NeilofOZ

Yep, you guys make it look so simple, like watching a brickie lay bricks then he hands the trowel to you and you end up looking like an ass, with crap all over the place, lol. Am currently trying to change decking planks direction, had about 10 goes, been through videos half a dozen times, do exactly what the man says and no change, yeah here is me 75 years first time cad user, but persisting because it's something I wanted to do for years. I need you guys to be patient, hold my hands and lead me to the promised land, lol. Regards to all.

Thanks Fellas, Had a suspicion that CA didn't have this element in their roof structure, was going to do this manually by setting them up as polyline solids in cross section, then elongating them on plan. Think I will put this one in the hard basket and attack again when time available as house is existing. Regards Neil.

Mick, Only have only one issue left, roof battens or as we say purlins, which are attached to the rafters and support the roof sheeting. These should be seen in 3D under the decking roof sheeting. Don't see anywhere in "Roof Layers", where these are mentioned or allocated. Neil.

Glenn, The issue i had with this house was it was totally elevated above GL, so I used a previous plan which had no foundations and changed the floor to framed and sheeted construction, the 600 ceiling thickness was a left over, but the living and deck areas are all set correctly in the "Room Structure" Specification. You can see there are no posts/bases under the living floor, but as it's an existing house, there's enough detail showing under of the Deck Areas, which satisfy the 3D look. Mick, See attached snip for your info, but from a visual perspective I have achieved what is required and just made the comment that I had to manually adjust the upper roofs as the "Äuto Build" kept giving me an over hang of 300 from the main living walls, this was fixed by grabbing the upper roof planes and setting them on the outer wall line of the livings areas. The underside detail where the Deck Roof, meets the Upper Roof is perfect, so I am happy with that. I followed Steve's video over and over and this never eventuated for him. Regards Neil.

Michael, Got a result as per attached, but still have a couple of small issues:- 1.When using "Auto Rebuilds" the upper roof persisted with an overhang which is not required, the only way I could erase them was to do it manually. You didn't have that problem, but I tried many variations without success as I needed the over hangs on the lower roof section. 2.The "Railing Walls" you extended into the main building are still evident on my plan, but yours are clear, even making them invisible I still get a dotted line. Apart from the above, am pretty happy with what I have, but obviously I still need some refinement. Regards Neil. Neil's Gullwing Roof.plan

Steve, Great video, wish they had that one in the tutorials as the only one I could find was for a simple straight section finishing at a gable each end. Am gonna have another crack at it your way, just for the experience. Also, the manipulation of the Railing Walls to a clear opening while maintaining the Room Definition, was also impressive, as I used Invisible Walls. One question is regarding the roof purlins, ie the battens which support the roof sheeting and fixed on top of the rafters, where are they mentioned, do we add another layer in the Roof Structure Definition for these, with sizes. Regards Neil.

All good fellas. Tried your way with "auto build roofs" but there was so much editing to do, it had me tied up in knots so I went back to the manual way and took a bit more care on positioning, angles, heights and pitches. The tutorial that I was working with, only gave an example of a gull roof building which had gables each end, it wasn't working with a 4 sided building which had intersecting roofs. Got the rafters done over the decking, was using the wrong path. Thanks heaps for your help. Regards Neil.

See attached a farmyard style house which I have created for a family member and need some help on pitching the roof which consists of a full perimeter "Gull Wing" profile, including hips and gables. The roof profiles have been created, but require some answers as follows:- 1.Am missing some cappings and valleys which have been checked, but not shown 2.Not sure if the roof detail to the gable pitched roofs ( 2 ) are correct, where they intersect to the Gull & Hip roof sections. 3.I require exposed rafters to all decking ( gull wing roofing ) excluding the Gable sections, followed the tutorial but not happening. Regards Neil. Tracey's House Plan.plan

Have a house on piers and bases only with no stem walls, but will require a decking totally surrounding the structure. Have created the main house as per attached as it's a simple rectangle, but having issues setting up the floor framing. Have set "grade beams on piers" in foundation default menu. At this stage it still shows a perimeter stem wall which I cant delete and don't want. No floor framing is shown even though I have them displayed. The positioning of piers and bases are too cryptic to understand. Do I just create a decking from the start and add the house walls on top. Neil. Tracey's House Plan.plan

Gentlemen, Yep, played around with door jambs and head, got something that looks OK with the general door frame opening, but still got some issues when you look at back of the door jamb on the lock side shows brick infill which I can't remove, so only resolution for me is to plant a solid on this face to hide it. End of the day, think that CA can't accommodate the connection of a window and door frame in the manner i want, ie we use aluminiun extruded box sections for interior works which gives a very clean slim profile which enhances the glazing, might have to create some standard door/window profiles for my exclusive use. Thanks for your support, Neil.

INTERIOR BRICK WALLS OK, all went well with the interior brick walls as I gave the rough opening as suggested and bingo out they popped. So for future reference, am presuming the door size is as it says but excludes the jamb size, so the structure opening follows the door size and the rough opening allows for any jambs, is this correct, as I done heaps of door frames and never had to set the rough openings. INTERIOR GYPROCK WALLS Had to drop the door height to allow the door head to be below the ceiling, assume this follows the above format. Still no luck with the side jambs using both recommendations, did you get this to work on the floor plan that I sent you, please advise. Regards Neil.

Sorry fellas, thought this would be a simple problem, me only a neanderthal, LOL. The brickwork on the face of the door jamb is the issue and I could see it quite clearly in the pic. It's obvious that the jamb thickness is missing, hence the brickwork being displayed, in fact when you look on the door frames on the left, it shows to ends of the interior walls as well, see attached new pic and floor plan below with camera viewed positioned. Regards Neil. PWD-WA, Additions Plan.plan

Michael, Been there done that, but no difference, see attached snip of the of the Interior Door Specification. Actually there is no thickness reference, only width & depth, but assume its the "width of sides" which you are alerting to, am I correct.

