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Hi Susan. You're welcome. Just for clarification, Visual Comfort is not offering Chief Libraries - only DWG and SKETCHUP formats I believe - both of which can be imported into Chief. The models are quite good and have saved me much time.

You're most welcome. The 2020 catalog must have belonged to 2020 if what Top Knobs tells me is accurate. Good luck in your endeavor getting more manufacturer's onboard. FYI - Visual Comfort Lighting is now offering 3D models for their newer products in case you didn't know.

Susan - we use Top Knobs for most of our kitchens and bathrooms. I have contacted their customer support and they do not have a CAD department from which to publish the 3D models. Believe me, I have asked customer support and our sales rep on many occasions. What I've been doing is modeling my own hardware with all the possible installations - attached is the list to date. I'd be glad to share the catalog or individual pieces if you'd like but I warn you that some of the models are rather poly heavy. It sure would be nice if more manufacturers would start offering 3D models. If you're like me, you have a tendency to specify those products for which you have 3D models in Chief. Kevin

Thanks Rob. You are 100% correct. I will never center my model at 0,0 again. This is actually the first time I attempted to center so no wonder I never encountered the issue before. Thanks again, Kevin

I've just noticed this behavior today while starting a new project. Although my active dimension defaults are set to be nearest 1/16", Chief is rounding up to the nearest 1/8". In the first image you can see the dimension defaults. The second image shows what I'm running into - although the dimension line states 136 7/8", when opening a segment of equal length it clearly shows 136 13/16 (which is the goal). I've also attached the file. What setting might I be missing here? Thanks! CHF_7595 Newman Rd_01-29-23_AS-BUILT.plan

Very cool symbol! Thanks!

Thanks again Doug. I really appreciate the help. I was looking at it for so long it's sometimes easy to miss something obvious. That 3rd shape was a polyline solid I used as a reference for the hole in case I needed to draw it again. Chief seems to have done a good job with these dormers. I have never had them perfect before and now I have 3 really good ones! Kevin

Thanks again Doug. You are right. There's an extra roof hole that was causing the problem. I'll be sure to look out for this in the future.

Thanks Eric. Really appreciate it!

Eric - I'm not getting the same result. Are you copying everything at once including the roof hole or just the walls? Are you using reflect about or center object? Thanks.

Thanks Doug. That did work for the exterior problems. Did you notice the wall problems on the interior? The right dormer when viewed from inside is perfect. The left, not so much. Thanks again, Kevin

Thanks for taking a look. That is how I created the 2nd dormer in the first place.

Thanks Eric. The file is only about 39MB and here's the link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/6axrhseb634eaax/TEMP.zip?dl=0 I'd appreciate you taking a look. Kevin

I have two dormers that are identical. One I was able to pull off perfectly. The second, although identical, has some artifacts that I cannot identify. I have checked the walls including attic walls, the roof planes, room moldings, etc. and I cannot find the problem, nor do I even know what those flat boards floating above my roof could possibly be. Has anyone run into this before and found a solution? Further, I don’t understand why Chief rebuilds both dormers differently although identical (as far as I can tell). I can upload the file to Dropbox if anyone has the time to take a look. Thanks, Kevin

Thanks Renee. That's a great tip!

You might be right...

Thanks Rob. That's what I ended up doing. I thought there might be a tool for extracting from elevation view. Would be nice as this is usually how the engineer presents to me. Kevin

I’ve got a set of plans from an engineer. I am attempting to approximate the terrain by tracing a line over what is drawn in an elevation view – see attached. So far so good, but there are no terrain tools available to me in the elevation view. Is there an easy way to translate this to the plan view? I have tried creating a P-Solid and deriving contour lines from it – no luck. How would you go about doing this? It does not need to be perfect - only an approximation. Thanks, Kevin

It's the standard renderer in 60 FPS. I am going to try XVid to see if there's any improvement. I have to lower the brightness of my computer monitor as lately it has been hurting my eyes. It's probably washed out on a standard screen. Will changing the compression rate have any effect? I'm using the default 75%. Happy Fourth!

It's still choppy. Here's the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/141nt68eh28htl0/Rice Orbital Walkthrough_Existing Home_07-01-22.wmv?dl=0

Not Z-fighting. I will bump up to 60 FPS and see what happens. Thanks!

I was trying to post the video on Chief from my locker, but cannot upload that type of file. How did you post yours in the first reply?

@Chopsaw @robdyck @solver In addition to the flickering, I am getting a moire pattern with my roof and brick textures. Any advice on getting a cleaner video? I'm using the Windows Media 9 Codec.

Thanks again, Rob! I got it working. I set it to 30 FPS. What will help with the flickering? Kevin