Michael_Gia

No one will tell you this but it is impossible to produce a proper ray trace or pbr image on a Mac. Give it up. Standard render is your only friend. It will produce “acceptable” images to show your clients but not worthy of website, portfolio or brochures etc… If you want professional renderings, hire it out or buy a pc and spend the time.

You definitely need a cad program to view whatever you export. I use Qcad Pro about $45 usd, a one-time perpetual license. https://qcad.org/en/online-shop Each view has to be exported separately. floor plan level, 0, 1, 2, cross section, elevation front, back, left, right etc. 1 export per view. I would reduce all line weights to 1 or even 0 (experiment) Acad users often dump every view on one screen and then zoom into the various views. unlike Chief’s floor levels and saved camera and plan views. So you might want to do the same, this way they open 1 file and everything is there. I’m not a regular Acad user but I often export out to engineers and architects. Maybe it’s regional but they always ask for all views on 1 page. Here are my settings for the Eport Drawing dbx:

Is that all of NS?

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@ValleyGuy Would love a video of this beast in action.

The toolbar almost goes blank with maybe two or three icons remaining. I realize this is mostly a Mac issue, with more than one monitors, so it gets little attention. Little attention, except from the people who don’t have this issue. It’s been an issue discussed often enough on this forum, and if you call Chief or make a report they will pretty much tell you it doesn’t ever happen on any of their computers, Mac or PC, despite multiple reports. I'm hoping that if I ***** about it maybe something will be done about it. I’ve actually learned to live with it by mostly using hotkeys, like that little three-legged dog still prancing around happy as a button. Thanks for showing interest. I hope you don’t encounter this ever.

I would gladly give up the ability to customize Toolbars if it meant the out of the box Toolbars would just stay put and not go all wonky on me. I’m at my wits end with this crap. I use keyboard shortcuts for most tools anyway. Anyone willing to join the chorus on this rant?

I can't wait until we have "cut fill" control of walls and floors instead of the auto detail tool. The auto detail tool will create patterned cad boxes but won't update to follow changes in the plan. Hopefully in X16?

and turn off auto rebuild roof

You can also just take a screenshot when the pdf is nice and big so that the resulting screenshot will have a pretty resolution without the pdf bulk.

Here ya go… https://www.hdri-hub.com/hdrishop/freesamples/freehdri

Edit area - all floors, tool along with transform/replicate tool

I’m no engineer but have done similar before. Trusses like the one in my crappy marked up drawing are doubled up on either side of the lookout shaft/steeple. Between those doubled up trusses are lvl’s to close the box.

I do these a lot. Create a mirror version of the plan: 1) turn on all layers except cameras and use the "Edit" > Edit Area > Edit Area All Floors and marquee select everything. 2) transform/replicate > reflect horizontally Save as Mirrored Version. 3) Delete everything on the right side after that dividing wall. 4) Edit Area All Floors, select all and move the block to the right by the appropriate amount. 5) Edit Area All Floors, select all and copy (ctrl C) Open original plan and delete everything to the left of that dividing wall. 6) Paste Hold Position. 7) Profit

More powerful if you’re using default sets via Saved Plan Views.

I think what OP needs to do, which Solver alluded to in his wonderful cryptic fashion, is to build the new wall to create the pantry, but then making an opening in the wall under the stair using a pass-through. He just has to shape the pass-through in the triangular shape to fully open access under the stairs. However, this is all guesswork.

Check the floor elevations in all the rooms in the floor above. If there is even one room with a floor that has been lowered by accident then this will create the chaos you’re experiencing. (I’m guessing since you haven’t attached a plan or image of the problem ).

It's because you're from Michigan...

By the way I called ssa tech support asking about controlling the rebar qty in foundation walls. The dude said he had no idea and that I really should just post a question on this forum to find out. I found that amusing. I know that I can change rebar in the default settings menu under foundation but the component variables produce unpredictable results. The rebar count in the footing makes sense but the rebar quantity in the walls baffle me.

So far all I have seen is an "accidental" reveal of dimensions in a 3D view, from a recent Chief training video. Pretty anemic for this time of year, seeing how X15 was released officially end of March 2023. Are there any other sneak peeks other than this out there?

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When I turn off size and description columns, I get... I thought I would get a total under the "Count" column. I guess that's not possible? Do you all just export to excel? I'm trying to really simplify and streamline material lists so I can delegate it to someone who isn't really Chief proficient. Here is the test plan file I was messing with... Material list test for quantity totals.zip

In order to get a total count of drywall, for example, I assign $1.00 to the price column so that I get a "total cost" which in my case is actually the total square footage. Is this still a necessary work-around or is there a new feature in X15 I'm unaware about? here's an example.. (I don't really want to get into any complex macro system to achieve this)

I understand the ocd level desire to do everything in 3d, as if anyone is actually looking that closely at a 3d image, but what you’re attempting is better served by a detail image with a callout. If you must, then you can create a symbol for that custom cabinet with a hole for wiring. Look up how to make a symbol in Chief’s videos, first then search this forum there’s lots of how to's on that. Of course it’s always possible that I’m unaware of a way to do this in Chief with the out of the box tools.

Don’t feel bad. Soffits are a bTich. A lot of guys end up using slabs and solids to mend missing soffits. I’m sure some of the experts on here have figured it out, I’m hoping? It’s an issue, though. Hopefully someone could correct me.