Have a problem with a project's door jambs which has the original brickwork exposed on the jamb face, have tried a myriad of methods to show a solid painted surface with no success, the floor plan details a door jamb with casings, but 3D view shows brickwork, see attached pic for illustration.

Graham, Love your enhancement with Photo Shop, this is obviously way beyond what PBR can do and would require the full P.S. programme to replicate, am I guessing correctly. Still having heaps of issues in getting good lighting, followed you initial starting point and thought I had it, but after i did the servery area, found the external area was totally skewed, every time I tried to add a new light source, it affected the back area and parts of the front, ie dark & light areas, nothing was consistent. In the end I just added some extra lighting to the building ceilings which you can see in the attached. This facet of CA obviously requires a dedicated lesson and requires some intimate knowledge, to which Iknow nothing. Went to our user group meeting a month back and no one had a clear perception on the capabilities of either PBR and or lighting, some people were even asking me to elaborate, like the blind leading the blind. Played around with logo to, but nothing like the Starbuck effect was achieved. Mind you the pic is an actual photo and would required some detailed knowledge on how to construct the logo and adding the lighting in C.A. I offset/separated/joined both the tomato facing and the rear panel which I applied the Emissive value and nothing was near the Starbuck effect. Have attached copies of the PBR and Standard Render to view. Regards Neil

Mick, Your last PBR image looked great, but mate I have played around with lighting till the cows come home and I got nothing like you have done, however I did lower the light data on ceiling lights and ramped up the Emissive values quite a bit on the menu pics and finally got illumination on these, so a good result there. Interesting that the Starbucks sign is exactly the style I have on the tomato logo, I ramped up the Emissive 130,000 value on the rear section and got the the effect I was looking for, I was changing Emissive values in digits of ten instead of tens of thousands. You must be modifying the "Material Definitions" on all other finishes, so I wouldn't mind getting an understanding on what you did on the timber and wall tiling, is that possible. Regards Neil.

Mick, Gotcha on the poison bit, imagine I will improve as we go along. The text on the menus have been "white washed" out do to the Emissive value being high, not a problem at this stage as the project is still in preliminary and concept stage, but probably I need to separate the images and the text, so I can regulate the Emissive values independently.

Thanks Graham and much appreciated.

Graham, Yes please, it looks pretty good, prefer the first one you did. Obviously the "Emissive" effect is still missing, is this because the general lighting has washed out this element. It's one reason why I like the Standard Render view, see attached. Regards Neil.

Graham, The PBR looks OK, but colours are still muted, which is why I have stuck to exporting the "Standard Render" for clients. Not sure if we retained the Emissive effects as it doesn't look like it, especially on the Tomato Logo, which is critical for the visual effect. Have tried so many lighting options, even flooded the screen with so much light that it nearly obliterated the image, but in PBR, it still comes out muted like any lesser light source settings. Still, your PBR is better than mine, is it possible to clip some pics of you settings for the:- 1. Active Camera 2. Technique Options 3. Additional Lighting Sources 4. Ray Trace Options Have attached a copy of my PBR which ran all night, not much difference to one I did with 100 passes. It seems that some members use a third party programme for enhancement, but I'm not up to that standard and still struggling with the C.A. Think I have solved the problem of "Blackouts", when I checked "Global Illumination" and switched from Standard Render to PBR, it appeared immediately.

Mick & Marc, OK, lots of things came up and learning as well, so will respond in order as follows:- - I don't setup my projects with typical foundation/walls/roof/backdrop etc, thinking that it wasn't necessary as these are generally not required, but are these required due to them interacting with lighting etc, let me know if this is correct. - Have attached the Plan Materials Library as requested, hopefully this will let you evaluate the rendering much better. - The coffee machine is green and yuk, but it's existing. - Not sure on PBR & RT, are you saying I should only RayTrace Standard Renders - Still getting blackouts on views when I use the PBR view. - Noticed on your PBR Render that no Emissive illumination is evident, ie the Menus & logo all have values, which is necessary and critical for effects. - In Preferences, it shows the video card as Intel (R) HD Graphics 530, should this be the AMD Radeon (TM) R7 M360, if so how do we or should we change it. - As mentioned previously, am OK with Standard Renders, but was of the opinion that RayTracing would sharpen up the edges, is this not correct. At this stage i still have problems of Blackouts in render view, Emissive not being applied MT_Tile_Version_-_Plan_Mat_Lib..calibz

Mick, Thanks for sorting this out and see attached as requested, some textures were not indicated but not too worried at this stage on the finishes, just want to see if I can get PBR to work with RT. Found the CA Floor Plan, was a bit to slick with the mouse, lol. Regards Neil. MT_Tile_Version.back-up.zip

Mick, Problem, zip file is 40MB. Opened up the file and there are many finishes that aren't associated with this plan and I can't see a CA Floor Plan, all new to me so need some direction. Neil.

Mark, thanks for that, see plan as discussed. MT_Tile_Version.plan

Mic & Mark, Sorry about the plan, thought I could work through this one via trial & error, but happy for you guys to see how your fair. Basically a lot of my work is in shopping centres where I don't need standard walls, ceilings and roofs and I use a lot of solids and soffits to build the basic structure. Have enclosed the Food Outlet with invisible walls as I need to show some finishes surrounding the outlet and thought this may simplify the sun problem by not having to compete with other internal lighting that I choose. I have a problem uploading the Plan, ( error message reads -200 ) plan only 13.6MB, need some help!!!!