Rich_Winsor

The answer is: Ctrl+Alt+S

It took me a while but I finally got around to creating a Hot Key List. Holy Cow! 130 default Hot Keys? And I can’t even remember to tie my shoes in the morning. I was going to print out a cheat sheet but the html file converts into 3 printed pages. Am I supposed to just man up and commit all 130 (+ any additional customizations) to memory? At some point doesn’t it become a tossup between finding the Hot Key and just executing the command? Back in the day of Lotus 123 and the like they used to have keyboard templates (probably still have them for all I know) that showed Hot Key locations. Does anybody use something like that? How do y’all handle the myriad of Hot Keys?

The question is: What is the Hot Key for "Start Camera Spin"?

Thank you both! I find it a bit odd that it isn't a more accessible part of CA. Have the tech team just decided that this is one the very few things on a house that is not important? The software is so advanced in almost every other aspect. I have never seen a house without them. The fact that a client might not ask to see them is, I think, irrelevant. The final image just looks better and more real when they are included.

 

Planning how and where the water runs off not only the roofs, but the property itself, is a big deal. Our neighbor didn't take it into account when building his house in the early nineties and the mud around his house almost caved his cellar in as it was saturated with water running down slope under ground towards his house from where our house sits. I'm not saying that it's the job of someone doing 3D visualization to plan for all this, but as most houses have downspouts I think it would be nice to be able to include them in the final rendering and maybe even to be able to show simple pipes under ground to indicate where the water will be led off to just to show a client that you have thought about it. The actual solution need more engineering and knowledge of the terrain.

You're preaching to the choir here, Geir. From the basic layout of the lot terrain 

to the final aesthetic of the building façade, gutters and downspouts play an integral

part in how a design unfolds. Hard to believe they are given such short shrift here.

I'm using a 286 machine will that do the job?

Uh.... yeah, sure Vinnie that 286 rig will do the job....

...if the job you have in mind is a new door stop.    

That reminds me just last year I finally threw out an

old 386 machine that had IBM's OS/2 WARP installed.

Man, installing that OS was a trip. You had to feed 36

3 1/2" floppy discs in the proper sequence and pray to

God that none of them hung up during the process.

Actually the OS worked pretty well.... at least for playing

the installed version of Mahjong which was about as far 

as I got with it.

Doesn't the EVGA website allude to the fact you can upgrade free (if you qualify ) if you brought the card in the last 90 days Rich? worth checking out , they have had there StepUp program for years...

 

http://www.evga.com/support/stepup/

Hell KB, "allude" doesn't do them justice. They practically try to cram it down your throat.

Funny thing is it is almost impossible to find out just how much I would have to StepUp.

I didn't see a price anywhere. I think for now and for what I am trying to accomplish a

measly 3GB of GDDR5 will have to suffice.  

You know, when all these decisions are weighing on my mind I like to find my way to the

observation deck on my garage roof and kick back in the chaise with a tall cool one. For

some reason it always makes all my problems seem insignificant.

Hi Ho Geir, I'm going to tell you everything I know about gutters and downspouts in Chief Architect. I too searched the sample drawings in vain looking for just one example where downspouts were used. I even started a thread in the HomeTalk forum before I upgraded to Chief. Here is that link:

http://hometalk.homedesignersoftware.com/showthread.php?18992-The-Great-Missing-Downspout-Conspiracy&highlight=downspout

Chief does have an assortment of gutter styles in the Core Catalogs under the Architectural/Exteriors/Exterior Attachments section. As for downspouts the only ones I have found are located in the Chief Architect 3D library under the "Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing" section. You will have to download the "Water Supply and Drainage" package. This package contains some very rudimentary bent and straight sections of downspout. Be forewarned that getting these parts to line up to form a decent representation of a downspout is an exercise in aggravation. Just to show you it can be done I have attached the image of the one and up to this point only downspout I ever created with HDP'14.

As for your roof tile you will probably want to explore the various manufacturers offerings in the "Materials and Surfaces" section of the 3D Library.

 

You do know that EVGA has announced a 6GB version of the card, right?  http://www.evga.com/articles/00830/

 

jon

Jeez Jon, couldn't you let me bask in the moment for a while

before pointing out my new card is already becoming obsolete?

Seriously, I did see that when I was scoping out the EVGA website

to be sure my system had enough grunt to handle the new card.

Actually as Perry commented, I prefer to have a card that has been 

out for a while so driver compatability issues have been resolved.

Thanks Rich,  now I can do it your way,  my way and  with a  coffee cup in my hand listening to the news.  I don't know what was so hard abut it.  BTW,  I never had to use the wall connection tool,  the walls auto fixed themselves.   

 

But,  but,  this is what I can't do......  have the curved wall on a tangent to a wall looking "clean".

My Chief Architect rig is up on jackstands right now so I can't test it out but I have a theory about the walls autofixing themselves. If the doorway is centered in the walls using the "Center Object" tool the walls will auto-connect properly, but if the door is not exactly centered then one side or the other may require some massaging with the "Connect Walls" tool. In the most recent attempt when I put the door in the straight wall segment and then moved that segment into the circular room I just eyeballed it. As a result both sides did not display the same way which resulted in the need for the "Connect Walls" correction. At least that's my theory.

Never really took a stab at merging the curved and straight walls without a doorway involved as that wasn't a condition the OP was interested in. Maybe I'll give it a try when I have my CA rig up and running again.

