Chrisb222

For the 3D I would just toss a ceiling plane and move on. If you want to show a cross section with framing or other, detail it out in CAD. Sometimes trying to bludgeon the parametric features into special situations just ain't worth all the squeezin.

Idk, it doesn't do that for me. It blinks for half a second but does not restart the PBR. Are you going to File > Export > Export Picture?

As far as I know, you can't narrow it down to a species and display that as a single report, but you can total the cost of everything combined. Set up your structural materials pricing in your template, and everything will calculate automatically. Go to Tools > Materials List > Structural Member Reporting... and then open your preferred reporting type, and enter the pricing for individual members. Then the Materials List will pull pricing from there and run out the totals for each member automatically. As far as I know, you can't narrow it down to a species and display that as a single report, but it will total the cost of everything combined. Plug "structural member reporting" into Help.

Why is someone running around the board posting AI replies to every topic question??

You're right, using the "Select tool, shift-drag" function on beams will also select posts. For this you want "Marquee Select Similar." Select one beam, then hit this button on the bottom Edit toolbar and drag-select: You can also use Match Properties in that same toolbar, but for this use case MSS is better.

The SP feature shown here looked like a poorly implemented, basically useless feature. Chief, PLEASE do not emulate this! But to add to my previous post, I used AI the other day to enhance a master bath scene and asked it to fix a couple of things that would've taken ages to fix in Chief, and add some bathroom stuff. I got a nice painting on the wall, a towel bar with a towel nicely draped, a little wastebasket, and a TP holder with TP... all for free, and fast! Ignoring this tech is just nuts I tell ya!

The debate is over. AI has gotten extremely better-- fast-- at everything regarding enhancing a basically instantaneous CA Standard or Vector Render, including not changing the architecture in most cases. And it will continue to improve. At the rate it's going I would guess by this summer it will be nearly foolproof to get exactly what you want the first time, even from the free sites. Speaking of free sites, I'd rather not see CA put one minute into developing a built-in AI generator like the SP one shown in the OP-- which doesn't seem to even give you the ability to prompt it-- unless doing so helps increase sales which helps the company stay in business which results in continuing improvements to the software that I DO want. Sure, I post-edit in an image editor, but that's because at this point it's still not perfect and I enjoy doing it. But for most people using this software it would be fine, and spending another second learning just the right way to hold my mouth while I wait for CA to churn out a PBR, hoping it's "good enough" and doesn't look as phony as mine always do, then spend time learning the lighting, settings, and masking techniques I've seen described here, and still not getting the "free" lighting enhancements and extra features like landscaping, wooded mountainous or waterfront backdrops, etc, added automatically.... it's just nuts to not use this technology. And I doubt many of us consider ourselves "rendering artists" or are trying to get into commercial rendering work. I'm also not looking to start a buggy whip manufacturing company, if you get my drift.

You might send it in to support, it might be a bug. I can't think of any reason anyone would want or expect the list to go bonkers like that.

Yes. It maintains "Used" as the sort method but reshuffles the order of the layers to some nonsense, because it's now not sorted alphabetically, by Displayed or by Locked.

Gemini is pretty good. ChatGPT is way better than it used to be so at this point they're similar in usability but different in interpretation. I just copy the prompt and send it to both. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other.

As far as I know the behavior you're seeing isn't new; that's always how auto roofs would handle that condition from what I remember. I went back to X12, which is the oldest version I have on this machine to test it and got the same results as you. Maybe someone else has a different answer...

The saddle is taking its height information from the ceiling height of the main room, which is lower than the addition. To fix this with Auto Roofs, create a small room under the saddle that is the same ceiling height as the room addition. Display Roof Planes and draw Room Divider walls directly aligned with the saddle: Open the little room and set its ceiling height to match the addition: This may cause undesired results with the interior of the building that will need to be addressed, like adding a manually drawn ceiling plane in the overall room, but this fixes the roof. It's interesting that even though the Room Divider walls no longer align with the saddle, it still works. There may be a better solution...?

This needs to be a Suggestion. Of course it's backwards, I use "move object" 99.99999% of the time. I use "move edge" zero%. And I don't think a macro will do it.

I agree, and that rendering looks fantastic. Do you send it out like that, or keep trying to get AI to fix it? I find that asking it to fix things repeatedly just keeps getting further from the goal. And if you send it like that, do you explain it was altered by AI?

Looks great. One of the best things AI does with exteriors is making the glass look so much more realistic.