Designer_Maddee

What template package do you feel would be the best fit for what we are looking for?

Thank you! It seems like all roads lead back to your services! We will definitely look into the templates and may budget in some time to do some rendering training with you this year haha! Thank you so much!

We are an interior design firm looking to potentially contract someone to help us build out templates that help make our process easier for plans & elevations. We have no idea what this would cost so I would love to hear estimates. We are doing different detailed floor plans (electrical, wall details, flooring details, furniture layouts, etc.) and elevations (lighting elevations, wall molding details, cabinetry details, etc.). I think we need to simplify some of the overall elevation views (it feels like there are too many lines sometimes, which I know is layers, but I'm not confident is figuring out turning them all off). Would love some guidance or if you'd be interested in helping us! We are currently using x15 but are upgrading to x16 soon!

Can anyone help explain how to create a new plan view? I would like to create plan views with correlating layer sets for our construction docs so I can easily pop through them (plumbing, finishes, electrical, furniture) but I can't figure out how to create a new plan view and add it to the drop-down at the top of the page. In tools I see "new plan view" but it just opens a new tab of the same plan. Can anyone guide me on how to do this? I'm sure it's easy, just outside of my wheelhouse! Thank you! x15 Chief Architect iMac 2019

I have been operating on x14. Yesterday I finally upgraded to x15 but have files I still need to operate in x14 until my coworkers upgrade. I logged in to work on them and all of my libraries including the core ones have disappeared. When I do "library" - "Install Core Content". It says they are up to date but nothing shows up in my library. When I attempt to import "user catalog" from my files I get the following message "The library "/var/folders/y7/r35qpkxx7ts27x6bkm49q5fc0000gn/T/ChiefTemp_1/User_Library.calib" has an invalid version number and cannot be read. Changes made to the library will not be saved during this session." Any advice on how I fix this?

Oh gosh, thank you so much! I was looking for a white button of course!

It still does not show

I am using Premier X13

That's what I did and it is still missing!

I can not locate the "Join Roof Plane" edit tool. I am using x13 on a Mac and am having trouble getting some of my roof planes to join. My colleague shared the "Join roof plane" button, but I can't seem to pull it up. Was it removed or not a provided tool for the Mac platform? Thank you so much!

I have been trying to create more photorealistic renderings with Chief as I don't have the current budget for additional software. I have been playing with the CPU Ray Trace option and keep coming up with grainy images that seem darker than I'd like. I have played with the lighting and sunlight and I've pushed the resolution higher and higher every time I try with no luck. If adjust the contrast of the image it makes it a little brighter, but it still is lacking. The first image went for 60 passes, the next one was 40 and the 3rd was 50 passes. I would love some insight and recommendations on fixing the grainy look as well as just creating more realistic images! Thank you! I am using Premier X13 on iMac