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so can the user simply apply a fabric from a list of fabrics, to the furniture in the plan? If so, that would be a large selling feature I would think, and CA might want to consider adding that. It would be nice in rtrt to select the couch, and then have a floating window with the fabrics, and then just paint them onto the couch

x15 has a denoiser. RTRT on your machine denoised is probably like 4 seconds or less. Your setup is pretty much what I would buy today, minus the storage. You guys must be storing a lot of interesting things. Even at 1 GB per project, that would be 2TB=2000GB, less the O/S et al is 200GB =1 800 GB. @ 1 GB per project, that is 1800 projects

create a SPV for the foundation, set the floor level to 0 in the SPV in the selected defaults set: In my "Currently Using" 3/16 Foundation plan set", it has (if I click the edit). you can create one note the layer set is "Foundation Set Print" edit the dimensions: I have below. you will have to click the + button to add the named dimension set. then once you do, set it to a specific layer: and ensure that layer is on for the layer set you define in the first screen above. mine is called "Foundation Set Print" and it looks like Basically I spent half a day creating these for each scale. It is probably overkill, but I like the dimensions, CAD, callouts, and text separated by layer depending on which SPV I am on

my view is you pay a large premium for the latest. I'd rather get a new one more often than invest in the best of the moment as you are never sure where things are going When I watch the video card processing raytraces, it seems to use the video card processor more than the video RAM. And I did the math on storage, it wasnt worth my while to go to 2 TB. I'm good for like 5 years. Even when CA is slow on my PC(while not doing RTRT), the processor is never pinned, so I'm not sure what the bottle neck is So if I was buying something today, I'd actually wait a few months until the 40xx came down in price and buy 32GB ram (that had expandibulity to 64) a midline processor, 1TB and probably 10 or 12GB on the video card (just in case). Thats running in a desktop version about 2500US up here. laptop about $3300 (non dell), which is why I would wait. I have a general thought, $ 2000 for the hardware, over 30-36 months ...unless a sale comes along or I by chance can resell my laptop to my cousin or something

i just tried the mydomastudio. First thing I did was I added a wall to the loft template, and it ballooned the wall through the loft floor, which makes me think the loft floor is not a real floor in their template. So the usual difficulties look to still be there. It's nice that they list all of the furniture in a window and you can just click and drop, and it is quick to scroll thru different couches. CA might want to look at this. it looks to have a "similar" feature, which shows all sofas if you select it. I also have to send my camera to be rendered, where it then sits in a queue, currently 5 people ahead of me. waited about 5 mins. And if I want to move the camera I then need to do it all again. Compare that to CA RTRT that renders in seconds. But I'll admit their render is excellent. so maybe that is the selling feature. I played around in some of their elevation views, but the dimension tool would not dimension to the inside of the stairs. the whole dimension thing was an exercise in frustration, one elevation showed some chinese characters. It's like they are trying to do con docs, but have realized its not that simple. It does look like it has some features which is subsidizing the price. For instance, they list prices of furniture from their preferred vendors, so my guess is they get a kickback But what it does look like it is, is a full contract, pricing, proposal package management solution. My guess is that is also selling it. But for me with the whole trying to do things quickly in web pages, was also an exercise in frustration In the end, I would be curious to know if people that use this software, an then used a nicely setup CA template for interiors, would prefer this software, and for what reasons.

well for me I always thought it was odd that the North pointer would be under a CAD menu. It really has nothing to do with CAD other than its representation is 2D

maybe use billboards?

maybe post the plan. just speculating, might be more of a balcony than a deck, might want to try changing the upper deck room to a balcony

if the object is right but the dimension is not quite right, I will do a point 2 point dimension, which if you dimension to nowhere CA will put in a "marker" point, which you can then move the marker point to be where you want it to be and the length you want, and no one will notice if it does not match exactly. more of a generic solution...that I use when I get frustrated

western canda select, lots of yellow for dead grass

Merci

I think we need a dedicated tips and ticks thread to grass where everyone posts a picture of their grass and the settings. Then everyone can just peruse grass all day instead of everyone spending all day creating grass. And then there will be a whole bunch of variants of grass to pick from. Or we pass around the hat to the few that may want to

i think that is only the case if you navigate to it using the little arrows, and not clicking on the catalog? ..or at least that what happened when I tried it. once I click on any other catalog it shows in the filter. so how did you click on something without clicking on the catalog it is in?

I think that is by design, if I click on an individual item, I already know what I am on so i do not need it to show in the filtered results. the filtered results look like anything other than a click on a individual item

the other way you can do it which is not as accurate is to group select them, then hold the control key down while you rotate the group with the mouse. I do this a lot for pictures of site plans. I draw a horizontal line then try and align the plot line in the picture to line up to the horizontal line i just drew. but even then I will typically still adjust in the Tranform replicate 0.1 deg one way or the other to get it close to perfect as I will then draw setback dimensions from it

I assume you want them all rotated the same amount sometime i will click on the line that I want to be at some angle, and click on transform replicate, click on rotate->absolute angle, and then record the angle it is currently at, and the subtract that from whatever angle you want it to be, and then group select all the lines, go back into transform replicate, and then rotate that "relative" amount.. so if that 80.22 line is at 285 deg and you want it at 270(vertical), then the difference is 15. so group select all the lines and rotate them relative -15 deg (negative is clockwise). they will all move -15 deg, and your 80.22 line will be vertical

A screenshot of the lines and what you want to do with them would help. You should be able to group select them the use the transform replicate to rotate them

when this happens to me (because I forgot to change the defaults at the beggining), I either select all the dimensions and change the number size or go into the dimension default for one dimension line, and change the text size (but then the labels are mismatched), this will change for all dimension lines that use that set you can also change the dimension default used by the dimension line, but you would have to do for each, or select them all and do it

a screenshot of where you are looking and your elevation would help

if you have the X15 beta, you can also replace all fonts in the plan or layout in a single shot.

screenshot would help

thanks, I'm always looking for better backgrounds

that was creative, thanks. I was looking for a method last week, but ran out of time to do something beyond the default. but now i know where to look board & batten board and batten

I got it to show eventually (it did not originally but I do not know what I did, I think once the callout C01 was showing, and now it can go on and off, but not sure)

please add your request to the suggestions forum. There are many of us who would like deck improvements