HumbleChief

I have the same card and I leave shadows on all the time. No problems here

You might try to turn on optimizations and turn off all software edge smoothing off, let the hardware do that

Thanks Perry but no help. Can you post your settings?

I was just watching a video that Scott posted, thanks as always, and was noticing the shadow view he was using and the almost instantaneous view changes on a fairly complex model. I have a good, or even great, video card (Nvidia 780) but I get really sluggish view changes with shadows on with the simplest of 4 walled models.

Here's the video.

 ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2uBDzg9Yiw&feature=youtu.be..    (weird had to add the periods before and after in order to sow the video link)

...and here's my setting in Preferences Render, system specs in sig.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I tend to go for the simple approach. Sure, you can make cad blocks with his symbols (Hieroglyphics), or, you could modify his shear wall symbols to look like what you can easily make in CA. My engineer calls out those 4 shear walls as P1, P2, P.... you get the picture.

Same with my engineer though he uses A,B,C etc.no shading, very simple to annotate.

I agree with KT. You should not get use active layer set if set up correctly

Agree with KT too. Never seen that behavior here Alan, something is definitely set up differently and something I would change as that extra step you are experiencing can be very distracting and cause problems with Layer Sets in the future.

Maybe that's what the OP is experiencing too?

Alan,

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question or comment but in X5 whenever you double clicked a layout box it would take you back to the Anno Set you were last working on - NOT the Anno Set you were using when you sent the plan to Layout. You'd always have to remember to change Anno Sets back to stay current.

In X6 if you double click on a Layout box it takes you back to the Anno Set that was in use when you sent the plan view to Layout. Absolutely brilliant new X6 feature and so so painful to go back to X5. Not sure if/how that might help you or the OP but hope it does.

- the callout triangle doesn't appear to have the option of filling it 

All the shapes have the option of filling them - just type in the text you want when opening the callout dbx.

I thought X6 solved that issue?? - Or at least it hasn't been a problem for me since using X6.

Make sure your layers are set to what you expect to see in the Anno Set. You might actually be selecting random layers that are being applied to your plan view then the anno set takes you back to the sets determined by the anno set. That's pretty confusing but the anno set layers will rule what layers you see, so again check the layers selected in the anno sets and see if those are the ones you're seeing.

Got it. The corner of the roof plane extended into the adjacent plane instead of being cut off and butted to it.

I have a ceiling plane that appears and is associated with a roof plane but I can't seem to get rid of it or get it to show properly. If I delete the roof plane above, it goes away but returns no matter the changes I make. It's an X5 file because a client must use X5 files. Thank you.

Here's a pic

...and here's the plan

CEILING PLANE 1.zip

Could some please help me understand or guide me to the proper settings for the following problem.

 

I draw Face Frames for Custom Cabinetry. When I do so, I start by drawing a rectangle, dimension it, and then start drawing vertical and horizontal lines to suit. The problem I am having is; when I draw a line and it comes close to a perpendicular line, it does not snap or stop right at that line like it used to. I end up having to zoom in really close in order for me to make it right. Very Time Consuming!!

 

What am I missing?

 

I have everything checked under Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties>Object Snaps

 

Is there something else?

 

Your help is greatly appreciated!

 

Mike

Mike,

I drew a simple CAD box and vertical and horizontal lines and everything snaps just as it should, and how it seems it used to for you. Have not seen the behavior you're describing and can only duplicate it with snaps turned off. Sorry that's not much help but do you have a plan that exhibits what you're seeing?

Thanks so much for all the help. Goofy plans are my trade mark so I've learned to live with it

I have a client who uses and must have the files in X5 - otherwise couldn't agree more with the X6 kudos and recommendations. REALLY hard to go back to X5.

Thanks Jim,

I changed the deck default height before and it still seemed to switch back and forth between being OK and not so OK.

Could you please tell me if it looked funky when you first opened the plan? It seems like a couple of things 'fix' it but mostly just opening the plan seems to cure it.

As always Scott thanks for taking a look. Did it look wrong when you first opened the plan? I REALLY need to know as I think I've snapped.

Just now I opened the dbx closed it and it looks fine. Weird is right. Worked on that for hours. Replaced the second floor problem disappeared. Re-opened plan problem re-appeared.

I'm sending the file to an associate that knows very little about Chief. Hope it doesn't act up during his presentation.

Thanks again.

So sorry. See attached. Oh Yeah it's an X5 file

Floor Problem 1.zip

Wow. I've been working on this for a very long time this morning and for some reason the ceiling height in the main living area shows up about 5 - 6" higher than the second floor floor above in camera view.

The ceiling height is set to 97" but in section and camera view it shows up higher than that and the floor above shows as if it's dropping down.

I solved it once by replacing the second floor but when I re-opened the file the problem returned.

Here's a back clipped cross section showing the higher ceiling, even thought the room dbx show a lower ceiling.

and the dbx showing the setting

Camera view showing the 2 levels.

plan here

FLOOR PROBLEM ZIP.zip

In the wall dbx on the roof tab look for "Roof cuts wall at bottom" - may solve your problem but like the other posters can't really tell what you're looking at without a pic or a plan.

Thanks Gene, Yeah I have DB account but tried that once and failed, I guess i'll learn again. Anyway problem was bonehead user error.

Maybe you don't copy and paste the window schedule from the first to the second floor so it can be seen both places in Layout - Maybe you place the first floor plan on the second floor Layout page and shrink the layout box to show just the window schedule - yeah that should work - never mind fixed it.

Just opened this plan and found all (single) windows have 2 labels. Delete the window deletes both labels. Can't post too big plan file  - curious if anyone's seen/fixed this?

Set up your reference layer to show your roof from either floor on either floor. You can use the existing reference layer set or create your own specifically for roofs.

Go to >Tools>Reference Floors and set that up the way you want, or just click on the floor number in the floor change dbx and will take you to the same place. Select which layer you want to use or create a new and you should be good to go.

Funny thing, its associated to the last base cab on the far left of the island as you look at the island, just delete that cabinet and put one back. Don't know how that happened unless you slid it over there.

Thanks Perry - worked a treat - probably did exactly that.

Thanks Bill tried that but it was, as Perry discovered, associated with another cab..

Here's an X5 plan that has a bar sink in a counter and can't seem to select it to delete it. Any tips?

BAR SINK ZIP.zip

Brilliant Glenn. So glad for your help and to know I'm not too crazy yet. I swear I looked everywhere for that but got nuthin. Again, and as always, thanks very much for your help.

Coulda sworn that was a new feature. Is there such a feature? Where? how?

For a little more clarity I've got some steel beam framing and wood framing and I need to generate wall framing but don't want the wall framing to intrude into the steel beam framed walls. Really need to frame one wall at a time but don;t know how. Searched a ton of videos and googled everything I could think of. Maybe I just want that feature really bad...

I suppose I could re-define the materials in the wall that I didn't want framed to be air gap but is there another way to have wall framing show in some walls and not others? It would be nice keep auto wall framing on.