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Hey gang.  I love the idea that I can put 3D elevations or perspectives in my schedule (same goes for windows/doors), but when I do, the schedule is like three feet tall and skinny.  I called tech support thinking there must be a way to do double or triple columns so it stretches right to left as well, but they had no answers.  Am I explaining this well enough?  Any wisdom?  My only solution was to not use it, and what's the point of that?

Thanks, David.  I guess the downside to your method would be the lack of deck "framing".  I don't suppose that's the end of the world, as long as I achieve the aesthetic.  I guess using that method, I'd forego the double beam underneath and instead hang my 2x12 joists on a double rim and thru-bolt my posts into that.  Thanks for your input David!  I'm curious if anyone comes up with a plan B or C.  I always get great ideas on this forum.

I have a client who wants me to build a deck and put a screen porch under it.  I'd likely keep the deck framing the way it is, but I'd fill it in with screens and whatnot, while putting a sloped "soffit" in the ceiling. I also want the footprint below to be a stone patio (polylines?).  I know I can do this with a zillion polylines, but my question is this: is there an easier way?  The attached pic shows two deck structures.  The one farthest is already there.  I want to build a room under the closest one (I think I'll set my walls to stack with the beam and posts, recessing it a little).  What say all you pointy-headed geniuses out there?  Many thanks in advance!

Awesome stuff guys!  Thanks for all the input.  I like the thick floor idea.

Hey everyone.  Does anyone have any words of wisdom for how to bend CA to our will regarding adding a floor system above an existing garage slab?  Whether that be hanging a joist system on the wall and supporting with LVLs below, or even ripping sleepers and putting CDX over it?  It's technically two floor systems.  Am I explaining this right?  I know I can do this with poly-lines, and maybe that's the answer.  I figured one of you pointy-heads out there has already figured it out.  Thanks a million!

Hahaha!  Too true!

All of you guys...

I never would have figured it out.  Thanks so much!  Related to lights, anyone got a good lead on some under-cabinet LEDs?  I'm so tired of the big clunky flourescents that CA offers.

Thanks Michael.  I appreciate your candor, and kind-of pride myself in some really well-done raytraces.  This is the first time I've been stymied by this type of issue and I don't have more than the usual amount of lighting, but you're right-- I'll have to dig into the advanced settings for ray tracing.  I've been doing this for 15 years.  I guess it's about time

A million thanks to both of you!

Thanks @Renerabbitt.  That worked, although I don't have the faintest clue why!

Thanks Graham!  Here's the plan (dropbox link)...   https://www.dropbox.com/s/6sladq7gjl1q7mp/Jarrell for CA.zip?dl=0 

Particularly camera 11 & 12, but it's also done it to me with the ext. views unless I turned off the porch lights (which I did).  Super-weird.

Hope you guys can help. I can't seem to figure out what wacky circumstance is causing this particular file to process raytraces with a zillion white pixels in it.  I'm sure it has something to do with the lights, but none of them are more than around 60 watts.  Even if I run this to 150 passes, there are still little white pixel fairies (fewer, but still).  Anyone?  Anyone?

Michael & Eric, thanks so much for your help!  This is great!

Wow, Michael, that's exactly what I needed!  Tech support had no idea.  I'll have to play around with the radius, but that's the ticket!!! Thanks!

Hey gang, I'm having a bugger of a time getting four windows at the top of a stack to equal to one elliptical arc.  I can do it with two, but when I try to do it with four, the curvature of the end windows is off, and will not work, no matter what I try.  Attached are a drawing of what I'm trying to do, a screen cap of two windows doing it (customer wants four), and what it looks like when I try to do four.  Please help!

Hey Chief community! 

I don't know if this is an unorthodox thing to ask on here, but I'm a long time Chief user and started a design/build firm with a partner that serves the Balto/DC metro area.  I've been trying to envision my company with designers and estimators/sales people when it dawned on me that I'd like to build a team of Chief users and show them how to sell the actual build!  

Are there any Chief rock stars in the area that would be interested in having a conversation about that?  If so, I'm at jim@elevatedesign-build.com

Thanks!

Jim Cabral

Elevate Design Build

www.elevatedesign-build.com 

Thanks javatom!  

Hey Chief community! 

I don't know if this is an unorthodox thing to ask on here, but I'm a long time Chief user and started a design/build firm with a partner that serves the Balto/DC metro area.  I've been trying to envision my company with designers and estimators/sales people when it dawned on me that I'd like to build a team of Chief users and show them how to sell the actual build!  

Are there any Chief rock stars in the area that would be interested in having a conversation about that?  If so, I'm at jim@elevatedesign-build.com

Thanks!

Jim Cabral

Elevate Design Build

www.elevatedesign-build.com