Michael_Gia

That error on a Mac is usually because you are doing a "save as" while a layout file is open and already referring to that file. close any layouts first so that only that plan file is open and then do a, "save as"

Shitf+Select the stair you need to change. If you just click the staircase without SHIFT then you will be editing both sections at the same time. Also lookup drawing in the railings independently of the staircase because it is useful in certain cases.

I disagree. If I were a client and looking at your Chief standard render I would not want to live in that and I would already be starting to think that maybe I chose the wrong draftsman/designer/architect. With Gemini render, I personally would love to live in that myself. I can see myself smoking a cigar on the front porch and enjoying the scenery. What you did in, I'm guessing 20 seconds in Gemini?... Would not be possible in Chief and even with the help of TwinMotion would take hours and hours and never come close. Nice job!

1st image = Chief Standard view, all out of the box no PBR. Gemini (free, no account) Prompt = "Increase photorealism of this image. Improve lighting, global illumination, reflections, shadows, and material texture resolution. Preserve the exact architecture, materials, proportions, windows, doors, and camera perspective. Do not modify the design in any way—only enhance realism and render quality. " Chat GPT = make above rendering a winter scene but do not alter architecture or materials.

Howdie partner, I missed this, so I'm curious how it's performing? especially pbr speed

Here is about 12 seconds in Gemini. Standard render in Chief vs Gemini enhanced render. This is my prompt: "Increase photorealism of this image. Improve lighting, global illumination, reflections, shadows, and material texture resolution. Preserve the exact architecture, materials, proportions, windows, doors, and camera perspective. Do not modify the design in any way—only enhance realism and render quality."

Apple will not help you here even if you waited for the M50000000000 Pro Max Super Ultra. If you want quicker and better pbr from a Mac then just incorporate AI into your workflow to achieve that. AI in 20 seconds will improve the quality of your renderings way more than out of the box Chief pbr. Or get a pc. I would rather stay with MacOs personally.

I’m talking from the perspective of sharing and/or collaborating. Like it or not it’s an autocad world. And even when I tell those same acad jockeys to simply import my pdf construction documents and scale them they either don’t know how, are too lazy or as a policy feel this is over reaching. Which I can’t blame them for.

dimensions also come out really screwy from Chief into AutoCAD. I’m really considering the workflow of designing the home with my clients in Chief, but once the 3-D model is complete, I export the plans, elevations and sections into AutoCAD to do my construction documents. I’ll collaborate easier with the engineers and other architects. It might be a little more work but I’ll have universally accepted plans with proper annotations and dimensions.

When I order trusses or floor systems I usually send a pdf of the plans generated in Chief. I want to change that and instead send an AutoCAD layout file instead of a PDF. This is to avoid errors of miscommunications when for example a dimension is missing etc. If they have the AutoCAD file then they can measure whatever they want. Anyone else do this?

Delete that 4” slab in the “floor structure”

Are there any sneak peek videos out there yet? Is it too much to ask? Or at least a chocolate easter bunny?

Apparently, the M5 max has hardware accelerated raytracing. That's a first for Apple, I think?

Have you tested PBR capabilities on both machines? That would be the only benchmark I would be interested in. That is how fast can each machine perform 100 samples of the same PBR view?

Not sure if this helps, but I took a page out of Revit’s hotkey philosophy. That is I mostly use a two letter system. You’ll instantly get more combinations and it’s a lot easier to string together 2 keys that make sense. examples: m,r for material region t,m tape measure d,e end to end dimension d,a angle dimension d,m manual dimension it’s endless.