BryceEngstrom

You might be able to do this with separate cabinets configured into one unit. Depends on the particulars.

I use a lot of wire shelving in commercial kitchens and have found that if you make the "wire" of the shelf square instead of round (which actually looks better in the 2D condocs anyway) it can cut way down on face count so you don't have as much of an issue with the computer bogging down.

I did learn two things from this. Show in Browser from the search return and the Fillet All tool.

Sounds like you two will make great cell mates.

Yes, I have. All I can tell you is that initially it seems to work, but then problems develop. It will correct itself temporarily, sometimes, then go bad again. As I said, it's an acknowledged bug. Just keep an eye out.

Be very mindful using breaks and invisible walls to locate structural posts. There is a known bug with this which I have reported. It will look right one minute and then move or edit a connected wall and/or railing and suddenly the columns move, double up, and do any number of weird things. I am back to placing them manually as Perry suggested. Am hoping this gets fixed soon.

Just practically speaking, how many of these several thousand images do you actually plan on using in the foreseeable future? And, if you want to use them as rug and painting symbols in Chief, you are still going to have to apply them to a symbol. Just the time it takes to do that, which has to be done manually, would pale in comparison to just checking Stretch to Fit when you actually go to use each one to apply to a symbol. You might send the question in to tech support.

Looks like you need to adjust your rotation on the symbol once it's imported. You may also need to create appropriate stretch planes. There are quite a number of good tutorial videos on basic symbol creation that covers this stuff. The stretch planes can cause some head scratching.

Don't think there is a batch way to have them all come in Stretch to Fit, but you can change them all to Stretch to Fit manually after they are imported with the Convert Textures to Materials tool. If it were me, I would just import them all and just convert to Stretch to Fit as you use them.

Think you missed April Fool's day Kevin.

LOVE IT. Too funny.

After trying the client viewer with the very few clients even willing, or sometimes even able, to use it over the years, I tend to agree with this. Especially during the earlier parts of the design process, I do want to have much more control over what the client sees. I do at least one live viewing of the Chief model in my office on a projector after the design has progressed a ways but again, I am controlling what they see. They can ask to see certain things, but I can control which type of view to show that in. And I also think I don't want to be sending editable Chief files to clients at all. I've dabbled in it a couple of times but always to poor results. Having a client editing my Chief file is, to me, a lot like trying to help your doctor out during your own surgery.

This does seemed to be fixed in the latest update. I like how you can have the switches further apart in plan but they still merge in 3D. Used to be to have them appear as a double gang in 3D, they were too close together in plan and you couldn't tell the connections apart from each other. And you can drag the ganged switch around in 3D and it still stays ganged. Nice improvement.

What version are you using? In X7, negative height and dragging worked fine for me. Didn't even need a control key. You might want to zip and post the plan.

The height in the dbx I think is based in relation to your finished floor level. So, enter a negative number and it should work. Or, just drag it down to where you want it in the elevation view.

Haven't gotten it yet. Just got the used 30" to add to the one I already had. Here is my current setup. Need a newer card to run the 50" and 2-30's. My existing card is all DVI which I don't think supports the full 4K resolution. Gotta go with Display Port. Bill Emery didn't seem to be having any trouble with his. And, there is this article about settings on it to make it work better as a monitor. http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2013/11/27/seiki-50-4k-tv-makes-great-pc-display-for-about-1000/ I think most of the criticism about using this as a monitor comes from gamers. But I don't game at all and am betting it will work well with Chief. Will let you know when it happens. Just gotta get past tax day. :-)

Don't be afraid to get a used one. Just got a 30" Dell Utrasharp off Ebay in perfect condition for $395. I have probably had 6 different LCD monitors over the years, including my original Dell 30" I got new about 4 years ago (bought the second used one and plan to combine the two 30's with a 50" 4K Seiki TV when I get a new rig soon) and at least 3 laptops with LCD monitors and have never had any of them go bad. Not a single dead pixel, nothing. Seems like they generally last quite a long time.

Yeah, that's nice Bill. I like the way the railing stays level with this method too. I screwed around with ramps and having railings follow them with a project like this a ways back with limited success.

Yeah, the further into it you are, the harder it is. You can rotate the plan in the layout instead of in the plan as well, but that also doesn't help the text rotating. Best to not do it, and then only in the early stages if there is no other choice.

Although you will likely have to reorient any text and/or arrows you have in the plan manually.

Alternately, you could also just swap the CAD block out for one of the ones in the Core Catalog in the library, perhaps a simpler, more symbolic one or even just make one from scratch. It just depends on how realistic you want or need it to look in plan view. Looking at the symbol you have, it could get a little tedious trying to edit that CAD block to read the way you want it to.

If you go to CAD/ CAD Block Management and find the 2D block being used (the block's name you will find in the Symbol Menu under 2D block, usually just the same as the name of the symbol you imported), Insert that 2D CAD block into the plan, explode it, and then edit it in such a fashion that you get a block with closed polylines that you can give a solid white fille to, block that, and then go back to the Symbol Menu/ 2D Block on the symbol and change it to your new block which should now be available as a CAD block you can use. That should give you the fills you need to get it to read as on top of the room fill pattern.

Dennis, it's this nifty new invention they have called a steel moment frame. ;-)

Just one of Chief's standard backdrops, but it is somewhat similar to the view they will have looking south down Cayucos beach toward Morro Rock.

Haven't posted a ray trace in forever. Just thought I would try one of a current project right OOB with Jintu's settings. Not too bad for no tweaking of any kind. You've come a long way Chiefy.