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Long time listener first time caller.... Don't know if I should start my own thread but I think this is relevant to the original post. Which direction we will all go moving forward? I watched a you tube video as I had my coffee this morning on this new banana on googles gemini. Gave it a whirl. They give you some free ones each day then it is about 20 bucks a month. Uploaded this front elevation and simply asked it to render it in a modern farmhouse style. literally took 10 seconds to come back like this.... I feel like my 12 year old kid could do this now. Googles computer farms are so much more powerful than any home pc running chief could ever be. This is the future and its here. Chief will need to partner with an AI company and build this into their software to stay relevant in this area moving forward. We will still need to do floor plans and cross sections with building code zoning and site specific details but for renderings for the clients this is by far better and way easier than anything I have done in chief in my first opinion. I see it added some posts I didn't have (probably should it looks better) but I am sure as you add more specific prompts it would get better and better.

Wanting to make one of the shadow boards/facia boards 3" higher around all roof planes. I typically draw them all in by hand but seems that this should work for me with chiefs tools and save me a ton of time just cant figure out how. When i offset vertically the shadow board in the roof dbx the boards on the eaves change depth by what appears to be the height of the offset. Also the roofing material seems to go to the outside of the shadow board which creates a line that doesn't look to pretty either. Any suggestions would be appreciated. newest leo option-Perspective Full Overview Image.pdf Untitled 1.zip

I have the same problem only with some plans though.... I posted my plan with the problems on a different thread and some people had the problem when viewed on there computer some didn't. Seems the guys with the better video cards didn't have the problem? Not sure. Contacted support and they said they know about it but did not offer me any solutions. You can see the camera view looks fine and then the layout view is offset. This is when using plot lines not live view in the camera settings. Live view seems to work ok but i prefer the look of the plot lines when printed.

I did hear back from them and they will be working on it to help me out. I will let you know what I hear.

Attached are the layout and backed up plan files in a zip folder. Not sure if this is how you do it or not but should work i think. backup.zip

What happens when you turn Print Preview on? Doesn't change anything. What happens when you print? Comes out the same. Is the same problem visible in the print? Yes.

Here are a couple of screen shots showing the same thing, One from camera view one from the layout. Also a different project. However i did pull up some older jobs and turn shadows in layout on and they look fine. I'm just not sure what would cause this for these current jobs i am working on. I have checked and unchecked just about every setting i can find. The shadows on layout make the elevations look so much better i really want this to work right. I will be in touch with the Chief people on Monday hopefully they can help. On a side note, thank you to all who post on this forum. Every time i have a problem i can usually find an answer on here to help me out. Good work people. Keep it up.

Seems to be some sort of bug in X8. Here is what i get when i try and re link an elevation from an earlier version of the house (with an 8/12 pitch roof) to the newer saved plan file with a 6.5/12 roof pitch. I realize this is a beta version and there are bound to be bugs. Where and how do you report this? pitch change.pdf

When i send an elevation view to layout my shadows and color fill are offset from my plot lines. anybody else have this problem? or know of a solution or what i may be doing wrong? color fill.pdflayout shadows.pdf Dom

I also have this issue when i try to send views to layout with legacy shadows turned on. Shadows work fine in camera view then when i send to layout i get an error message saying that my video card is insufficient. Then when i go back to the camera view it is all black. By turning off legacy shadows and reopening the camera view it comes back to normal. Dom