rgardner

The garage floor does not have to be concrete. If I think I need to show it sometimes I will model the floor structure 5" lower and to be sand or gravel. I will then place a Ramp in the garage to show the sloped floor. The issue is with auto-story-pole dimensions picking up the wrong point so manual adjustment is required there.

Set up a floor specific saved plan view and turn off the stairs layer. Then use a Reference view to reference the stairs on the floor below only.

I have been running it on my old desktop with an Intel chip and it is extremely stable. I literally just received my new mac ultra studio this evening so will be setting it up tomorrow and can’t wait to try it out on that system with the new Mac ultra chipset.

Your roof is too low.

I-joists work well.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00767/creating-a-new-material.html Try this article it will walk you through what you need to do. When you use the Mac Screen grab make sure you set it to save to a location you know where it is going.

Looks like it was done in Chief originally. Maybe reach out to the designer who did the job originally? Assuming of course that you are trying to just model this for renderings and not trying to copy someone else’s design…

That being that you use auto roofs which by the picture doesn't appear you are using. But try it.

Chief recommends a new template each version. I have tested it each year and always have a crash or an issue from old plans. X14 you can create a new template pretty quick and import your SPV, Defaults, Layer Sets, Wall types, etc. Seems to not have any issues after that.

See above comment.

It is most likely you are using an old template. Create a new Version specific template each time.

Redo your migration and click migrate toolbars. OR Copy the old toolbars folder and paste it into the new toolbars folder.

Learn to use and love ALDO. It works miracles on things like this to see what the issue is.

Try placing a manual ceiling plane. BTW use a railing wall without drywall in the wall definition to get rid of that drywall at the top of the beam.

If that was done with auto roofs then that wall is marked to have a return.

As a side note to what Dermot is talking about not relevant with cross sections/elevations but with an orthographic or full camera view that point is also the focal point of the camera, so if you drag it to the island for example it will be focused on that point the best.

Yup you are on interiors then. BTW this type of information is very key to helping diagnose issues and is why as I am assuming Eric mentions in his private message it really helps save the ones who are trying to help time...

You need to select a roof plane and it will show up in the edit toolbar (oob that is on your lower bar). EDIT: It just occurred to me that since you do not have your signature filled in that you may be using the interiors version which I am not positive it has that tool: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/compare.html#:~:text=Premier includes all the features,is fully compatible with Premier.

Put a roof on the model or a second floor.

This is what I was referrring to and was setting up a scene to show pics of everything when Mark beat me to it. Didn't notice the plant issue but yes those are 2d plants.

This is one of those Essential times to provide your signature with information about your system. PC or mac, what GPU, etc. Also would be good to help with screen grabs of what you see, and/or plan file.

Perhaps one of the rendering gurus will chime in like @Renerabbitt? Not my expertise but I think your sun intensity is low and in the pbr rtrt settings I believe there is a setting to bring the daytime lighting down a bit? Not at my computer and don’t have a rtrt capable gpu so that would be where I would start.

Change your sun angle to like -85 or so. Don’t have it follow camera.

The window is not physically within the part of the wall you are showing in plan. In the wall dbx in the wall type panel have a look at the options to display the wall at the bottom also within your saved plan view settings.

@Renerabbitt is one of the best for renderings and extremely fast.