HumbleChief

Yeah, thanks Mark, been with Chief long enough to know they are not designing the program for the way I work but am still a bit baffled at the reason for that glass house ref set? Literally cannot find a use for it. Plenty of ways to work around its deficiencies, as there are for many of Chief's deficiencies, but seems it would be a killer tool with numerous uses, without much fiddling at all, if it had the same line control as the regular view glass house does. And yes I've learned many, many ways to get what I want from Chief, sometimes it's the long way around, and sometimes getting there's half the fun, other times I wish the program did read my mind... EDIT: and just think of the possibilities if all the other render techniques, with complete options, were available? Tech drawing? Water colors? Could be really sweet...

Not sure if the "oh" means, "Here ya go, told ya so," or "Yeah you're right, if you use this method the glass house over writes the standard view and looks crummy." ..and this method also doesn't use the glass house ref set, at all. Either way your help is not unappreciated but that last look is actually the problem, not the solution... It's also pretty easy to see that no one else sees this as important so I'll either use it in its crippled form or not at all. Not expecting Chief to change it. Was checking the new X11 feature video and it shows the same glass house over the top of a standard view. Must be what was intended? They don't however show the glass house ref set, without line control, used in any way I could see...wonder what it's for?

Not sure it is...

Thanks Michael, don't think I saw it in X11 Beta, just this latest update...

Yeah easy to get the look you presented, can't seem to get the opposite look. Will keep thrashing... ...and have a curiosity question, wouldn't it just be easier to put the line control in the glass house ref set?

Don't know how to duplicate but it's happened 3 or 4 times...anyone else?

Thank you very much Mark - really appreciate your time but what if I want just the opposite look? Where the addition is glass house and not the as-built/. Which is the look I'm after? Ran into a bug will continue shortly...

Thanks Glenn, can you see a way to get what I want?

I think we're doing two different things. I can't get any combination of standard/glass/ref sets to look anything like your last pic and have no option to move the ref sets nor the original front or back... Need another approach, or simply stop beating my head against the wall. Dose anyone else use this feature? How please?

Curious how did you move the standard view to the front?

Might be missing something but I don't seem to have the option to place standard or glass to the front or rear (move up move down grayed out). No option in the dbx? See pic?

Maybe I'm the only one who would like to use the glass house ref set in this way?

Thanks Mark, but not what I want at all. The glass house view overlays the standard view with no way to move the glass house view to the back, nor the standard view to the front. Curious as to why the feature was implemented in its current crippled state with no line control for the ref set?

Pretty sure that view does not use the Glass House ref set control so what's the point of same?

Talking about this view. There doesn't seem to be any controls for the glass house lines, like in the main plan file. REALLY want that option but it was left out, perhaps intentionally?

Surprising how much I dislike the larger line. We'll get used to it of course bit it makes the interface just little bit clunky looking IMO.

I'm assuming this is the final release now in our digital lockers? If so I'm curious about a couple things. Is the glass house reference layer meant to have no discernable lines like the regular glass house version does? Am I missing a setting? Looks like the structure dbx has been fixed and also noticed the larger lines in the menu bars in this release. Not sure I'm a fan.

It's most obvious with elevations, did not know it would happen in your example.

Yeah not sure how Chief decides which image to pixelate...

Dunno, do the cross hairs help?

Has the view been sent to Layout? Layout can intentionally use a very low res picture that prints fine.

Copying should be no problem and discovered that indeed DropBox is in the C:Users\Larry Folder so that location should work... Thanks for that.

Thanks Mick. Seems like I've done this before and am surprised how little I know about computers. I created a new Folder in DropBox to point the My Data Folder in Preferences to: but have to have C:\Users\Larry\ in the path instead of a simple path like C:\DropBox\ New Data Folder Location. As soon as C:\Users\Larry\ is altered the path becomes invalid. Really don't want the new folder in C:\Users\Larry\ but seem to have no choice. Hmmm... Better get some work done and tackle this later.

Ah yes, I think it will be that simple (and was probably already suggested but my thick skull and all) . Need to ensure toolbars etc. gets copied?

But I can't get to my Data as the directory is no longer visible in Explorer. I think I'll try it on my Main Computer and maybe even copy data back to my Laptop. Is this a bad plan?