scottharris

Interesting issue – it should be solved in the attached plan. Because you used two walls for your exterior furred wall there are several little wall segments (visible & invisible). Perhaps you could build one wall type for the exterior block and the interior fur to make it easier? To ‘fix’ it quickly: I copied your plan, deleted the basement level, rebuilt it as an empty floor and did a copy/paste hold position from your original plan (with all layers on) Concrete Furred Stem Wall.calibz living-space.zip

You might check your video driver and update if possible. It sounds like an issue we have seen with older drivers (even when the computer is new)

For the interior renders with PBR, use a sun angle if the sun accuracy matters for your scene. In the sun setting for that angle (or the generic sun), try turning the intensity down, say 25K. And, set the color of the sun – white? Also in the PBR settings try adjusting the camera exposure (.3) and the brightness (50) – settings that you think look best.

Make sure you have lights for the scene, and in the PBR settings try adjusting the camera exposure (.3) and the brightness (50)

When you are drawing a wall, line or ? - BEFORE you let go of the left mouse button, press the tab key which bring up a dialog allowing you to enter information (note, this does not work in CA Interiors)

Gregg, this is what we recommend in our system requirements: NVIDIA GeForce

Mark, thanks much for setting up this webinar July 11 - looking forward to it.

Is this plan like what you are trying to do? See pages 8, 9 https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/samples/projects/lake-point/lake-point.pdf If so, this video at about ~19 minutes describes the process https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6185/foundations-for-extreme-slopes-lake-point-project.html?playlist=151

You might try watching the Floor Plan Basics video; and, then the Creating Layouts and Construction Documents video

Switching to the Mac OS is a big change. If you are comfortable with PC, that might be a good choice (and less expensive) We just bought 10 new laptops that work well – from Costco $900. Lenovo Y520, 16 GB memory, Nvida 4GB. Here’s a link: https://www.costco.com/Lenovo-LEGION-Y520-Gaming-Laptop---Intel-Core-i7---4GB-NVIDIA-Graphics---1080p.product.100347159.html

Here is a response on the 'why' for discontinuing the hardware lock security option

Chief Architect discontinued the hardware lock option for the following reasons: -the technology is significantly outdated. It was offered as one of our first security options in the early 1990’s. The software security lock began replacing it about 10 years ago. As of today, more than 99.9% of the customers use the software lock option -the cost for developing a future hardware lock given the outdated technology was significant – to the point where much of the engineering team would have sacrificed new development . The company therefore made the choice that it was best to support only the software lock security model We do apologize to those that have been accustomed to the hardware security option and hope the reasons above help to explain the “why” behind our change.

If I understand what you are looking for in the attached image and plan, you can build your floor framing automatically; then, manually adjust: 1) move your rim joist in 1.5” and trim the floor joists accordingly 2) copy that rim joist and move it the outside and change the material to rigid insulation 3) you will need to relocate the sill plate 4) do the CAD detail to match your pdf - that may require a "CAD Detail From View" from the section camera Foundation-Floor.plan

Looks like I missed this GTM. Was it recorded - and do you have a link to the video?