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  1. I am by no means a rendering ace. I spent a little extra time on this one placing lights because it was really helping the clients see this piece of the puzzle. RTRT did far more for communicating the story than the Standard render could.
  2. "Is 1970 angled cedar siding making a comeback?" Bite your tongue.
  3. You can edit lines within Layout. I don't believe you can adjust your camera clip planes to edit out those since they are foreground. I would probably place those cabinets on a distinct layer and hide it for that view. Make a unique layerset for that camera view.
  4. A floor plan is a vector view. No textures will show in Vector view. If you need to see the texture, you can do an Orthographic floor overview and then choose the Top View direction.
  5. Is this turned off? Bumping and Pushing
  6. What are you trying to do? If you are making a floor plan, just trace the PDF after importing and scaling. It will be faster than cleaning up CADD lines. If they are CADD details, that is another story and case dependent based on what you have for images.
  7. Do a web search for PDF to Vector
  8. I think your going to be able work out your details and overall project well with CA. The speed of working with the program can be astounding (and sometimes frustrating if you want the model perfect). Very good support system and good enough library that is constantly growing. Also one of the most economical programs with full rendering and construction doc capabilities. I have not checked out Softplan lately but I have heard rumblings that it is pretty damn good too. Your idea of a stud by stud con docs presentation sounds cool on Instagram but the reality is that it is very unlikely to be executed unless you are on the job site 8 hours a day. Making a case for OVE framing and or right sizing of headers, sure. But, even then, unless you have one of those packages with all precut lumber with layout stamped on it (those do exist, at least I saw it on Instagram) you will end up with some level of variation with a custom stick built residence. Below is an image that I had worked up for my engineer to call attention to some critical ridge beams and the load paths as I saw it. This was a guide for him and really quick and easy to come up with in CA. Those are just solids that I placed and moved around. Not perfect since these were visual guides. To me, this is the most important thing. Construction documents are visual guides and instructions, not shop drawings. Also attached is a shop drawing that was easy to produce in CA and highly accurate. On you Pinterest board, a lot of those projects show roof to wall intersections with no overhang. Yeah. It looks cool. I get it. Most of my Architecture profs were very theoretical and conceptual with their work. Gamal El-Zoghby, Raimund Abraham, etc. But, if your insurance/contractor license is following you after the work is done, you might want to work overhangs into the aesthetic.
  9. Does that mean the ArcSite demo did not appeal to you?