tundra_dweller

That's a good question, I haven't used a pass-thru for a door in a minute but it does work for these situations. You may have to turn off the frame or jamb or whatever they call it on a pass-thru, and then use a molding line if you do need a jamb on the 3 sides. I'll be curious to hear how it works out for you.

Hit F1 to open up the help files in Chief and search for ceiling planes, or do a youtube search for some videos. Otherwise I think you're going to have to post your plan to get better help on here.

Create custom ceiling planes through the entire vaulted area that match the slope and height of your roof plane's ceiling finish layers. Your custom ceiling planes should then cover those inverted vault areas and be co-planar with your main vault ceiling.

I'd like to see the ability to start with a terrain and be able to subtract & add cut/fill areas with the ability to report area & volume of those cut/fills.

Same here

Not sure about the latest version, but I have the same GPU as you and have been running 581.57 studio version for the past month or so and it has been totally stable with Chief.

You can control how a material reports qty to the material list with the "Adjust Material Definition" tool. Also I'm thinking maybe a material region with air gap as material might be a quick way to tally up siding coverage in sq ft. I don't remember if you can assign material regions to schedules at the moment though.

I was able to get it pretty close to what I think you're after by tuning off auto foundation after it generates the foundation initially. Then go in and change the wall settings and floor/stemwall elevations until you get it how you want. Another key is making sure the slab pour #'s are different between the foundation section's rooms & walls. For example I have the walls & room in the stemwall section of the foundation as slab pour #1, and the mono garage room & walls set to slab pour #2. Pictures below with my settings, hope this helps. Foundation plan view Cross section Mono foundation room settings at floor 0 Mono slab wall settings Stemwall foundation room settings at floor 0 Stemwalls settings

I'm looking forward to digging into to this over the slower winter months. Looks like a very intriguing tool and love to see the dedication to making improvements.

Yeah you can either use the tudor arch method like in the thread Shane posted, or use the "Shape" section to put a peak in the middle by adjusting the top inside corner settings.

I've done a handful of walkout basements using Floor 0 for footings & frostwalls and Floor 1 for the walkout level. I much prefer just using Floor 0 for the basement level as a whole and using saved plan and reference views to differentiate foundation vs. basement floor plans if possible. Mostly I just can't get used to the math necessary for not having Floor 1 and elevation zero on the "main" level as is typical for most walkout situations in my case.

FWIW this is about where my performance is as well with an RTX 3080 on desktop for a similar image, using physical based rendering straight from Chief. I usually go 200 samples so it's probably about 15 seconds or so.

After reading a support article on this I guess it won't run a backup unless Chief is running at the scheduled time.

I am using managed mode and have my backup preference set to take place at 12 am each night, but I get a message that pops up when I close Chief in the evening, usually around 6 pm, asking if I want to perform the backup or skip. Not wanting to skip a backup I usually hit OK, and it takes a while to complete. I'd rather have it automatically happen late at night, which it seems like it would do the first couple versions of X17 as expected, but not in the past few releases. Has anyone else had this experience? Wondering if I'm missing something simple, but I'll talk to tech support tomorrow if needed. Thanks for any insight.

The Anycase app is a fantastic tool for changing text case quickly after the fact. https://anycaseapp.com/ Thanks to @Alaskan_Son for bringing attention to this app. I don't think it does spellcheck though.