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Check your 3d settings for your ambient light levels. That could be the culprit.

If you have moved the ceiling plane object to match the ceiling height it will be buried in the ceiling plane. Cheat the ceiling plane an inch higher and then your slab, solid ceiling object should appear. Then you will need to make another for the rest of the room.

You could also define the rooms as separate with an invisible wall.

Posting the plan does help in recommending out the best solution (and not ruining Scott's golf game for the first 2 holes as the steam clears from his eyes).

Depending on your price I have someone who is probably interested in purchasing the license. P.M. me and I will put you 2 in touch.

I like Kevins approach. I tried to make casing work and it does not look happy. The attached image shows a cheat with molding but the texture file lines differ from the vector lines. The polyline solid approach seems like it might be more flexible in adjusting for the texture offsets.

I have no idea how to get either of these to work without getting an extra line in vector view. You can probably do what you mentioned and get a rendering to work well as long as you don't use the technical drawing or water color with lines.

For the window, if you recess the window that depth and make the casing with the radius it seems quite doable to get that look. You may need to do the same with a lintel that has the shingle texture in order to get the square profile at the head.

I don't believe there is a way around the dashed line with the Chief garage door.

With doing what Joe is suggesting you need to think about your goal. You can keep the garage door on your schedule by isolating in a dedicated layer. Then, for your camera views you need to create different display whether it is using a door opening in plan and then displaying the garage door for elevations.

See attached image for 1000 words.

Nicinus, that would be rather tricky as the software would need a lot of if statements based on various factors. Is it an even distribution based on centers? Where do the ends start? Does the group stay a fixed distance but move towards the center?

It is very easy to make temp cad line guides to snap to for adjustments but it does need to be done manually.

Hopefully you got a properly scaled .dwg file. Generally when I import I guess wrong as to whether to import in feet or inches depending on how they draw. I generally import in inches and find that I should have chosen feet. Actually, I think it is every time and I just don't learn well from past mistakes. After importing and finding this out, I grab everything and then just resize by 12.

@Dennison, show us some pictures of what you are referring to. Without pictures it is a lot of guessing. One guess is that what you are seeing for stone is a texture not a pattern. Only patterns will go to Layout in Vector view. Are you sending Vector views or Images?

Scott, with Fava Beans?

1000 words...

Here are 3 that I found. I don't remember if one of those worked better.

funky siding wow 2.zip

But the file does not have an accurate Pattern file so you can keep your name. I don't know how to do an alternate pattern file. I just paint.

"Once rockets go up who cares where they come down. It's not my department say Werhner von Braun".

You must now change your name to Mothra.

I attended one of these classes after about 4 months of using the software. We were on X1 then. I found it very valuable at that point in my learning process. If you are proficient  with the program, you will definitely learn something in the class. The thing that about Chief Architect is that you don't know what you don't know until someone shows you a really easy way to do something.

I wish they were doing one of the specialty classes at the show like the Kitchen/Bath class.

There was a thread recently where someone was looking for a similar siding....

siding on the walls.zip

Turn these off and your problem goes away. I don't have more time to mess with this but I am still curious. It is probably only one thing that is the problem. Maybe the glass one?

I opened it again and in trying to move things in your elevation I am getting the freezing with labels on or off. There is about 12 seconds of freezing on my machine but with labels on I had some longer freezes to the point of closing the window.

I have been working with the file shown in the attached image without any problems. I have labels on and I do a lot of editing in elevation and 3d mode.

My guess is that you have some issues based on a macro. I tried deleting the window and door macros on the front elevation but that did not help with the front elevation.

I just checked my setting for that long word thing  and mine is set to Application Controlled. I strongly suspect that is the default because I had never ventured into that dark area before.

No problem and I am at home on my Sunday computer (not as fast as the specs in my signature). When was the last time you rebooted?

The print size is relevant to the output quality you desire. If this is print quality for a magazine or brochure they would probably want something like 300-600 dpi. With that in mind you would calculate the 300 dpi (dpi -= pixels per inch). 8.27 inches wide x 300 = 2481

A4 at 300 dpi = about 2500 pixels by 3300 pixels. Therefore you just need to set your output resolution to at least that size. Also, when you save the file, save as a .TIFF file rather than a jpg so as to not lose anything through compression.

What do you need it to do? If you want to be productive with presentation drawings, get a new computer. If you want it to be fast and be able to handle large files for con docs, get a new computer. X6 is very resource intensive and so unless you want it to bog down, get a new computer. If you only produce one set of drawings a year, try the Vista set up.

Thanks Glenn. You are a life saver.

I have done something to break this and I can't build a bacony on my second story. There is a label in the second floor near the stair tower called "Bad Balcony" where I can not figure out why it is not closed enough to create a balcony area. Thanks for looking.

Alan

Gheen RMD v2 new tower b 1.zip