Chopsaw

You will unfortunately have to turn off the auto stair rails and manually add straight railings. Go to Railings Specifications and under the Rail Style tab enter Follow Stairs and select Panels then go to Newels/Balusters tab and enter your cable rail in the Panels section.

Transparent and detailed fills are often the culprit but would have to try it out on several different systems to be sure. Is there any relation to file size? I have had 5 and 6 MB files act like they were approaching 100 MB. Chopsaw

Barry, I would be interested to know a little more about your situation as I have had similar issues in the past and feel that more investigation is needed into issues like this. Have you talked to tech yet and what version are you running? It may be simple or it may not.

Larry, You did attend the Workshop: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10651-the-jpcgraeme-floor-level-workshop-wednesday-aug24-at-400-pm-pst/?hl=workshop And watch the video : Maybe there are some new ideas?

I did not expect it to work perfectly as there are a lot of custom settings you can tweak for Raytracing but I did get rid of that awful purple mess. Right click on your Library User Catalog and that will bring up the "Define Material" Dialogue (The Tea Party). Go to the Texture tab and give it a name but don't spell it wrong like I did. Browse to where you have that .JPG file that you posted. Set it to "Stretch to Fit" and anything else you would like to play with in Properties and you are all set to put that in your Library when you say OK. And you can also do a quick Ray Trace test right in the DBX.

Hi Mark, Give this a try, it seems to work fine for me. If your original .jpg is more that 96 dpi you could make your own library material with higher resolution. Marbel For Mark.calibz

Larry, That has nothing to do with the floor. It just fixes the wall that was sticking up in Perspective Floor Overview when you were recording your video. I was working with your plan file when Glenn posted and I am sure he is correct about the floor but I tried several different ways to fix it but still can't seem to find a happy place for the floor. Sure it displays ok but the numbers in the DBX are all over the place and make no sense to me. Maybe Scott and Glenn could host a Workshop with a model like yours to fix and demonstrate with.

The answer to the easy question is that your exterior Alcove wall is set to "Balloon Through Ceiling Above"

I know it is impossible to take a plan file backwards, but do you not keep a copy for testing and research ?

No, un check to prevent wacky and it works. Sorry I did not see your edit, looks like all is ok now.

That works for me Shane. Is it only with the left mouse button depressed?

This type of problem should be posted in General Q&A and you should get some good help there. Just delete and re post. There have also been some recent posts on this subject if you do a search. Welcome to the Forum.

Scott, I was working with this in a related problem and discovered that this functionality was lost with X8 and I had to go back to X7 to do my work and then import into X8. I was trying to make a transparent image in an elevation view and found that in X8 it only works in plan view. However I did not realize that this was a lost functionality in 3D views until now, and have not reported that to tech support. If you have a moment please go back to X7 and see if it works the way you remember and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. No need to even remove backdrop. But then we must be sure this is restored for X9

These two posts seem eerily similar : https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/11563-very-weird-ray-trace/?hl=%2Bray+%2Btrace Since you have the JPEG you may be able to recreate and define the material within chief to fix the problem.

I Assume that you mean the vector display properties.

Anna, This may be the video that you are referring to that covers breaking and trimming imported elevation lines, which are much different than auto generated chief elevation contours. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6082/grandview-how-we-modified-the-terrain.html?playlist=127

Thanks Jon, I was just offline fooling around with drivers and rolled back 2 versions and restored some functionality on the plan I was working on for my client but now it will not even open the Perspective Overview on the posted test plan. Frustrating situation to be in. Looks like I will spend tomorrow trying to find a driver that works. Is that GTX 560M of yours a 1.5GB card? Can you see now why I am trying to get the higher resolution so that I can zoom in on the details?

Image properties match the original. Still confused. Even the Teapot does not work. Did you do that on your desktop with a 1 GB GT430 putting my system to shame?

Michael, What did you do??? How much memory does your video card have/desktop or laptop? And thanks for taking a look.

Ok, Thanks for showing and interest and here is the generic test plan in X8. This is a project that tech support myself and a couple of other forum users are working on and we were making some progress and then everything fell apart on me a few days ago and will not work now. The high resolution material file tiles when set to "Stretch to fit" ??? I can get it to work at much lower resolutions but that defeats the purpose of the project. Image 1 is what you should see in plan view and then Image 2 is what I am seeing in Perspective Full Overview. If you see something better or different please let me know and maybe we can figure out what is going on. If this barrier can be broken this process opens many possibilities of using text, cad, and dimensions in 3D views. Please do not open this plan file unless you have plenty of experience crashing chief architect and know how to use Task Manager to End Task. Oh and it might be helpful to have a computer and video card setup that matches or out preforms my specs. Who knows? Bush Lot Test.zip

Thanks Dennis, I am going to talk to tech today but if they can't help I will try posting a stripped version to see if you can help figure this out.

Scott, I am not going to fact check your entire list but I think that Canada can firmly take the intellectual credit for basketball. http://www.nba.com/canada/History_of_Basketball_in_Canad-Canada_Generic_Article-18023.html

Glenn, Nice find, and I thought you were a surfer. A little embarrassed that Jerry and I both missed that one when Basketball is a Canadian sport.

No, Sorry rich it won't look great in Vector view but if you like you could ray trace it for me. All I did was cut a cove in the end of each of the horizontal pieces with the Boolean tools and matched them up as best I could with all the weird angles. Not a true miter but still open to suggestions. Really appreciate the complements, thanks.

Not sure what the problem is with road and road markings but if you wanted to be really precise you could draw it all out in plan view to scale with lines or walls or whatever you like and then turn that into a material to apply to your slab. This is a little tricky but a good skill to learn. Match your paper size to the slab and then save as a high resolution borderless PDF file which you will need to convert to PNG and import as material and apply to the slab. Or you may be able to find one already done online. If you have any trouble with the file conversion or need more details let me know. While you are at it why not kick your presentation up a notch and put the team logo on the court as anything you can dream up and import into plan view can be made into a material.