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Nice designs!

I basically do nothing and do not mess with any settings or lighting & my 3080 produces great PBR's even with the defaults.

This happened to me the other day when I was using floor trusses. I ended up adding the rim boards in manually and it worked great. Not sure why they didn't auto generate.

Besides the crashes in CA I am loving it.

I saw that before.....what exactly does that do?

I figured it was the cooling fans. It doesn't surprise me. Thanks guys.

Just curious.......I now have the 3080 video card and the PBR's are insanely clean and realistic. I have noticed if I keep the rendering open for a bit, the computer starts roaring like a NASA rocket ship ready to take off. It stops when I close the rendering. Is there a lot going on with the video card when that happens?

More good advice!

Thanks for the suggestion guys. This will be the last home I annotate elevations in layout since it is almost done. I will go back to calling out in plan file and figure out the text issue.

I will say that once I started using "labels" that really has helped in other views. However, elevations are different.

Advice taken Rene.....it has just seemed easier. It avoids text hitting text and trying to fit the view on the sheet once the labeled views are brought into layout. If that makes sense.

For those of us who call out material in layout views; is there a way to lock them in place if the views change in size? In this situation the house size grew and the existing layout views needed stretching to capture the new area. As soon as those grips are pulled the callouts go nuts. Been battling this for several years and just now decided to ask.

got it, thanks.....worked great.

So, all I wanted to do is snap a screenshot of white subway tile with black grout and add it to library. I came up with this. Do we "snip" the .png a certain way to avoid the grout lines from doing this? Both screenshots below........

Buy CA legally and put it on a credit card if you do not have the cash right now. It will pay for itself in no time.

You JUST made my day. I am always telling my wife about things like this and that ONE huge job that could come along and put serious money in the bank for me. She thinks I'm crazy, lol. I told her the other day how cool it would be to have a celebrity contact me to do their mansion or something. The thing is when it comes to those type of jobs, I am willing to bet a licensed architect would be the man who would hired over a designer.

I hear ya, the bricked part is a fdn wall and the siding is an exterior wall already. Thanks. Just figured I was doing things the hard way but maybe there isn't a correct one way to achieve this.

Here is a CAD detail I normally use for these type walls.

Yeah, I tried that before and it seemed more time consuming. But it does look great.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/library&reset=true

I have gotten used to making my caps like shown below for quite a while now. Is there a better way to achieve brick caps instead of having to uncheck "full wall width" and manipulate the number just to get the cap to overhang the brick stem wall? It works great but obviously isn't constructed like this in the real world. It is also shown wrong in cross sections. The cap should only be covering the brick part of the wall. Just trying to get better folks.

I had to downsize the screen size setting on my huge monitor and found them hiding in the extreme right. Maybe try that.

As much of a pain and disappointment it is with all these crashes, even after buying a $3k computer with a 3080 card and plenty of power, I must say, the one good thing about X13 is I never lose more than 5 minutes of work. I don't mind redoing the last command but multiple times a day is unacceptable. I can only hope we don't have to "baby" the upcoming releases. As a paying customer I feel we can be a little irritated with this without getting grilled. X12 was the best ever in my opinion.

Joined and put down that I was referred by your company. Thanks Joey!

Yes, Definitely made sure to form an LLC a while back.