Chopsaw

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.

Not that I have tackled a project like this before but I was thinking that a transparent wall material region under the windows might work if you could define the main layer of the wall as the thickness under the windows. Joe made a special tool just for situations like this and you can also use the label from the Wall Material Region as illustrated. If you don't have the tool already you can download it here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4333-hole-in-the-wall/?hl=%20wall%20%20material%20%20region And learn how to use it here: http://screencast.com/t/jbJxuYlcOqLP

I have a high resolution image that I was using for a material but now something has changed and in standard view it tiles itself even when set to "Stretch to Fit". I thought maybe a setting was changed or my library was corrupted, but the twist is that it displays properly when Ray traced and tiled in Standard view in preview as well as when applied in the plan. It is a 500 dpi.png file. Any Suggestions.

Thanks to those who provided advice and encouragement the hard part is now finished. Added some Polyline Solids and Solids to the mix of 3D Molding Polylines and got er done.

You can always turn off or lock a layer that is getting in the way of things. Just keep your Active Layer Display Options open and what ever you accidentally select will be highlighted there.

My conclusion from research was that OBS Studio is one of the best available and can compete with many of the paid programs. https://obsproject.com/ I have been running it for a while now and have no complaints and found no limitations except for that cool cursor that screencast-o-matic has. Only drawback is the many settings but I would be glad to help you get started with that. Also be aware of malware with other free programs. Chopsaw.

Not sure why this happens but this is how to fix it. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/11460-pony-wall-help/

Not saying that Doug is incorrect but for some reason I have a bunch of Untitled plan files that show up in "File Explorer" when I search "Untitled" and they are auto_save.plan or auto_save_bak.plan possibly put there by windows from a power failure or computer crash but worth a look anyway. Don't think I have ever saved a plan file as Untitled.

Yes the video card is very important as most of what you will be showing clients will be your 3D presentations as it would be much easier just to print out your Arch D's if it was a 2D presentation.

I like Joe's idea but my solution was just to cad block these and keep them in my library all ready to go and drawn to scale. 8.12 R Pitch indicator.calibz

Hi, Glenn the problem is when drawing the panel in the top of the doorway arch you are forced to draw the curved part of the 3D Molding Polyline in an elevation view parallel with the wall that the doorway is in but then the straight parts are drawn in a separate elevation view perpendicular to the wall in the center of the doorway. Then there seems to be no way to join the two 3D Molding Polylines such that you get the appearance of a proper miter in the corner. It seems as though Greg had the same issue in Sketchup from what I see in his post with the vector illustration. As the profile gets more detailed this becomes more of an issue. Limitless, I see now that I made a big mistake of doing my test plan in X8. Most of the procedure has now been posted in this thread but if you run into difficulties I do have a copy of X7 and will try to help. Just need to find a time when we are both awake and can Skype. The weather is the same in Moscow today but you are 7 hours ahead of me. Maybe your evening time would work.

Thanks for the tips Joe, Not polished but with a little more work and a Ray Trace it would pass I think. If there is Molding Polyline jockey out there I would still like to know how to properly miter vertical and horizontal 3D Molding Polylines together. What is the trick?

I think this will be able to be done but as Johnny says it will be quite a challenge. Draw an arc in cross section and Convert Curve to Polyline with lots of sides, and then convert to 3D Molding Polyline and assign a custom molding profile. The tricky part will be drawing a custom angled molding profile for each horizontal placement to match the angle of the curve at each elevation level. And I am not sure about the mitered corners in your second illustration. Good luck and be sure to post your results.

Try This Brian:

I was going to ask how but Joe had the answer.

Muhammad, Chief has the ability to apply Satellite Imagery to a Terrain Perimeter and I have had acceptable results doing so. However there are limitations with the current software and the hardware configuration that is available. Also if the terrain is too extreme I have not yet figured out the settings to apply the image as a Material. For example a image file that is slightly under 6MB will overload the memory of my 2GB graphics card and put Chief into a non responsive situation that can even crash the whole computer system if not killed in Task Manager with End Task. So if you have a graphics card that you think will match or outperform mine and like to push the limits of the software then it is worth a try. This is a great way to illustrate a project in an urban area or even a rural area where there will be minimal disturbance to the existing landscape. You can build a model and use some basic terrain features as well as cad and dimensions to create a very informative 3D illustration. I am not the Guru that Scott is referring to but would be willing to teach you what I know and would also love to hear from anyone else that has had success with this process. Chief can import GPS data but what type of GIS data are you looking to work with?

Alex, Try out these tools and you might just like what you see.

I would be careful not to delete anything you are concerned about loosing or do not want to reload as I believe the library is not template specific. Sounds like you might benefit from doing a little research on "Library Filters". https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1926/productivity-tips-using-the-library-search-and-filter-tools.html?playlist=81

Hi Larry, I found some time for you and think I have most of it figured out. There are still many other small issues with the plan that I am sure you are aware of but the rafters need to have a soffit if they are going to trim automatically. So I chose a soffit for you and the other problem was possibly that nothing you tried would work because you were using the roof sheeting as soffit layered under the rafters. Pretty Tricky, you must be practicing being scary for Halloween. If you have any questions or need a little more help let me know. Chopsaw. BETRIX 30 Choped.plan

Larry, Is there any chance you missed the "Trim Framing To Soffits" option under the Structure tab of the Roof Plane DBX? Sorry I don't have time for the plan file right now but that would be the first thing to check.

I assume we are all talking about the latest version of X8 which seems to work fine for me if I am understanding this correctly. You may want to check an old plan or a new test plan to see if the problem is plan specific. If not please report to tech support but it seems that there is something in your plan that is fouling things up.

This should be posted in the Home Talk Forum next time. https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/ A couple of thing you could try if the Designer Suite will do it. Open Wall Specification under the Roof tab and select "Roof cuts wall at Bottom" and or put a doorway at the end of your hall sized to the interior dimensions of the hallway with no casing or threshold.

Ok maybe if it was something important it could be worthwhile, but it would be nice if it was a little easier. Great Idea though, especially if it is an original one. Have you seen this done in Chief before?

David, Did you verify your dimensions because this is exactly what many people have requested but unfortunately the dimensioning does not work with any degree of accuracy. Otherwise it would be great. Maybe you could go in with guns blazing and get this working.