HumbleChief

What? I can't hear you!!

Not recommending anyone else measure the way I do and this did not require extreme accuracy but this is what I brought home from the job walk to build the as built model. I take a pretty detailed video with my phone and note window sizes verbally as I know a 4040 slider when I see one or detail the windows when needed. I no longer measure the exterior. I tried graph paper and Rocket Book and a blue tooth laser and they just got in the way of my personal work flow. Looks pretty scary but really easy for me to interpret as all the squiggles mean something and translate pretty easily with the video for confirmation.

I change my methods depending on the scope of work. If it's a whole house remodel I'll measure every nook and cranny carefully and focus on the important parts moving forward. If there is a small room addition or small remodel I'll measure less carefully on the whole and focus on the areas that are involved in the proposed scope of work. If the scope is for a new accessory dwelling unit I'll be extra lazy measuring the main house as the minor details are not usually important. I use a Bosch laser and used to measure both inside and out but now only measure the inside and add outside measurements only when needed. I sketch the floor plan out on a blank sheet of paper and add measurements for each room as I go. Complete chicken scratch. Did I mention lazy above? I either tried or looked seriously into the newer technologies like Chief's room planner and just found too many problems in my real world application.

Glad you got things worked out.

Not sure this helps but here's a video with the relative speed of things on my (older) rig.

Don't blame you a bit. My dinosaur system is working fine but there's nothing worse than slow downs that can't be solved. Still curious about the OP's problem and if it was solved.

Me too. Wonder if the OP got the problem solved?

Which camera view? Is your setup defaulting to the RTRT physically based camera view? Are you using the 3090 card or the onboard video graphics if available? My experience runs exactly parallel to Joey's comments above. I have an older system that is plenty fast in standard camera view. You have one of the fastest systems available so it makes no sense that you're running slow as described. Have you contacted tech support? Can you post a plan for others to test speed and diagnose?

Please define the term '3D open' above. Which 3D view mode are you using? Physically based (RTRT) Real Time Ray Tracing? Which is not Real Time at all and takes several second to process even with a 3090, or standard mode which should render almost instantaneously and is a better mode for "editing in the program" saving the RTRT more for final faster renders over the CPU RayTrace. My older system (below with an older 1080) in standard mode only slows down on the largest of models. I don't use/need RTRT but the older card works great in standard mode. Also might help others if you post your complete systems specs so others might help.

Good guess, and this is the case as 'decks' aren't always the best room def for me and my limited skill set. I turned the shadows on and set up some bright 3D lights in the deck room, that isn't really a deck, and it's behaving quite well now . Thank you.

Shadows helped a lot and I also put a couple of very bright lights out on the deck. Thanks VERY much for the help!!

Thanks Ryan, but the on, then off, then on, then off behavior is a bit disconcerting. Is there a simple fix? F5 does not seem to work or is there a setting I might change? Thanks again.

I've seen this many time but have never understood why the lighting changes with some changes then back again. In this case it's a window changes that turned lighting off/down then turned it back on again. It can be seen in the video below @ around 6 seconds then back off again around 35 seconds in. Any clues out there?

Check out the pattern settings under 'wall type' in the plan I posted. There's 2 different settings. See if you can duplicate or get the look you want.

Leo please post a/the plan you are having trouble with so we at least have a chance of helping.

Yeah something I never needed to add, and will probably not use as I never turn off patterns but good to know.

Nice Mick, had no idea those options were available. Mine are on by default I guess as I've never had a need to not have patterns show.

Must be something that's on by default on my system but I found a tool to toggle on/off patterns that you can add to your tool bar. I just added it to mine.

I've got 2 stucco fills. One for existing construction and one for new. Had them for so long can't exactly remember how they were created but here's a plan file that might help and a pic of what they look like in vector elevation. Hope that might help. stucco fill 1.plan

Why? I saw the spam, scrolled to the newest post, read the great advice that is Chief's forum, and moved on. Not sure what the real problem is.

I was not trying to detail the exact time the spam was posted for but was trying to illustrate that with just a little patience, the problem, if it really is one, resolves itself without the need for new rules and posting regulations.

Ok, let's please try and not fix a problem that may not really be a problem. I saw the spam today and just scrolled to the newest post. Logged in again and it was gone and caused no real hardship. Is it really a problem?

Please don't encourage Chief to require some arcane validation to post to try and eradicate a spam problem that last for half an hour. Next thing you know we'll have to take our shoes off before we post...

That's it THANK YOU Eric.

With no counter tops, as soon as the cabs are joined that piece extends past the corner - IN 2D. And of course now a custom counter top works perfectly. Still get a weird 2D piece that remains but 3D looks good. Here's the 2D view. And here's, same cabs, the 3D view. Just a little confusing but am over it.