Chrisb222

Yeah, well no one except you and alaskan son brought up the "concept" of accepting errors for the sake of using AI. Thanks for the apology.

Then the answer is yes, of course I care.

I've tried being super explicit with instructions to not alter the building, without success... so far. I have however started pasting a chief rendered house onto an AI terrain, with fairly good success. I think the grass, plants, and trees just look fantastic. AND the building is correct!!

System obsolescence is a real thing, always has been, but another thing we might be missing is that new potential users are emerging all the time. We might tend to think we are all there will ever be, when people of all ages will continue to enter this industry.

Thanks Steve. I was just going to not respond to that since I like to keep positive energy here, and couldn't tell if it was sarcasm, humor, or a serious question. It seemed obvious to me that I was showing the Chat image simply to illustrate a desired aesthetic - I even indicated it was altered architecture... who would want that?? I guess I have a blind eye and lack human intelligence. At any rate, it was really surprising people would think I was actually willing to sacrifice model accuracy for a pleasing rendering. Whatever, but thanks for the support.

I believe you're seeing "Z-fighting" - when underlying elements are competing for visibility - caused by your siding being only 1/2" thick, allowing other layer elements to show at the surface. If you make the siding layer 1" it goes away, as seen in this before and after of the same exact view: Before: After: I'm not suggesting you make your siding thicker, I'm just saying what's happening. I deal with it too.

Your file is empty, probably because you had Chief open when you zipped it. Close Chief then zip/attach.

Wholeheartedly agree. If Chief could produce a render as nice and fast as AI (on a Mac, tyvm), I would welcome a rendering upgrade. Otherwise, yes please just focus on fixing the lacking parametric objects, and giving us better tools for drawing plans and construction docs. CA Standard Render, 1s: CA CPU Ray Trace, 15 passes, 2:09m: (I prefer CPU RT because it shows nice shadows of 2D plants) CA GPU RT Ray Trace, 100 samples, 46s: ChatGPT Enhancement, 2:41m during heavy demand time (altered architecture): THAT ^ kind of rendering enhancement I would welcome. Otherwise, more meat and potatoes, please.

Chief calculates the minimum RO by adding the door size + jamb. If this total. is greater than the mfr RO spec, it bumps RO up to that total. It's a workaround, but you can turn off door jambs to control your RO based on mfr specs. Or reduce the door size by the amount of the jamb thickness, which throws off other stuff... If your door size + jamb is less than the specified RO, it's not a problem. But this should be fixed by allowing us to specify a door nominal size, and an actual door measurement. Or allowing us to override the minimum. I know, it's a Chief Thang™

Main difference, among others, standard text style, size, and color can be controlled by layer, allowing different styles for different plan views.

Yes, in the SPV Edit Active View dialog settings: The Pony Wall must be set to "Use Default":

Same! Study this Suggestion thread for an in-depth analysis of pretty much all issues involving your question. It will help you tremendously:

You can get very close to #2. Select one door, then all doors in the plan using Match Properties, and set the 3D Display to Show Open: Then go to: 3D > Create Orthographic View > Orthographic Full Overview 3D > View Direction > Top View 3D > Rendering Techniques > Hand Drawn Lines 3D > Camera View Options > Cross Section Slider Check the top option and set the cut to around 60" or wherever you see the door header cropped out, so the doors look right: Send this to layout, Live View > Update on Demand Return to the floor plan, and turn off all layers except Room Labels and Rooms, Interior Dimensions: Send this to layout and position in place over the previously sent view: Voila!

You may have to hit the Make Room Molding Poyline edit toolbar button, and edit that section manually.

OMG WHY do we not have this???

None of that is useful whatsoever for me. Water animation? Seriously?!? Fix the stair tool.

I haven't downloaded X17 yet but there seems to be something amiss in your settings. I use the tool all the time and have none of these issues.

In 2D CAD Detail, you can use your break line as the end of the "slab" ploy line, then extend lines out. On a Plan View or when working with Objects, I copy/paste the break line, then add lines to create a closed poly line I can then fill white, and turn off the line, so it covers the part I want hidden. Then "bring to front" the original line so it's not also partially hidden. If I'm going to use it again, I block it and save to my library

Not an automatic fix, and maybe not the best method, but I tend to favor fast fixes that don't break anything else. This took about 2 minutes including studying the model to see what's what - the structural is correct so it was just a matter of getting the frieze to cooperate. I moved the frieze on that roof plane out 4", then manually modified the returns: 69204-23E CB.plan.zip ================== PS just looking quickly, it seems you're not fully leveraging Saved Plan Views. At a minimum, set the default floor level for SPVs where that matters and where it can can save a few clicks. Eg, if I'm on my foundation view, and I switch to Roof Planes, I want the SPV to move me to the roof level.

When I open your upper pony wall and Copy the wall type, and change the shingle layer to .875 but change nothing else, it does not move the main layer. Not sure why that's happening, seems like a bug, but I would simply create the new wall type, change all the exterior walls to use the new type, and move on with life. "It's a Chief Thang"™

Easily done, once you understand how it works. Difficult to explain in a few lines, here's some homework for you: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03185/understanding-saved-plan-views.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00765/understanding-layer-sets.html

Turn off Grid Snaps: Or, you can edit the Grid Snaps settings here: There is also a toolbar toggle button for Grid Snaps on/off.

You have to change it for every window already placed in the plan. Multi-select works if you select all single windows at once and change their labels, then select all mulled windows at once and change theirs. You can't change labels if you select single with mulled. Then if this is what you always want, just add that label to your default window and it will work for singles and mulled.