johnny

So everyone knows Chief has acknowledged this is a bug, but the reality is the fix will most likely be part of X10.

Exactly^^^^ i have no idea what this even is.

The way I would do it is make a new wall type that includes the total thickness of the finish layer, and then make strips of material regions that "cut" finish layer, but make sure your material region contains a thinner layer of the same material....with the delta difference being the relief you want. The material regions won't wrap around the corner but you can align them so the cut will occur at the edge. Make sense?

You know the watercolor rendering type is one of the coolest in Chief - something i've used to change my process from drawing concepts by hand - BUT, in Chief its the most buggy style by far. I was looking at other bug submittals i made with this render type nearly a year ago thats still an issue today - specifically, windows sometimes don't show opaque even though the setting is checked. Chief - please fix this render style so it works properly!!!!

Thanks guys for checking on this. I'll go ahead and report.

Thanks. I'll check updating the v-card. So I was curious if anyone else had this issue to determine if its actually just me, or Chief...?

After the last patch I cannot get the watercolor settings with line overlay (extend line/squiggle) to work correctly at all going to PDF. I made a very exaggerated example to show what it looks like in Chief vs what is printed. Its so frustrating when releases that are suppose to help end up bringing their own new bugs. I assume it was the last patch, but it may have been the one before. A couple months ago it was working fine for me.

Thanks Chop (as well as Scott) for helping out. Very appreciative of your guys' time.

What i know they didn't fix is the annoying window transparency issue in elevations....

wow that is awesome Scott.

i;d love to

That did it. Crazy, but thank you.

Rob, what is the material on the wall?

What is odd, for me at least, is I dont get consistent results. Sometimes whole wall sections are filled, and other times they aren't. Sometimes I get cut walls that are filled and others times not.

That is a good idea - thanks. One area i have an issue is some walls are "filled" and others aren't. Any ideas on why that is the case? When I say filled I mean its almost like the sections are picking up the color and giving walls in the same plane line as the section a fill.

Where do you uncheck the XOR?

Here you go... LG_brian_townhouse5.zip

Im having a hard time getting my ref sets t work correctly. Please see vid - thank you for consideration. (just fyi i am working from home today since I sprained my ankle - so im being quite and i have background noises)

That is a nice example. Can I ask if you are using normal sections or back-clipped sections? Your line-work in the section appears to be back-clipped but the fact you see building in the background suggests its a normal section. I can't get my normal sections to be this clean. I get better results with back-clipped but then I lose the building in the background - or, if I extend out the backclipped section I end up with too much overlapping of structural elements.

Yeah, I like that approach too - but in some ways I find making a cross section with poche fills can be almost more challenging - and then I end up with an odd mix graphically. It would be nice if Chief had an option just to product a more simplified section that had poche fills.

Are you exporting to a CAD view or keeping it all live?

For me, building sections are a PITA to get "clean". 9 of 10 times I end up making tedious sections by capturing the view in a CAD detail for line-by-line edits. Is that what most people are doing, or are you guys spending tons of time trying to get the dynamic section to be clean enough to work?

Chief recently gave us the ability to refine the display order of objects - however, most apps i use also use that as the "selection" order. In Chief that doesn't seem to be the case, which im not a fan of at all. Anyone else agree? Id like to suggest they change this.

That worked pretty good - thanks.

Yeah that might work - will give that a try - thanks.