Michael_Gia

Hey all. I’ve been praising my new switch to Windows 11 from macOS with respect to PBR but printing a set of plans to PDF is excruciatingly slow on a pc compared to a Mac. The Mac is at least twice as fast. is there some trick to this? I have used both the Chief pdf print option and the windows pdf option. Am I missing something?

For anyone seeing this in the future who is still contemplating pc vs macOS… The RTX4060 (considered modest) vs the 2023 MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro chip, 36G of ram, here is the result. PBR exterior render 100 samples: RTX = less than 3 seconds. M3 Pro = 110 seconds. At 50 samples I can actually move around in realtime on the PC. 50 Samples gives a very good final image in my opinion. I was led to believe that realtime PBR navigation was not possible on any 4060. The reason for this is that the pc community has a very high bar in what they consider performance.

I guess I got a good price then.

I went ahead and ordered the Legion 5i. The bestbuy dude said that if the price goes down within 30 days or so I’ll get the discount as well. When I get it I will post a M3 MacBook vs a modest RTX4060 machine PBR render time comparison. Should be amusing. If it’s not I will return the piece of crap. kidding

I will be picking one of these up. chief seems to like Lenovo. Any objections? For the same money, that is? That’s CAD $2000 = $1430 USD

1) watch the video posted by Gawdzira - rendering in Chief is basically photography 101 2) your materials on the building are not high enough quality. 3) Your main image is about selling the design. You don’t have to include every square inch of the facade, that’s what the plans and elevations are for. Try to follow a perspective like the attached image… (maybe not relevant to the post, but your building violates every fire code in the book)

I'll raise ya, 2500 years...

Trust me, you still don’t, unless you watch this….

Holy cow! Thanks for the detailed construction documents! I will start construction as soon as I use them to apply for permits (kidding) I doubt this was your intention. I would delete it asap and reload an image of your problem and maybe a plan file.

Thanks for saying that. I just checked and the plan was indeed saved with the most recent changes despite the error message. I restarted and it seems to work so far. I did have to deactivate and reactivate the product key.

Hey, anyone else getting this? I keep getting this error even after I verify, make available, and whatever else to my product key.

I had this at first. I lowered the sunlight to 7000 from the 70,000 I used to have it at before X16. I also use a less bright background now as well.

Don’t use roads unless the road you want is real simple. Instead use terrain features or 3D solids or counters or slabs. Create those 3D object by first drawing out the perimeter of your road. Then make a copy of those lines so you can use them later to create 3D mouldings which will be your curbs, (Before!) you create the road. Later if plans change and you need to adjust roads and curbs you can always convert them back to lines, readjust and reconvert to curbs and roads.

I'm no expert but I was looking at this recently. For the money I think you'll have great realtime raytrace results, which is the litmus test on how well any machine does. https://www.xidax.com/ready-to-roll-gaming-pcs/14830-x-2-rtx-4060-vf-0792105640600.html

I just go to their YouTube channel. You can see the video list by date uploaded and narrow in on specific playlists.

Haze is almost always caused by using way too bright sunlight. Use PBR and set samples to 50 until you get the result you're looking for. (it's quicker) Here are my PBR settings... This is a screen shot of the result. Took a little less than a minute for the PBR to go through 50 samples. (pretty sad, but that's a Mac for ya)

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?