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On 10/08/2018 at 9:46 PM, ShaneK said:

10 acre site plan with 33,000 sq ft building and designed in Chief and built by me.

That's my point, it's good at the technical stuff but there's no aesthetic element to Chief when it comes to planning documents.

20 hours ago, jcaffee said:

CA works for my style

That's really nice, but almost too detailed for the planners. Out of interest, how long did you ray trace for? And is there photoshop as well?

It seems I've caused a bit of confusion, so I'll add some images to demonstrate the kind of drawing that I need to do.

CA just isn't able to produce bird's eye view images of this quality.

Chief is good for 3D concept art and for interior renders, but for creating site maps it's terrible. What's a good software to use that isn't super expensive?

Thanks!!

11 hours ago, glennw said:

I usually find that occurs as a result of the floor platform building through the walls, commonly caused by either the main wall layer or the "build platform to" layer being designated incorrectly.

It's just a standard house that I want to turn into a symbol, in order to drop onto to various site plans. I just press the "build new floor" button when I've built the walls, so it shouldn't have different values.

19 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

When you print to PDF, those lines usually go away, or turn off floor joists in that camera view.

How do I turn those off?

Hi,

How do I hide the horizontal line that's showing where the upper floor is in the "line drawing view"? 

I've added an image so you can see what I mean.

Thanks.

I switch photon mapping on and it seems to have worked! The image is on pass 2 @2% but it shows that it worked. 

Out of interest, how long should each pass be taking? Or does that depend on the individual image?

Thanks for the help everyone.

The photon mapping box was unchecked, I've raised the sunlight to 20 and the Ambient occlusion to 5-10. Fingers crossed...

Update: It's done exactly the same thing, but it's brighter outside...

Hi,

I was using a very old, low-spec PC to test out CAX7 and started a ray trace which, naturally, turned out quite grainy. I have since bought a new PC, and while the image is much sharper, the light seems wrong for some reason; it's way darker than the previous (grainy) one. Is there a trick to getting the light in the dark room to match the light in the grainy room? I've attached pictures so you can see what I mean.

In short: I want the light to be like it is in "Grainy kitchen.PNG", but with the sharpness of "Dark kitchen.PNG" (which is somewhere between passes 5 & 6).

Thanks.

On 02/11/2017 at 6:05 AM, Chopsaw said:

Good Morning ED,  I am sure Skype would have been more fun but I made a video for you instead to watch while I am sleeping.

 

 

Give that a try but if it fails here is the library symbol that I made.  Hope that helps.

Waterfall Fixed.calibz

Mate that's amazing, thanks so much for making that video; I'll be trying that out right now.

Thanks again.

32 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

They did not make it difficult on purpose it is just not done very often and the tool is just a general tool.  And yes it could be much easier and likely is in other programs.   I will be free in about 5 hours and could make you a video or connect with you on Skype but I have another job to do right now.  The process will be as Michael describes at the end of the video for trimming the styles of a door.  Practice on a door and it should make sense as to how you could use that method on your symbol.

Very nice of you but I'll be in bed by then, plus I can draw lines on it anyway, as it doesn't show up in cross section view.

Thanks though.

12 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

Watch the video again and don't get frustrated.  This is a complicated procedure you are wanting to do.  The Trim tool will not work for this.  I will check back with you this evening if you genuinely can't figure it out.

I'm not frustrated, I just want to cut/shave/trim/whatever the edges of a 3D model, and I don't understand why they've made that so difficult.

6 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

It does not matter what camera you use to look at the object.  It is how you use the Uniform Stretch Zone controls for the symbol to carefully resize just the ends.  There is no button labeled trim.  If you want to do something big with one click just hit delete.

Something big with one what? That will delete the whole thing.

Also, I learned of the Trim button in the Chief Help Guide (image attached)

6 minutes ago, solver said:

 

The Edit Toolbar is context sensitive, so the trim tool will only appear when it's a valid operation.

But it's not anywhere, whether it's clickable or not.

3 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

Ok this is a bit of a guess as you are not providing a plan file but it looks like maybe you have imported some sort of a Symbol terrain feature that is set to "Insert Into Terrain Hole"

 

Unfortunately you can only get a square or rectangular terrain hole that way but because you also have an elevation difference with the Symbol it is more of a problem and you might be better to work the terrain a little in combination with a Customized "Terrain Hole" to try and make a good fit.  Simply trimming the Symbol will not solve the whole problem however it is possible using "Uniform Stretch Zones"

 

Here is a video that Michael made for that process on a Door but it is really the same thing:    

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZzdiUV8uo

 

That video doesn't apply as the cross section camera doesn't pick up the object I'm trying to trim.

I've added the file for you to look at, plus an image of the bits I want to cut off.

I still can't find the "trim" button.

Also, please add some punctuation in future replies, that was very hard to read.

Thanks.

Waterfalls.plan

I just want to do something like an "object break", if there is such a thing. At the moment it has a lot of protruding faces, and I want to shave those protrusions off to create a cuboid shape with six flat faces.

Once I have this, it will fit inside the terrain hole within the raised terrain region without any white gaps.

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm trying to trim an imported model so that it doesn't leave gaps in the terrain, but the trim button is hidden too well for me to find.

I've added the pictures of my issue so you can see what I want to avoid.

Thanks.

On 28/10/2017 at 11:02 PM, Alaskan_Son said:

 

In X7, the bump map settings are on the Properties tab.

Sorted, thanks everyone!!

X7

Hi,

I'm trying to create rippled water in a render but the option for bump mapping just doesn't exist.

Does anyone know why this might be?

Thanks

On 18/04/2017 at 6:13 AM, glennw said:

Have you tried 3D trees and plants?

I have, but it takes ages to process the surfaces, as our computers are awful.

Basically, I want some decent-looking trees and hedges that show up in a 3D bird's eye view. I don't want to use generic green spheres.

So... I should buy Vectorworks?