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    Not if it is not in the Legend , not that a couple of feet in the legend is enough to throw the ML off enough to effect anything as far as pricing goes. And it would still be in the drop down though for use if needed. I just tried it you can actually drop it in from the Library , then delete the wall you drew and it will remain in the Wall Types Dropdown List , and doing this in the Template, then saving it, means you will always have it accessible. How are you doing your legend out of interest? M.
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    I found had to Rename the Wall in the Wall Type Dropdown , resave it to the Library and then it used the Correct name in the Dropdown , so I updated the files above , I guess you can rename it that way to anything you like too ..... I guess if you dropped it into your Template Plan it would always be available Correct?
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    I looked at that , even tried a brand new blank plan and got the same thing.... this is Matt's main walls ...siding 6
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    Chopsaw , I just updated my files above as I noticed the new Wall was not reporting correctly in the Wall Type Drop down box , it should now show in the Wall Types Dropdown as 6 x 8 Piling Wall. better to to get the new file if you tried the old one, as I think the old one was using one of your standard wall names xxxx.x.4_ND ? which may mess your Wall Types up , not sure ? I guess you know that once you draw the 1st section of wall in the Plan , it is then available to edit via the normal dropdown too? M.
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    Chopsaw's Symbol is just used as another Option on the Newels >Type list as it includes the 10" diameter Concrete Pile and the 4x4 Post , could have a Saddle I guess but looks good. M
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    Very Nice Chopsaw , thanks for the Stump Symbol too, makes this easy to setup, this method seems to work great.... I haven't experimented enough to find out what the downsides are if any yet?..... Not sure what you mean by " Too bad that railing walls can't be saved " though , I made some changes , so they were how I'd want to see the Pilings and Beams in 3D, and changed a few of the railing settings eg no half post and saved the Wall to the Library, and was able to reuse the New Pilings Wall ( as I called it ) in a new plan. Here is my Plan and the new Wall type to look at : Treated Pilings Wall.calibz Piling Wall Plan.plan
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    You are right , for some reason the Poly Solid won't hold the Mirror material , if the Solid isn't rectangular in shape , The easy Fix was to add a 1/8" thick 3D Box in Front of the Solid and Rotate it to the same angle as the Solid ... 5° I think? Since I had it made, I blocked it and then dropped it into a Blank plan and made a symbol out of it for you, hope it helps.... Angled Mirror_MHD.calibz
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    They look pretty good considering you just started with CA didn't you? You need to check the Light DATA for each light and turn on the indicator in camera views so you can tell which way the light shines , as it appears the pendants aren't set to shine down ( ring on ceiling) or perhaps there are too bright (wattage) and possibly your pucks in the glass door cabinets are slightly too high? or they are the wrong puck and shining up? it appears light is escaping the top of the Cabinet.... Currently only 8 lights are actually used, in RT, so you may need to turn some off , so others will come on.... the Indicator helps with that or even turn the Potlights (cans) off and add your Own 3D Light Sources instead. If you turn ALL the light OFF CA will add one to each room without a light ...which is the usual reason for the bright arbitrary light spot on ceilings sometimes , as long as there is a light somewhere , CA won't add it's own , so you can add a light and put it at the other end of the room and not use it for your Scene at all if that weird light appears. Are you floors handscraped ? the texture bumpmap maybe a bit too high if not....looking in front of the fridge. M.
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    I agree Ortho , always looks very dated to me.... , with a nice photo from the Lot you should be able to use Standard View with the Photo as a background i'd think. Good luck with it.... M.
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    It (likely) depends on the Order you do things , if you have a normally framed roof CA will build a knee wall on top of the existing one, if you raise the roof to support the Rafters. If you have the Trusses already drawn in , then raise it , it should enlarge the Truss on a "Force Truss Rebuild" effectively making it an Energy Heel Truss. M.
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    The Balloon through Option works ..... not sure how you plan to Frame it? It seems CA does not consider these Attic Walls ( nothing on Attic Level) hence no auto rebuild another Option is to add a BLANK 3rd floor and draw those 4 walls yourself ( using reference layer) , when you build the 3rd floor, in the DBX you get make the room height 10" high and the Floor structure 0" by deleting both joist and ply , then one wall will build on top of the other.
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    would of been good info in the 1st post either raise the Room Ceiling height...... if you want that room with a taller Stud height? or Select the Walls and Choose Balloon through the Ceiling in the Wall Structure DBX , this should pull the Siding up to the Soffit ...works here in sample plan... if you raised the Roof manually M.
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    That PDF is mine actually , I posted it a couple of years ago and it has been re-posted a few times now, it is tips from here on the Forum I had accumulated , I thought others could use..... . I have one of Graham's Thread too I have been working on for easier Reading. Jintu (Username Chiefer) is another good Raytracing Expert here on the Forums , he actually does 3D Renderings as a living using Lumion and other High End Renders , so knows his stuff too. I am a Newbie when it comes to RT , so I follow both of their Posts to get Tips and Learn.... You are right there is a ton of Trial and Error for RT's , which is why I run 10 passes 1st , you can usually tell in 3-4 if it's going to look right , if not just stop it, I then make a few changes and try again and then run one at 20-25 but find it doesn't always make too much difference , especially if viewed on a normal computer monitor , with the Retina , you may want to try the DPI a bit higher like 110 ( 72 is default ) and see if you can tell the difference....
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    If you have mostly Manual Roofs you may need to use the Edit ALL Roof Planes Tool at the bottom of that Drop down in the pic below (Build Roof Planes is at the Top)
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    that is the Roof Plane DBX , not the Build Roof Planes DBX
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    Depends on what you are trying to do I think.....move the roof up or just make it Thicker / Deeper, so you can have an Energy heel Truss ?
