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Hi,

I'm having an issue when running a straight terrain hole through a raised region modifier; sometimes the skirt is visible (which is what I want) and sometimes it's just a white gap.

I've right clicked on both and compared ALL settings, and there's no difference I can see.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Basically, the top half of the staircase goes through the living room on it's way up, and I don't want people's feet to be visible when they're on the stairs. The area im red is what I want hidden.

Thanks,

It looks like that sink may be over multiple cabinets.

It is, it's the only way to get doors underneath it. Otherwise you have to stretch out one cabinet so that the door it 2m wide, which would be highly impractical for a real house.

Hi,

How do I turn the banisters etc. on a staircase into a solid wall? I want the space underneath the stairs to be open, but not the top.

Thanks.

Post the plan so we can take a look.

Here you go:

Attached - all from the library, no changes made. Maybe heed the adivce of others.

Why else would I be posting a question on a forum, if not to "heed the advice of others"?

There is at least one sink in the library that don't cut a hole in the counter correctly.  Try a different sink.

I've tried lots of sinks, it does it with all of them. You'd think they'd test these things before releasing software.

Did you get the sink from Chief's library or bring it in from another source?

It's from the main CA library, and it's still doing it.

Hi,

I'm having trouble adding kitchen sinks; in the floor camera view the counter-top shows through the sink. The only way I can stop this is to stretch out the whole cabinet so it's one long unit, but then both the doors are about 1.5m each. 

I've tried changing the height, but it just takes the cabinet with it. 

Is there a way around this, or am I going to have to have 4ft. wide doors in all of my cabinets?

Thanks

Fair enough, I only ask because a lot of the "face me" items on 3d warehouse don't actually work. I'm doing a couple of brochures at home, so I have to manually turn each foxglove to face the camera.

Hi,

I'm trying to get some of the flower images to sit on the roof, like I can do with symbols. So; is there anyway, apart from changing the "height from floor" on each item, that I can either:

1) Get the image/object (look up Papaver Oriental in the core catalogue) to "sit on roof", such as a symbol can or,

2) Convert the flower image to a symbol, so I can then change its setting to "sits on roof"

Thanks everybody,

Ed 

Have you tried looking at Chief's Bonus 3D plant library's?...I'm fairly certain they have a whole library dedicated to 3D plants...

I don't think we got a bonus library, if we did it's not here (I'm working from home on a crappy desktop) I'm using a trial copy. Is there somewhere I can download it from?

Is there any way to do this for .skp files? I have some foxgloves which don't face the camera automatically.

Xfrog is a company. It's employees expect a paycheck. Most of their assets are used by professionals for commercial work that generates income. Have you EVER tried to model a flower or a tree? Not easy - though you could use Xfrog's excellent software for windows, only US $190, and create your own. If you monitor Xfrog's site they will periodically offer even more free stuff. Get on their mailing list if you want to be emailed offers. And I would assert that if you can invest US $2700 in Chief Premier, then you can afford US $169 for a flower bundle.

Not if it was your very LAST $2,700...plus my boss is too stingy to buy anything else.

This is obviously very subjective.  Maybe you should try making those 3D flowers and see what its worth to you to create them. 

I get that, it's not like they're conjured out of thin air. I just think that once the work is done, it's done: if it's £100, ten people might buy it, but if it's £1 then thousands of people might buy it. It's not like they're drawing it to order.

If you don't have any drafting or modeling experience, some terms can be confusing. Terms vary between software programs and professional disciplines.

A profile is a representation of an object in outline represented or seen in a side view.

A section is the profile of something as it would appear if cut through by an intersecting plane.

Draw something in Chief. Literally anything with three dimensions: a wall, a slab, terrain - insert a symbol - whatever. Draw a wall and insert a window:

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Now cut a section through the wall at the window using Chief's Cross Section/Elevation tool:

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The Cross Section/Elevation view will automatically open. You are now looking at a section through the wall and window.

