Electromen

Here is last week's house.  I used a different flooring and increased the roughness to reduce the reflections.  I used a colorful backdrop to test color cast.

If some here are not familiar with PBR RT, I made a short screen capture

LOOK HERE

If you play it full screen, you can see the samples rate in the lower right.  As it increases, the Stainless Stell Dishwasher improves in quality

Hit Play and make it full screen

9 hours ago, HumbleChief said:

Just for clarification PBR and RTRT are not the same thing. PBR can be accomplished with a generic -ish video card and RTRT requires a specific video card with RTRT capabilities. Pretty sure RTRT also does not require 2000 passes as the name refers to 'Real Time' Ray Tracing. Curious which technique did you use? PBR? RTRT? Native Ray Tracing? Still a nice job - for an electrician...

I just watch a CA training video on RTRT.  Yes, I am using RTRT.  I'm getting a realistic image almost immediately, the stainless steels takes a little time, but 500 passes looks good.

9 hours ago, HumbleChief said:

Just for clarification PBR and RTRT are not the same thing. PBR can be accomplished with a generic -ish video card and RTRT requires a specific video card with RTRT capabilities. Pretty sure RTRT also does not require 2000 passes as the name refers to 'Real Time' Ray Tracing. Curious which technique did you use? PBR? RTRT? Native Ray Tracing? Still a nice job - for an electrician...

Video Card is NVIDIA 3080 Ti 12 GB.

I used 3D>Rendering Techniques>Physically Based (Ray Trace)

So is that PBR?

Using CA as an Electrician to design the electrical for new homes, is something I've done since Chief '97.

This week I met with an Electrical Engineer for the local power company.  I'm wiring his new home.  Obviously, electrical was a high priority.

Here's a quote from his text yesterday.

"Good evening Greg. First, there is no better way for a customer to figure out their electrical layout any better than what you did with your  presentation."  That made me smile, especially coming from an Electrical Engineer that deals with every builder in the area.

I have an office in my home with a 65" TV that mirrors my computer screen.  It takes about 2 - 2 1/2 hours to meet, but when we're done, they leave with a full set of printed electrical drawings.  

As far as I know, I'm the only Electrician in this area using 3D software to design residential lighting, power and low voltage like CAT6 and cameras.

Most of my competitors meet the owner at the job site and walk through with a magic marker and write on the studs.  Others follow a layout on architectural drawings, but 90% use a magic marker.  Electrical drawings are not required for a permit.

I'm not bragging, just relaying how I use CA.  Being able to place furniture, TV's, cars in a garage, etc. gets customers very involved and excited.  They spend more on extras.

I do material take offs for the rough and finish and can even measure wire lengths like sub feed cable without leaving the house.  Above all is customer satisfaction and they're happy.

This forum has been a huge help over the years.  Although I don't post often, I read it everyday.   I belong to a few forums, most have some jerks that think they are comedians.

This group is special, professional and very helpful.  Thank You.

5 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Yes but not bad for an Electrician , must be why the lighting looks good ! you just need to play with your material properties........

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10210/material-properties-how-to-import-set-the-pattern-visualize-in-3d.html

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/83/advanced-materials.html

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10119/using-the-adjust-material-definition-tool.html

 

 

M.

 

 

Thank You

I've been a Mac only owner since 2004. I had a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro.

I switched to a PC and Windows 11 because of the lack of a dedicated video card and no NVIDIA support.  I bought a $3,800 MSI gaming desktop.

I'm happy with it.  Windows has come a long way.

I still have the MacBook Pro, I gave the Mac Pro to my daughter.

I can Real Time Ray Trace in less than a minute.  I didn't know when I bought it, but my PC is also an Xbox-a very good one.

1 hour ago, Michael_Gia said:

Floor too shiny and counter not shiny enough.

 

Otherwise, bravo. 

Yes, I wondered about that myself.

52 minutes ago, 65Shelby said:

Is that Chief Architect?  Sorry for my naivete, but that looks awesome... like a photo...
JSnell

 

Yes X13 Premier, Physically Based Ray Trace.  Also called Real Time Ray Tracing.

I'm finally getting results I'm not embarrassed to post.

This one is 2,000 passes in 55 seconds.

What do you think?

One suggestion, Perform a Clean Install of the Driver.  A Clean Install will remove all the old NVIDIA drivers and software, then install the new ones.

Download the Driver from NIDVIA, I chose Version 511.79 Game Ready Driver

Open the Download . Agree and Continue until you get to Express vs Custom.

Choose Custom (Advanced) > leave everything checked but also Check "Perform Clean Install". 

Reboot when it's done.

Is you GPU/graphics card  Liquid Cooled?

Good moves on both counts.  

This won't help with the lost files, but will prevent it in the future.

Buy an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). A UPS is a 120 volt battery backup. 

I like APC

This one, APC Back UPS 1500, Compact Tower, 1500VA, 120V, AVR, LCD, 10 NEMA outlets (5 surge)

will do everything you need to continue printing, save and safely shut down the computer until the power comes back on.

