JonathanK

Your symbol should just be a single "panel".

I'm guessing you have something going on with your video card then. Has it always had this issue, or just started?

I know it's been around for a long time, but is there any way to turn off the "walls" around the space planning rooms to have it just be a plain box...like it used to be back in the day?

Try Edit > Default Settings > 3D View Defaults > Rendering Techniques. Then click on Physically Based (Ray Trace) on the left and change your Maximum Samples to something like 300. See if that completes the view for you. Once you change that default setting, you'll need to pull a new camera view for it to take effect.

I hearted your post @joey_martin. I've always appreciated your straightforward approach, so thank you! I am very curious...with the exception of Rene, has anyone deployed PM Method effectively for use with multiple seats?

I think this will be a very interesting thread, so thank you for starting it. We operate similar to you, but the difference is, is that we have about 25 users of Chief that operate in varying capacities. But it is deeply engrained in our day-to-day operations...from Sales to Design to Project Management. When the Project Management module first was released, we were encouraged that it would not work well for us and our system, so we've mostly stayed away from it. But there appear to be so many cool features that we cannot utilize because of this. Right now our process is similar to yours. We utilize OneDrive for all our file storage, and we have onsite servers that are simply for archived records. Our plans are saved in job folders, along with all pertinent sales and PM information. The only difference is that we work backwards through the alphabet on our plan names. So the initial draft is Z.plan, and any significant revision is a new letter. If we start getting close to the end, we start utilizing double letters so that we don't lose the sorting. This signals to the rest of the team that the top plan is the most current plan...no matter what. No questions. I would love to see Chief implement something that would allow "larger" firms to work together and collaborate easier. But it needs to be done right...and executed well. That's a lot of words I typed...and probably most of it was "meh...", but just know that you aren't alone in wanting to improve the process.

You bet. Glad to help.

*sigh*...ohhh Chief Architect. Why do you continue to have good ideas, but such poor execution.

Do I have a setting mixed up? When I send elevations to layout, and it's something with 3D cladding on it, the wall patterns are handled through the Patterns, 3D Views layer settings. The roof cladding, though, is handled through Roof Planes layer. Is there a way to change this? I want my patterns to be a lighter, thinner weight, and it appears that the walls are working correctly, but the roof is not. Has anyone worked around this? On a side note, I love the look of 3D cladding in 3D view, but the patterns are garbage. Way too busy...I wish there was a way to clean this up.

I just used solids. Pull an elevation and draw a solid at the correct height and pitch. Then pull another cross section running perpendicular to your solid and edit the "end" to be angled as well. Solids are pretty intuitive with these latest versions of Chief. They used to be a serious life-suck... I attached some pictures.

This is banging it out really quick with solids.

If you're only drawing that space, and not the entire house structure, I would cheat it with ceiling planes or solids. If you know either: A. Sidewall Height and Pitch -or- B. Sidewall Height and width of flat ceiling You could make it work pretty easily with what you have drawn.

This is what it looks like when I switch to "Force Dark": This is what it looks like after I reboot the program: EDIT: It does the same when I switch back to light mode.

We had the same issue. One of our users has Windows Default of Dark Theme, but he wanted his Chief in Light theme. We switched it to be light theme, and it was blown out like you're showing. We just restarted his program, and it fixed it. I would say that, or a reboot of the computer entirely.

If you want to show bends in it (i.e. it comes out a wall and turns and runs up the side), you could use a molding polyline as well.