To model a skate park ramp start with a blank plan. Use the Cross Section/Elevation tool to open a Cross Section/Elevation window. Don't worry that there is nothing visible - all you're actually doing is asking Chief to create a window that allows you to draw on an x/y-z plane. Now use the CAD tools to draw the profile of the ramp, just like I did here:

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Be sure that the profile is a closed polyline - in other words all the vertices need to be joined to form a closed loop - no open ends allowed. Now select the profile, click the Convert Polyline tool icon, and select Polyline Solid in the Convert Polyline dialog box:

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When the Polyline Solid Specification dialog box pops up you can change the properties. Use the Thickness setting to set the width of the ramp:

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Click OK to close the dialog box, shoot an Orthographic Full Overview, and admire your new ramp (use the All On layerset to make sure the ramp's layer is turned on):

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Once you understand the basic concepts it's a simple matter to create profile sections in Chief using the CAD tools; then give the profile section depth by converting it to a Polyline Solid. If you're still having trouble do a Google search - there's plenty of information out there. Have you downloaded and read the Chief Reference Manual? It has many topics that can help you understand the steps I've described above. I hope this helps - there isn't much more I can do to explain the process.

That was a MASSIVE help, thanks mate, I really appreciate it; you write as if you teach a lot of people.

They've only got 3 free flowers on their whole site, and one of those is 2d. Everything else they want WAY too much money.

All we're referring to is a closed polyline that describes the profile of the shape in a section view. For instance, to create the skate park sections in this picture:

 

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...I opened a Cross Section/Elevation view and created these two closed polyline section profiles:

 

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...then converted them to Polyline Solids.

I didn't understand any of that, what IS a profile section?

Don't confuse Primitives with Polyline Solids. You can create all kinds of shapes with Polyline Solids - simply draw a section profile, then convert it to a Polyline Solid:

 

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The Reference Manual covers Polyline Solids starting on page 776.

 

EDIT: When building the skate park elements be sure to create the section profiles in an elevation view.

I'm sure I'll get you all yelling at your screens for this, but; what's a section profile?

This was an other difficult assignment and still remains to be so, until some one comes up with a true solution for all scenarios. But for simple roofs like this, I have run through my workflow department and got satisfactory result.

That's a bit more like what I'm after; is that terrain on the roof? If so, how did you do that?

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

Do any of you know a good place to get 3d plants & flowers? Most of the 3D warehouse offerings are 2D, and the other sites don't seem to be much better. 

I'm mainly after UK wildflowers (very niche, I know), and I've got no budget either, so they need to be free.

Tall order, but I'm hopeful

Thanks,

Ed

Ed,

 

Post some pics of what you want.  I'll try to make something that will approximate that in 3D.

That's really kind of you mate, but I'm after about 20-30 different species, so don't worry, you'll go blind otherwise!!

As for the distribution thing, I didn't even understand the help section, it was all Greek to me.

You could try some simple 3D Plants, of use a few solids to simulate plants and convert those to symbols.  Try to keep the face count down, but remember that a "distributed object" will not be too bad because Chief uses "instancing" for multiple copies.

 

Chief has both Plant Images and 3D Plants.The problem is Chief has loads of plant images, but hardly any symbols. I'm after specific species, but there's nowhere online that does any real selections. I've just typed in "poppy" into 3D Warehouse and all I got were war memorials.

OK, so:

 

Select a Plant, then click on the little chair on the Edit Toolbar.  That will open the Symbol dbx.

Select Options and click on "Sits on Roof".

 

Open Help and enter "Distribution Region" to learn about this tool.

 

You are obviously new to Chief and need to do some studying to learn some of the features that are available.  The F1 key is your friend.

I am very new indeed, but I'm slightly familiar with the "open symbol" key. The issue is that that option doesn't come up for the flowers, as they're images not symbols. I even tried sticking 2 flowers together to create a new symbol, but it wasn't having any of it.

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