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7 hours ago, MarkMc said:

Room divider with rooms no  flat ceiling above works

I tried this too, made the room divider, unchecked "no locate", wall, and modeled a ceiling plane.  Was that how you got it to work?  Only thing I could think of to do..

3 hours ago, glennw said:

Is the tray configured as you want it?

Nah, it was supposed to be recessed into the ceiling, just forgot to do this on the test plan.  But MIck said it didn't make a difference anyways.  

3 hours ago, glennw said:

Changing the central railing to a wall seems to do the trick

I didn't get this when I tried on my main plan, but that won't work anyways, needs to be a railing.

5 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

send it in so they can work out why if the one roof plane

Thanks, I was going to myself, but figured I was missing something because of the late hour.  Thanks for validating my issues gents!

I have a two story with a open below room (with a shed roof on that side).  OK, when I do not have a trey ceiling on this second floor (as shown on cross section 1 attachment), the ceiling line is as it should be.  But once I add a trey ceiling on the second floor, the ceiling plane extends out (as shown on cross section 2 attachment).  You can see the dashed lines out and over the open below room on the attached plan. 

I created a test plan and the issue duplicates.  Any ideas?  I unchecked "no locate" on the railing walls.  

Def. Stumped here..

TEST.plan

12 hours ago, Chris50 said:

locker room and I need a wire mesh locker symbol

Or check out 3Dwarehouse.com if the bonus library doesn't have what you need.

Billings MO?  I moved here from RepMo in 2019, so we were practically neighbors.    

11 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Great Rm Light Set"

Worked as a charm.  You ever have one of those days, where you just forget about a tool?  Brain fog this AM I guess.

Thanks!  

Good morning pros.

I am wrapping up a approval design, and one of the final steps is that I take a couple RT camera views.  I come to this shot, and wondering how do I get both floors lights to show on?  Its a night view because I want that glow.  I have rooms above in this great room, that don't show on also.  

Thank you in advance.

4 hours ago, BrianBeck said:

To be clear, changing sample count will not effect the original issue reported in this post

My apologies,  I didn't mean to highjack the original OP's concerns.  I should have started a new thread with my question. 

8 hours ago, scottharris said:

Typically 30 is a good export number

Gotcha, well I must be doing something wrong, because if 30 is the norm my quality is bad.  I always leave it unchecked and start getting good quality in the 2k range

On 2/28/2023 at 10:31 PM, scottharris said:

'cap live samples'

I see this on my options, been never really understood why it should be checked, and if it needs to be, why the option?

Cool stuff...  some are heck yeah others are "huh". lol.   I will need to do some training on. 

Since I don't participate on the beta, one part of the video video (@ 10.09) I noticed corner post is floating..  was there a way to adjust that?

6 hours ago, Bob-Roraback said:

new grass feature

I want to mow the grass too Bob/Larry/Jason.  Where did you find this, or is this a X15 beta thing?

2 hours ago, javatom said:

this level of realism for something like this

It looks great PC, but like Java states, it's going to make your file large.  I did this myself on my first ICF, but not as great of detail as yours.. and it started to bog down because of the size.  So my fix was to create a new wall material (used a CMU block as my go by), changed the size to that of a ICF block.  This got me close to a count.  I'd still use the block you created in specific places where you'd have a detail (limited use).  Put in its own layer to so you can turn off on the plan.  

And share if you can.

my $0.02.   

1 hour ago, Kaemingk said:

show you the floor that you're on, not both floors

Hey Brandt,

Another work around is to do a Cross/Section of the room.  It shows more than what you need too, but????

19 minutes ago, A_Joseph_PE said:

simple answer

The first thing I would check is to see if that wall is checked to be an attic wall.

I created a material of the zip board and use this in place of the typical OSB.  I haven't used the zip with foam attached, but I do use the mineral wool for the "Rockwool" as illustrated in the attached.  I'd be curious on the Zip Foam board for sure.  I guess, again, create a new material board with the correct thickness (zip + foam) and R and use that in your wall definition.  Your section views won't be correct but your reports will be.  Or do like Maureen or John stated...  

On the Build Show!  

What's up fellow Flo panhandler...

Have you looked at your camera setting?  

On 1/25/2023 at 7:41 PM, VisualDandD said:

Just wanted to share a little tip I have used for a while

I am def impressed with your renders, and have booked marked this for future education.  Shoot I still can't get past the glow around objects on an interior shot, without going to midnight.

Why do you use countertops in lieu of a terrain feature?  

On 1/27/2023 at 8:17 AM, robdyck said:

I'm envious of your clientele! Justin, you seem to get a lot of customers with good taste and healthy budgets! That's gotta make the work life more satisfying.

I am too!  But my next project scheduled to start end of the week will be bigger than the normal 2k sq I'm used to doing..  So I am excited about that.  

Currently working on a 3 bed/2 full bath/kitchen/living/laundry at 1000 sq.  My client is a 19 year old... wants to live within his means.  Impressive!  

1 hour ago, develospec9 said:

I made a simple exterior overhang (over front door) with poly line solid

Why not use a ceiling plane..?  Then your fixture would have connected at the right height

5 hours ago, lhwalker said:

schedule showing the living area, garage area, porch, patio

how do I separate out these areas?

Am I missing something here?  Wouldn't a room schedule do this?  You can set to standard, or interior sq.

4 minutes ago, solver said:

And you want this

yes, basically

No problem Eric...  I am drawing out the lot lines, and when I draw a property line, I draw it in feet, with a 2 place decimal, like I would when I dimension it.  But when I look at the properties, it shows in the 128th of an inch.. not the feet.00".

Ok, need a little guidance this Saturday morning, and its probably right in my face, and the coffee hasn't soaked in yet.  I've gone through Preferences and didn't see it, I've searched help and all I'm pretty much finding is inches to metric stuff, and I've gone through my defaults..  but I still cannot find where I change the default so that I am not drawing lines at 128ths of an inch.  .

Curious why this is the OOTB option anyways?  

4 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

New Project to showcase

That's bada$$.  Very cool.  I'd live in any one of these, esp. the one to the right with skylight and unique shaped deck.. 

2 hours ago, JKEdmo said:

It's like a regular dormer, but without framed walls below.

Floating Dormer: Also known as a false dormer or fake dormer. In this type of dormer, all walls rest on top of the roof plane.

Yeah, I googled it.  I know what they are, shoot my house has one..  just didn't know they were called floating.  Thanks Jim.  I'm always learning!  

1 hour ago, JKEdmo said:

floating roof dormers

Curious, what is a floating roof dormer?