Depending on the load such as computers, printers, monitors, etc., you should be able to continue working for 30 minutes or more, maybe an hour.

It's also an excellent surge arrestor.

I have one on my office computer, one on the home computer and a small run for internet and network.

After a few years, the battery will need replaced like any battery, but it's easy to do.

Since updating the NVIDIA 3080 Ti 12GB to the latest drivers, I have not had any crashes.  It's been a least two weeks.

Windows 11 Home.

It's been a week since I updated to Windows 11 and updated the NVIDIA 3080 Ti 12GB video card to driver 565.11 game ready version.

No crashes.  Everything is very stable.

The computer is a month old.

MSI Desktop 

Originally shipped with Windows 10 Home

Intel i7-11700K processor

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB

64GB DDR4 RAM

Dual 27" Monitors = BenQ PD2705Q

2TB NVMe SSD

2TB HDD

6TB HDD

The good news is, I've had no crashes in my most recent project.

Windows 11, X13 and the NVIDIA 3080 Ti 12GB with the latest driver.

I completed and entire house including all doors, windows, cabinets, electrical, roof, complete project.

No problems, very stable.  I tried to make it crash in 3D and RTRT.

I started fresh, creating new Templates and all Libraries downloaded new.

I updated to Windows 11 again, and this time, everything works.  The newest NVIDIA driver seems to be the fix.

On 2/1/2022 at 6:26 PM, Electromen said:

I updated to Windows 11, then update the NVIDIA driver to 511.65

New MSI Desktop

• Intel® Core™ i9-12900K 3.2-5.2 GHz 30MB Cache
• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 12GB GDDR6X
• 32GB DDR5 4800Mhz (16GB x 2)
• 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
• 2TB 3.5" 7200 RPM HDD

I started with the residential template in X13 Premier and drew the entire house, except cabinets.

90 minutes so far and no crashes.

I tried to make it crash in standard 3D views and RTRT, but it's all good so far.

Two weeks ago when I updated to Windows 11, it crashed constantly.  I rolled back to Windows 10 but things are looking good now.

 

Day two and still no crashes.  I opened an older drawing created on my Mac with templates from X12 and everything worked well in Windows 11.  NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X, NVIDIA driver = 511.65 gaming version.

Keeping fingers crossed.

42 minutes ago, Doug_N said:

I wonder if this is related to Covid-19?  The device removed error and resulting crash seems to be spreading.

 

My setup:

X13

MSI NVidia GTX970

Windows 10 64b Pro

2 TB SSD drive C:

data is mirrored to MS OneDrive.

 

I would attach the working files, but the zip file is too big.  I have reported this to tech support.

 

 

This is the crash message.  When it appears the menu for the program is locked and there is no chance to save whatever you were working on.

 

 

If you click on "Check Knowledge Base" this is what you get:

 

 

 

 

Try updating the NVIDIA driver to 511.65

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

I updated to Windows 11, then update the NVIDIA driver to 511.65

New MSI Desktop

• Intel® Core™ i9-12900K 3.2-5.2 GHz 30MB Cache
• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 12GB GDDR6X
• 32GB DDR5 4800Mhz (16GB x 2)
• 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
• 2TB 3.5" 7200 RPM HDD

I started with the residential template in X13 Premier and drew the entire house, except cabinets.

90 minutes so far and no crashes.

I tried to make it crash in standard 3D views and RTRT, but it's all good so far.

Two weeks ago when I updated to Windows 11, it crashed constantly.  I rolled back to Windows 10 but things are looking good now.

IN STOCK

I just bought a similar model with 2 NVMe TB SSD and 3080 Ti 12 GB VRAM.  Received it in about a week

HERE is a more advance model with 3090 24GB

15 hours ago, johnny said:

This isn't only a Windows 11 issue - i first started having these issues in Windows 10, and in fact moving to Windows 11 helped initially.  Now, its happening again.  I have a 3090.

 

I have noticed inconsistency where if I don't have an option (greyed out) for Physically Based Render the crash won't happen.  When Physically Based Render is an option on the render I have a high likelihood of a crash....and I've also noticed it happens to me only on files or templates started pre-X13.  I've not had the crash happen (to me) in files originated 100% in X13.

Wow, that's interesting since all the  templates I use are custom and old, probably X11.

5 hours ago, builtright3 said:

I still have 11 and 12 in my computer but I only use the new version once I upgrade

Just to be clear,   Are you using Windows 11?

5 hours ago, builtright3 said:

 

Yes, when I went through this I spoke to tech support at Chief and also to NVIDIA. I believe it was NVIDIA that asked me to disable the "Nahimic Service".
I spent countless hours on this and waisted a bunch of time doing research. Disabling the "Nahimic Service" didn't seem to affect anything else on my system so I just gave up and stopped trying to solve the problem. I just disabled and moved on.

Joe, are you using Windows 11 and X13 now?