rlackore

You posted this same issue here, and I gave a response - possibly incorrect because you never replied. I proposed a railing with custom panels, but perhaps I didn't understand exactly what you were after. In the future I suggest keeping the discussion going within the same thread - it aids everyone who will try to help find a solution.

Download the X8 Reference Manual and go to page 508 "Curving Two Roof Planes". The instructions are simple. You don't need a room below - just draw the two roof planes, curve them for your barrel, then you can use the Join Roof Plane tools to automatically generate the intersection with the perpendicular roof plane. It's pretty easy:

My guess is that you're using a Floor Camera, which will not display the attic walls. Try using a Full Camera instead. Scott knows this - he helped me out with this exact issue a few years back.

Keep in mind I've never detailed a wood-framed commercial elevator hoistway - so maybe it's easy, but every commercial elevator I've dealt with was detailed by the manufacturer for concrete or steel landings, which provide a very rigid substrate for securing the guide rails (for the rollers, or wheels) and the landing entrance doors. Remember that the landing entrance doors are mounted to the interior face of the hoistway - sort of like Bill showed in post #2; in other words, they are not "pocketed" within the hoistway walls like you've shown. Again, this requires a very secure and rigid connection at the sill and the head. Also, because the shaft is a fire-rated assembly, detailing the jambs is important. I know wood-framed installations are gaining in popularity, but I'd definitely contact the elevator manufacturer to coordinate the design before you commit to a certain manufacturer, elevator model, or installation method.

Four stories or more will require a 2-hour rated shaft enclosure; 1-hour for less than four stories. Maybe Kelly figures the 2x4 shaft walls you're showing isn't adequate. There are plenty of UL assemblies that will give you what you need, but a 2-hour assembly will require extra finish layers, so the wall will get thicker. The shaft walls shouldn't be a huge issue; my thought is the devil will be in the guide-rail and entrance jamb details. But I've never done a commercial elevator in a wood-framed hoistway, so maybe it's easy.

Okay; so - a low-rise passenger elevator. In that case, Schindler will provide the landing doors, so you're good to go. If the hoistway is entirely wood-framed, you may want to check with Schindler about securing the guide rails at the floor levels and roof - lots of elevator specs require steel or concrete for that purpose.

Is your status bar turned on?

Here is how you save as a tiff: You can also specify the file type when saving a raytraced image using the Export Picture button.

Graham, it appears there is no whiskey in your glass. Can you achieve the same raytrace results with a couple fingers of whiskey in the glass?

I assume this is residential, because the shaftway walls appear to be wood frame. Keep in mind that most residential elevator manufacturers don't provide the landing doors, and I'm not aware of any residential door interlock that works with a sliding, bi-parting, or pocket door - they are for swing doors only.

I'm not aware of any residential door interlock that works with any door type other than a swing door. Of course, I'm assuming this is a residential application.

I'm usually not excited about more cabinet improvements, but I have to admit that these new features are definite improvements that I will find useful.

Here are some: Of course, the quality of the texture is a direct result of the quality of the image used for input.

Yes. If you center the door then you won't be able to open it fully. Chief forces the door into a position that will provide a deep enough pocket when the door is fully open.

I agree - physical samples should suffice. I once presented an architectural rendering to an Urban Design Commission, and there was one commissioner who got completely bent out of shape because the trees and bushes weren't the exact species and varieties that were listed in the plant schedule. Eventually the project was approved; then the economy tanked and the developer lost their financing.

Do you know the manufacturer and blend?

Gimp is a great tool, and I've used it for years. However, I'd like to put a plug in for PixPlant - it's the easiest, fastest method I've found for creating seamless textures. It will quickly output diffuse, displacement, normal and specular maps from an imported image (or pasted from the clipboard). It's easy to learn (took me about 3 minutes to figure out the basics) and not terribly expensive.

If you use Windows, the download link is here. The Acme Masonry Designer is an excellent tool and includes products from Acme Brick, Featherlite Blocks, Hill Country Stone, Cordillera Stone, town Square, Fast Track Stone, Elgin Butler, Cherokee Brick, Forterra, Old Carolina, Palmetto, Pine Hall, Ragland Clay, and Sioux City. It lets you build all kinds of coursings with your choice of mortar colors, then save the image for using in a material definition.

Those are some nice additions.

Draw a Railing and use a custom Panel:

There's a chance that the Room Specification>Materials>Room>Walls material is no longer using the Default. For instance, here is the dbx for a room that is using the Default material. Notice that the Walls material is set to use the Default: Now I plop in my glass shower wall. The glass material shows properly because the Room is still using the Default material for walls, and the glass shower wall has material definitions that over-ride the Default. Note that in the Room dbx the Walls material reads "No Change", indicating that there are walls in the Room that are using different materials. It's also possible that it may still indicate the Default is being used. Either way, the enclosing walls are drywall, and the shower wall is glass: If at some point in the design the Room must have been defined to use a specific material (as Joe mentioned, probably with the Eyedropper/Painter tool), not the Default, then all walls will show up with that specific material. In this example I've changed the walls to "Brick." So, even though my glass shower wall is defined to use Glass, the new Room wall material will over-ride it: To fix this, open the Room dbx and change the Wall material to "Use Default".

I don't believe one exists.

Window Schedule dbx>Label>Additional Text>Include Schedule Number

Personally I'm really excited about the new block management features, and the ability to reorganize layout pages in the project browser; I recognized both these as feature requests from the Suggestion Forum.

Usually when I experience things showing up as black (when they aren't supposed to) is if an object is assigned one of Chief's Predefined Metal materials and I haven't turned on Photon Mapping. I don't imagine your light bulbs are assigned that kind of material definition, but it may be worth a look. If you post the plan we could give you a better answer.