Chrisb222

The shutters are arched in X12 and X14. In X15 the tops are square.

Yes, and I will never stop.

I simply customize the list for my template plan. Once and done.

The railing wall can also have an actual railing if you choose. It will be centered on the wall in X14:

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm pretty sure I can do that all auto, without having to draw a slab.

You can offset the railing and beam by making the main layer of the railing wall thickness the same as the pedestal base. This will also move the foundation wall out where it should be, if you have auto rebuild foundations turned on. I achieve the 1-1/2" overhang by using interior and exterior 1-1/2" concrete layers in the railing wall definition. This is all auto, X14 (except the columns): The plan view will look like crap, but that's why I wish they would give us line display control over railings the same as normal walls. For that, I turn off the railing layer and use CAD.

But it shouldn't be happening in Rich Text. I was able to recreate this anomaly. I think you've discovered a bug in the software, please send in to tech support.

Yay!!

Hi Steve, it doesn't matter to me either since I do zero PBRs, and only few ray traces, and CPU RT works just fine for me, and rather fast now on the M1. My understanding, in a nutshell, is that "real time" RT can only happen that fast on a dedicated GPU, no matter what software. The RTX et al cards are specific hardware just for super-accelerated graphics, and the PC platform is designed to harness this technology whereas the MacOS is not. Apple seems to want everything to happen on their dedicated ARM chip, and to not utilize third-party GPUs. Can the Mac architecture perform a PBR RT? Yes, as has been my hunch for some time. My post was simply to highlight that CA implicitly stated that the Mac can perform PBR RT, just not at a speed that's commensurate with labeling it "Real Time." As they said, it was a business decision. I don't necessarily think it was a bad decision, or the wrong decision, but suffice it to say they arbitrarily defeated the feature for Macs and any older PCs, so they could label it "real time." I've suspected this for some time, but it's interesting to know it's true. That's all. If CA unlocked PBR RT for the Mac, I suspect those $5k macs could do it fairly quick, maybe faster than the current CPU RT. But that's just a guess, and again, it doesn't really affect me and of course, CA has every right to do whatever they feel is in their best interest. BTW, I don't think I ever told you directly, but you provide some really great instructional videos here, and you have a great presentation style. Thanks!

No!! Stick with it! This works just like you want it to, I've been doing it for years. You just don't have the settings right yet. Go into the individual walls and change them back to default, you already changed them once, change them back. That's all you're missing.

Please send any glitches to tech support, that's what the public beta phase is for. Thanks

Just to add, in X12 if you want to use the Cross Section Slider with a Vector View appearance, you can use Watercolor technique with Line Drawing on Top w/settings as shown: Then Toggle Textures OFF. With X14 and later, you can also do similar with Standard render, but it appears you cannot toggle the textures off. Not sure why that tool was removed, I never noticed until now.

You still have to do as Michael said and change the Wall Specification back to "Use Default." I made the changes to your plan as he suggested, and it worked as you want it to. Be sure to Save the changes to the SPVs after changing the settings.

So my hunch has been correct all along. Basically any computer capable of running X15 can perform PBR ray tracing, it's just that some cannot do so in "real time." (Even though real time is a misnomer, since even RTX cards are not performing in "real time.") But, those cards are fast enough to get away with using "real time" as a marketing term, which is a buzz word in the industry right now. So the feature has been disabled in systems that perform under a certain threshold, in order to be able to leverage the buzzwords. Chief Architect: This doesn't mean it's impossible to perform ray tracing on Apple hardware, but it does mean it will do so much more slowly than other hardware.....It's a complex business decision

They will. Something is wrong in your settings. Did you exactly follow Michael's instructions?

The "style" that is being "un-overridden" by not checking the boxes, is the style of the object in its natural state, which is defined by layer and object settings.

Yes, those checkboxes are "on/off buttons." As you can see when you first open the camera DBX, there is no effect applied to the below grade lines until you "turn on" the feature by checking the box(es).

I don't have any advice for you except I build it in Chief the same way I do in real life, a wall cabinet with side panels on either side. There was a thread on that same question recently, but I'm not at my computer now.

To further on the above, it extends the dimension string to the next dimensional object(s), while retaining the last marker it's pulled from.

You're welcome! I was a long time Photoshop user in another life, and yes, it's quite different.

I use Gimp. https://www.gimp.org/

Simply delete the "bad" roof plane, select the "good" plane and hit Copy/Paste: then click the Reflect About Object tool, reflect the new plane centering it on the building (I will sometimes use CAD objects to center to, if having difficulty getting the alignment location): Finally, select one of the planes at the ridge edge, and use the Join Roof Planes tool to properly join the planes by clicking the ridge edge of the other plane. I like to drag the ridge edges away from the center first, if they are touching, just to make sure the program is doing the Join properly:

The attachment is empty. You have to close Chief Architect before zipping the file. If the file is under the size limit (14MB) you don't need to zip it.

From the part I bolded, it seems you're wanting the layout to pull client info from the plan file. If so, it won't do that. So yes, for the macro in layout to pull the client info, you have to enter it in the layout file. That's the same now (X15) as it was in X14. Generally, people don't often enter the client info in the plan file because it usually doesn't get used there, and it doesn't populate from plan to layout and vice versa. X15 introduced a new feature where Client info can be stored in global Preferences and thereby accessed for all new plan and layout files, but it seems that would only be useful if you are making new plans for a regular client often. In that case I would just create a custom template for that client, but perhaps others are aware of another use for this feature.

I noticed they stopped showing the version in the videos a while back, I guess so the videos don't "age" like they used to. In other words, when you can see that a video was made using say X9, it makes the video seem out of date.... which it is. But it would be a gargantuan task for Chief to redo every video each time a new version is released, and some of them don't need remade. The problem there is that some of the older videos show options that have been removed, and don't show features that have been added. It's a darned if you do, darned if you don't kinda situation. Out of curiosity I checked a few training videos and the oldest I found with the version number shown was X9, the newest was X13. So I guess they stopped showing the version with X14.