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Here's a tip to replicate a camera from one plan to the next (since we can't copy them) Draw a line from the camera to the marker at the end that matches the camera you'd like to copy in the first plan. (CAM 1) Copy the line and paste in place in the second plan. Create a new camera (CAM 2) in the second plan snapping to the ends of the line you copied. Open the camera specifications on the camera in the first plan (CAM 1) and record the settings on the "Camera" tab. Input these settings in the dialog box for the new camera (CAM 2). Note that in step 1 you cannot snap to the camera object. If both plans need 'exactly' the same camera point of view you can use steps 2 through 5 to make two exact cameras.

Create the profile you want with CAD and save it to your library as a molding profile. Use the profile as you shadow board.

Preferences > Snap Properties > un-check "Display Angle Snap Grid"

Dennis - yes, currently gutted and being renovated by the owner.

Here are some ray traces I've done for a client's real estate listing. All in Chief. 10 passes, about 1 hour each.

This looks like a good texture site: https://episcura.com/ Link came in the recent Sketch-u-cation newsletter.

I also have a layerset set up for moving the house on the site that Isolates all the site layer that need to move and hides all house layers I want to stay put.

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Try this method: https://youtu.be/srAzW4JklSI

Nice work Jintu. Why aren't he lights on?

All these years and I never knew we could curve stairs with the flare tool. (Nor did I need to, but it's great to know how simple it is.)

Great Solution Jonathan

A molding polyline would be a similar operation. Create the step profile as the molding.

What you are seeing is z-fighting. (read this) This is what works for me(from the article): You can also increase the Clip Surfaces Within setting in your Perspective Full Overview Camera Specification dialog. The default will be 24", but you can increase this to a larger value, such as 300". You may need to test different values in this plan in order to create the results you want in the overview without experiencing Z-Fighting. You can specify this in your camera defaults as well, however remember to reset the "Clip Surfaces "Within" back to the 24" default when the overview camera is not in use. This is because all cameras created in your plan will be affected, not just overviews, and this can create undesirable results when trying to take an interior camera view.

What is a bird box?

Good tip Larry - thanks. I've struggled with PDF files slowing things down as well.

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This is how I do it.

You can set up text to be placed on whatever layer you want by editing the text default. (I'll be keeping mine on the text layers so I can turn it off to get it out of the way when I need to edit cad objects.)

Don't use Adjust Materials. Click the spray can (Materials Painter) Select the material you want from the list and hit the copy button.

Joe, I threw in the towel on line weights in elevation when I decided to go with "live everything." Sometimes I will use Edit Layout Lines to erase the hatch or change the line weights on part of the building farther away from the viewpoint. Even with repeating the editing of layout lines after an update, live elevations are still a time saver over cad elevations. Recently I've experimented with putting a shaded image behind elevations for depth. I bump up the brightness and contrast to control he amount of detail.

You can go into your Default Settings > Dimension > Dimensions and select an Active Dimension Default with a scale more appropriate to the scale you are working in.

No crashes at all for me.

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