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Cant you build the firebox and call it a facade for a gas insert? and then maybe someone trips and falls and accidentally rips out the gas insert on their way down after final inspection unbeknownst to you. My house is 3 stories and has a massive fireplace that kills a lot of floor space on all 3 floors...I'm still gonna be bummed if I ever take it out, something so satisfying about a wood burning fireplace

Graham, first off, much praise and respect +1...You have, on several occasions, spent tens of hours of your own time for the benefit of the community. Thank You! I've done a lot of testing in CA, so I have a pretty good indicator of what's going on behind my own personal workflow in CA. Something I learned from reading this..turning off layers, interesting. Again, thanks. I would also guess that smoothing angle could effect builds..just a hunch, but for someone that never goes into 3d, I wonder if turning all symbol smoothing angles to 0 would have any impact on rebuild. A few things I will add as they are the industry standard and well known...Texture resolution absolutely has a direct correlation with graphics cards. I can't use 4k graphics in CA like I can in other programs that have optimized texture loading or texture baking. I had to convert all of my textures down to 1080 for CA to have the snappy system that I need. CA loaded textures, typically, are 512. A slow hard drive can be a bottleneck for a blazing fast machine..so can a slow graphics card or cheap FSB /bridge etc(mobo) CPU cache helps CA +1 to @Alaskan_Son I said similar things in Graham and I's previous thread-go-around about system setups. CA is constantly writing, it's easy for CA to write a Gig in 5 minutes, and every action performed in CA writes to your OS drive a little preference/log file. Library access is a huge part of all this as well as Library preview can load up your graphics card. Last thing I'll note is in conflict with what Graham stated as a general note, though he didn't specifically test for it. I can, with certainty, say that Layout is slower than plan, dependent on what is being sent to layout. I have a ,plan open right now that has a PDF imported to the page. That Plan view has been sent to layout and it is without a doubt slower to navigate/pan/zoom than the associated plan view.

@Chopsaw crazy enough I was actually aware of one of Michael's methods for a change, but hoping for some sort of offset setting.. using his method scales the 2d image to be pretty small if using it in a legend with scaling...because it effectively increases the size of the 2d symbol

post your .plan file please so we can take a look at whats going wrong

Trying to snap to the center of a GFCI receptacle but the center of the 2d symbol includes the text "GFCI" which sets the snap off-center of the receptacle...can't remember, is there a way to fix this?

I know that you were participating in the following thread but not sure if you saw that they added a wood floor generator: just a friendly FYI

Not sure I understand this request, you cannot make a 2d image from a 3d shape that would be of any reasonable use. I would suggest you grab a texture that is a .png file-because it can convey clipping areas(see-through/transparent)- the circles themselves would be the only 2d content within the image file, the background would be removed(no white) A chain-link fence type material may suffice, try a google image search with the parameter "filetype:png" at the end of your search terms

It actually doesn't blend colors as the name would suggest, at least not to my findings...it complete replaces the color..something like in the presence of something other than black, 255, 255, 255 replace all other color values with the color picked

Think I just figured it out, closets can be considered un-occupied accessory area, therefore reasonably not bound to the minimum clear width requirement

Trying to determine if a closet door serving a closet greater than 10 sq. ft. is required to have a 32" clear width...anyone know?

3d/toggle patterns:

This is how it should be IMO, unfortunately some textures like stucco do not follow this structure

For anyone that finds this thread, you can always place a CAD point: CAD/Points/Place Point- and then Edit/Edit Behaviors/Enable Rotate/Resize About Current Point-

POST 27 A video showcasing some methods for creating your Con-docs entirely in .plan I'm only a month away from my wedding date and have had some crazy personal breakthroughs in the search for family and also a very large tragedy; so new content will be at a slow crawl for the time being...hopefully I will ramp up again in June..stay tuned CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

Yes thank you , select similar...and yes just discovered the match props part too..slightly annoying, ha

As the title says, couldn't get marquee select to work on headers..is this feature missing?

nice work +1

Might need to create this yourself...or ping the master Joe...you can do it with landings connected to each other which will give you greater control

Also for anyone seeing this thread, you can double click the select objects tool: to get to your plan defaults and make sure "show living area label" is checked

See this article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00285/restoring-the-living-area-label.html Also, what Scott and Joe are saying are correct, though changing a floor area to conditioned on level 0 will still not produce an area label. For this particular case, instead of adding a new foundation level 0, simply add a macro to report the area of your ground zero...there are many different ways of doing this

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Off topic but on topic I made a sign for just such occasions and uploaded it a while ago :

https://www.legitreviews.com/intel-optane-memory-tested-with-secondary-hard-drive_205254/4 check the last page of that article...to answer your question, yes this is a newly added feature of the optane implementation

optane ($40-70) is a cache for your slow spinning hard drive(7200 HDD). In laymans terms it will make it function closer to speeds of an SSD drive

thats a nice system for the price, might be worth getting an optane add on card for the SATA drive