THBlack Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I have two questions. Have walls of clearly defined thicknesses. When I do dimension stuff, sometimes the measurements are off by an 1/8" or 3/16". When I zoom in I see TWO borders for the walls. What's going on? Thought one is for the 'bumps' that the outer / inner surface material has. Is that so? If so, say I re-define the walls and just have material that is a solid color, no bumps. Would that make it precise, no double border? (And afterwards, after I do my surgical measurements, will bring back bumpy? Or maybe something else is going on. How do I get precise dimensions without double-vision? Question two: My computer and graphics card gets by. But when I see sample rooms / buildings of others using CA, I see eye-popping realism. I don't think it's the ray tracing. My colors don't always seem to render in the camera like I see them when I see a sample object. Like the good old days when you only had 256 colors. Looks like that is what is going on. Is there some magic switch or option to see objects in the camera look more like the sample without having to ray-trace and wait a week for my computer to finish tracing? Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Most use PBR camera views these days , not Ray Trace and X13 requires an RTX2000 or RTX3000 Nvidia card to take full advantage of the new PBR-RT Views. As for dimensioning , no way to tell without the plan ( or a test plan) to figure out what is going on, you didn't even provide a couple of screen grabs so..... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Walls in Chief are designed to model what is built in the real world. In the real world, a simple interior wall is typically 4.5" thick because it has a 3.5" framing layer and 1/2" drywall on both sides. You can choose whether or not display all of this information in your plan using your layer display options. You can choose whether or not to dimension to this information using your dimension defaults. Alternatively, you can also model your walls more unrealistically if you prefer by creating a wall type does not have this added information. My guess is that you are getting fractions in your wall dimensions because either you are dimensioning to the wrong wall layers or you have laid out your walls inaccurately. Without posting a plan, no one will know for sure. As for drawing walls, here is some more info that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/85/walls.html As for using the dimension tools: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/92/dimensions.html As for getting more realistic presentation views: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/102/cameras-lighting.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/170/materials-patterns-textures.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/103/ray-trace.html And as always, if you think you have found a problem in the program, you should always contact our technical support team to report this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THBlack Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Thank you very much for your helpful pointers. CA is Superiffic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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