BryceEngstrom

1 hour ago, Michael_Gia said:

 

Effectively, I get a stair case that shows up on the floor plan as visible on the desired target floor but in 3d the staircase is simply duplicated on the origin floor.

I have to open the copied staircase dialogue box and adjust the bottom and top heights so it displays in 3d at the proper level.

What are you trying to achieve by doing this?  Do you just want to copy a stair that goes from, say, Floor 1 to Floor 2 so that your copy then goes from Floor 2 to Floor 3?  I don't get what "visible on the desired target floor" means.  The way to make it visible from Floor 2 is to have an Open Below space on Floor 2.

In X11, I made a custom "furniture" symbol and want to do a schedule of similar objects.  Why won't the label display for the object?  Never had this issue with fixture schedules. Plan attached.  Thanks in advance.

Boiler Model.zip

Yeah, that's the problem I was having. Could only get it to work well on one side.  Not pressing enough to spend a bunch more time on it but I also remember way back some creative use of window treatments to achieve something like this for windows.  Have no idea if the same approach could work for doors.  But, custom placing a separate symbol for each door just isn't practical unless you are just trying to perfect a model for hi res renderings or something.

I did send in a feature request.

Thank you for that. Well, that at least makes me feel a little better.   So, does the symbol you made behave as a door symbol with regards to swing direction, showing it open or closed, etc. too, or is it more like a standard symbol where you'd have to fuss with the 2D block to have it read correctly in plan?

Kind of frustrating, then, that you can get so close to this with the door tool, but not quite there.  Will have to send in a feature request for this.

I am trying to achieve a recessed door look on both sides of the door, but can only seem to make it work on one side.  Plan attached.  Thanks in advance.

Recessed Interior Door.plan

If I understand your question correctly- I haven't actually tried it myself, but I think you can just add the normal map back in to the texture once you're in Lumion.  I don't know of any export file type that Chief does that would retain the normal maps when exported.

You're limited to the formats Chief supports.  Looks like there is a way to go to .3ds, but it doesn't look easy.

There's always the 3D Warehouse-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/4c71317692cac3025284f614a5c1b290/Solatube-290-DS-Daylighting-System

It's all possible, but not easy.  Distributed object is a good way to get started, but keep in mind, your seat model will want to have just one arm, then you'll need to add just the arm by itself at the start/end of each row.  The bigger challenge is more the vertical placement of them and working out all the stair/floor levels.

You can change to B&W and adjust contrast and brightness right inside of Chief.  No need to go to an outside photo editor.

Only stud length for 8 ft. walls I have ever seen in 20 years of framing in California has been 92-1/4" + 4-1/2" of plates (one bottom, two top) gives you 96-3/4".  5/8" drywall lid leaves you just enough to get 2 - 48" wide drywall sheets stacked underneath so you have good bottom plate nailing.

1 minute ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Completely standard everywhere here in Alaska and  and quite a few other areas of the country as well.  

I guess I had to assume that.  Wonder why such large market wouldn't be more standardized.

13 minutes ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Bryce, how do you like sitting on that ball, I'm sure I'd pop it.

 LOL.  I highly doubt it.  I used to weigh 200 lbs. and never had a problem with it.  Mine is a 95 cm ball.  You have to just figure out the right inflation level for you.   I actually started sitting on the ball many years ago, probably 8 or 9.  It made an enormous difference with lower back pain, after coming off of being a bags-on contractor for all of my career before that.  It took several months to slowly work up to sitting on it full time, but I haven't worked with a chair at all now since then.  It's standing or the ball, that's it.

I too noticed SOME improvement in this, but also agree it is and always has been very, very far from intuitive. I too just slog through every time on anything vaguely complex.  I have pretty much given up designating any room as a Garage.  Causes more problems that it solves.  And, in what world is 97-1/8" a standard rough ceiling height?  Is it just California where it has been 96-3/4" for all of the 30 years I have been working in residential design/construction?

FWIW, this is my setup, one I have found very comfortable working with for several years now.  39" 4K flanked by the 30" dells.  I bought the motorized desk legs and then made my own custom desktop out of some 1-1/8" plywood, and laminate flooring.  There are presets you can set up for up to 4 different height positions.  I only need 2, one standing, and one sitting on the exercise ball.  I probably go back and forth 3-4 times a day.  I also got an industrial rubber pad to stand on (in my socks), and a heating pad under that.

If I were to ever get new monitors, I am not really sure how useful getting anything much larger would be, you would just have to put them back farther, and then the 4K resolution seems kind of moot.  And, I don't want to turn my neck any more than I already do.  Seems there is a practical limit to the screen real estate you can use effectively.

I have had a 39" SEIKI 4K  that I only paid $450 for new,  flanked by two Dell 30" monitors that I had for several years prior, for several years now and love the setup. GTX960 runs them all just fine, no perceptible lag.

That is actually what I tend to do too, but just playing around with it, the retaining walls, aside from the issue of wanting a flat top, seem quite a be cleaner as far as terrain generation than trying to work in the terrain break.  Seems like terrain breaks produce all kinds of anomalies in the terrain in anything but the most non-complex situations.

You can take a 3D or elevation view of the wall and manually connect the break points along the top so that you are left with one straight line and then make it level.

Hmmmm....hadn't noticed this change in behavior before but you're right, something appears to have changed from X9.  For a temporary fix, you can disconnect the interior wall from the exterior wall.  But, this is  something you might want to send in to tech support.  Or someone more knowledgeable than myself might have a better solution.

 Getting rid of the half walls around the island fixes them.  I wouldn't use soffits for this purpose, for the very reason that soffits have certain behaviors that aren't always desirable.  I would have just used beams and moldings.  Or, use something else like a cabinet or P-Solid for your half wall.

I actually haven't seen this for a long time now, so also assumed it was just fixed.  I have not changed my system since the original post.

I haven't had this particular problem, but for the last several years there have been issues with cloud backup services.  Chief specifically does not support these systems running in the background while you are running Chief.  I used to get total crashes and lose data with X9 and Google Drive running.  X10 seems to be better (as in glitches but no crashes) but I try to be very careful about turning off Google Drive each morning and restarting it when I leave at the end of the day.

Thanks for that.  I was able to make it work now.  What I learned was that the auto-framed barge rafter is labeled as sub fascia, and altering that doesn't work.  You have to delete that and copy a regular rafter to be used as barge with a rafter tail.

Yes, I understand that, just couldn't tell from your post whether you meant 2d or 3d, and I did mention the 3d DWG.  Even in 3d, the conversion into Chief completely loses all its parametric qualities.  You just have "dumb" 3d object.

14 minutes ago, kMoquin said:

If the complexity got to that point I'd likely model it with psolids.

 Yeah, it's too bad rafter tails couldn't make that work.  I tried it without success.