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What if you have project A and project B both open in chief and you're working in project A? Because you're in chief working, does project B's timer also run even though it's minimized and you're not directly in it and working? It's just in chief in one of the tabs at the top?

I can look at it later tonight. Send your plan. I'm using X18.

I would bet that Nathaniel Wilkerson of @Medeek Engineering could probably figure something out and write the code to make it work if Chief would enter into some kind of coding contractual agreement with him to make it happen.

Yes......copy an object and paste in same plan view. My workaround is to use the shortcut for Copy and Paste Hold in Place, and then drag that new copied version to where I need it. But if I do Command or Control-C and then Command or Control-V, I often end up with a different result. I will fire up the screen recording and see if I can capture this. When it happens again, I will reset and screen record it for you.

Many times when I copy an object and I want to paste it in the same saved plan view, just to have two instead of one, when I right click paste and then click where I want it, a warning message pops up and says that layer is not displayed. Do you want to display it? Why would it do that if I’m copying something that already exists and is visible and somehow when I hit paste it changes the layer that it’s on? this is odd behavior because then I have to hit escape and then open the object properties and change whatever I’m pasting to the layer that it was copied from. I’m on a Mac, so who knows if that has anything to do with this, but I have witnessed this for years and just recently realized I need to find out what’s going on.

Thank you so much. Just knowing that it’s possible is half the battle. Go, Joe

I’ve never been able to get this to successfully work, and I end up cheating by making the room ceiling height tall enough that regular trusses will set on these higher walls. No cheating allowed on this one this time. Can someone explain in simple terms how I can have a wall that is 9’-1 1/8” tall and a 1’-4 7/8” tall heel on an attic truss? This will be a bonus room over the garage, and the rest of the house is all 10 foot plate height when I cut a section view, the truss just looks like a standard truss, so I must be doing something wrong. I would expect the bottom of the truss to be set at the 9 foot plate height with a 2 x 10 bottom cord in the middle, and then the top cord would start at the heel height from the bottom of the truss to the top of the top cord along the outside of framing. I will add a picture when I get home, but I’m waiting for Chinese food right now in my truck, so this is all text

I don’t think anyone who is doing 3-D renders in any platform will have much success when they try to submit that render for a permit. There is so much involved in each local jurisdiction that AI cannot compete. Maybe in a few years, but for now, human beings are still required. The pretty picture might get you the client’s signature on a contract, but the plan for permit still needs human input. As far as specifications go, that’s always text-based in my world. When it comes to hardware in a kitchen, my plans never have that stuff, but that could be put into a schedule, I suppose, with vendor specific language

Michael Gia wins the "Spits drink out" funny award. Damn bro.......tru-dat. The power of competing AIs will provide all the wonderful rendering that one would ever need. Chief should incorporate plugins to these different AIs or maybe Blender and some other 3D tools instead of trying to in-house build their own system. I agree with the other comments. Chief should focus on what Chief does better than anyone else and refine those tools.

Scott and his awesome dog.

About two years ago on this forum, someone suggested using rich text and you can bold and underline the top line at say 8 inches. And then underneath you can add other information all based on macros so it reads the room if you make modifications. And then you can just copy and paste that text into each room and even have its own layer if that's something you want. So that's what I do now. There are tons of macros that already exist and probably some cool custom ones you could make to tweak this into exactly what you want it. There's even one that does the ceiling height rounded to the nearest foot so that it's not scaring people who don't understand the inch and an eighth part.

Looks dark and hidden back there. I’m from the Pacific Northwest, and the look we would do is 12 or 15 feet high timber where the tall new entry timber roof sheds down onto the two side roofs and projects out to give you a covered porch entry. I don’t wanna model in X11, but I’ll definitely share my thoughts. The house could stay at 4:12, but a dramatic entry like that would look better if it was 10:12 or 12:12 framed as a cathedral sloped ceiling. T&G pine soffit. no charge for just sharing ideas

Very nice! I have seen a de facto standard arise in some people's dimensioning where the outermost line is for overall. Then the next line closer to the building is for wall offsets. And then the third line is for the center of openings. So they use a three-line dimension system. I'm sure there's people that would use four lines, so even though automatic dimensions may not be needed, it would be nice if there were user set distances away from the house that you could snap these different types of dimensions to so that they look as good as the ones in your example images.

3D \ Camera View Options \ Denoise When you choose the PBR rendering technique, then you can have your Mac denoise the pixelated image.