Chrisb222

Do you mean CPU ray trace? If so yeah it's gone. From X17 Help:

You should be able to control that by simply assigning to layers, eg: Washer on "Layer X" color gray, line 10, Dryer on "Layer Y" color black, line 30

The same way. You may have to create new layers to separate the walls onto, unless you already have multiple wall layers in your plan.

Your glass wall is connecting to the wall behind the wall material region, and the edge is buried under the tile: In plan view, place a Room Divider (Invisible) wall along the face of the tile, and pull the glass wall out to snap to it. This will connect the shower "room" to the rest of the bathroom - if you want to define the shower as a separate room, turn the room divider wall 90° to connect with the tile wall. I pulled the room divider wall out to the left more than needed for illustration:

Wall types, other than Foundation Walls, by default, are assigned to the Walls, Normal layer when created. However you can assign them to a custom layer after they're drawn, and then control the fill color through that custom layer. You can also set up custom layers for the wall types listed in Defaults > Walls, which those walls will then default to when created.

Yes, as Shane said just right click and copy the layer, rename. Then you want to do a couple of things to get your clouds on the new layer. If you already have a bunch of clouds, you can group select and open, then change their layer in the Line Style tab, but that only works for the sheet you're on; go to the next sheet and repeat. If you have clouds on multiple sheets, you can also use the Layer Painter tool to go around and change them individually without opening their dialog; the tool will stay active even when changes sheets, so you only have to set the tool once to go around your layout and change all the clouds.: If you want to have future clouds go to your new layer, set that up in Defaults:

The @solveraccount here seems to have been deleted. His last post on Hometalk was February 4, last visited June 3. https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/profile/171-solver/content/ As his participation tapered off he would often delete his posts here in Chieftalk, not sure why.

The cool groovy part is how nice they look aesthetically, and how fast and easy it is. No one wants the architecture and building features changed, or a sidewalk for a driveway. But the images are very nice; just compare your AI image to your Chief image. But yeah that's the problem- so far it can't maintain building accuracy. At least not the free versions I've tried.

Yep

Try this: ^^ Set the Newel Width to whatever you want the spacing between the deck boards. ^^ Bottom Rail Width should match your ramp width, and Horiz. Offset should be half that. ^^ You will likely need to rotate the Azek material

When you find them please send my way. Haha I'm certainly no expert but the best "luck" I've had with this type of problem is using Elevation Lines across the slope at descending levels, and as often as needed to make it smooth. Here's an example. I drew one elevation Line at 1" below the upper level of the terrain, with additional elevation lines added using the Multiple Copy tool: .... at 6" intervals, and holding the copies to follow the angled wall. Then each line was set with 1" descending elevations, for a total lowering of 50". I'm sure you need something different, but this is how I would approach it - in your case, take the elevation at the top, and at the bottom, and use one Elevation Line for each inch of drop difference. (Example X16 file attached): Terrain Slope.plan

I know, that's why you set the material to something invisible like insulation air gap. Then the roof decking is visible.

You have "Soffits" unchecked in the Roof Plane dialog, causing the program to clip the siding at the rafter level. I got it to build siding to near the roof: Before: After: Turn Soffits back on and set to 1/2", then go into Materials and set Soffits to "Insulation Air Gap:

Hard to say without looking at the plan file. Can you post it? Yes. File > Export > Export Layer Sets...

And if you're reading this and would like CPU ray tracing back, please add your support to this thread:

Same here. I can't imagine why it would just be axed, unless something about the new version made it too difficult to continue with it. Maybe add you support to the Suggestion thread I posted... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/46318-please-restore-cpu-ray-tracing/

You probably have "Automatically regenerate deck framing" unchecked in the Deck room dialog. Check the box and the decking will follow the railing.... and also regenerate all of the deck framing.

I still say this is Z fighting. You can even see it from the inside using a vector view. It's happening where the main wall and attic wall of the vaulted room meet. It disappears when you zoom in, and doesn't show in other view types. Again, Z fighting like this will occur in vector views when you're some distance from the model. Zoom in and it goes away. Not sure what elements appear in every case, but yes, something under the siding. Vector views are tasked with rendering the model using solid lines to outline the edges of objects and elements in the model. All of the objects in the model, whether seen or unseen, have lines drawn on their edges, but normally you just won't see them if they're covered by something else in front of them. My guess is that in this case, as the camera moves away from the model the siding thickness becomes minuscule in relation to the field of view, causing the software to "see" the siding and underlying elements as occupying the same planar surface. Or close enough to no longer render correctly. Right?

If you mean a floor framing view, I do that with a reference display, since the main floor framing is actually on level 0. I don't typically concern myself with sinks since they don't penetrate the floor structure in any certain spot, and are not usually impacted by floor joist locations - just toilets, tubs and showers. Toilets tubs and shower drains go on their own layer, "fixtures - visible below" and then displayed via reference floor display on level 0 - with a special line style and color. If you mean something else, please clarify.

Ah, shame

Haha, lately he's been taking the vids down pretty quick, I missed this one.

No.

This prompted me to experiment on the Mac, and I discovered I can leave my preferred setting of "Create New Line" for Return or Enter, and use Option+Enter to close the text dialog. Option+Return does nothing. This is helpful. I like "Create New Line" for Enter normally, but don't like mousing to the OK button. I couldn't find anything in Help that mentioned this, so just putting it out here...

I guess you mean exterior railing? Those will always draw on the same level as the structure's walls, at a level directly above the structure's subfloor. Right, that's how it should work. What are you trying to accomplish?

Go into Preferences and under Text uncheck "Create New Line." You then use Shift+Return to create a new line.