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I've discovered that if I send the view at No Scale, the problem goes away. But at No Scale the view is too small, and there is no way to adjust it:

I had this problem in X9, and it persists in X10. Here's an ortho view in Plan: I send it to Layout as a Live View>Update on Demand: Here is the view on my Layout page: When I update the Live View, each successive update shifts the view left-and-up until it disappears from the Layout Box: I've saved the Camera, so I don't understand why this happens. If anyone has some insight, I'd appreciate the help.

Rene is correct - Chief hasn't implemented queue management for farming out raytracing.

I regret that none of my posts has actually addressed the OP's question. Joey, your graphics card is a bit underwhelming to be running Chief. Quadro cards are less than ideal - and the M2000M is mid-range at best. When my office made the switch from AutoCAD products to Chief we were using desktop workstations with very expensive Quadro cards, and their performance with Chief was poor. Now we buy custom gaming rigs and everything is golden.

He has different Youtube channels. Originally he made "joke" videos (like the ones DJP posted) on his ThioJoe channel to garner clicks and revenue. Then he branched out to do serious tech reviews on his ThioJoeTech channel. Now he's rolling his TioJoeTech content into his ThioJoe channel - so it will be even more difficult for people to discern between his "joke" videos and real tech reviews. IMO he's a jacka**. But hey, it's a free internet, right?

Here you go: ThioJoe Is Fake. Straight from the horse's mouth.

DJP, I have to disagree. Several of this dude's videos are complete BS and following his advice can lead to seriously messing up your system. All you have to do is read the description below the videos: ...or just read the comments sections.

I think Chief will work fine. Important things: 1) Set up your wall definitions appropriately. I don't know what kind of insulation values you need in Florida, but here's an exterior wall with exterior continuous insulation, filled CMU cores, and interior steel stud furring: Interior walls can also be defined to use steel stud sizes and materials. 2) Do you use slabs-on-grade for residential in Florida? If so, set up your foundation defaults appropriately: 3) Define your room structure for CMU nominal wall heights and a slab foundation: 4) Set up your framing defaults, such as floor and roof beams: 5) Set your lower story exterior walls to hang the floor framing: These very basic settings can start to get you there: There are lots of other settings to tweak, but these are some of the basics. Then draw the house using a standard Chief workflow and you'll discover what else needs to be done. And as Johnny mentioned, you'll always need to utilize some workarounds and CAD details, just like stick framed homes.

You also need a Ceiling Plane - I can't find one in your plan file. Once you define a depth for the Structure (any depth really, it shouldn't matter), use the Ceiling Plane to control the actual depth of the trusses. Then Chief should draw a truss for you:

You need to define a depth for the roof structure in Roof Plane Specification>Structure>Roof Layers>Structure. The roof plane in your drawing has this set at 0". Chief won't draw a 0" deep roof truss.

I would send the architect's CAD operator one of your finished plans as an example, and ask them to send you a CAD file with only the type of information shown on your plan. That should allow them to NOT export all the layers of stuff that you don't need. But that's a lot more work for them, and they may be resistant to the idea.

I suggested a fix to this a while ago, right here. I guess they didn't fix it in X10. I agree with you, if the walls on both sides are defined as Furred Walls, then the opening should recognize them both.

Go Through Floor Below seems to help:

Yes, the head began as a download from Lithonia, was cleaned up in SketchUp, then imported into Chief. Not all Lithonia products have an available download, but many do.

They should import - don't know why they wouldn't. Here are their names:

Here is my HardiePanel stuff: HardiePanel.calibz Smooth - Stucco - Cedarmill The diffuse maps are grayscale, so you can easily apply colors. The 4x8 panel is created with a bump map, and the texture with a normal map. Not perfect, but not horrible.

I don't believe that CA has a suitable automated tool. I suggest either a Polyline Solid, or a Custom Countertop. There are many ways to create what you want. You can look them up in the X9 Reference Manual available here.

Firstly, the view is flat - shot straight on to the front elevation - so it can be difficult to stage. The color palette is also challenging. Here's my brief attempt: Most of my changes were focused on getting light and shadow to work for you: 1. I added accent bands to the stucco (what I assume is stucco). 2. I fattened the stucco thickness by 1/2" and carried the wall materials around to the side walls. 3. Lots of material adjustments. 4. 3D shrubbery and trees. 5. I made the wall caps wider. 6. Selected garage door panels that have a realistic profile. 7. Select a background and adjust the camera and site materials appropriately. 8. Raytrace with ambient occlusion, environment light, photons, and focal blur. Good luck.

I'm still on X9, but maybe X10 still has the Merge button in the Plan Materials dbx?

I think the relevant point is that my 12 line pattern file isn't missing anything - it functions perfectly in AutoDesk products, and AutoDesk developed the format. I have several pattern files that work fine in AutoDesk applications but fail in Chief. Whether CA farmed out the "pattern interpreter" work, or licensed a snippet of code, I don't know - but the problem is clearly on their end. ; ; French Limestone by rlansing ; *FRALIME, French Limestone 0, 0,0, 0,48, -16,24,8 0, 0,8, 0,48, 16,-24,8 0, 0,16, 0,48, -8,32,-8 0, 0,24, 0,48, 8,-16,24 0, 0,32, 0,48, -8,24,-16 0, 0,40, 0,48, 16,-32 90, 0,0, 0,48, 8,-16,24 90, 8,0, 0,48, -8,32,-8 90, 16,0, 0,48, 16,-16,16 90, 24,0, 0,48, -16,16,-16 90, 32,0, 0,48, -24,24 90, 40,0, 0,48, 24,-24

Awesome, though it should only take 12 lines. When I submitted a tech ticket with this issue I was told that nobody at Chief understands how pattern files are written, so I guess we can't expect them to troubleshoot or fix the issue.

Does Drawing Sheet Setup allow you to revert to the previous settings?

My preferred method (as a long time AutoDesk operator): 1. In Plan, turn on the Layerset for the view you'd like to export. Make sure it's displaying everything you want to export. 2. Select File>Export>Export Current View (DWG,DXF)... 3. In the Export Drawing dialog box, you have important choices: a. Compatible Version. Make sure you select a version that the architect can import (ask him what version/flavor of AutoDesk software they are using). b. Layer Options. - Select the Layer Set you've tweaked to display what you want to export (this was step 1). - DO NOT select Split Wall Assemblies Into Layers. This option creates an unholy mess for the CAD operator. - Select Export Only Displayed Layers. c. Other Options. - Scaling Unit should be inches for sharing with an architect. - Select Create Associative Dimensions. - DO NOT select Export Pattern Lines. This is another unholy mess. - DO NOT select Export Filled Areas. Yet another mess. - Select Export AutoCAD Index Colors. This is probably the single most important option. Absolutely do not forget to select this option. 4. Click on Export, etc. Done.

According to the OP's first post, Wall Coverings is what she is trying. If you use a Wall Covering for each individual element (including the mosaic strips), you have to create a separate material for each element to control the pattern/texture origin (making sure to account for the thickness of the finish floor) - and that's a lot of work. But, if it's important enough, it can be done, and works well with openings:

Yes, sure. And there are more important issues Chief needs to fix, but in the quest for an accurate model, a window sill should be modeled with reasonable accuracy. The wall opening that is cut should be based off the cross-section of the sill profile - not the sill profile's bounding box. (There are several instances where Chief gets lazy and uses bounding boxes to determine things instead of the actual geometry of the object).