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Construction Assemblies- Wall assemblies and windows and CAD details.30
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Entourage-Countertop goodies, wall art, rugs, and accessories galore.20
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Kitchen Related-Islands and door styles, hardware and fixtures.18
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Lighting-Pendants and Sconces etc.28
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Materials-Optimized for PBR.36
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Symbols-Chairs and tables and mantles.19
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Videos-Instructional, educational, misguided.21
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By Jackstacey
I'm having issues getting two joining external walls to have different materials and meet on the external corner ( pebble dash and brick) . I've checked my intersections and their mitered correctly and if i select ' through end/start' in structural for the wall it just shifts the issue to the adjoining wall. Please help?
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By Tubdoc911
Hi, I'm Orlando the newbie, I hope everyone is doing well in spite of the harsh reality we all live in.
My first issue is regarding placing tile patterns on a wall, when painting a tile from a Manufactures catalog the tile lines are not centered in that wall, also I have a niche in that wall that has been centered in the wall so now the tile lines don't match, the tiles on the main wall have one edge wider than the other edge. How do I center this pattern on the main wall? Thank you and look forward to chatting with you.
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By ChiefuserMathews
Hello, do we have batten board symbol in CA as wall type as shown in the section attached?
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By LeeDrafter
Hello,
I need to calculate room square footages to give to our supplier to order flooring. I noticed when room areas are displayed along with the room labels, it is not calculated to the interior of the walls. Walls seem to be included, and some rooms seem to be different than others on how the calculation is done. Is there a way to adjust how these room calculations are done? Or do you have other advice on how to get this information for flooring square footages? The only options I have come up with so far are drawing a bunch of polylines in all the rooms or doing the math with the dimensions, and I was hoping for something easier.
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By Chief_Content
Our Content Development Team has been churning out new PBR friendly materials over the past few releases. These are materials that include a combination of Normal Maps, AO Maps, Roughness Maps, and Metal Maps. We use a software specifically designed to generate custom materials for 3D Rendering called Substance Designer. The program leverages parametric values to control sizing, colors, pattern, and other elements to generate unique tile-able texture maps along with automatically producing the other relevant maps need to create the effects that you expect to see in PBR and Ray Trace views.
Our process includes generating individual materials then importing them into Chief Architect and distributing the catalogs that you download and use. This converts the parametric materials into static images that aren't as flexible as those that are created in the Substance Designer Program.
Much like the Client Viewer and 3D Viewer products that are available for use with Chief Architect, Substance offers a product that allows others to leverage the parametric files to create their own custom materials... without needing to be an expert of the full-fledged program. We would like to invite you to try it out and create your own custom materials from the file we've set up for Tile.
How does it work?
First of all, a healthy understanding of how materials work inside of Chief Architect is a good starting point, and we just happen to have a couple primer videos ready for you here.
Advanced Materials
Creating Custom Materials and Colors
Once you understand how Chief Architect behaves with different properties and maps, you can dig right in and make your own maps using Substance Player (a free download) and these source files we've set up to generate materials. Just download the Substance player from the link below and use it to open the builder SBSAR files you wish to work with. To assist, we have a quick video showing how to use Substance Player to get your custom maps into Chief Architect:
How to use Substance Player in Chief
Substance Player (Download)
Tile_Builder.sbsar
Wood Builder Beta.sbsar
Single Color Fabric.sbsar
Multi_Color_Fabric.sbsar
We'd love to hear what you think. Is this useful? Are there other material types you'd like to try with the Substance Player tool? Voice any requests or questions here, or via e-mail to content@chiefarchitect.com .
Chief Architect is not affiliated in any way with the Substance Designer or Substance Player software programs. Chief Architect will not be able to offer any support for the Substance software products or files. Using the program and files is completely voluntary. Substance compatible files are provided simply as a gesture, with no guarantees, extended to give access to more material options for those who are interested.
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