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I would pay for this- I've wanted to use it before as a method, parsing qty from qty of notes

you could also make a poly line area macro report for requirements and input into a note to show required area- in the table

@HumbleChief @Joe_Carrick @builtright3 Did a super simple schedule using notes- Joe's method is better but above my skills at writing macros- didn't complete this but you can reverse engineer to your needs. Qty needs to be input in macros, multiplies qty times NFA and reports...totals simply adds value together @Joe_Carrick can you pull qty from a qty of notes present? plan file containing schedule: vent area schedule.plan

Comes down to liability really, heaven forbid a house burns down...not saying the fire dept. would discover the ventilation was wrong but... Richard was correct, gave him a +1 Bay Area we are getting a lot of contract plan checkers who don't miss a detail

I know you stated that you stray away from macros but these would be a very simple couple of macros and a note schedule to create a very dynamic ventilation spreadsheet

oh man I missed that, just saw the form factor and glossed over the pinout...lame for Joe

ahh Okay, I see it... so in conclusion, pretty sure he has the 860 evo SATA 2.5" as a primary with a WD500 NVMe as a data drive not being used, and then the firecuda got ditched as he probably only has 1 SATA 2.5" space available

curious now if the 860 evo is an m.2 or SSD, I thought it used to be that the 800 series had no m.2 drives, not the case anymore or I am mistaken

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0B/dp/B073SBX6TY

the other 1 is your NVME, it is a 500gb Western Digital NVME...for some reason your tech chose to make it a data drive i nstead of getting all the benefits of using it as a primary with your OS...mistake in my mind

can you screenshot your device manager disk drives?

I''m still waiting for them to make an affordable m.2 external enclosure- they probably have since last I checked

It would be a clever scam, 90 out of 100 consumers have never heard of an NVME drive and wouldn't know that it was missing and then could make a quick $100

hmm very fishy, I can't think of any reason other than to scam that your 256gb NVME would no longer be in your system-thats just flat out wrong...someone may have taken advantage of you

yeah I deleted that, realized I was wrong as soon as I hit enter, haha

I'm assuming thats your second drive?

nvme uses the m.2 slot, as opposed to a standard SATA port that an SSD would use...so if you upgraded than it should still be an NVME, though not all NVME's are created equal- they are still faster than SSDs by a lot

More RAM the better for utilizing it to increase page files on secondary slow drives and RAMdisk partitions for better read write speeds- not because I need more memory for CA(I need it for other programs running while CA is taking up its fair share of RAM)

give CA a call, shouldn't be happening..are you using the SAM method? maybe you have a texture file causing problems

Laughing because you have an NVME drive in your computer, and your computer is a gaming machine- haha, or is that what you are saying, that you went with a gaming machine? I have other posts about creating RAMdisks and setting your UNDO as well as the user library to the RAMdisk as you have plenty of RAM. your CA should be installed on your NVME primary drive, along with anything else associated with CA. I'm surprised you can't tell the difference, what did you upgrade from? At the very least you should notice that windows fires up really fast and that programs open up really fast then again, thats kind of my point, I'd prefer a touch convertible for the marginal performance increase

CA does a ton of read writing and memory spikes galore...whereas you just wont see that much difference between the same gfx/mem/HD hardware system with one being a 4ghz 8 core and the other a 3ghz quad core...YET, you'll see a world of difference between an SSD with low ram vs an NVME primary, SSD secondary, with tons of RAM and a RAMDISK plus a larger page file on the second drive. An ultrabook, setup with a lot of RAM and NVME's can smoke a gaming computer in PRODUCTIVITY in my opinion...I am so much faster on an iPad remotely connected to my laptop than on my laptop itself....b/c of the touch screen. see screener: 20 min sample of me working and CPU usage is very low on the whole but read writes and HD activity are huge

I think I've changed my opinion on this...I bought the best gaming laptop I could afford and yes it has served me well.. now 5 years later and it still works flawlessly I realize that the graphics card was not necessary for what I need my laptop to do...and really,the heavy lifting comes from an NVME drive and lots of ram. So if I were to do it all over again I would buy a small and lightweight, convertible touch-screen lappy with room for ram and an M.2 NVME. CA works wonderfully in a touchscreen environment and for takeoffs/as-builts the keyboard is rarely used- especially with a Bluetooth laser.

consider the NVME for operating system- it makes a HUGE difference I also screen clip imported PDF' and save as .pngs, or use a software to reduce size...PDFs always cause slowdowns. I don't have much experience moving items in sections so i can't speak on that and certainly...cheers!

There could be more to your issues than hardware allocation...imported PDFs can drastically slow down your system as well as a ton of CAD blocks or high poly count objects ..maybe post a layout file that is causing an issue. NVME's drastically improve CA in my opinion...as well as everything else in windows. I also use a ramdisk to , at the very least, store undos...I use it for much more than that I personally do not use layout for anything other than a print application. ..my title block is in .plan, my layout remains blank until time of final print...previews are in plan only.

CA simply does not need to utilize that much RAM- you'd see better performance by upgrading read write speeds, i.e. an m.2 NVME. Also your CPU clock speed is more important than number of cores for said issues. Could always see more benefit from creating a backed up ram disk for library/archives/undo's or increase your page file for a HDD etc... probably see better performance than trying to force allocation of ram