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For me the most impressive improvement from x11 to x15 was the quality of the physically based feature. x11 sucked! x15 was practically Ray Trace quality with very little adjustments! So I just opened up x15 on my laptop and the PB didn't look like my office PC produced. (Both laptop and PC have more than enough to run x15) As you can see the difference. Same everything accept I notice that when I open the Technique options dialog drop down to adjust PB picture, the the Global Illumination is not even an option on my laptop. (see other pics) I'm thinking this is what is going on. Notice in the laptop pic even the floor changes in each room definition. Also I noticed when I export the PB pic the PC will take its time and render the picture slowly (about 5 minutes) but the laptop does not ever seem to render the pic it just saves it like it is in a split second. I am confused because other than the Global Illumination option not present, I'm doing exactly nothing different between the two computers. Any help would be great.

Hi I'm getting ready to make a new purchase for my laptop. I know generally what I need but love to get some good suggestions on a solid build that will work best for CA x15. I will also be using AutoCad 2024 and sometimes I have them both open. I currently am using a Omen gaming computer with 512 GB Inte SSD + 32 GB, intel Optane memory, 32 GB SDRAM , intel core i7, Nivida geforce gtx 1660 Ti It seems to work fine but should I upgrade anything?

I see in the door dialog box you can check a box for plinth blocks but it does nothing. I read another comment that said in CA you have to manually place them at each door. So what is the point in have the box to check if it does nothing and why did the CA software creators not think to allow for this. This should have been a basic application in the first CA program. I'm using x11... am I missing something here?

THANK YOU! That was it

I need to make the bird box on the right the same size as the left. I know how to auto roof return but it does both at the same time. I need only one side to be extended. Any help would be great

OK, I WILL LOOK AT THAT THANKS

So I cannot seam to adjust my material definition on the James Hardie siding anymore. When I get inside the material definition dialog box I used to be able to adjust the color, click OK and it was done. Now I get this "create a copy" nonsense. It still doesn't work. And it just started doing this yesterday. I have changed nothing that I know of. I do not want to make a copy of any material. What I want is to simple adjust the color like I always have done prior to upgrading to X15. (which btw was working in x15 the way it was in my earlier version then all of the sudden it will not reflect the color change after clicking OK anymore) This is frustrating me please tell me what I am doing wrong...

Never mind I fixed it. Went to preferences and switched Dialog Previews from Child Tool Palette back to Drop Down. I never switched it to child so this is weird. still getting used to x15 LOL.

Hello everyone. Just got x15 installed a week ago and for some reason ALL my drop down menus do not work. All of them! For example: If I want to open up the door dialog box...nothing drops down for me to chose what type of door I want. Pedestrian, garage door etc. same with dimensions, walls, roofs, you name it. Everything in the tool bar at the top of my screen that has the drop down menu does not respond. It only allows me to use whatever it already is set on. Worked yesterday! Not sure what I did to change this. Maybe I accidentally turned something off?

Okay thanks for the update

When I am in working plan view and select the stairs , there is no add break tool at the bottom of my screen like I typically have. I use Add break tool a lot. Now, there is a a different looking add breakline tool symbol that looks like steps but this does nothing but add a visual breakline but does not allow me to adjust the steps. I have never seen the "Add Complete" Break tool that is a new one for me. What you are saying sounds so simple but again when I select the stairs, where I usually see my break tool that looks like the symbol you show, its not there. Can you show me what your screen looks like when you select the steps please?

I am really struggling to make this work and need some help. The first pic is what I want...the second pic is what I get. Is there a command that I can use in the step dialog box that will automatically make my steps do what I am seeking here? What I have done has lots of individual components I had to create and its getting out of hand. There has to be a simplified way to do this. It would be nice if there was a breakline option in the working plan view so that I could just stretch the portion of the steps behind the wall over a bit to make that section of steps disappear, but there is not. The breakline in the interior Staircase spec. Dialog box is only to show a breakline in final construction drawings ( that's not the type of breakline I'm looking for). I want to actually BREAK the steps and stretch just the section I need out of sight. I got a gut feeling I'm wasting my time and there is a proper way to do all this.

Thanks!

Okay this is what I did and it worked perfectly! I created a soffit. Then I sized it to the thickness to match the existing window lintel. then added the crown I wanted from my library to said soffit. A few stretches here and there and placing it off the floor and against the wall over the window like I need and its done!

These are windows in my kitchen. I am making an exact model of my house as practice. I have run into a problem here. I need to place crown molding on my window interior header trim to match the cabinet crown. I drew the crown I am wanting to use in Plan view and raised it off the floor to close to the position I need (I will fine tune position later) and I see it in camera view upside down (see attached named CROWN ISSUE) I want to make an object out of a piece of crown that I can resize as I want and place anywhere I want but I don't know if this can be down. Any suggestion would be great. With step by step instructions a huge applause! Thanks.

okay thanks!

I have been working with Twinmotion with my CA models but I have become frustrated in locating screen material to apply to my porch. Not sure where it is in Twinmotion or how to create it. I can apply any material to the surface of the "screen" that was imported from CA but there is no actual transparent screen in Twinmotion or Sketch fab. I have a screen porch that I would like to make the screen surface look real in my model (which means being able to see through the screen) but like I said there seems to be zero screen material to use. I need help please

Hi, Is there a way to import a completed house plan drawn in CA into a different plan drawn in CA. I have a new barn I would like to position next to a house I drew a while back. In my experience thus far, I find myself having to copy and paste parts of the project and put it back together in the other plan.file. I don't want to do this...I just want to somehow grab the whole structure down to the paint color with no changes, and transport it in its completed form into the plan.file in which I have the other structure already drawn. This seams like a simple thing CA should have provided a solution for and I'm sure there is a way but I have not discovered it yet. Any clarification or help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Got it.

Is there a way to rotate the entire plan? Terrain as well... Not flip or mirror a plan rotate it. Specifically, 45 degrees. And hopefully with out watching my house fall apart.

Okay great! I will do this. Thanks

No I will try that

I can't get any round window of mine to show lites. What's the deal. Trying to make a 4 lite grid in a 20" window. I have used predefined windows and even started out with a basic window added my lites and changed it to a circle window and the lites disappear! Doesn't matter what size I make my window either.

That looks awesome! Are there any tricks or things I need to make sure my CA plan needs to have done to it prior in order to import into TM so nothing disappears or changes? Also what are you saving your CA plan as so you can import to TM?

Well it doesn't for me