I didn't realize what a slug my Quadro 4000 was for running Chief Architect

until Doug Park posted this link.  http://www.videocard...h_end_gpus.html

When I built this rig as a SolidWorks workstation a couple of years ago it

was one of the preferred cards to have for that application. Anyway this

should take care of that problem. Looks like I will be going under the hood

for an upgrade this weekend.

Rich,  I  could not get it to work,  the curved wall did not merge with straight wall.  The only way to do this for me was to break the straight wall at each side of door opening.

Dang it Scott, now you have me wondering if I can recreate the solution.

Just so I know I'm not going crazy I did it over again. This time I placed the

door in the straight wall before I moved it into the circular room just because

it makes it easier to tell how far in to move the straight wall. Some steps had

slight variations from my first attempt but the end result was the same.

Doug,  Still getting used to the new forum, I cannot find a way to attach a file in reply (only in a new thread).

Jason, you need to click on the "More Reply Options" button in the

bottom right corner. From there you will be able to attach files.

Thanks for the vids Scott. Someday I'm gonna have to figure

out how to do that but I have enough on my plate for now.

Here is the elusive tool I used in step #6 above.  

This would be better served by a video but since I don't do videos I'll take a stab at explaining the process.

1) Draw the circular room with the curved exterior wall tool and place a straight exterior wall just outside the circle. (thumbnail #1)

2) Select the straight wall and move it just inside the curved wall so that there is enough space to accommodate the door width. (tn #2)

3) Place the door in the straight wall. (tn #3)

4) Use the break wall tool to put a break in the curved wall on either side of the door opening. (tn #4)

5) Delete the curved portion of the wall in the doorway. (tn #5).

6) Select the straight wall, click on the "Connect Walls" tool and then click on the curved wall. The walls will merge. (tn #6)

7) Finally you can select the straight wall and drag it out closer to the edge of the curved wall. (tn #7)

And that in a nutshell is how I did it. Of course this is just a proof of concept approach.

To recreate all this to exact existing dimensions will probably pose additional problems.

I wish you luck.

Interesting little problem. Here is what I was able to come up with.

The walls have to "flatten out" for there to be enough room to fit a  

door. I used a 48" wide double door and a 30" wide single door.

Very nice indeed and far better than I am capable of at my present skill level.

However I do have a slight criticism (for lack of a better term). It is something

that I have experienced in my initial attempts at creating walkthrough videos 

in Chief. As the camera approaches the impressive front entry it would be so

much more effective to have it pause in front of the entry doors and then have

them swing open before entering the structure rather than just barging thru

the closed doors. I don't know if it is even doable with the software. I always

seem to end up opening the doors in 3D view before creating the walkthrough

rather than moving thru the closed doors. Just one guy's humble opinion.  

BTW, the kitty licking it's paws is a very nice touch.

So that makes you a gun totin tree hugger. No conflict there as long as you ain't shootin the trees. 

What Larry and Perry said and if you get some gaps between

the roof planes use the "join roof planes" tool to clean them up.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/372-barrel-ceiling/

I feel like a dog chasing it's tail,

Is this the video in question?

 

You get 10 points each day to award to posts you like, 1 each day to award to posts you don't like.

 

 

Not sure how I feel about this. Is there accountability involved? Does the person being rated (either positively or negatively) see who is rating them?

I'm not usually one who is resistant to change, but I'm finding lots of little things that seem less productive than the previous forum's tools. My latest gripe concerns the attached thumbnails and how they are navigated. Specifically I hate the new "flyout" tabs that take you to the previous and next images. "Prev" flies out in the upper left portion of the screen and "Next" flies out clear on the other side of the screen. Add to this that the close tab remains in the lower right hand corner and you have to wheel all over the screen. I've got a 30" monitor. That takes 24" to cross the screen and another 12" to 30" to get down to the close tab depending upon which side of the screen you start from. Do I qualify for frequent flier miles for my mouse travel? 

 

 

Well I guess one way to boost your post count is to reply to your own posts.

Live and learn. You can now scroll thru multiple thumbnails by using the left and right arrow keys. Something that was not available in previous forums. However I still think the mouse navigation is ill conceived.

I'm not usually one who is resistant to change, but I'm finding lots of little things that seem less productive than the previous forum's tools. My latest gripe concerns the attached thumbnails and how they are navigated. Specifically I hate the new "flyout" tabs that take you to the previous and next images. "Prev" flies out in the upper left portion of the screen and "Next" flies out clear on the other side of the screen. Add to this that the close tab remains in the lower right hand corner and you have to wheel all over the screen. I've got a 30" monitor. That takes 24" to cross the screen and another 12" to 30" to get down to the close tab depending upon which side of the screen you start from. Do I qualify for frequent flier miles for my mouse travel? 

As I mentioned before I also really miss the simple "previous thread/next thread" links. I must be the only one who cares but the only way I've found to get back to the previous thread is to hit the "Back to General Q & A" link and then scroll around to find it again.

Just my .02 worth.

Perry  you handsome devil,  I tried getting a  picture of me up,  but it is always to big of a file....  any tips?

You might get one of those New Guinea headhunters to do their shrunken head deal on you.

Sheesh! I can't even find the right thread to respond to. Am I missing something. Where are the << Previous Thread | Next Thread >> links?