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I like that idea. I created a symbol of my kitchen cabinets but I wasn't able to find a way to export just that symbol. The Chief Architect manual has information on importing 3D symbols, but I didn't notice anything on exporting 3D symbols.

Ah. Turning on Framing, Wall Active Layer allowed me to see the wood slats in Vector View but Standard and Physically Based (Ray Trace) showed one flat wall with no wood slats until I hit the Build Framing For Selected Object(s) button. I didn't know that was a need step for this to work. Thanks for the help.

I’ve figured out a method for creating dynamic design reveal videos like the one above, but I’d like a little more control over what I can move. In the video, I have all of the furniture, plants, and accessories flying in but ideally I would like to control the cabinets and the appliances from Chief Architect as well. I see I can control walkthrough key frames with Chief Architect but I don’t see a way to key frame the elements in the plan. Is there a way to do that? If there is not a way to key frame plan elements, is there a way to export just a selection of elements, like the cabinets and appliances? If so, I can import them as objects in my rendering projects and make them slide in. Thanks for any help.

Hi Bob! I do most of my high end Chief Architect renderings using D5 Render https://www.d5render.com/. Once you have your 3D plans in D5 Render, you can do some fun animations. Check this one out below. D5 Render is fast, easy to work with, and cheaper than Lumion and Twinmotion.

Hi Kbird1 this solution does not seem to work in X14. Any idea why it doesn't work?

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