this

little tweak would steer the whole point system in the

direction of being a barometer of who is supplying useful

information and away from the present "you scratch my

back and I'll scratch yours" type of situation. We have all

seen situations where a simple "ditto" or "I agree" post gets

a Reputation Point and a spot on informative response

that solves a problem gets nothing. What do you think?

The system is far from perfect but I think this little change

would steer it in the right direction.

Here's a sign for a pedestrian crossing that for some inexplicable reason Chief forgot to put in the Library.

Lifted straight out of Monty Python and The Ministry of Silly Walks.

My personal favorite was this one on an office door:

                  Department of Redundancy Department

Damn, I looked high and low for that bugger. Thanks Jon.

Whenever I have double doors I like to display

them in 3D views with one door open and one

door shut. The problem is that when I do this

Chief always removes the doorknob from the

closed door. What's up with that? Just because

I'm displaying it as closed doesn't mean that I

don't want the knob to show.

3D Warehouse objects are free, they are not culled by any quality control, anywhere. The window you downloaded and used is poorly made, that is all there is to say other than "you get what you pay for". Some symbols from 3D Warehouse are well made and some are not relative to use in Chief Architect Software, that is all you are up against.

 

DJP

Hi Ho David. I appreciate the time honored concept of GIGO

(garbage in, garbage out) and there seems to be an ongoing

debate about the value of much imported 3D content. Given

that I usually pass right over about 95% of what I find online,

I guess my question is how does one tell the potential quality

a downloaded object relative to its use in Chief Architect? Is

there something I should be looking for or is it simply a matter

of trial and error?

You must have really pissed someone off Lew.

Apparently you are not being credited with the

Reputation Points that you are being given. It

looks like you have been given +3 points for

your "Best Response" on this topic alone, but

your reputation count still shows zero. If I were

you I would retain an attorney.      

In the words of the late great Marvin Gaye: "What's going on?" I found this crusty old broken window online (3D Warehouse I think) but when I put in my plan I'm getting weird results. Since my plan is a little quirky (to say the least) I have put 2 of the windows into a basic 4 wall plan to isolate the problem. When viewed from one side both windows perform as expected. But when viewed from the opposite side, the window in the far wall displays in front of the window in the near wall. Anybody have any ideas what's going on?

Broken Window test.plan

Dang it Lew, I know how you feel about Reputation Points

and I basically agree with you 100%. But you provide a lot

of valuable input to this forum so I went ahead and gave

you a point to get you off the schnide.