Michael_Gia

Wow now that's some heavy coolaid drinking right there. Mac has it's problems but have you not been on any Windows forums lately? Microsoft and Apple have both become misguided and deaf to their user base lately. They really should just merge at this point. I hate them both equally. I have both a PC and a Mac.

These are absolutely gorgeous! Nice work. Arial all-caps. I don't know why I never thought of that? I switched to Arial a while ago but never thought of all-caps. Very clean and readable. I also like the water colour with lines. It looks more professional than my less than stellar PBR's. I should quite trying to impress with "realistic' renderings. leave that to the pros.

meh, not impressed. I have a detail page that’s standard and follows what the current local construction association dictates and not what ever I dream up that day. If I need to detail something special then I’ll take the time to build the framing properly and take a 3D cut of that and detail it. Try doing framing in Revit out of the box. Good luck with that.

50 samples on M3 took 22 seconds. So, M4 is about twice as fast. (unofficially) Thought it would be faster. Maybe the M24, whenever that drops?….

Just curious, but could you tell us how long this scene takes to render and at how many samples? A few of us on here want to know how the M4 fairs against M3 or older Macs.

….or opt out of X17 file management system.

House in the heavens, I hope you're charging extra for that? anyway, like Gawdzira says, there is a layer off probably. I always select "all layers on" in situations like this to determine the culprit. Sometimes you inadvertently assign something to the wrong layer. (in case you turn on Roads and you still see the sly)

Is there a quick way to get all of my exterior walls to go back to the default material for the exterior? At the moment I have to click on every wall, go to the materials tab, select the offending material, chose "library material" then select the little check box at the bottom, "use default material" This is a very common occurrence since I can go through dozens of material changes with my clients before they settle on something they like. I'm sure there is a quicker way. Also group selecting walls doesn't always allow me to change them all at once for some reason.

I turned Project Management off but I checked "manage external resources" It's not clear what this actually does. Can you explain?

I've perused many forums, Revit, Archicad, Softplan etc. They all complain about the same stuff. It could be all summed up with, "stop giving us new features and just fix the stuff that's broken/not working to our liking" And all these companies know that only new fancy features is what maintains their client base and attracts new subscribers. And we want that, because only a healthy wealthy Chief Architect can keep improving. Chief's Room Definition paradigm is what allows us to go quicker than any other software of this type, from concept to 3D rendering and construction documents. The downside is you have to get real comfortable with patching things up with 3D solids that are assigned their own layers. Material lists are still inadequate. Client 3D viewer is still half baked. And this new File Structure is awesome but only if they implement a cloud version so we can really collaborate with others and even ourselves, since a lot of us are often on the road or abroad and use multiple computers. Chief still assumes we are all sole proprietors, all hunched over our one computer in a basement somewhere with no internet.

Other than a slick new project management system, I don't feel there's much else especially with respect to a lot of the long standing issues we've all been whining about. I can acknowledge that this new file system is the way to go, I just hope it doesn't take me as long to adopt as it did with Saved Plan Views. Anyone else have anything to add?

Wall height in Chief is controlled by Room Height.

It's "keep hierarchy" now.

Step 1: Windows + Shift + S

Hey, I'd love to upgrade to X17. I now see that big beautiful green UPGRADE button teasing me... Is it too early? Any issues?