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Thanks but my boss will not want to hire outside. He wants me to do it. This pic is not done with CA is it?

So doing this will not take the light 6inches off the ceiling surface?

I did not know you can ray-trace once then come back and turn some lights on and ray-trace the same picture again. Is this what you are saying?

Okay, thanks! I will look into this

Yes, I am familiar with PBR. Very rarely can I get a picture to look good with this option. Yes, it is fast but it is even worse of a frustration for me most of the time. Usually, my walls turn a completely different color or even just one wall in a room. PBR takes a lot of time to master a decent pic as well. If I'm going spend all that time I'd rather ray-trace and get realistic rendering. I could care less about the time it takes for passes. I want realistic pics and I get them 8 times out of 10 but sometimes it is a fight.

Though this picture has only 4 passes I realized it is time to stop and go back to the tedious time-consuming process to find the right combination to finally achieve a realistic rendering. Sometimes I adjust a few things hit ray trace and bam! 10 to 20 passes perfect picture first attempt and looks like it should be on the front cover of Architectural Digest magazine. Then there are times like this where nothing I do works. And I hate it when it looks like I get corners at walls and ceilings glowing like there is some crack in the wall or something not connected that allows outside light coming in! And everything is connected correctly! What is the deal? Also not shown in this picture is when I place recessed can lights on a sloped ceiling. In standard view, light glows just like on flat ceiling... Hit ray trace and it looks as if it's casting a shadow and is not flush with the surface. Guess what? it s is flush and shadow casting is OFF. Would love for someone to tell me "just do this every time and you will never have this problem again". Is anyone able to tell me this?

Thanks. My issue is getting that point to snap to the center radius of the arch line I have drawn. It seems to just float around with my cursor until I place it somewhere but nothing helps me place it to the exact center.

Thats what I figured but I could not get it to snap to the center of the arch

So I found instructions step by step to do this via CA. I'm obviously doing something wrong. Note: In the attached c.PNG you will see a screenshot of the example(Left) and my dialog box. I filled out the same but my calculations are different because I have a different arch. That said, I assure you all I have tried many different calculations and degrees etc and still I get nothing like the CA example. So therefore I cannot proceed to the next step in the instructions provided by CA. You will notice in the example the CAD boxes(bricks) are clearly separated. Mine no matter what degree I enter or how many in numbers bricks it always spreads out like I'm holding a deck of cards. See Untitled 1.jpg I have even tried placing the point( marked by an X) in lower position thinking that would change the outcome. Placing the point is in a previous step but It does not specify where to place point other than as a center point reference to the arc itself. Any clues to what I'm missing here.

wow, this is good. I will try this technique.

OH...I did misunderstand. My bad

A little bit of everything. One suggestion was to use hall railing to fix the railing that did not connect. I never got to that before I rendered this but I will play with that Idea. i basically used a lot of poly solids and just positioned them where I could not make anything else work

I have never used the hall railing. I will play with that thanks

Well after ready all your posts and suggestions I worked out to this. It looks good, boss is happy!

First of all, I SUCK at steps! Straight steps maybe a single landing, no problem. But this one has me very frustrated. Back story: I draw for the largest homebuilder in Tennessee. I work with Autocad primarily. Somehow I got nominated to take all our plans that were only drawn in 2d and build 3d models of them. We got chief Architect ( because I opened my big mouth and said I was learning to use it on the side) so that said I am by definition an amateur. But I am fooling most of them around here. (See interior and exterior pics of one of 50 house I get to build and furnish for renderings for marketing uses) I added to show what I have been able to accomplish. Also,I added a picture of the steps with notes of my dilemma and the actual Plan.file 2700 that is my new headache. Any suggestions or a quick fix would be helpful. Thanks and I hope everyone's M-Day was awesome! 2700_C-A.plan

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How do I turn on baseboard molding on the stair landing? I have always noticed when I build interior stairs that any form of landing there is no base molding on the landin.

Can we change mortar colors on any brick material? If so how?

I can't seem to get the two landing steps (winder steps) to show the stringers I also want the railing to connect around the 45degree corner. I followed the chief video on how to create the angled turn of steps with the option of manually placing two landing steps to go around the turn. That seemed to be the best option in my situation. but this is what I end up with. .

Wow, It worked THANKS!

Hello everyone! This one is an odd request so I will try my best to explain. I have a project I am working on and I would like to illustrate I would like to show a connecting part that stays in a solid color but placed in its proper position inside another part that is in a wireframe. In other words, I want to see the part inside another part so as to demonstrate how it fits. Am I making sense? Both parts were designed in Sketchup.

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