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I managed to finagle it.  

I found where this has been discussed before.  I am just surprised that there is not simple tick mark in the wall settings somewhere to tell Chief NOT to snap a wall if you want to.

Seems like a simple development over-sight that ought to be added.

No matter.  I've managed.

I am trying to get the help-wall to come out another inch or two to line up with the red line on the floor.

But it keeps snapping back into place to join the connecting shower wall.

The shower walls are currently set to No Room Definition.

I just want the wall snapping to stop for the half wall.  Is that possible?

Is there any way to prevent 2 walls from connecting when joined?

I need 2 walls to join but I need 1 to jutt out past the other by about an inch or two, but when they get that close they keep connecting and resizing each other in order to snap to one and other.

I just want to be able to manually control the length of a wall without it being smarter than me.

Okay so I managed to get PBR to remain stable in X13 long enough to get an Exterior 3D view of a house I am working on...

I've attached 2 screenshots looking from relatively the same vantage point...

Comparing the 2 attached views...  I personally prefer the X12 PBR.   It has greater definition and looks crisp and more vibrant as compared to the X13 which seems somewhat blurred and "dull".  Even the Glass looks more realistic to me in the X12 PBR version.  

But perhaps my definition of what is better does not meet the consensus world view???  Which view do you all prefer?

I am disappointedly finding X13 unusable.

Standard 3D views appear somewhat "dull" as compared to X12 which is crisp.  I too am seeing stainless steel as white.  And, PBR is frequently throwing internal errors as follows:  An internal rendering error has occurred (assertion failure): !"Unknown exception caught in Astral::update", resulting in me having to Force Quit the application.

Never mind I found it.  Thanks!

12 minutes ago, solver said:

Reference Display.

When I turn on a reference display, all I see are walls doors and bath fixtures below...  How do I add other components to show up in a reference display?

I have some manually created steel framing components (i.e. Z purlins).

I need to be able to show these and dimension to these in plan view on both the 1st and 2nd floors.

Is it possible to get these to show up on multiple floors in plan views?

I will give it a try.  Thanks.

Actually they are not the same.  I'm butting a steel building wall of 8"girts covered with 26 gauge corrugated steel panels against a 16" OC steel framed wall covered with brick veneer.  I want to then wrap the brick around over the metal to cover the gap and then flash it.

It's just a furred wall type of a single exterior layer of 3 5/8" brick, nothing else.  Won't stop snapping back.

Is there any way to stop this insanity...   or a better way to do this?  I guess maybe a Polyline solid?

When creating a floor pan with and a wing is at an off angle from the main part of floor plan...  The flooring  textures follow the angle of the main floor plan...  in my case in the wing which is 22.5degrees off from the main plan, in 3D views the flooring paints off angle from the walls in that wing.

Is there not an easier way to remedy this other than creating special textures at varied angles?  

There should be a way to open the room specification dialog and just tell Chief to paint the floor textures in those rooms at specified angles?  

Does no-one else create designs with wings at different angles that has warranted. such a request thus far?  Or is there another sensible method that I am missing, as creating textures at different angles is inefficient.

Thanks in advance for any input.

I have already PM'ed Charles...  and am awaiting an answer...

I used to own that program...  I've looked all over for it...  I can't find it...   UUUg....    How could I have lost it...  I'm an idiot!    

Thanks.  I was able to get it work with 6 panels and still looked odd because the glass panels did't match the door panels type...

And, It's just too hard to do for a 120" x 120" door with 7 panels...  Chief refuses to Mull the unit... can't get the distances and overlapping to work to where chief accepts it.

Should be as simple as:  Build a door just like the garage door company would build and assemble:

1) create a panel door

2) choose your panel type

3) replace panels of choice with a glass unit...  

This should be built in feature.  Especially after 12 versions...  At least what I think, but who am I...  LOL.

I'll let customer use their imagination...  

Is there any way to put a windows in the top panel on a garage door?

Of any panel of choice for that matter?

Is there some reason why the soffit is missing in this area of the gable?  I cannot find a cause anywhere.  What man I missing?

I agree on the standard vs physical renders as far as quality...  only main difference in my case is we're color matching metal panels and the physical render tends to produce an image that more closely depicts the color of our metal manufacturer colors...

