Chrisb222

Nothing, the program is showing the terrain as it exists at the elevation cut line and beyond. I have never (seldom, should say) been able to get automatic terrain lines to show how I want in elevation. I turn them off and use CAD.

The current rental program now allows you to start and stop - and restart - whenever you want. A post by CA earlier in this thread mentioned that will still be an option going forward into the new pricing plans.

As I understand the terms as they stand at this point in time, yes, he will receive a "perpetual" license upon completing the rental agreement. See the FAQs linked elsewhere in this thread. That being said, I personally am not counting on "perpetual" being - until the end of time.

As @MPDesign explained directly above this post, select the Room and hit the Make Room Molding Polyline button (also explained by @TeaTime in Post 3), and choose the crown molding. THEN select the new Molding Polyline created, and hit the Add Break tool: Add TWO breaks to the Molding Polyline, and adjust accordingly:

For me personally (small design/builder 5-6 houses/yr) I will probably eventually drop out of SSA. Partly due to this change, but also because I very rarely use it for support, and I'm looking to move 3D client models to TM. SSA was always required because I need to show clients 3D models, but with alternatives for that it becomes less necessary. I have only called tech support two times in eight years, and those were both in the last month and had to do with a video driver issue on an older laptop, and a Mac OS issue. I started with X7 and skipped a couple of versions just because I don't use the program daily, and can get by with any version. I enjoy the new features, many of which I specifically asked for, but I never had any problems getting permitted with X7. At this point X14 is robust enough to keep me happy indefinitely. I'm going to buy SSA for X15 just because that's my habit and the money isn't an issue, but purchase of future upgrades will be based solely on there being enough new features coming to justify the cost. My concern is - will my perpetual license remain "perpetual" forever, or will they change that policy too, down the road? They will have that right, just like they eliminated dongles at one point and required everyone to log in their software over the internet. Nowhere in the FAQs does it say the perpetual license will be permanent forever. The language leaves them a backdoor to pull even legacy licenses that are expired, if they choose. From the FAQ: I already own a perpetual legacy license. Will the license I already own on or before January 9, 2023 expire in the future? No, any existing perpetual legacy license will not expire and will continue to function. Hmm, they left off the word "forever" at the end of that answer. How long, exactly, will the legacy licenses "continue to function"? We'll see. Hope I didn't just put a target on my back lol.

Notice I changed your Subfloor Height Above Terrain value. terrain.plan

Get rid of those elevation lines and the lowered region. Use Elevation Regions instead (Elevation Data submenu). Make one to replace the lowered region at the walkout door, and another to wrap the sides and front of the building. Set this second one to 0 height, then you'll probably have to adjust your Subfloor Height Above Terrain value in the Terrain Specs.

@Legacy-HNoles I use these settings for an initial exterior CPU ray trace (I can't do RTRT on my system, and do not use PBR): 14 passes seems about right. Less than that is too grainy, and more is diminishing returns. Takes about 4 minutes on my system at this (relatively low) resolution. I then save the image and open in Gimp (free image editor like Photoshop) and apply Unsharp Mask, contrast/color balance, etc, and do cleanup/touchup. Here's an example of an image I made using these techniques: Tips: - You can quickly evaluate lighting and shadows and such, and save time for trial and error by lowering the Resolution or Height/Width in the General panel. Just remember the settings to restore them for the final run. - You can also save time for trial and error by temporarily turning off Photon Mapping on the Advanced panel. - Even after the ray trace is done, you can still adjust the settings on the Image Properties panel for changing the colors, contrast, etc. by accessing the Adjust Image Properties button:

Not much to choose from: There was a suggestion recently asking for more control of parametric doors. You can "fake" a center bar(s) using a glass panel style, setting the number of lites, and making the glass panes a solid material, but it's very limited:

Only works if you use one of the parametric door styles, not a library symbol.

Not sure exactly what you're after but deleting all layers in the Ceiling Finish DBX of the Room Specs seems to work...? Make sure you "Build Framing" and have "Framing, Roof Rafters" Layer set to display in 3D views.

Do you have View > Line Weights toggled on? It may also be on one of your toolbars:

In addition to what has been suggested, once you enter all of your data into the Material List, you can hit the Select All button and then the Update TO Master List (see pics). This will save all of the data you've entered into your Material List for updating to future material lists. Then when you generate a new Material List, once again hit the Select All button, then hit Update FROM Master List (the button left of Update TO Master List), and this will populate all your custom data into the fields. The Master List is program-wide and your data will be stored and available in all plans. Side note; for dimensional lumber you'll probably want to use Buy List for calculating costs, which pulls from your Saved Structural Member Reporting Defaults, and which can also contain pricing for individual lumber items that will then automatically populate into the material list.

Nice video Steve. I like your Loom videos with the playback speed control. You talk slow enough that I can watch them at 1.7x and still follow along. And it's entertaining to hear you speedtalk

I've been living with this because I always had to go in and change the color of the pattern lines anyway, but I made a suggestion to restore the function Michael described. I also asked for color setting in the dialog box. Fingers crossed.

Could be Chief wants to deprecate the entire function?? From X14 Help (bold mine): The Edge and Pattern Line Defaults settings are included for legacy files and are not the recommended method of specifying this information. See Edge and Pattern Lines. I think that's wrong. Edge and Pattern Lines is the best way to create elevations IMO.

To my knowledge, as Michael said there is no actual default setting. This used to be the case in X10, and yes it would remember the last used value, even across plans. Somewhere along the line it was removed as it no longer functions that way in X12 or X14. Not sure why they removed that but it would be good to get it back. I have never found any preference or default settings in plan or layout to change the default values. Hope I'm wrong.

Yes, it saved me from the same frustration you were experiencing, not only in material selection but everywhere. Glad to help.

If you turned off Auto Rebuild Roofs, it won't automatically generate. Yes, very easy to draw a manual roof plane there using Premier. I'm not sure if Interiors has that tool, I use Premier.

"Smallest Fraction" settings are different for those two dimension Formats, so the program is rounding based on your settings. See your Auto Story Pole Dimension Defaults:

I don't think so, not according to this PPI calculator: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php Michael's numbers all worked out close using this calculator, but yours do not. I'm certainly no expert on this, and no offense intended, but I didn't want any Mac users to make a purchase decision if that information is not correct.

Yeah even my truss company uses a better 3D program. My homeowner clients are still impressed because they're not used to seeing anything like that, plus it's a model of their home so that's gratifying to them. Are you using a third party app?

I share your frustration. Personally, I have not found a way to do that. I have written and saved detailed instructions for when I email a link of their model to clients, including to switch the rendering technique, and that there are two ways to navigate the model and to play around with both, and let me know if they have problems. My clients run into more issues with navigating than they do with the rendering technique. Some older folks just never get it. Not enough time spent playing video games I guess.

Just throwing this out there, but I've spent a lot of time learning to understand what causes that "weird stuff" and how to correct or avoid it. Time well spent.