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1 minute ago, Renerabbitt said:

VERY COOL, CAN'T WAIT!

 Working on it, this exact minute, lol

On 6/17/2019 at 8:44 AM, Renerabbitt said:

Love this design, beautiful lines, great respect for the exterior and natural light, awesome mixture and nod to certain styles... given what you've put together I would venture a guess that you are already wrestling with this, but the wine cellar doesn't feel natural to the space, seems like an after thought at the moment. Looking forward to seeing a finalized design if you're willing to share, nice work!

  Thank you, (long and narrow lot). The renderings above were to demonstrate to the client what I would have on the lot if I were in his shoes.

  The wine display idea was to be as it you were to remove a block from the open pantry, separating the great room from kitchen/dinning area but without the necessity to close the pantry.

   The client decided to add a second floor (similar to front garage/bonus look), "lazy river" water feature from the court to rear and a roof top. I will post the updates as soon as I'm done

On 6/24/2019 at 7:09 AM, KenL-sdd said:

I just had a friend put in a GTX 2080. Until he made this change he had 4 to 6 seconds lag time...

Remove chief from your control panel and see what happens

 A while ago, I used to have input lag while using  files from one server, after utilizing local files from an ssd drive, the input lab became insignificant, more of a difference than switching from a rtx 2070 to 2080...

On 6/15/2019 at 6:40 AM, MarkMc said:

I can't from a hardware perspective. A lot of little things that are in your control help, which is what is being pointed out.

 

Keep all unused layers are off, control with layer sets. (no reason to have framing on all the time).

Have a working layer set keeping hatching, patterns textures off as much as possible.

Avoid unnecessary anno sets, layer sets, or layers. Import and export as needed.

(To see how this affects things check the file size of a large plan, open it. Then open an OOB plan template. In the first plan-all layers on and unlocked, edit area-all floors, select all copy. Paste into the OOB plan, save as untitled. Compare file sizes.)

Use secondary plans for rendering or lots of interior fixtures (my work revolves around that stuff) or landscape.

Avoid PDFs if at all possible-convert to dwg, text, png.

Schedules only in CAD details, never in floor plan. As much text in CAD details as possible. Use warehouse plans as often as possible.

Often better to convert psolids and the like to symbols. Besides they are easier to reuse and can be saved in specific plans prior to converting for alteration later.

Avoid unnecessary macros.

AND there still will be times that things lag.

 I use chief for plans and construction documents but lumion for the renderings (way more realistic than chief). 

On 6/11/2019 at 3:15 PM, johnny said:

Chief seems to Choke more than I remember on finished plans.  I have a very fast system and id doesn't seem to improve things too much, which means that its an optimization thing with Chief.   Would the nvidia quadro help with the plans?

   Try turning layers off (I usually turn the pattern layers off when working on CAD details temporarily.The two Ti 2080s are more than sufficient for Chief, plus a Quadro8000 costs over 9k, the cost doesn't justify it's performance difference. (https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2080-Ti-vs-Nvidia-Quadro-RTX-8000/4027vsm762332) .

  Very preliminary interior and exterior concept.

  Modeled  in Chief X11 and rendered in Lumion 9.3.1

 It has being "Foreverrrrr" since I have posted last, I will try to be more present from now on.

 Model created in Chief X11 and rendered in Lumion 9.3.1.

 Lumion still destroying as far as renderings go...