Renerabbitt

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  1. I don' disagree, I have no use for it working differently...just seems like an obvious glitch
  2. This video is pretty long, looking for a ton of feedback so I can narrow down a direction and compile videos that will be meaningful to everyone. Going over some good tricks and tips for creating awesome looking scenes with little to no effort after templating
  3. he passed 33 years ago, no worries, brings me joy to think about Kauai- I think next year I'll be going back, one of my favorite places in the world
  4. There is an issue illustrated in his video, specifically that you can place a note in elevation and it won't show up in plan. So if you wanted to have the note in elevation and plan it doesn't seem possible when placed in elevation view.
  5. Man I love Kauai. Been twice this last year.. My old man is buried there- Wife and I want to retire there someday Cheers!
  6. seems to be a glitch, in elevation view the coordinates of the note are in Y and Z coordinates BUT if you open the note in question those same coordinates are listed under X and Y coordinates respectively
  7. another vid! Larry I tried to focus a bit more on the benefit for the roof plan in particular 2019-02-15 10-35-18.mp4
  8. Also, being able to keep macros contained to a New vs Existing plans really helps eliminate some difficult scripting. Say you have an existing window SHGC and U-Factor macro- I don't have to mess around with which windows are new or existing, or have to switch default windows etc..., I just get to drop it in a text box and it's done because the plans are split apart.
  9. welcome, this has been a productive back and forth, thanks for your time as well. It's like I haven't fully grasped the weight of these methods to properly convey why I think they are so important. Hard to describe really. My template existing plan has default materials that blank out patterns and grey out walls. I don't ever need to go into a DBX for layer properties ever again! if it weren't for the User Library, I WOULD ALWAYS HAVE FULL SCREEN WOOOOO! 2019-02-14 16-52-05.mp4
  10. An easy workaround with the new wall schedule- drop in a schedule and then hit this button from your toolbar: to open your interior wall type and edit or find in plan:
  11. would you mind posting your .plan file?
  12. Its "Ren-nay" but most people just call me Rab or Rabbitt Quick vid about elevations 2019-02-14 09-11-07.mp4
  13. Joe I'm new to macros so I don't immediately see the use-case for what you are mentioning. Can you give an example of use for note-room attributes with OIP's?
  14. My vids always take a while to process, maybe because I record in 1080? will be fuzzy for 10 minutes
  15. made a vid about it in that post 1060 v 1070 UPS and also, Googles Backup and Sync now has the capability to sync any file in any location on windows...including your ramdisk. Not to mention my ramdisk is backed up at every shut down through the ramdisk software to an .img file- so even if somehow I lost power and somehow google backup and sync was turned off I would only lose that days work I did in the User Library, nothing more. But I save the .plan files used to create symbols which is backed up to microsoft OneDrive so even those library items would be recoverable
  16. which reminds me- would love it if chief could show items like windows and doors and electrical outlets without needing the wall layer turned on
  17. Ok, totally getting it- guess the easy "work-around" is to create "plumbing off" "plumbing on" "framing off" "framing on" layer sets so that you can leave the plan loaded up 5 times and only need to switch the referenced layer set. The reason for the similar names would be to keep the toggle immediately above or below the current layer set for an easy "switch"
  18. Yeah I watched- apologies, the straight to the point answer is no, I guess what I'm wondering is why would you want to? though I will say that @Alaskan_Son had a great quote the other day, paraphrasing- something along the lines of you may be onto something, it may become relevant someday and should be considered
  19. I believe he is specifically using CA for rendering purposes and is working diligently to recoup initial investment costs. The byproduct being that he is learning a powerful software that may prove very valuable to him in the future. I know I've been in plenty of instances when I underestimate and over-promise. I personally have never read more than a paragraph of the manual and have maybe watched 6 of the videos all the while the help button has been existence forever unbeknownst to me...to each his own learning method! I am quite certain that a good number of people have learned something new from this post alone, let alone his other posts. Nearly 600 views, with at least 75 users online at any time with 2000+ users logging in daily. Roofs are challenging to new users, he posed an interesting question or two and even uncovered the little known ability of pitching a roof on a z axis via a forum responder. I only became a forum member in 2016 but have been in the software well over 10 years- sometimes it doesn't suit a personality to show humility and ask questions that may be perceived as dumb or uneducated when really he has the ability to ask and he is getting responses- and really really good ones at that! We get a " which laptop" thread almost every week- still doesn't annoy me, just makes me smile and you know what, every time I learn something new about laptops!