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This was helpful, Thank you. I'm now using the 'no locate' railing between the full height posts.

This was all helpful and I fixed the location of each layer location to mimic yours, But I cannot get a girt to generate at the slab or below. What check box did I miss for that?

Looks like laser devices are getting better and better. One device called VH-80A, has auto calibration, level, angle, volume and being a Bilateral laser distance meter, you can quickly get wall to wall, and ceiling heights without bending down to the floor! Anybody try a device like this?

I'm trying to puzzle out why the 3d interior camera view will not show the "poles" (posts) except in 3d framing view? My wall type has nothing on the interior surface, how can I get the inside 3d view to look more like the framing view?

That does not sound right. Your in Walla Walla, where everything is almost over the counter on napkins. What happened?

I'd make it more custom, as the expensive modern stair you drew requires something just as unique. I just left mine open, and pushed the closet to a sidewall.

Thanks Jacob. It is a decent work-around. I would suggest we need a few more tools in the window specification dialog box. This one is in a growing list of previous requests. Where do you suggest we post our desires so the team can add them into the magic black box?

Very clever out of the box thinking Nikiley! I like it. Just another window treatment. Allows us designers to be more creative.

This is where Chief needs to step in and generate a more powerful parametric or AI tool that can do that work for us!

I want to stop Chief Architect from putting in a mullion or casing trim when I pull two windows close together. I would like it to look like the real world condition when there is no exterior casing, and siding between. Chief will automatically put trim in when they get within 7" of each other!! Maybe I am missing a setting?

What is a bit scary is the ability of an AI that has full access to the internet or specific databases to big for us to search. There is the young Architect who published a YouTube video on head to head designing a 3d image for a specific hillside lot. She worked her design (took many hours) and the AI worked its design (took many seconds) Her design was much more specific to the lot and owners design sense, but the AI can regenerate an infinite about of possible 'looks' in seconds. This might be a good tool for us designers, but would only confuse most clients. True, that CA could incorporate a new tool to better convert a full PDF set of 2d plans into a 3d model, but that may still be years away. They seem to have dropped their support and work on the CAD lines to walls and windows feature since it creates more problems than it solves.

I've had this problem about 3 times a year. Just often enough to forget the solution. Mainly because it is not real obvious, although logical if you are a power user. In a rush to change exterior wall textures, I will use the camera-paint option (bad). Or I will use the rainbow tool and force a change for that wall type (semi-bad) or I will open that walls specification dialog box and monkey around with the texture (semi-bad). All of these tend to "uncheck" a very important box, nested down inside the default settings. Then the problems appear when you want to make more changes. So I call SAS staff to get the answer and I wanted to publish the steps here for others and myself, when I forget again. - Support Answer - Luke M Friday, Jul 28, 2023 - 04:32 PM PDT Hi John, Thanks for attaching the plan so I could take a closer look. I believe I found the issue, and it is in fact related to a check box that I just had forgotten about while we were on the phone. Here's the fix: 1. Open Default Settings, expand Walls, select Exterior Wall, and click Edit. 2. Select the Materials panel, select the Exterior Wall Surface component, and click Select Material. 3. At the bottom of the Select Material dialog, check the Use default material box, then click OK, OK, Done to return to plan view. 4. Open a camera view, then go to the 3D menu and select Material Painter > Material Painter. 5. 3. At the bottom of the Select Material dialog, check the Use default material box, then click OK. 6. In the bottom edit toolbar on the left, make sure Material Painter Plan Mode is selected. 7. Click on one of the exterior walls (this will replace the material with the default material for all of the walls. At this point, you should now be able to change the wall type for any wall in your plan (as well as newly drawn walls), and that change will reflect in camera views. Presto-Chango, Bob's your Uncle, and it is fixed. :-)

No. It was a DEC mini, but we did have some calcomp components. What we liked was the whopping 10mb bernoulli removable drive.

AI is moving at breakneck speed, just like skynet, but in this case it would be a real money and time saver if you could get AI to link with CA and draft over a PDF plan set, taking a 2d set and making a 3d model. Can we have that please? Then you can launch nuclear weapons and wipe out all humans. On a side note, as I spend hours drafting over my latest PDF plan set, I'm noticing how much more information we now have to provide in our permit packages. Compared to the 10 year old PDF 2d plan sets I import, I'm shocked at how little information we provided. Especially with contractor sets. Less was truly more.

It was a loooong time ago Joe, and I did not double check the dates with Google. I only remember I had recently graduated from Architecture school full of bright new idea's. I do remember the goofy IBM PC and a Heath Zenith user built PC, I also remember those amazing floppy disks and drives. Only reason we had it was the Heath/Zenith user club met in our office up in Alaska, so we had these funny nerds gathering and nerding out on the new operating systems like HDOS and CP/M, then the various cards they could get for adding memory or floppy drives. I only wish I had listened to those nerds and invested all my money in the recent OS startup called MicroSoft. These nerds seemed to think it was inferior to their favorites OS. I don't think any of them became super rich. It was a crazy and amazing time for early adopters of CAD. We instead, invested in a mini-computer workstation for about $70,000. It worked great but only lasted about 4 years before we switched back to Autocad.

Well this is good to know. Your panos look great from inside or outside, but it is still a lot of work for little reward. Like trying to do a maximum bench press. Might impress a few people looking on, but less so as they call 911 when you blow out your shoulder.

Being in sales, design and production, time was valuable and I remember the older Architects in our office making a pronouncement after looking over my shoulder at ACAD version 1; "it will never go any where..." ;-) I thought so too at the time, as personal computers were still just a novelty, not destine to go any where either.

Do you have a video showing how to do that?

I'd like to do custom on-site client specific panoramic backdrops for each project. But, I'm not sure what are the best settings or method for capturing a good 360 shot on-site. Anybody do this? Can you share your tips and tricks?

Hey Rene, Those full backdrops are wonderful, and I'd like to know how we can take those pictures ourselves? When I do a site visit, I've always taken pictures of the Front, Back, Sides, and view to use in CA, but they are not the surround kind. What do I need to know when trying to take a panorama on site??

As another older user who started on Autocad 1.0 waaaay back in 1981?, I got used to working with it using the tools which kept getting updated at a furious pace, much like CA. I applaud you in making this change to CA and trying to pound into your worn out bag of new tricks, a better and faster way to get your projects finalized. The older I get the harder it is for me to keep emptying out my old bag on tricks, and stuff new ones inside. Like most old dog's, I get used to working this program in previously learned ways. So I feel inspired to see people like me (older, former, ACAD users) take on learning something new. Everything they are saying here makes sense, and is worth trying to work into my own workflow.

So where is your fancy 3d mouse Rene?

The Atlas OS is touted by LTT's as a great way to speed up your system for 'gaming', and CA's PBR kind of falls into that arena. Has anybody tried running Atlas stripped down OS yet? It is scary with all the security and updates turned off, but I like where they are going with this freeware program. Might try it on my home computer first, which is a basic older system that is slowing down with all the Windows 10 bloatware. Thoughts or comments?

Wow, that is a lot of visual space! Do you need to adjust your font sizes so you can read all the menu's?