Alaskan_Son

The proper forum for your product can be found here... https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/ That being said, it sound like you probably have Auto regenerate deck framing toggled off (assuming your product has that or a similar setting)... Toggle it back on and your decking should move with the room.

Post the plan and someone will take a look, BUT I would start by trying to disconnect and then reconnect those driveways.

Your problem is that only have about 6" between your ceiling plane and your roof plane so Chief is having a difficult time knowing what to do with that. I don;t think anyone would build you trusses that shallow either. Drop your sloped ceiling planes down or raise your roof planes up and you should get more expected results.

By the way, why are most of your posts wrapped in quotes. Are you using AI to write those too?

I don't think your use is being misunderstood. Some of us just have a very different design philosophy. I for one think its profoundly problematic to start with a model that I purposely designed with certain elements and then have AI change them on me in ways that I may or may not realize and in ways that may or may not change the entire feel of the project later on down the road. Amongst other things I've seen in your posted example, I've seen that AI made the following changes: Changed room dimensions Changed ceiling heights Moved window and door locations Changed window and door sizes Changed window styles Changed ceilings from vaulted to flat Completely eliminated walls Inserted furniture where there isn't functional room for it Completely removed an exterior covered deck or patio I don't for a second believe that every one of those design elements is as fluid as your making them out to be. If they were, why start with a model at all? Why not look to Houzz or Pinterest for inspiration. How helpful is photo "realism" and lighting "quality" when the lighting is deceptive and the end result will look nothing like the photo? And how helpful is it going to be when the budget doesn't allow for the 10ft. ceiling or when you realize that the windows or walls can't actually move to where they're being shown. At the end of the day, the room looks crammed, the painting won't fit, 2 chairs need to be deleted, the bed doesn't fit or look right, and the covered patio roof cuts off all the light that your client thought they were going to get. No, I personally think the risks far outweigh the benefits. Your opening statement here was that you think you're done using Chief for renderings. I would argue that you're not actually rendering anything at all. You're changing it to something else entirely. The details matter, the types of changes we're talking about here aren't little things either. Early design decision get made, you head down a path, and all it takes is one of those early details to be wrong, and the whole plan can get blown out of the water. Maybe that works for you...or maybe it doesn't even. I think its entirely possible that you just haven't used your new approach enough to fully appreciate the potential for negative long term impacts on the project.

Haha. Yeah, this has been my general experience with AI to date. I don't trust it for much of anything.

Hmmm... What is the point of photo-realism if the details are all inaccurate? In your last example, walls were missing; windows and doors were moved, resized, and changed to different styles; light fixtures were moved, etc. Kinda scary if you ask me. I would be seriously worried about communicating ideas that were not realistic.

Do you care that the big window changed to a door, that the little side window got moved, or that your vaulted ceiling was made flat?

Its actually useful for straight lines too. If your arc has a super large radius it essentially becomes nothing more than a straight line for all intents and purposes.

Go up to the attic level and simply delete your manually modified attic wall. As soon as the wall below regenerates the wall you should be good to go.

Here's another method. for you too: Draw an Arc from point A to Point B. Click Convert Curve to Polyline Set Number of Sides to your desired number of points + 1 Snap to the end points of the newly created line segments Delete polyline when you're done.

Try using this method except instead of hiding the layer, switch back to the Point Marker tool and draw a marquee around all markers while holding the Shift key. Then simply delete them.

Its nothing more than a simple manual roof that I dragged out across the front of the building. You could probably force it to auto build with some invisible walls, but manual is super easy. Just drag out the 3 little roof planes and join them up... https://rumble.com/v6ro2x7-quick-awning-roof.html

The Curb Width is essentially just your wall width. What you're actually seeing is likely the footing line.

Yeah, I think I understood what you were asking. I was just suggesting that there might be a better way. I'm not sure why you can't just explode the CAD Block when you drop into a new plan. In which case you just include the text boxes and paste values into them. Using the Text Macro approach does not even require exploding the block. All you need to do is type/paste your values into the macro value in Text Macro Mangement and the value will get updated. If you don't want to explode the CAD Block, you can simply click the Edit CAD Block tool and insert your text that way. Shoot, you can even include some invisible markers in your CAD Block in which case you can use those whether you explode the block or use Edit CAD Block.

Why not just place a generic text box in that exact location and then just switch the text out for each plan. Or, better yet, if you're going to be manually entering the values anyway, just use a custom non evaluated Text Macro and just enter your text in the macro.

For whatever reason, Chief's parametric Slab door symbols have this problem with texture wrapping. Just make your own rectangular slab and convert to a Door Symbol and the texture will wrap better. In fact, you could even use the "Door S01" from the Core Catalog which is just a simple slab and no longer a parametric door symbol. Just bear in mind that the parametric door symbols do come with some advantages in that they will reshape to accommodate arches and such which a simple door symbol will not.

Use one or more Custom Fields along with the side_jamb_size and top_jamb_size name:value pairs (macros).

Hard to know without seeing the actual file, but if I had to guess, I'd say you are probably seeing the line weights as you have them defined. You didn't see them prior to printing because you didn't have line weights turned on. Either toggle Line Weights or toggle Print Preview to see your line weights before printing.

Are you talking about something like this lower awning roof or eyebrow overhang thing?

100% agree with this^^^^ No reason the flooring all needs to run the same direction.

The macro actually isn't the problem. Its a Chief related 3D rebuild issue/bug.

It should be noted that specifically regarding the Emissive setting, the video is a little out of date. In X16, that setting does indeed cast actual light on the scene in Physically Based (Ray Trace) views.

Check out the Recreation No.2 Theater and Music bonus catalog. They have some theater seating in there... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/detail/779

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