MarkMc

I'm not much of a RTer- There are others, like Graham. My take would be to switch to PBR and forget about RT. Attached- fixed one exterior wall (brick with two walls in one place somehow), deleted extra roof, placed and saved 3 PBR cameras. There were no saved cameras in your plan so could not tell what was the issue to begin with. I did not do much with the PBRs (and there were missing textures) So they could be improved, these are almost OOB just altered a few setting to avoid problems. Copy each camera, move it a little and play with the settings- take a look at the lets PBR thread. Fastest way to get something decent for meeting IMO. Background is in individual cameras and/or camera defaults. GAT_glowing_3_cameras.zip

Just in case anyone is playing along I just tried the "correct" driver with the update 20.1.1.1. Thought since they fixed something with Intel cards, albeit on Macs, and Dermot said they thought issues were important, but NG. Same thing. Sent in again as full report along with an assortment of SEH errors that allowed to report. Rolled back and is fine. Oddly enough this was not a problem in the first two Beta releases, just since the public and final.

Interiors now has annosets and plan views same as premier still doesn't have framing or terrain. If you decide to go for full version I still have a copy for sale In a moment of weakness I offered it for $100 less with a one hour session if someone bought it this week. I'll stand by that until Sunday.

Eric's method and Rich's are both simpler and easier. I use the more complicated one so that I can get a cabinet of the correct size and the legs into a cabinet schedule. (the legs are door symbols placed into a cabinet that is openings on 3 sides.)

and if you need to close the cuts make a door symbol from a slab and adjust origin and lock depth, add to side as "side panel inset" See post on cabinet hacks in tips section using that principal

Use framed construction- if frameless just set to 3/4" separation. Set left and right separations to "0", split face, convert left to opening, split again and make opening on right. Etc. Depending on needs may have to use 0 toe kick and then fake that. Here's a quick start. corner.plan

Nice looking system. I don't know anything about Titan, another outfit to look into is Pugetsystems ( Curt Johnson has their system.) If you are using PBR for renderings instead of Ray Trace I'd look into the i-7 8700K, faster single core speed and except for Ray Trace Chief doesn't fully utilize the extra cores. Might also bump up the SSD to a Samsung 950 (or the 950 Pro) with the savings.

I wasn't sure if this should go into symbols or here. Since you would still have to make some symbols on your own, this is more of a guide than it is symbols. The attached plan has cabinets with: Extended stiles. The extension will NOT bump, only the cabinet will (I actually prefer that) Side extended back -same thing about bump. 2 versions since they both have Interior that does not match the exterior- done two ways. Clipped Corner cabinet where the clips will not disappear when placed next to the correct size cabinet. There are tow with a note- both are blocked to prevent the clips from going away. The "cabinet door" symbol used for each is included so you can open things, see what is going on and make your own for other situations/sizes. These are all on a layer "cabinets, Mod Doors" in case you don't see them. Clip_extend stile_ extend side back.plan

I've got an X10 Premier license for sale. For this week I'll drop to 1800 and throw in an hour online meeting (strengths are remodel, symbols, cabinets, anno sets and layers- not so good with roof, terrain and well stairs are what they are)

Yes- start with framed cabinet, "0" separation, whatever reveal you want, 0" toe height and depth (sometimes I make them from wall cabinets instead) You then configure your toe with openings and side panel inset. Use custom door symbols for the toe where you adjust the origin. Here's one done with half inch on the side and 3 on the front- same principal.

Cameras stay put when: open or saved or sent to layout. I've not seen an exception.

Either "save camera" or send to layout

Some backdrops are worse than others. Spherical from bonus library in particular cast more color. Moving the sun locations around often solves it as does adding a light source to wash out the color. Best solution I've found though-if I need/want image in the windows, don't want to move the sun, or mess with adding extra lights. Use no backdrop, add a billboard image in back of the window and adjust the transparency. (I've only tried JPEG but have a hunch PNG may have more issues?) In any case here's a quick example.

