rcmcdougle

It took a LOT of fiddling but I finally got it to reconnect there on the 4 way corner. All good now. Thanks for your help..

I tried to reconnect that railing and it does not reconnect. still showing the connection error.

Here is the plan file for investigators. I see that it actually started in x10. Long history on that project. Huyler-File4.zip

I have a weird railing problem on a plan brought forward from x14 to x15. The complex deck plan is defined and the heights are good. The client requested that I change the railings to cable rails which worked as expected. We then decided to go with a system that has posts and cables as a kit. I can change all railings to show that difference except the one that is different in that image below. ANY change (including just changing the color) to that railing results in the loss of that lower deck extension, all posts and framing, and the railing goes up to the height of the main deck per the second image. How can I make the required change? What setting might be creating this issue?

I have exposed rafter tails on a fairly some simple gable roofs. I want the siding to extend to the underside of the roof surface. How to do this?

I just installed x14 on a new computer (specs below) and many default items are wonky. The biggest problem is when I attempt to change materials on any object - roof, wall types, refrigerator - Chief goes dead. Endless blue wheelie with task manager showing no CPU utilization. I must "End Task" and restart. I usually get a more recently saved version prompt available; so I don't lose much work. I really dislike the ongoing anxiety this creates in a work environment that was rock solid previously. I have built the new box with drives and installations mapped exactly like previously. I still have the previous box sitting next to the new one. I'm wondering if there is some Chief configuration file I could bring over from the old box that would address all the wierdness. Old box was Windows 10 Pro - new box Windows 11 Pro updated.

Not sure how that all got changed but Locate was set to none for those dimension tools in the 1/4" scale dimensions in plan view. I'll now need to dig through my template plan to see what else is awry.

I just installed Chief x 14 on a new computer and some of the dimension tools are not working. Manual Dimension and End to End snap but fail to generate numbers or anything else. All other dimension tools seem to be OK. Any thoughts?

Thanks Renerabbitt. I missed that sample rate setting as I have set PBR samples to be capped to 100 in Preferences. It is now running about 10 frames a minute @100 samples. Is there a way to save the walkthrough settings in the same way you can save a camera? Given that there are 4 other floors above this apartment it did not occur to put a roof over it. I was wondering how to fix the light bleed. Do you have any sense of the impact of sharing the PCI lanes might have on the walkthrough render times? If it were meaningful, I would consider swapping the M2s for SSDs. Thanks again.

Here is the plan and image of the walkthru settings. 26D_prop-4.zip

I just got a new computer up and running with Chief x14. A primary reason for the new box was because I am getting requests from clients for more elaborate presentations. The spec for the old box is X99 mb - I7 5820K cpu - 32 GB ram - RTX 2060 6 GB videocard. The new box is a Z790 mb - I9 14900K cpu - 64 GB ram - RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB videocard - with lots of M2 Boot / Swap / Data storage (3 different M2 chips). The good news is that my still frame PBR renders now generate in <6 seconds; less than half the time of the previous box. When I attempt to do a walkthrough with a PBR camera the new box is no better than the old box - about 1 minute per frame @ 1920 x 1080. Additionally, I get a warning beep for a few seconds at the beginning of each frame - same as with the previous box except the beep never ended in that one. I have enabled GPU raytrace in the Chief preferences dialog. I have set System > Display > Graphics in Windows 11 to High Performance for Chief. The nVidia driver is dated 1/18/2024. This performance doesn't seem right to me. I feel I must be missing a setting somewhere but don't know where else to look. Thoughts anyone?

I've set the recessed lights to be used in All Views but when I set the camera to PBR they are not turned on. The Adjust Lights dialog says they are not In Use. How can I get them to show? The camera is in the sitting area looking into the dressing room / closet..

Is there a way to do this for all the walls in the plan? I have no idea how those walls were created with No Room Definition but... Thanks for your help guys.

This is a partial plan of an apartment building with12 apartments per floor. My client wants to combine 3 of the apartments into one dwelling. This "As Built" was traced over a PDF referencing the several different wall types. It seems that I have properly closed walls but no rooms are differentiated. If I click in any room, the whole interior is selected. Why is this blowing up? BCD_asBuilt.plan

I'm working on my start-up template and want my layer sets to display in a particular way. I want All Off, All On, and Default to be at the top of the list of layer sets.