Elevation region did not make a difference.  But FYI.  Turning OFF "Improve Lighting Quality" in the Physically based Rendering Technique Options removed the ghosted images from the PDF Print dialog and final PDF output.

Why this ghosting?  

Only occurs when Physically rendered content is on the layout.

Cannot seem to get these ghost images to go away.  See Page 1 of PDF.

Any ideas?  Thanks...

Design - David Parker.pdf

14 hours ago, glennw said:

Go to Preferences>General>Folders>

Under All Program Paths, click Show.

Scroll down to Preferences Folder and click Show In Finder.

You should see the .ini files for all your Chief versions.

Foe each Chief version you should see Chief Architect Premier X11.ini and Chief Architect Premier X11 Dialog Sizes.ini 

 

Do you have finder set to show hidden file extensions?

 

Oh Glenn,

I just now saw your post!   LOL. You had the answer all along.  Ha Ha.  Thanks!

59 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Also periodically check to see if you have multiple user libraries in your sync location, when CA writes a big user library at the close of a program it takes a while for the cloud service to upload ..if your other system is trying to download at the same time and then CA is opened on the new machine the cloud authoring system will write a new user library with a different file pathing, making you lose any new symbols without any warning or alert. Their is a workaround as I describe earlier..good luck!

Because I use this same process with my accounting software, I never access another system until the uploads and downloads have synced.  I am familiar with duplicate files and corruption so I avoid opening synced apps until I have confirmed syncing has completed. 

And while not great for business and collaboration as compared to DropBox or OneDrive, so far, iCloud has been the fastest to sync with for applications such as this. Sync speeds   for me typically measure at a rate of 130MB /sec. to/from Apple's servers, which is typically 5 times as fast as I receive with DropBox; and OneDrive is so slow for me it's not worth it to me to measure.

So far I am noticing it takes about 20 seconds for CA to sync once I close it and move to another.  

I will keep you posted...  thanks!

1 minute ago, Renerabbitt said:

Please report back in time, curious to see if you start running into CA crashes over time. The way authoring works on most cloud systems is that a file is locked for editing when syncing to a cloud often times longer than what your machine represents..when a knew system tries to sync it will attempt to access this file, this can cause a corruption in system files, essentially crashing the program and at times even making you restore the program..

Will do.  I have manually backed up everything, now that I know where all the settings are.

I'll try iCloud first then Dropbox, then even my local SAN to see how performance differs, and give an update... 

4 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Also what preferences are you changing so frequently..just for my own curiosity, I maybe tweak a preference once or twice a year.

It was not the preferences so much, more so I was wanting the Recent Files List to sync across them....

Kinda silly I know, but it was such a simple fix once I started thinking about everyone's suggestions...  just find those preference files... and boom you don't have to change anything else, just use symlinks and boom the machines are identical every detail, all the time no matter what I change on either one...

9 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

Cloud computing is still in its infancy and its a rare occasion when core dll/ini or other native filetypes central to a programs execution are available for authoring and syncing...for many reasons, but namely, because of its implied volitility.

Need some clarification as to what exactly you are trying to sync; libraries, preferences, plan/layout defaults, toolbars? Dependent on what you are looking for I would recommend different methods or would encourage you to change your workflow. I see no reason to sync preferences as they are simple to duplicate and would only complicate things trying to sync them in cloud. Defaults settings can be saved using the SAM method or simply saving plans as templates etc. Toolbars can be synced using symbolic links, same as libraries...though more temperamental.

25 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

The Recent File List is in the .ini File under the heading [Recent%20file%20list] , typically near the bottom.

 

If the information I ( or Glen) posted above doesn't help find the File , I have no idea why sorry.

 

M.

You guys rock!

I found the .ini files they are in a hidden folder under my user folder "Macintosh HD/Users/USER/.config/Chief Architect Inc/" 

Chief Architect Premier X11.ini

Chief Architect Premier X11 Dialog Sizes.ini

 Everything syncs w/ one change as follows:

1. Setup Chief on 1 computer 
2. Move the hidden "user home folder/.configChief Architect Inc/" into a cloud space
3. Use symbolic links on each system to replace the moved "user home folder/.config/Chief Architect Inc/" 

BOOM everything syncs!

ALL PROGRAM PATHS ARE SYNCED

You cannot tell you've moved to a different machine.

NICE!  Thank you.