Chrisb222

Great news, Scott!

You're welcome! Glad that helped.

Yes it will. Draw the new railing wall off to the side first and set it to "No Room Definition" I had to add an invisible room divider, perpendicular to the railing wall at the "top" end to keep if from breaking back downward.

I would just turn off the railing on the stairs, draw a separate railing over the stairs set to "follow stairs" and adjust as needed.

As Robert and Gene said, use the Elevation camera to draw the 3D molding polyline and they will automatically stick to the surface drawn on. You can also accurately dimension the polyline to other objects in this type of view.

GAHH!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I finally had enough with having to resize the PB docked window every session, and searched and found this thread. OMG I was ready to break something valuable. Give yourself a "Solved" for that one, you deserve it!

You can get it by watching videos, searching the forum, and asking questions as they arise. Rather than purchasing templates, I think you're better off gaining the understanding of how the program is designed to function, so you can modify your own templates as your needs change. But that's just my opinion, as I prefer to develop my own working style and flow; others may prefer to follow someone else's flow and that's ok too. One of the main things you want to focus on is Saved Plan Views (SPVs). This is the core engine that controls your plan development workflow. As you develop Saved Plan Views for your workflow, you will also create specific Custom Layers (including SPV-specific CAD layers), Layer Sets, Saved Dimension Defaults, Saved Text Styles, and possibly Default Sets although those are somewhat of a leftover from versions before SPVs (some still use them as they can make things a little simpler when multiple Saved Plan Views utilize the same Default Set), and more, depending on the requirements to properly execute the view. It's fairly complex but also powerful. It's a lot to explain, and to digest. Check out this video to get started: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html?playlist=100

EXCELLENT ANALOGY! Although I'm sure someone won't agree, and hit me with a reddie.

This is a controversial topic and won't be resolved until someone actually tries to transfer a license. Until then, all we know is that in the past transfers were fairly routine, and that right now Chief is obviously remaining vague about the policy going forward. I do think it's unfair for a certain member to continue making posts and threads claiming it's no longer allowed, and I for one am tired of seeing it. @Fairhaven_Homes I would recommend advertising your license for sale, as has always been done on the Offering Services forum, and see what happens. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/16-offering-services/

I'm pretty happy with my Office rental, because it's only like $8 a month. I could buy it but the rental let's you jump in / jump out. It's a decent program.

Are they? I wondered in the other thread if legacy licenses with expired SSA might one day be deactivated, and got some heat for it. People said "don't worry CA said they would keep working"..... but for how long? People said "they can't guarantee the software will work on your OS forever"... which isn't even the point. The question I have is, will they commit to legacy licenses owners that they won't kill those inactive licenses? So far it's still unclear IMO and I think CA should clarify that... but I'm guessing they won't make any such public commitment, and we'll just have to go forward hoping we don't get strong-armed onto the subscription model.

I could not load a 3DS version either, but .dae worked.

Doug, maybe you meant to quote the thread author. I don't have any problems showing terrain in elevations, but thanks for the info. You can probably edit your post to tag the OP so he is sure to be notified of your great tips.

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.

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:

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.