richparde

Unbelievable! That fixed it. A thousand thank you's! Back story on the house plan. I have a older, wealthy family friend who's been planning his 'dream house' with me for about 2 years now. We both love the french renaissance chateau style, and we've been trying to mimic what would be typical, modern updates, added to an authentic, old world chateau. We are trying to follow the original grandeur and symmetry of items like window placement and room layouts, and 'updating' the original with items that weren't around 200 years ago, like electricity, plumbing, bathrooms rather than chamber pots, a kitchen on the main floor rather than the cellar, etc. The process has been a blast, and I hope he does build it someday. I don't doubt he will. If you'd like to use any of the plan, or have any suggestions or comments, feel free. Thank you all again!

I agree, I would try the genuine adobe acrobat program first. You may think a graphics shortcoming would first reveal while rendering. But as pdf files allow relatively small file sizes, they can put a strain on certain components in your PC. If that doesn't help, you appear to have a bottleneck somewhere and your graphics card can't keep up with screen refreshes. If you're running windows, are you 64 bit? Check task manager while you're manipulating the pdf, and see if you have available RAM (non paged), and see if your hard disk transfer rate is maxed out. If those check out, then it's probably your graphics card is running out of gas.

Thank you both for taking the time to look. After checking the settings several times, I had a feeling the problem may turn out to be a glitch. I have a pretty powerful system, with lots of RAM and a very good GPU. I have restarted chief a couple of times. I also tried a system reboot. I have found it interesting that when I "walk" down the stairs, it only shows the flooring and underlayment - the floor framing is missing, as it should be. Anyway, thank you all, again!

Sorry guys, the size is just under 60mb zipped, and the site limit is 25mb. I have it stored on dropbox, if anyone is okay with such a large download. Also, any pointers on how this file became so large would be great. Thank you. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jqfkcroapwf5cn/Ren%20Chateau%20051815.zip?dl=0

I am working on a 4 story home that has a curved central staircase. After a few hours of work in another area, I noticed one of the 'open below' rooms for the staircase is no longer drawing open. It draws with the same flooring as the floor that surrounds it. It still highlights as a separate room, so there isn't a break in the open below room perimeter railings. I've checked the floor/ceiling/floor above/ceiling below/etc. heights and they match the surrounding room. I've checked the roof over/ceiling over/floor under check boxes and they match the other open below rooms that are drawing correctly. I've turned the room type to a hallway, and then back to open below to see if I could reset it or something. Nothing has worked. I'm sure this is something really stupid. Come on, guys, what am I missing? Thank you.