Chrisb222

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.

You can't currently. You can try using a different color for blending, something with less vibrancy which should work for this situation. Also, you can add your support to this Suggestion thread:

Yeah it's gone. From Help: 3D Rendering and Ray Tracing The obsolete CPU Ray Tracing tool has been retired in favor of real-time GPU Ray Tracing. See GPU Ray Tracing.

Just to be clear - yes you can still use X16 after installing and using X17, but any X16 files opened, and saved in X17 cannot then be opened again in X16.

Yeah it is. I've seen other posts over the years discussing this limitation. Also feel like I've seen Suggestion threads asking for control of this, which would make a good - and seemingly "easy" - feature upgrade.

What do you mean by "trimming completely"? The interior casing is intact, and the door is set for no exterior casing. So what are you missing?

Haha, yeah I immediately started to conjure up how I would do it, then had to peel myself off...

Yep, can be done. Personally I wouldn't want to frame it though...

In Layout, go to Edit > Default Settings > Text, Callouts and Markers or get there clicking the Wrench icon:

That's the only thing I got mildly excited about. It piqued my interest about 2% as much as Saved Plan Views.

Steve, the staff sometimes participates in the Q&A forum but they specifically state that they don't read all of these threads, and if you want to make a suggestion to enhance the program, to use the Suggestion forum.

Yes. HOW it could be done - or whether it's even practical - is difficult to answer from what you posted, and maybe impossible to answer on a discussion forum like this. Best bet is ask a local contractor.

What exactly are you asking? Do you want to know how to make deck joists automatically break over a beam? Or just to make the Material List only show 12' lengths? Your question is a little vague. Try to be more specific to get better answers. Best to create a new thread instead of tagging onto an older thread, and include a plan file, or at least a screenshot or two describing the problem.

Yeah, well no one except you and alaskan son brought up the "concept" of accepting errors for the sake of using AI. Thanks for the apology.

Then the answer is yes, of course I care.

I've tried being super explicit with instructions to not alter the building, without success... so far. I have however started pasting a chief rendered house onto an AI terrain, with fairly good success. I think the grass, plants, and trees just look fantastic. AND the building is correct!!

System obsolescence is a real thing, always has been, but another thing we might be missing is that new potential users are emerging all the time. We might tend to think we are all there will ever be, when people of all ages will continue to enter this industry.