Alaskan_Son

Have you tried turning off Auto Rebuild Roofs?

Just to be clear here, modeling that scenario is entirely possible with a single 3D molding polyline, and without needing to manually type in coordinates (not that there’s anything wrong with that). A few quick tips in that regard though... You have to be careful which views you draw and edit the molding polyline in. You'll find that sometimes it must be done in plan view and sometimes it must be done in an elevation view. You'll just have to play with this. My opinion...pretty much never edit these in a perspective camera view. Only use section/elevation cameras. Don't limit yourself to using the diamond edit handle (same line type) to drag out new sections if it's not available in your desired view. Not there? No problem, just draw a new 3D molding line that snaps to the end of your last 3D molding polyline. You just need to make sure your desired molding profile (or stacked molding profile) is selected in the library when you start drawing...doing this will help ensure that the 2 sections snap together and form a single molding polyline.

Yes. When you have a very complex terrain where it takes a really long time to rebuild.

No. Switch to a regular elevation camera and either reshape the layout box or mask it with CAD.

It almost never works for me either. It’s one of those issues that never bothered me that much though so it hasn’t made it onto the short list of items to report yet.

Wall coverings, pony walls, double walls, moldings, symbols, cabinets...or polyline solids for the whole thing (instead of both a material region AND a p-solid). Quite a few options. For me personally it always depends on the specifics.

I’d like a word with your grade school teacher.

The obvious problem with this method as you stated is that all your text objects would have to be individually blocked...thereby largely defeating the purpose. Myself and others have suggested in the past that we be able to edit Rich Text as a group (something we can already do with normal text), but I made one other suggestion a while back that would help with things like this as well... In this particular instance, a second edit mode could allow us to group select all the text objects and block them as individual entities. This would make very quick work of replacing all the rich text entities at once: Group select room labels Switch to my suggested "Edit Selected Objects" mode Create CAD Block Replace From Library Explode

Ya. It has to be a referenced context macro. The other things I often use for that though are framing objects and cabinets.

Only a box

Here’s one of my methods... Place all the objects in that circuit onto a single floor. Then place those objects onto unique layers as necessary, and finally...use layer set and reference display capabilities to hide/display as desired.

Totally agree.

Just read through that other discussion you posted and there seems to be a pretty clear consensus that it’s fine. Not sure I’ve seen any disagreement.

Nothing in the code precludes it in my opinion and reading. The mention of door swinging out over stairs and landings is in regard to required egress doors and in regard to doors swinging out over stairs where no landing is present.

For technical drawings i typically use the Technical Drawing or Vector View rendering modes...Usually Vector View. They do a substantially better job at highlighting structural details, joints, connections, etc. I also typically work in a Vector View as well because you can much more easily see all the various faces, edges, intersections, etc.

I think people would be doing themselves a favor by making sure not to overlook Chief’s ray trace engine. It’s a little sad to me to see people so quickly abandon it for the quick and easy PBR. Don’t get me wrong, the new PBR is great and I can only assume it will improve in upcoming versions, but in its current iteration it still falls short of a ray trace for photo realism and I don’t see how this could even be considered up for debate. Some of the PBR’s that have been posted are great, but done properly, there’s no way a Chief PBR is going to beat a Chief day trace for photo realism and it isn’t even close. There are simply things that can be done in a ray trace that cannot be done in a PBR. Try for example to create a dark room with only one corner lit up by a small lamp, or create a nice bright kitchen with realistically dark nooks and crannies... See the last rendering in Grumpka’s post above...notice how you can’t hardly see under the breakfast nook table? Or check out the proper shadows and ambient occlusion at the panels and bottom side of the dishwasher. Those are the type of proper lighting and shadow control that’s not possible to recreate in a PBR right now. It’s those little things that make all the difference in the world when realism is the goal.

For a truly accurate 3D detail I think solids are the only way to go, and its definitely doable as long as the 3D geometry will allow it.

Really glad you brought this up Scott. I’ve been using GoToMeeting Pro, but after doing a bit more research, I’m pretty sure I’m going to switch now.

I personally think key note schedules should include the notes callout symbol (circle, square, triangle, etc.) to make it super clear what exactly the note is in reference to. Plain text numbering should be reserved for generic, non-callout notes. Just my 2 cents.

Similar idea... CAD Detail From View. Select one of the opening arcs. Group select others using Match Properties>Layer (Doors) and Object Type (CAD Arc) Change line style to dashed, slightly heavier line weight, and color white. Cut Switch back to normal Plan View and Paste/Hold Position Bring Forward if necessary using View Draw Order Edit Tools

I'm thinking that using the label is the only way. The output could be automated using a custom text macro though, so all you would have to do is group select all framing objects in your wall detail and drop the custom macro into the label.

Yes. Sort of. You can simply overlap 2 plan views in layout though to address that. One with the special wall turned off and one with only the special wall turned on.

Totally agree. I almost never use them.

You have to leave it set to DEFAULT. You just change the Display In Plan Views setting in your Default Settings for that particular Plan View...

Open the object that you want to use that particular line style for, click on the Line Style tab, click on the Style dropdown, and then scroll down till you find the line style with the "s" in it.