Steve_Nyhof

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  1. Maybe there are some AI apps that may be able to, but 6 months ago I messed with a number of them trying to get them to do landscaping and they often also mess with the house. You might be able to get AI to generate a background image only with some prompts that could work. I was trying to create an image out of Chief and put it into AI to generate landscaping and a background. Add an AI described background to the Chief model and I think that could work. Might have to mess with that.
  2. Very nice. Photoshop is pretty straight forward. I do like the idea of the extended terrain. That is a nice touch to blend in with a distant background. Great work!
  3. I looked closer at your green outlines and it looks like you took pictures of various areas and put them together - maybe with photoshop? Very cleaver!
  4. Wow! Now that is some amazing grade work. Is the grading actually done in Chief? Or is this an image of the property before there was a house? Very impressive! I cannot think of how you did this
  5. I'm very happy with this solution! Great job. The one below I understand and its great for something on a curve! Thank you!
  6. Here is one way using Point Markers because they have their own layer. You can use the Copy Multiple and then hide the markers layer. https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/BiGwE0OYt2Y4GotbH0PV
  7. Does anyone have a way to create evenly spaced points between two points? But not using the Copy Multiple tool. I was even hoping a block would work and then I could stretch between the two points, but you cannot snap to the lines in the block or symbol. In AutoCAD I made up a number of Construction lines where I could very quickly get some evenly spaced lines and with a hotkey just as easily remove them. With the Copy Multiple tool it is not always easy to remove the lines from around the cabinets, lockers, etc that I use it for. It works fine, but thought there might be a more intuitive way to create temporary lines, spaces, snap points - ideas??? https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/Llb9x5YzRA38LdBPznMA Thank you, Steve
  8. When I clicked on the Auto Detail button - see image - I had a DBX asking for one things or another. How do I reset this so I get this DBX to popup again? I want to check the component fill options. Thank you
  9. The template is in the very first post on Page 1. I highly recommend that you follow my steps exactly so you get my same results.
  10. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XJo7gJ9_KXpR-Pp0COgzfKdpmXtVjPE_/view?usp=sharing In the link is this Library. Download the file and drag it into your drawing.
  11. Honestly, I deleted the 2D shadow trees from my personal Library. Just click on the link in the first page in this thread (I see it above). But they do not cast as nice of a shadow as 3D trees do. Follow my first steps in the beginning of this thread as I add 3D trees for shadows.
  12. I don’t use TM any more. Check in the grass / plants area. It’s a sub menu
  13. Correct, I updated my language above This is what I find. I never question Michael, and I do always learn from him. This is what I am learning for being able to change the garage door into a Door. https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/HjmT6E57Z2hjPRpM0LMZ
  14. I did not know there was an option for Add to Library As tool. Going to look into that. Thank you
  15. Non of my doors used Doorway as a symbol from the start. I tried that and that is goofy. The video above shows how I make a door symbol and use that to generate the same panel garage door, and that symbol shows up in the DBX in the Library list, again because it is a symbol. Once the Door symbol is made and put into a wall, you can open the garage door and change all the settings you want and then save that to the Library. This now is only a garage door and can only be inserted into a wall from the library and not from the DBX library list (it is no longer a symbol). You can still open it in the Library and change its settings as a garage door. IF HOWEVER, you create a full sized garage door (7' x 18') as a Door symbol it will show up in the DBX library list. But only as a symbol, and you cannot change the settings like you can in the example above. So, if you want to be able to swap out full garage doors you would want to create a Door symbol as a full size garage door and leave it as a symbol. The doors that have the row of glass in them where saved as a full size garage door symbol, but then I still adjusted the settings I wanted and saved that to the Library so that when I inserted it into a wall, all my garage door settings were in place. When I have a client that wants to change a 16' wide garage door to an 18' garage door, I delete the existing door and add the new 18' wide garage door from the library. By doing it this way I know that all my default settings will come with that garage door when it is placed and I have nothing to change. It would be nice if I could swap out a garage door from the DBX or the library tool because I would not need to relocate the door or attach the dimension again.
  16. @Chrisb222 So based on my videos, what am I missing on my doors that could make them work? Thank you
  17. What I am finding is that it needs to be a symbol to show up in the DBX https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/W7xS5a3le3OoCEuhaSUw Here is more of why the one works and the other does not https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/LfjOvLqiaAst1tXNT5CT
  18. Hi Gene, I am not looking at my doors, but maybe as a symbol I have some option not set. I did make these in X15 while still learning Chief so it is possible I do not have something correct. When I want to use the garage doors I just put then in the plan on my garage wall and move on, so I have not tried what you are talking about. Now I am curious as to what is different.
  19. Yes, please drag the door you want from the library onto the garage wall. Thank you
  20. Hi Gene, There should be complete garage doors in the library as well with a top row of glass. Let me know if you cannot find that.