Michael_Gia

If you go to the Chief Sample Plans page, most of the plans have a site/plot plan view with all the defaults etc... Just export the defaults from that or even use it as a "Save as Plan" for a template. Just pick one you like. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/samples.html

I’m sure I’d love it as well. Could you take the time and perform the same 50 samples? I’m assuming you’d be less than 1 second perhaps?

In case any Mac users want to know my benchmark... I opened the saved camera "Kitchen1" in the Nashville kitchen plan which is already set to PBR. On my 2023 MacBook Pro with 36GB memory, 12-core CPU, 18-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine (apple marketing terms) 500 samples takes almost 11 minutes. However! this is what 50 samples looks like which only takes about 30 seconds...

why would you say he needs a second floor there?

Easiest way is to draw a landing from the stair tool and add railings to the sides that need railings. You can add stairs to your mezzanine as well and they behave as they should.

I did not know that. And to think I've been fussing with my camera all these years, since X6. never too old to learn. thanks!

If you don't mind some constructive criticism, can you tilt your camera so the house doesn't look like it's tilting back? Maybe change the field of view in the camera tab of the "edit active view" dialogue box to 45%, might help to get a closer shot with less perspective distortion, (for lack of a better term) Otherwise, nice work!

Sometimes ya can’t see the forest through the trees.

Did they fix the poché fill not showing up in layout?

Your life will be easier by creating another floor. You control the height of the walls of that floor with the rough ceiling height in the room definition dialogue box. Then you can make the facade/parapet wall balloon through ceiling above and shape it the way you want. The room height will also control the height of that roof on the far right a lot more precisely than simply raising the roof and messing with walls. You can look up videos on how to create parapet walls.

I usually extend the corner with a 2 ft invisible wall first before I attempt the very dangerous, railing at a corner manoeuvre.

Or just give us an Excel plug-in? Would solve so many problems.

I don’t believe you solved the issue. I think it has more to do with the materials not being set to default.

I posted the same thing a while back. Not sure if this is what Op is referring to. I still get these faint white lines in pdf’s. I just ignore them. They even appear when printing.

Ha, not weird but I guess you have your reasons. However, rough carpenters are even weirder and I know if I made my carpenters look up a schedule for window heights, they’d throw a 2x4 at me… lol I usually show the heights along with the dimensions right on the elevation views. The brick layer and supplier are used to working off elevations as well. I doubt they even know how to read a schedule. Something like this below…

I’m curious, who is this info for? Aren't window elevation heights normally placed on elevation views?

nevermind. it's been a while since I used this feature. It measures from the end of the line. or at least what I would consider the end relative to the temporary point I placed to initiate the command. I'll leave this up since I think it's an often overlooked feature. I saw Alaskan son using it once.

I used to be able to move a temporary point along a line a set distance or as a percentage of that line length. Now in X16 it just moves the point some random length.

Maybe try?... https://www.fiverr.com/ Or import the dwg into Chief and make a terrain out of it. I opened your plan and it's not hard to do in Chief, at all. For vegetation export to TwinMotion? That's what I would do.

In the meantime I'm sending them as an image to layout, which works. Not ideal but it works. And I thought it was just a Mac thing. This is probably my favorite new feature. It's the biggest improvement to con docs.

When I first started using Saved Plan Views, I would always forget to click on the blue icon (save active view) after exiting the Saved Plan View dialogue box. Chief doesn't save the changes automatically. It's an extra step to click on the Save Active View, icon. So if you open the dialogue box and make changes to a Saved Plan View, like changing what Layer Set or Cad layer it uses then when you exit out of the dialogue box, don't forget to click on the "Save Active View" icon. I know I'm repeating myself but I'm hoping this makes it clear how important it is to click on Save Active View, after messing around with Saved Plan Views. Also, do your self a favour and check "Never Save" in the Save Options at the bottom of the General tab of Saved Plan View Specifications dialogue box.

Thanks, below is the result for anyone else wondering...

Hi, I have build 26.1.0.44 and I think it's the latest? Where on the Chief website does it show what the most current build is?

@winterdd You don’t really need a plug-in. Let’s say you worked on your model in TM, adding landscaping and adjusting material, etc, then your client asks you to change a million things. Just go back in Chief and make the changes, and re-export your Collada or 3ds model. Re-import the updated model, but select “keep scene material” not “use imported material”. The new model will import with your changes in Chief, but will take on the prior adjusted materials from TM. Of course you should delete your old model from the scene and delete the old model from the Import pane in TM. Although you could keep both models and switch by changing the visibility to see the before and after.

Oh why oh why did I upgrade my stupid Mac and not get a 4090 machine. what an idiot.