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1 hour ago, DavidJPotter said:

am using the NVIDIA 12/5/2022 driver and get crashes when using Standard Render technique, so I have taken to quickly switch to vector view to avoid crashes at least for now. Otherwise my PC is totally stable and fast.

 

I moved to win11 about a month ago and was having issues with crashes on cameras. I rolled back to nov Nvidia studio driver and it is better so far

20 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

 

 

It may be easier to just manually set up a page and then delete it if is not required or delete the Level 2 if it is not required and Attic would become Level 2 also if for some reason you had a four level build just duplicate Level 2 to become Level 3 and Level 4 would become the Attic.

This is what I do but I'm also unclear what the use case is the OP is trying to achieve.

If he puts layout boxes with the page label or even a hard-coded label, then he can relink the new plan, and not have to do anything else?

I'm curious, with no walls on ground level, is anything done for lateral support between posts

22 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

 Aside from pretty framing diagrams to impress your grandma they are pretty useless in my opinion.

There are a few situations that I find the framing valuable.

1. Deck framing

2. Tall wall framing to give to an engineer. One cannot tell from an elevation where the wall ends and where the truss begins. This is especially true for complex roof lines

3. Stair openings. There are other ways to do it but I like the floor framing as it shows on the floor below

4. Manual framing adjustments. It's nice to modify existing framing

5. Conventional floors. Some oeople still want to build with 2x10. A small sunroom addition is a good example. All I have to do is specify the beam everything else is auto done.

6. Other people on here use "live"details. I would assume they rely on the framing

I'll admit I did that once because I thought it marked the thread as solved and had no idea it attributed it to the specific comment and user

I created one for x14

It was for static details, not live. which are you looking for?

In solvers video near the end it is missing on two short sides then it looks like he touches the wall and then it just appears correctly. 

Looks like a bug if he did not actually do anything of substance to get it to appear

@GuyBreton

My apologies for not responding. I was actually waiting for a response in the thread and did not look back after a few days

I pretty much do solely drafting on a fixed price basis. It looks like you are mostly there. I might change the front door gable and the garage roof. But if you are happy with it and want elevations, schedules, section, 9.36 energy calc (required by the municipality) etc. i could do that  I also work with an engineer if you need one

I would typically do something like the following as output. If you need a site plan and have the RPR I can add to the RPR. If you need a block plan or streetscape I would need more information

@GuyBreton

I just did an ICF near leduc last fall

If you have a preliminary set, I can quote you.

I will also need to know if the lot is flat.

Thanks

you could search the forum as well, I commented on this same issue probably sometime in the last two weeks

The other nice use of p2p is as built measurements by using a point marker instead of snapping it to a wall because you know it will not change, I also use it for things like existing furnace locations 

On 2/17/2022 at 6:16 AM, MPDesign said:

It seams its easier to just place cad lines to dim t

I had the same issue trying to dimension a stepped footing in another thread so I just put on a cad line

i think you are right. if I move the building east to be over the trees, you can now see them in the window growing through the floors.

hmm thats not good, I think then the answer to my question will be "no" it is not possible. so what do people do for "actual" 3d neighborhood model. Do they just take photos or screenshots at specific angles and do a lot of photoshopping? paint every pixel?

no wonder the 12 story building in the other thread was quoted at 1.5M to render, maybe that is what they do!

I have a building built in CA, but GE will only remove the things that lie in the building. I tried creating four walls which are invisible with no roof in hope CA would create a cube of nothing to show that beside the building all of the existing tress will be removed by the excavation. but it did not work

Anyone know how to build a transparent building in CA which will be considered in GE as occupying the space?

Or some other means? my leaveless tree is on the bottom left, there are 3 others across the bottom right, but GE keeps the old "bushy" trees there so you cannot even see my trees

that is impressive. my CA computer is in for service at the moment and  my other computer does not meet twin motion requirements. Hopefully it will be back soon

29 minutes ago, Chiefer said:

need gratis rendering of your scene in a different software?

perhaps. are you offering   this project is actually to oppose this development. The poor little old lady next door gets to look up at a 75' wall

the only standard interface I have seen is the catalogs. They are accessible by SQL lite. But that does not help you. But given your use case, if if CA had an API into their files, you would need a a constantly running program which checks for updates to all CA files in user specified directories, and then run an "integrity update" every once in awhile. You would also need a key name specified within the CA file which matched the SQL db.

I would suggest the simpler option is once you are done the schedules, export them to a certain directory with the key field in the filename, and then write a program to suck them into SQL. 

I wrote a program years ago which did this, and there are many Extract-Transform-Load programs which may even avoid any programming altogether, but you still have to export them manually

i think it is creating an opening for the window

try changing double wall setting to "Not through" in the window properties

CA has a thread for minimum and recommended requirements.

If you want RTRT  it lists minimum video cards to do so

1 hour ago, felixfl said:

In picture 2: My old home has a basement and I am not planning a basement in the addition. the old house has floor starting 4 ft. from grade due to basement, and new addition will start from 8 inch above grade. I am unable to increase the height of the stemwall that would represent the basement wall in the old house. I do not have to show a basement and add complication to the drawing; is there a way for me to show the floor to start at 4 ft above the grade while leaving the new addition floor at 8 inch above.

you need to change the absolute elevations of the rooms you want to start at a different elevation

in the room dbx

if you are trying to do something like this:

1 hour ago, felixfl said:

Issue 2: How do I exclude the materials for the old home? currently, it gives me material list as it is a new construction, is there a feature that I can highlight and mention not to be included in the material list?

There is a material list polyline where you draw a box around where you want the materials to come from

the autogenerated worked well, thanks

The properties of roads allow the setting of the intersection curve radius. quite nice actually

Is there an easy way to get the sidewalks to follow this. Or do I have to somehow create a pline of the road move copy it again, and then move both to form a sidewalk?

attached

bow 58.plan

this is a physically based camera and I do not see that option (although it was unchecked in the standard properties)