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    Well I have been building and fixing computers for many years , so I'd do it myself , but Laptops are definitely way more difficult to work on , especially in the last 2-3 years as they no longer have user removable batteries , or Ram Access and HDD Doors on the bottom like they used too. If you don't have heat issues , you don't need to do what he did to add the NVME Drive only. It was in the top RH corner of the Video ( has 960 on it , looks like a RAM Chip) , he never covered installing it as far as I saw FFing thru the VID. but it goes in at a 30 deg. angle, you snap it down flat and secure it with the small screw , that's it. I would open it 1st before buying a nvme drive though and see if the m2 slot is there, and empty , if so thats great as the HDD can stay in the computer as you Storage Drive, worse case scenario , no m2 slot means getting a SATA SSD instead and swapping it out with the HDD. If you have the Budget the Samsung EVO line are great Drives but even a budget SDD or NVME eg from WD (BLUE line) is going to be much faster than the HDD you have. M.
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    Hi Joe , Photon mapping on, Caustics Off ( helps on the Time factor ) You are a patient Man 10 hrs for a RT .....wow..... nice Pic though..... do you have a light in the glass front cabinet or is that reflected light on the ceiling? changing the glass material or it's properties may help with that , assuming it is an undesirable effect. Graham's thread is where I got most of my Tips on RTing in X9 from , the new Physical Render Option in X10 may hope eliminate alot of the Guessing going from Camera view to RayTrace. M.
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    Its not anything that you are doing Matt as far as I can tell , I drew a quick building the same size in X9 with the standard siding-6 walls like you and it is doing the same thing, and if your turn Framing display on it looks even worse with the stud line as well as the siding lines showing, not sure why cos the Framing should not be seen through the siding in this exterior view . CA shouldn't even be trying to draw it.... M.
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    I was Right about your RT screen size it is a whopper 3000 x 2422 , (or close to that) try 1280 or 1980 res that will reduce your times You don't have a foundation as I thought , the light bleed disappeared once I built one.... I change the Flooring material as I said but to show you the effect I made reflection 74% for a High Gloss look..... I also used Graham Korbey's Settings from the Lets RayTrace Thread ( post 20) for the other RT settings and changed the Ambient occlusion settings too, to what he recommends in that thread , Posted the plan below so you can have a look at the settings..... These are some I did at 1280 x 720 and 1280 x 1024 for 10 passes in 2 1/2 to 4 mins each with Graham's settings , the Size is a major factor as is the the number of Point Lights ( less is better) Kitchen Rotem_MHD.plan here is the RT thread... :
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    I was wondering why Ortho View too , I prefer Perspective myself but it is happening in that view too , but the Lines show only if you are zoomed out too far , which for what you mentioned above is an Issue. might be a good one to send to Tech Support , cos it isn't the Framing Issue I thought it was. There are alot of lines in that Siding on a building that large , and I think CA just can't handle the number of lines all generating on top of each other as you zoom out, i tried several different materials and it didn't matter. M.
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    Found a video worth your watching..... new thermal paste and a NVME Drive..... nice.... same one I have in my desktop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7glBCZr8ntI NOTE**** this is not a "cheap" fix to make your undo's quicker..... and you of course do at your own Risk
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    actually only info that helps there is the Model number ( GL702VSK ) so you can delete the rest..... The reason for the exact model , is that most laptops have about 10 different configurations as you can see here.... it is a bit vague there are 6 options for Storage alone....but it looks like it will accept a 512GB SSD , so that's good news if you can afford one..... the Samsung EVO line is good , no need to spend the extra on a Pro version....not much faster , just a longer warranty. https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ROG-GL702VS/specifications/ is it this one by xotic? https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-Strix-GL702VS-7700HQ-FHD-GTX-1070-Xotic-PC-Edition-Notebook-Review.207150.0.html#toc-connectivity there comments on the HDD............... Storage Devices As mentioned, the 7200 RPM HDD is slow. Interestingly, CrystalDiskMark testing places our review unit behind its smaller brother, the GL702VM, despite both notebooks using the same hard drive. This was the case with multiple rounds of testing. HD Tune may tell a more accurate story; the average transfer rate of 133.5 MB/s is more in line with 7200 RPM drives. What is clear is that the 1 TB drive in our GL702VS is outclassed by the SSD-equipped competition. Rivals are about 7 times faster in sequential read speeds and 4 times faster in write speeds. The Eurocom Tornado F5 blows everything else out of the water with its PCIe/NVMe drive, coming in at speeds over 20 times faster than our GL702VS (2145 MB/s vs. 78.3 MB/s). This is noteworthy as our unit can also accommodate NVMe SSDs. In theory, the GL702VS can attain this speed with an easily installed high-quality drive.
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    RT is all done by the CPU ... and you have a good one You may have a 7200RPM HDD but it will still be way slower than a SATA SSD and much slower than a .M2 Drive (they are about 4x faster than a SATA SSD) Some laptops ,especially gaming ones have two HDD Bays so it maybe possible to ADD one , and Clone the OS to the SSD ( easily done with Macrium Reflect Free) Or you can replace the HDD with a SSD I'd suggest 500GB ---1TB if you are a Gamer and have lots of Games installed. You can then use the 1TB HDD as an external Drive for backups by placing it in an External case like the MediaSonic HDK-SU3 Rev.2 , I just got one on sale for a friend for $18.00 What is the EXACT Model you have? M.
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    Jerry is Right, I was just looking at Shane's Plan...... it then leaves all wall height settings as Default. M.