I always struggled with Ray Trace. Maybe did not invest enough time, partly not that important or worth the effort for me. In any case I had a need for better/faster renderings for a particular client so I dusted off an old copy of Thea and Rene was kind enough to give me a few pointers. Shortly after the first Beta came along with PBR. It was a lot rougher then, Even still I took to it pretty quickly and got better results with it than almost any RT I'd ever done. Not as good as what Thea can do in someone elses hands but for me more than adequate. Chief has made great strides with each iteration.. Have not had time to fully integrate the info Graham and Mick and others have posted here but I'm happy enough to use it far more than I ever bothered with RT. I'd like the settings to somehow be condensed but that is what it is.

With what you show you can get it's likely that you can mess with the settings as described in this thread, all of them. and get better results. Takes some mucking about. Attached are a few shots from X9 files. Just a few tests done on the Spectre in my signature with just an Intel card. Not my best, have better on the other machine, but not bad just quick tests of the machine. It's running on a one year old driver since none of the actual drivers for it worked with PBR. I did not fuss with these much, very few added light sources, adjusted the sun down, they are using improved lighting. Very slow updating so if I added any lighting I did it in standard view then switched (yeah and no problem!!) Note that I worked on these with NO additional monitors connected-you might want to disconnect one to see?

In the camera defaults, also available in individual camera DBX

I'm not so sure that they knew a year ago. I can't say if I understood this correctly but I got the impression that PBR was came about something like the digital effects in Jurassic Park. In JP there were not supposed to be any digital dinosaurs but some guy down in the basement got into it and it happened. Talking with Chief folks at the show I got the impression it was something like that, also got the impression that there was one developer who was doing all the heavy lifting on it. Even if I'm way off on that PBR went through significant changes in each of the Beta releases with the largest change happening in the final release. I don't think they could get all the materials moving in the right direction until they knew what it was doing. In any case I have no doubt that much will be improved before X11 and that there will still be plenty to complain about too:)

Is this what you are after? Cabinet curvedand inside.plan

Front cabinet has openings at back to match front, Back cabinet copy reverse, change bow, change back from "match front" to custom and leave it alone, change front by deleting all layouts and making the front Blank. Place cabinets back to back, adjust depths as needed. I also changed the default separation on the "back caibnet" to 3/4"

Got it to work. Made an image just in case, then tied up with closing showroom, moving office--yadyadada... The 21.20.16.4542 that I could find did not offer the 620 card? Tried forcing the newest current driver- yuck. Then figure whatthe... and got hold of 21.20.16.4590 1/18/17. That worked at least so far. Only ran a quick test-snappier, no pixels in PBR, seams decent. Thanks guys.

Nice of you to say Mick. I believe the problem is that for say a trash pullout, Chief thinks it's a drawer. If it was something I really wanted I'd get the CAD block and insert it. Since that can't be blocked to the cabinet I'd be doing that only in finals. I don't show them nor do I want to. (I don't even like that drawer boxes show if I want to show doors). Even back when I floated these things on different layers to fake opening I hid them in plan. There is enough going on in a kitchen plan and just about nobody that matters (client, installer, even maker) knows what these look like in plan. I want them in the schedule so I can order properly, in the correct size cabinet, opening is "nice" since the clients like it. OTOH besides including correct labeling or codes for special inserts in whatever field I'm using for Mods I also note any inserts or accessories in plain English in the Comment field. Then include one separate plan with referenced macros, %Comment%, plain English that the client and installer can understand it. I save the ones I use in the library with a note to self for minimum maximum width.

I use base cabinets to make these. Framed, 0 separation, face and side are side panel inset, others are openings, all separations deleted.

Graham, take a look at comparisons of 980 and 1060. May be better where it counts, 989 Ti in particular, both cost more than the 1060 though.

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In older plans-I picked annoset/layerset, zoom to view you want, save plan view as. Repeat as needed.