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What format is the 3D plant? If you import it as a symbol chief will make you a 2D line drawing automatically as the 2D cad block. You can also draw you own cad block and assign it to the symbol. Or you can convert your .jpg to .png and put that in the plan independently.

Ben, Thanks for all your help and input, I think this is going to be helpful in sorting these issues out. Just to clarify about the PDF image that I posted. It was printed with Chief Architect Save As PDF @ 600 dpi. The lines goes away when printing at 144 dpi but that is too low res for me and the whole thing looks fuzzy. I also test printed this page with Microsoft Print to PDF as well as PDF995 with results that were not as good as Chief. There is a grab handle on the layout box that is easy to rotate your image in layout before printing. Also if you like I can show you how to do your watermark in layout. Just let me know.

Ben, You can rotate quite easily in layout and this should not be a problem. Just had an issue with the Chief Architect Vector print to PDF that may be related to the original problem in that the file is still not being flattened properly. I still have to go back and check the original transparency and .png issues but I did not read anything in the update notes that would indicate this issue has been worked on. This one is printing in multiple sections that show a ripple at the join and fuzzy distortion and offset in the shadow line.

Yes I sometimes print 8 1/2" x 11" or 8 1/2" x 14" one off preliminaries but usually just paper and not PDF. So I understand if you want to do it electronically. Just a rough layout would be my solution.

Ben, Is there a reason you don't print from layout? This would solve your problem if I understand correctly what you want.

Yes, I believe that if you have edited an automatic roof plane and turned off auto rebuild it will lock the roof plane and build down on you. You could turn auto rebuild back on but that is a whole new can of worms likely in your situation so transform and replicate is possibly the best solution at this point. See :https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1501/locking-and-protecting-roof-planes.html?playlist=95 starting at 2:30 min.

Bill, Did you try this one: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/13005-lowpoly-3d-vehicle-models/?do=findComment&comment=111643

Yes you can create a thin yurt wall that is 1/2" or 5/8" with two layers and this will allow you to install windows and doors. The stock lattice that I used to demonstrate would not look great but you could make custom material to more realistically represent the yurt structure.

No problem Mike, Do it the same way I used to move roof planes before I knew there was a special tool. Select room polyline CTRL + X then move to the new floor and CTRL + ALT + V

Yes Mike, If this format is different than any other layerset you are currently using just make a copy of one that is close and change the name and edit it for layers and line styles etc... If you select the exterior room you can save a bunch of tracing time by hitting the "Make Room Polyline" Tool.

limitless, Have you tried to compress the file by zipping? If that does not work I use Microsoft OneDrive https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-ca/ and they still have 5 GB of free storage and file sharing. There are also many other cloud services available.

Here is a poly converter that Richard posted.

Very interesting. Could you post the plan?

Have you checked to see if all of the individual layers in the set are off and not locked?

Rich, Brian is aware of the issue and it seems that you need to have "Framing, Wall " turned on in the layer that you generate the camera view from. Also may not work with 2 3D views open unless they are both displaying framing.

Michael, Solid Black line style, line weight 25, 3D Framing Set. This raytrace problem may be related to the size of the structure as I am not sure that Michaels shed compares to what Rich and I are doing. I just raytrace a 100 sq. ft. shed's stud framing without issue and also not that it is directly related I was able to send smaller images to layout in the tech ill style as plot lines without issue. If Rich and I are getting the same results then it cant be the classic NVIDEA vs. AMD issue although it could be a 2 GB limitation but I don't see that as valid issue here because Rich does great ray tracing all the time. Could someone pull out a file that is a little larger and more complete framing system and give it a raytrace in standard view?

Rich are you sending ray traces to layout because of this problem. Plot lines with no color fill shows up as only shadows for me.

Never tried ray tracing wall framing before but I think you have made a discovery here Rich. Good work. Good thing I notched those psolid corner posts. They are holding up the whole building.

Mike, make your railing a panel rail and select the wrought iron symbol from the library and assign it as the panel or apparently now in X9 you can just apply it right from the library in 3D.

Did you get the reminder to activate your official product key before Wed of last week? If not the new version may not have overwritten it and if you did not have the official product key for the new download it may not be accessible for you to use. Strange though that you still have access to 19.0.3.50 which means that you must have the official product keys. There is the option to migrate library's in X9.

Many thanks to Mark for a great presentation and Scott for hosting this meeting. I will post the recording when it has all uploaded. Sorry that I missed Scott's introduction as I was sorting out an audio issue that took me a few minutes, but there is still 3 hours of seriously deep cabinet discussion here that you will likely have to watch many times over to understand it all.

There I fixed it. See if you notice the difference. Also cut down the poly count. Red Generic Pickup.calibz

Do you have the basic Red Pickup from Chief Bonus Vehicles? Red Pickup.calibz Open up the materials and change white to "opening no material"

You should be able to find something here: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=road vehicles&backendClass=both