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All done in CA (the pars shown in the detial). Those are objects created with poly solids. I just sent camera views to layout. The yoke in the image was collected from the 3D Warehouse. Some small modifications done in Sketchup.

Or do something like this

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Very clear. A page with lines and numbers. Is this a connect the dots game. I love those. Draw a building footprint if that is what you are trying to dimension to. Besides, would'nt your surveyor use one control point from a corner and work in from there?

Post the specs of your computer and graphics card. It sounds like a graphics card problem. Also, look in your 3d view defaults to see what is different with the perspective view camera settings that might be causing the difference.

I opened your file and this is what I get for 22 pages printed at 144 dpi. You might be printing at a dpi that is too high to be useful. A lot of your layout boxes are empty so I may not be getting your full file. For an accurate file export a full back up rather than saving. KRAWCYZK-LAYOUT 9-27-16-Layout.pdf

The other method is to draw a cad line to match the camera location and the view direction. Copy and paste that across plans. It is a really weak point of the program.

The better stone textures are in the manufacturers libraries on the Chief website. Cultered Stone, Buechel Stone and Coronado Stone.

Holy crap that's cool.

I was asking after taking a (quick) cursory look at the general layout. I was just seeing some things that looked like they would benefit from some space planning adjustments.

I save out the different plan versions. I generally end up with names during design development like Bob_DD_V2 hip, Bob_DD_V2 flat...

P.S. Anna, is this your own house you are designing from the ground up or a remodel to an existing house?

Clean up this corner of the room. There are a bunch of messy bits here. Some tiny room divider walls and such.

If you take any image of a person with transparency for their background, you can replace that image for a 2d plant. This is better than your office mate with a personality like a potted plant.

Here you go. No ray trace. Need to kick this out and go to sleep type of image. This did go out of CA and into PShop to clean up some issues. Heck, I think I overwrote the original so I can't show the little bits I had to clean up but it was not much. This is just above the mark to keep it out of the Crap thread (I hope).

Just the right amount of squiggle. Very nice.

I have contacted tech support on occasion. That was for technical issues. Therefore tech support seemed like the correct venue. For training issues, where I am pretty sure I am botching how to work the program, I have the generous community on this site to cater to my every need. I sometimes cater as well. This is a fantastic shared economy of information. The closest thing to socialism that money can buy. David, be a better comrade. Na zdorovye!

Make the hallway space complete by closing off the wall at the top of the stairs. Then make that room Open To Below.

Yes, get Premier. But, in the mean time what I would do is to not try to make something look real for a ground plane. I would make it look like a flat block to not distract from the element you are really trying to show. Just give it a pleasant neutral color that will not draw your eye.

On my latest project I used Henry BlueSkin for the house wrap. That is a peel and stick full air and water membrane that is self sealing . On top of that I used a layer of material to ensure a rain screen type gap. http://www.benjaminobdyke.com/products/slicker-classic-rainscreen-6mm On a previous project I had used the product by Benjamin Obdyke that is a house wrap with small rubber bumps. I was much more confident that the gap would be maintained after the siding was installed with the rainscreen material. It is not yet a requirement to have a rainscreen for walls in California but I suspect it will come soon. It is already a requirement in Washington and Oregon.

The key adjustment to get the speckle pattern is "Spacing".

@Perry, grrrrrrr, jealousy

Polyline solids, converted to solids then exploded will give you face control for the texture. If you are putting something on with wood grain and need to get the look right on flat grain vs. edge grain I would go with the solids.

My primary is a Dell 30" with a 27" off the side for Library, ALDO and Project Browser

Depending on the zip code he left out 2 zero's.