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Heck Yeah, I forgot about twin motion, thanks!

Do video cards crap out like anything else? It seems my renderings aren't as crystal clear like they used to be (physically based). I only have a year and a half on the card and was just wondering, I have used it quite a bit for my screenshots to the client. On that same note, if I want to start trying lumion, would the 3080 do ok? Thanks

10 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

haven't you heard, AI will make you breakfast and put the dishes in the dishwasher.

 

and soon every company will have an AI line of enhanced products ... that aren't really AI.

 

It is good at generating content, not so good (yet) at interpreting multiple types of technical data. Ask Chat GPT what is the maximum size of cantilever I can have on my side property line at "your address here"

 

It gives garbage for my address, but ironically it must know that it is because it tells you to consult the "authority"

 

The wife is a Realtor and uses chat GPT but I haven't really wrapped my head around this whole AI thing. I instantly think about the Terminator movies and that is far as I can get with it.

I wish I wasn't so oblivious to all this AI I am hearing about.

14 hours ago, robdyck said:

2 ways to do this that I can quickly think of...turn on the layer for walls, main layer only. This will also eliminate exterior wall layers from those views. I never show the finish layers in my floor plan views, except when showing larger scale views...1/2" scale or larger.

The other way is to manually edit the cad file and then send it (gross).

Gross is right.......and thanks, I will defintely look into your suggestion.

Hello my fellow CA's. I got a request today to see if I could not include the sheetrock when I export my floor plans CA files to .dwg. Is this possible? I am always trying to to make the engineer's job a little easier.

19 hours ago, ChiefUserBigRob said:

haha We posted this seconds apart. I cannot select the whole pergola. One of the objects keeps me from being to select the rotate option. Probably the railing walls.

That is what I somewhat remembered in that previous thread. All good now and complete.

Just now, Chrisb222 said:

 

Select your stuff, hit the Transform/Replicate button on the Edit menu, click Rotate

 

haha We posted this seconds apart. I cannot select the whole pergola. One of the objects keeps me from being to select the rotate option. Probably the railing walls.

Never mind guys, selecting a little at a time allows for me to use the transform/replicate icon and I can manually input the degree to rotate.

Hey guys, So I was asked to rotate my pergola like 10 deg. Obviously when selecting the whole thing at once I don't get the rotate grip. How can I do this again? I cannot find the thread where this was discussed before. I would say screw it and rotate the terrain like I normally do but then the main home will be wrong. 4 railing walls created the "patio" I renamed to pergola. The rest is general framing members and some stainless cabinets. The round sitting area rotates with it and is just a basic slab no footings (pulldown icon).

I'm old school, 100' tape measure and a sketch pad. I hire my son to hold the tape and we are done in an hour on 98% of homes. Now if the home is huge, I first ask if they have the plans to the home, 50% of the people do and I save them money that way. If they don't I hire my matterport guy. I tried lidar on the iphone 14 and always revert back to the good ole tape measure.

Every home I have lived in with a garage (4 total) has always had a 4" step down at least.

39 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

However, that's a terrible design just asking for someone to stumble or trip. 

Whoever built that house may not have thunk about the people who drink. 

Doesn't matter if I add or don't add shear wall details on my plans down here on the coast in Alabama. The engineer's will provide their own details anyway and override mine and stamp their own structural drawings. I made the details and have them in my library though.

Thanks guys, these are good ideas to look at. The carport was built with railing walls. How do you guys build detached open structures like carports. I bet the way I build has everything to do with it. To clarify, The frieze boards only do this on my carports. 

12 minutes ago, robdyck said:

Rob, have you tried adjusting your default camera settings? If you use the generated sky, and have the terrain extend to the horizon, those default views will look much nicer for you making it much nicer for working. I also really like turning the hand drawn lines on with every setting set as low as possible and 3d patttern lines turned off.

Whoops, just realized you don't have X15.

Yep, I am too comfortable with X13 right now lol. 

44 minutes ago, Doug_N said:

Please post the plan file.

Let me see about sizing it down.

Does anyone know why or how to fix these auto generated frieze boards? It leaves gaps at the ends on every home I do. Just as a sidenote, I manually build my post and beams and create railing walls to do my carport but turn off the post to beam options. Does that have anything to do with it?

20 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

It sounds like maybe you are trying to use the 2D people.  They are primarily meant to be used in elevation views.

 

Try these or do a search on the forum for 3D People.

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/detail/1222

 

 

Yes! Silouettes are awesome for renderings. I also show them in areas where headspace is minimal.

Thanks guys, I only care about making them match for my renderings.

When it comes to framing members we can stain them any color we want. But Tongue & Groove is a texture that we choose from the library and cannot have color applied with the eyedropper. How can we make the two match?

This is why I love the forum, smart people helping others. I have never included the room finish schedule because I called the material out on elevations. Now I will by pass all that and add the schedules. Just like I wanted.........

35 minutes ago, TeaTime said:

If you just know the name of the material you're looking for, as it's listed in the Schedule for instance, you can also open 3D, Materials, Plan Materials to see a whole list of all materials in the plan. Sometimes easier than opening a camera view and hunting about.

what about renaming the moldings? No builder knows what CA-34 means. I wanted to give base board & crown sizes.

Thanks guys, got it to work...much appreciated.

18 minutes ago, DRAWZILLA said:

in the materials plan dbx just copy the material and change the name to whatever you want it to be then select that material instead of the standard material chief gives you.

Interesting! I will give that a try. Just to clarify, how do you open your materials plan dbx? The way I do it it won't let me copy by double clicking the space to open the box. Thanks!