MarkMc

Note that a png used as a material will not show in vector views .

I do a lot of baths and knew I'd done this before though didn't remember how. Actually for expediency I did start with the Straight Glass Pony wall from the drop down and tried a custom niche symbol (fixture interior inserts into wall)... but that didn't work. Then realized that I almost always start with just glass walls and convert what is needed to a pony walls which I find easier to get what I want (like a curb at the door). Did that and Bob's yer uncle

Start with a full glass wall, change to a pony wall, adjust height. Then a niche works.

I'm familiar with both programs; have not used 2020 since V9 but what matters has not changed. Short answer is NO for 3D, Model, Elevations-NO. What can be done- but takes some set up. Is IF You set up Chief to have labels that match the brand of cabinets they are using (this is a bit of a challenge but quite doable from personal experience) Create a schedule in Chief Export that as spreadsheet, csv, or copy paste to a spreadsheet. They open an item list in 2020 -copy label from your export and paste in item list, adjust quantities as needed Moldings and trim will be best done manually All that said IF the brand they use has an online ordering system, extremely common, it is likely easier and certainly better to do steps 1-3 and then input to that. EDIT- I should have said that at that point, once you've worked out steps 1-3 (and included cabinet mods) there is no point in continuing with 2020. IF there is not an on line ordering system then a spreadsheet template that matches the brands order form can be used. With that method individual prices are looked up in a PDF catalog. The spreadsheet can be set up to do final pricing though so the entire process is still very quick. Automatic lookup of pricing is more difficult and not likely worth the effort since no MFG I know of makes it available in any searchable format like CSV.

The only way to prevent editing is to change the security of the PDF adding a password. Even then there are programs that will remove restrictions to allow changes.

I don't understand? Using Chief's built in PDF printer produces a document with only one layer. I just checked again in Bluebeam PDF review which will show me layers in PDFs and has a flatten function. I only use the flatten function after I have made notations to a document so that they can't be changed. I wish CA would produce a PDF with layers, I can't even print with BlueBeam from Chief and get layers. What am I missing?

Maybe has to do with the GPU? OK here. (though I normally have been using a setting of 2)

Did you manage to get that to work?

I did.

Do you have both Windows Graphic Settings and Nvidia Control Panel set to have X13 use the Nvidia card?

The only way to get it to work is to start the camera in the stairwell but it's hit or miss -sometimes lights will come on in room, most of the time not. Once in the room changing any settings for camera, render, or for lights makes the lights in the stair well turn off. Since I got it to work with a new X13 plan and I gather you did as well it must be an issue with plan being brought forward. I'd send it in to support.

Be sure maximum lights is set hi enough. If that doesn't solve it create a new light set and turn them on for that camera.

For Chief you will be better off with other than that GPU and would save a good bit of money. Compare 2070 mobole to quadro

Look into adjust lights?

You can put %schedule_number% in either the comment or code field of the cabinet. The other way at it is to put the formula that gets the price into a custom OIP field. Best of luck with it, that's been the Holy Grail for a while now. I've taken several shots at it and got "almost'. I stuck to working in with schedule instead of ML. Best I got was a way to export the schedule. Was very close then I don't really need it so ends up on the back burner and none of my clients came up with price files needed. (guess they don't really need it either)

NOTE that it does not do "passes" the way CPU RT does so it's a bit subjective. I'll play along and try on with both GPUs I've got. Pick one of the Chief samples to work with. We could time it to when we think it looks good, that will be in seconds in most cases, and then post a screen shot of when we think it's good though how that looks will depend on the monitor res and what is used for the screen shot (not crazy about chief's). This is what most people talk about when they are noting how fast it is. Export picture and time it is an option. That will take longer-this is the least subjective approach IMO.edit realized this brings the drive into play so not ideal There is a setting to cap live samples and one can monitor when the GPU drops back down to 0% usage, that takes minutes instead of seconds. GPU-Z, HWinfo each will monitor usage, both are free but I doubt many will want to play along with tthat

1 Select Nvidia Geoforce 2-Maximum Performance Windows-High Performance

Wind 10 now has it's own setting -Graphic Settings. Need to se the card there as well in Nvidia control panel (at least I set both and have no issues- but my understanding is that must use the windows setting)

Wouldn't a fireplace be dimensioned off walls in both directions? Making a 5" disrepancy kind of obvious?

From X13 help

I'm for the third option-font. What is shown in the example looks like a somewhat condensed font similar to second from bottom in image. The bottom is a Liberation Mono.

But you are dimensioning an elevation what are tose defaults?

X12 or 13? Just tested a pretty basic one in 13- OOB settings, only 6 key frames on the desktop. Both standard and PBR with no RayTrace each took 2mins for a 26 second vid. With Ray Trace on would have looks like it would have taken about 1.5 hrs. Did nothing to any settings though.

cpu report If you say so