J_Ward

Is there a way to keep the inside AND outside lights on in this view? I can manage to do one or the other depending on where I start my camera view. This was drawn in X10, but I do have X12. If it matters. Thanks

Perfect. Thanks.

When I send a floor plan drawn at a scale to 1/2" = 1' and send it to a layout page with a scale of 1/4" = 1' the size of the dimension line numbers are just too small. How can I increase the size of the dimension line numbers on the layout view? Thanks

I'm embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what annotation sets are, let alone what the correct one is to use. It's not something I use. I'll take a look at some training videos about them.

Ahh. I get it now. I'd never touched those settings before in the Layout Box Specification area. Very nice indeed. Thank you for your assistance.

I found an old thread on the original Chief Talk forums that had a pretty good workaround: The only thing about this that didn't work for me is the send to layout with the snap to active cad point checked. So I simply made my original cad box the same size as my layout sheet and did a point move on the layout box to the layout sheet corner.

I found an old post that mentioned this method as well, but the problem is that you can't snap to a wall edge for example when in Layout and point move it to a CAD point for alignment. So that doesn't work for me....or I'm doing something wrong.

I'm a bit confused about this method. Do you have a video of this?

Is there a way to align a foundation, first floor, second floor, etc. on layout pages? Each floor has its own page. I send the floor to layout view, but the floor plans are never in the same position on the page. I have to have them in the same place on the page for each level of the home, but can't figure out how to align them from page to page. Thanks

Thanks, everyone for the suggestions. All good.

Does anyone have the scale bar library item for 1/4" = 1' and 1/2" = 1'? I'm having a helluva time trying to figure out this simple little thing on my own. Maybe there is a tutorial out there about how to manipulate the "full scale" library symbol to make it into whatever you need? Thanks for helping.

Did I stump the forum? Is there not a setting to do this? Thanks.

Is there a setting for limiting the reach of temporary dimensions? Trying to move windows or doors in a small, tight room can be difficult when the temporary dimensions reach and pick up other things on the other side of the room.

Some kind of bug I guess. I have it too. If the camera is saved you can close it and reopen it and it should be back to normal again.

Thank you. I think they need to rename that feature to "remove annoying wall line cutouts in the ceiling plane".

I'm having trouble getting this bathroom ceiling looking right. I have two ceiling planes that come together just fine, but I have two small "rooms" inside of a larger bathroom. The walls of those two rooms aren't going to go all the way to the ceiling, but they are still cutting holes in my ceiling plane. So I need to either stop that behavior or create new polyline solids to replace the ceiling planes, but I can't figure out how to duplicate the angle of the ceiling plane with the polyline solids. Frustrating. See attached photos. Thanks for the help.

Well that completely stinks. Chief needs to be able to choose from a saved 360 photo and upload it. I'll make the suggestion.

Is there any way to upload a 360 panoramic photo after Chief has been closed? I've produced several 360 panos and saved them to disk. Now I'd like to upload them, but can't figure out how. Thanks

Is there an application that I can download to a laptop (PC) that would show my 360-degree panoramas? I'd like to be able to show them without an internet connection to Chief's Cloud.

And here is another test. It's better yet. This time rendered at 8192 x 4096 for 30 minutes. This gave me 10 passes. The results are more clear than the last render. Especially when you zoom in. I'll do one more render. Same resolution but twice the time.

I did another test with much better results. This time I rendered at 4096 x 2048 for 30 minutes. This gave me 42 passes. The results are much better than the first one. Here is the second 360. I'm going to do a few more messing with time and again larger resolutions and see what I get.

So I'm new to X9 and I really haven't looked into any of the new features, but I just found one that's kinda cool, 360-degree panoramas. I just tried my first one, but after uploading and looking using my computer I see it looks very blurry. Maybe it's my settings? I tried a simple one: 2048 x 1024 for 15 minutes. That got me 84 passes. The wonky image you get on your screen before the upload looks pretty crisp. But the 360 not so much. Here is the 360.

I just jumped from X7 to X9. In X7 there was a setting regarding letting Chief still be usable while there where ray tracing going on in the background. The defaults in X9 are clearly to use all of the CPU and it really makes using the rest of Chief difficult. Where are those settings now? I need to save some horsepower for other things. Thanks

That's interesting. I've never done it that way. What is the advantage? While I haven't looked side by side, my color in the dbx box shows the correct color that I painted it with.

That was it, thanks. I have no idea why it's that way in X9. It wasn't in X7. I skipped X8.