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Crap. Well... it should. This type of stairway is daily stuff around here. Thanks anyway Eric.

I thought I read here that X10 will now allow a rake wall with railing as one automatic piece, but cannot for the life find the thread... Was I dreaming? I've got the railing wall following the stairs, which I could do in X9, and I already know how to hack this effect, did it in previous versions. Looking to see if there's a setting I'm missing to add the railing on top of the rake wall automatically. Thanks stair rail X10.plan

In the overview video, CA also suggests even saving views of certain rooms, since you can save the zoom level with the view. Very useful for navigating to often edited rooms such as kitchens and baths.

I recently upgraded my Mac to High Sierra and did not experience anything in terms of slower 3D rendering. No change whatsoever.

If you're using a window, you can't get rid of the cutout, except in certain cases in pony walls, and then only in X10 it seems. For now CAD lines & masks is how I cover up the cutouts. I posted a Suggestion asking for cutouts to be hidden when their parent window is hidden. Click it and give your support:

It's easy to change the drywall color to whatever you want, without a paint layer, using the Adjust Material Definition tool. Just click the tool on the drywall in a camera view. Applies to all walls with "Drywall" material: That won't work if you want multiple colors in a plan, but for that you could set up additional drywall materials with different colors.

Hit D Returns you to Default pointer. Or go to Edit > Edit Behaviors > Default

It looks like you don't have shadows on, Toggle Shadows On. Go to 3D > 3D View Defaults, set Daytime Ambient to 100%. It will look blown out in standard render but works for RT. (Setting Interior Ambient to 100% also enhances interior RTs) In RT Settings, try Ambient Occlusion at 0.1 Min and 6.0 Max, Direct Sunlight 5.0 Uncheck Use Tone Mapping. You can adjust those settings during or after RT. I didn't have your textures so my RT looked cartoony too but a little more realistic using these settings.

Why, it's the breakfast of champions, of course!

Cool tip, thanks!

Yep each return is consistent in PDF. I had already made the PDF file but didn't look there. There are still oddities, though, like on one elevation, there's a dark line where the return meets the gable, on another it's a faint line. But at least it's not broken like the example above. I don't care if they're different, as long as it isn't broken errratically. You can see how they're "inconsistently consistent" in the attached screenshot of PDF. But yeah, the PDF will do, and is what I print from. Thanks!

Yes. This infuriates me. Please make it ... Another ... suggestion.

Select all the dims at once, hit "open," go to Primary Format tab and check "Use Default Formatting"

Gotcha. It looked like the bottom of the stringer was even with the subfloor. Yikes!

Anyone else seen this, or know why? I often get weird erratic linework on my elevation vectors. Attached is a common example. This is an automatic Chief roof return, nothing manual about it, no weird attic walls or anything else strange in the plan... I usually fix it with CAD / masks but would rather not if I can make it behave. Thanks

Hi, I had this issue in Pony Walls which I made a Suggestion about that turned out to be unnecessary since that problem seems to have been addressed in X10, but this is a little different. Many times, I want to turn off a window or door layer in a certain view, and also the cutout, but the cutout always shows. Maybe this is different in X10 too, or am I missing something in X9 whereby the cutout can also be hidden on any floor level or wall type? I have always just thrown a CAD mask over the cutout but thought I might be missing a setting...? Thanks.

I'm just curious, what does the bottom of the staircase bear on IRL?

Even though I have SSA, this is the main reason I've held off upgrading to X10. I'm only now, after much struggle, getting decent RT results. Are we better off just moving to PBR and leaving RT behind? That seems to have been the decision at HQ...

Thanks, but I haven't upgraded to X10 yet. Overall, the Door Schedule Specification DBX seems messed up. In the "Label" tab (?? Is that a Label, or a Label?), if I don't specify a callout for the label, it activates the Height/Width Display options, which are under Label Text (??), but if I DO check to use a callout, the height/width selections, while still active, do nothing, and a non-editable Item Number is placed in the callout... with the option to add leading Label Prefix text. Weird. Somewhat useful, but a strange non-intuitive format, that could be much more useful if you could specify user-defined text or macro in the callout... oh well.

The picture is from an older plan where I created that manually with CAD and text. I thought I might use the callout in the schedule to put a macro value in the circle. Right now I'm using the schedule callout with a circle, but it's putting in a number and I would like it to insert the door width instead. Maybe that's not possible...

Hi, Did extensive search, got close but no cigar. Does anyone have, or know the code to produce a macro that would return interior door width as "width-feet / width-inches"? (see attached) Thanks, Chris

Just want to throw out a big thank you to everyone helping resolve this issue. I've been holding off upgrading mainly due to the issues with PBR but it seems you good folks are wrestling it to the ground. THANKS AGAIN!! Greenies all around...

You want seamless textures. Do a Google search for "seamless grass textures" there are tons of free ones. Anything that looks bad with a repeating texture -- shingles, brick, stone, grass -- looks 10x more realistic with seamless textures. NOT stock Chief textures.

A-yup.

Yep, that's what I was missing. Many thanks for your time and help.