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Yes that would of been Ideal, Astral still needs a lot of work and unfortunately Chief won't allow Plugins like D5Render either. Love your optimism Larry ! but I am not so sure it will. M.

I think I have seen this in a Client's Plan before and She had accidently switched the Camera Type to Standard View for Wall Elevations instead of Vector View Camera View. Mick.

That would depend........ if you have Current SSA then it is in your Digital Locker ( Free ) If it expired , I'd call Sales and see what they can do for you ............ otherwise online.......... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/upgrade.html *** Bad news is that it appears they are making X12 Users pay for a 2 year upgrade even though X14 has not Released yet.

The problem is ALWAYS " we can't reproduce it ....So we can't fix it " and thanks for the Down Votes D. very good of you..... Mick.

Are you using the latest vesrion of X13 , as CA reports fixing a number of Issues with Intel Cards in it in the PDF below.... mind you I have 3 or 4 issues named as fixed on the list still. PDF : chief-architect-x13-update-notes_23.4.0.123.pdf

I had similar problems with X12 to X13 imports of Dimension Defaults as did several Clients , so in the end had to abandon that method and built new Defaults ( and Templates) in X13 , so this is bad news, as it looks like it was never fixed. Mick.

Try saving to a Client Folder, on you local computer, not your Chief Archive which appears to be out on a Network Drive somewhere or perhaps iCloud or OneDrive?...... M.

Yes the View OPENS in a few seconds as stated in the Video perhaps even less with a 3080 or higher, that it not the same as being Crisp and Clean, i.e. near "Photo Realistic", no Fire Flies etc, as KGS expects, that takes thousands of Samples and is 1 - 2 mins or even longer, even on a 3080Ti, I'd hate to think what today's Gamers would be saying if things were this slow in any modern Game 3D engine..... for example Unreal 4 ( or 5 now ) is beautiful. * just as a note ... doing some recent testing, my 3080Ti is about 50% faster than my Laptop's 2070s in the same plan / Camera / No# of samples etc, however the Final Image is NO different. The 1st thing I noticed in the X14's What's New Presentation was no mention whatsoever of Improvements to the Astral 3D Engine..... I had my fingers crossed X14 would fix some of the Issues I have in X13, but sadly no, and the last Update to x13 has even brought back the (Surface?) Triangles in Layout Boxes too so I expect to see them in X14 as well. This is from today....in X13 ......... Layout Elevation Camera I have also been complaining about the "graininess" since we got RTRT, 1st thing I noticed in the Video mentioned above actually, I was disappointed then and still am having spent thousands on dollars on new Hardware and in some cases the OpenGL in X12 looked better...... it has not improved since Day 1, so as you can imagine I can see some of this from KGS's point of View. And I think everyone here is well aware of Chief's "Memory Leak(s)" and the need to shutdown and restart etc when things "get weird", so conspiracy theories aside some of what is said above is quite true. M.

Chief has this Support article on Intel Chips but I am not familiar with the Iris Cards myself , are you using the Latest Intel Drivers? ( try the Intel DSA perhaps ) https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03108/supported-intel-graphics-chipsets.html Mick

So use a couple of the Ranch brackets from the library and a Roof plane drawn manually along the garage Door Wall. You might need to lower it down as well? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/25/drawing-roofs-manually.html?playlist=95 https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00634/raising-or-lowering-a-roof-plane.html M.

Sure give us 1/2 the story ( in layout not camera) and let us guess how about these settings......

Yep could be indeed , not whatt I'd call a Portico like you but maybe ... So a couple of the Ranch brackets from the library and a manual Roof plane then. Mick.

Yes (regional maybe), sounds like what some might call an Arbor, Trellis or Pergola Link.......Like this : Mini Tutorial: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00889/creating-a-custom-pergola.html

I don't use duotone much myself but as far as I know it is basically a desaturated STD View and those controls effect Duotone too as does the brightness and angle of the Sunlight ( ie Sun follows Camera )

tile is one of the trickier things to change, you can't easily change grout colors for example. Tip: 2D uses Patterns 3D uses Textures ( pics ) A good place to start if you have Questions is the Knowledgebase ( KB) which has many mini-tutorials , you can even download a PDF if you want too. for example : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01006/customizing-a-library-material.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01124/message-the-material-appears-to-have-an-incorrect-pattern.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00767/creating-a-new-material.html there is also a Video https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10145/creating-custom-tile-materials.html?playlist=170 M.

The Background can go grey if the Sunlight is maxed out eg 100,000 lumens and a background is not used. M.

Two different Stair Layers should work? eg put 3rd floor stairs on their own layer perhaps, and turn the lower floor off in this view M.

I remove the Floor from the garage Room and draw a Polyline Solid in elevation to get the slope when needed , you can also break it through Door openings in Plan view which is another Bonus. M.

Ruby is Chief's Programming Language used for Macros , Chief includes many premade ones accessed through the M in the Label tab, but thier are a number of Forum Members who do Custom Macros though for this you should be able to specify your wanted label and start a Folder in your User Library for Andersen Windows and use them from there instead. * Chief's Auto Labels usually round up

Unfortunately I have many of the same issues in X14 as X13 , eg the lockup on Saving, plus every plan and layout askes me to replace the Font when opened? Why???

You can't delete System Layers ( or accidentally renamed System Layers ) check in the ALDO to see if it has an S in the USED Column. M.

In Plan or Layout? In Layout I use the %Layout Title% Macro which you can edit to whatever you want it to say but am not sure if you can make it Blank

Typically the Nahimic issue is related to Multiple Monitor Use and the Fix is here :

Yes quite a few and many threads on X13's Issues , if running Win 11 , Nvidia's drivers were supposed to help but I am on Win10 and am still seeing issues as of last Thurs. with Video and even had a plan Corrupted on Fri. but X13 when I changes floors.... Just some examples........... X13 is such a joy to work in.......... as I am sure @robdyck will attest to , he also has an Alienware 3080 , I don't.

Great , I was just looking for the Old Way to do Tray Ceilings PDF incase you or someone else needed it , I posted it above. Mick.