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Don't forget the science

Before you make this investment, have you worn a headset? I have tried a few that a friend demoed to me. His company was working on AR products. Not everyone can wear a headset without freaking out. I liked it and had fun but others at the party had to take it off in a few seconds.

You have some roof pitches at 10 and some at 12. That roof on the second floor bedroom would have 10 on one side of the gable and 12 on the other as it is currently. I think you need to make some decisions and this roof is pretty straight forward. You can join a 10 to a 12 at the hip but it is messy at the eave. What do you want to do?

Vertical closure clips. https://mrpsupports.com/products/product:vertical-closure-clips/ I did not use them on this project since I did not want to see the small tabs over the stone. I did this one with some Boral boards painted and then screwed to the posts which allow for a small gap for drainage.

The paver stand off system I used on my last project had an additional bracket for the end of the run to hold a rip of the stone vertical. I will search this detail up.

I started drafting without computers so a page of information was a big time commitment (at least 8 hours of drafting per page was a good number for hand drawings on average). Now, with a quick change of layer display I can kick out a framing specific plan for dimensioning. This is where the transition to computer aided drafting can be utilized to enhance the communication in a cost/time effective manner. If the information is critical at the framing stage, not showing wall finishes makes sense. Framers want to frame and if your framer is calling out measurements in 1/16's there is going to be some salty language following. If the information will become critical at the finish stage, giving clear dimensions from finish surfaces is what is needed. The thing I try to keep in mind is that a 2x4 wall with 2 layers of 5/8" wallboard with a skim coat of finish on top could be +/- as much as a 1/2" depending on the series of events that occured to get it to that stage. Therefore, if I need a finished clear dimension, that needs to be explicitly stated on the construction documents and planned for.

The industry standard in dimensioning plans is to surface of studs/ framing members since it is in the framing stage where the layout of walls occurs. If you are then laying out finish items (stair railings) you would then be dimensioning to finished surfaces. To be honest, you are asking about things that are not in the DIY realm. To grab a quote from The Big Lebowski "you are entering a world of pain". Construction documents are no place to attempt to save money unless you have the proper experience.

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It looks like someone got there before you. Or maybe it was after you?

Chief Architect products are not your best option for creating complex shapes like that. You are better off using a NURBS modeling program and then importing that as a symbol into CA. It looks like those would be hyperbolic paraboloid shapes. You could do more simple barrel vault shapes but not curves in multiple directions without boolean operations that are not going to easy to get a consistent look for these shapes.

I work solo. Even though I do have two licenses, but, I can only work on one at a time due to the time space continuum and this mortal coil. Therefore, if I am organized, I can close out the program before changing computers and starting it back up. I am considering moving my user library to DropBox. Is this possible? Is this too dangerous? I am hopeful that this would enable me to keep my user library current with any new symbols I drop in during a project on computer A so when I go to computer B, it will update on startup with the new file.

What door pull are you using? Is that lower panel a door?

Holy- gas piping isometric- Batman.

Where you have the railing walls on the second floor, go to the first floor and transfer those walls below as invisible walls which will establish a room at the open space. Make that room have a ceiling tall enough to reach the upper ceiling level.

What is the file extension for the chair originally? If you can bring it into Sketchup then you could do the individual material assignments. If only in CA, a wonky but possible approach would be to make a copy of the chair and delete surfaces other than the legs. Save that out as a symbol and then reimport and do the same with the chair but only delete the legs. Recombine.

One thing to keep in mind with the long render times, take off the power saving settings on your computer so it does not go to sleep before the render has cooked.

The Standard rendering technique seems to be the fastest. I have tried with vector and it slows down. If you have lines on standard it will slow down significantly. If you are rendering PBR, let it run overnight. Now that I see the path you are trying to render, I suggest you consider better ways to present your work with still images. A circular or simple arc pass around the outside might be good. Maybe a few simple pans of the larger interior spaces? You can rotate the camera on the path so you do not need to make the racetrack to point the camera around the room. Also consider attention span. After about 15 seconds of video, your client has something else on their mind. The beginning sequence of Polar Express where the ticket flys through the air and the camera follows it would be worth watching to understand how to move a camera and maintain your audience. And if you make it to the end of the film you can find me in the credits (be patient, I was not above the line).

82 frames at what rate? Good video will be shot at 30 fps (frames per second). At 30fps that is under 3 seconds. Don't blink. What rendering technique are you using. Also critical is to not be at full screen resolution.

The website for this product has some of the most beautiful kitchen design I have found on the web.

I am pretty sure Rene does this differently but this is my method. I make a distinct default set for every Plan View that is sent to layout. Generally I have 10-12 unique plan views sent to layout. If I have some new distinct layout (I occasionally have a Fire specific plan view) then I can make a new plan view with defaults in about 2 minutes. The default sets are exportable to update a template plan.

I agree that the walkthrough is not very good. I used to work in film so my expectations of camera controls are pretty high. With that said, you can easily control the speed of the camera in the DBX for both per keyframe and by increasing the time for the overall video. For the walkthrough path, I only use a simple arc and generally make it work with only 2 keyframes (start and end). Anything else is too hard to control and gets nauseating. When I see people post their walkthroughs that are continuous motion through a space..(I think I just entered the "if you don't have anything nice to say" zone). I find it better to piece together smaller segments of video and fade one sequence to the other or break them up with a still photo fade in to tell the story. Any time you are making a video, you are telling a story. It seems like a lot of people tell the story of taking a roller coaster ride through their architecture. Rant out.

I did not spend a lot of time on this scene. I even forgot ot bump down the backdrop intensity. My sun intensity is set to 500. I have the lights you see on the ceiling and one additional light placed close to the coffee table that is at 2500.

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