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Really starting to have a disdain for this thread though I have tried to avoid voicing too much of my own opinion..a lot of hard work has gone into this thread, which I appreciate... This has not been standardized testing. No real methods of testing have been established. No specialized software has been implemented for monitoring the tests. NO COMPUTER COMPONENTS HAVE TRULY BEEN ISOLATED...No one here is using a test bench with the same components and swapping out one hardware component. The tests have only demonstrated a couple of scenarios that are completely unrealistic for nearly every CA user. Testing based on bias will always have a higher probability of supporting the bias. Why are we doing known CPU intensive tasks and being surprised by the results? Load in 4k textures on a PBR and tell me how great your CPU is or go swap in a laptop 5400 RPM for your NVME and try browsing the library with your awesome CPU. Excuse the sarcasm but by no means has this been an indicator of a singular system component being the biggest bang for the buck. I've said it so many times I can't even count, All 5 of the machines I have used extensively have performed as well as the next in real world use with little to no noticeable difference, which includes a gamut of various clock speeds and core configurations both AMD and Intel. Spending $2K on a CPU is not going to make CA feel 10 times faster than spending $200. This post by @BrownTiger got brushed over and no one really responded to it which blows my mind, again we're discussing some industry known topics here: Not meaning to sound like a jerk but this thread does not paint the whole picture of using this software and it is painfully obvious to me and misleading to people out there shopping components.

Yes suggested, work around being that you can pull an elevation into your model since it is live, snap to whatever you need to snap to, and then pull your camera outside of the model and it will retain it's CAD

Getting ready for purchasing the next iteration of the surface book for 2020 has led to some new developed methods for touchscreen navigation in CA. Just posted two short videos for anyone interested showcasing this setup using an iPad Pro 12.9” 1st generation, an Apple Pencil, and touchpad pro software to remote into my desktop. Posted the vids in my symbols and content thread in my sig. shown here:

POST 28 A pair of videos highlighting methods to use an iPad to control Chief Architect remotely CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

1. Make an elevation note type "front elevation" and "rear elevation " etc. 2. Drop note schedule on front camera elevation to include only note types "front elevation" 3. Place Notes on front elevation. Use the marquee Select Similar tool to select all Notes. Also select your note schedule. ctrl+c to copy 4. Go to your rear elevation and Ctrl+v paste 5. Change all note types on rear elevation to type "rear elevation ". Go to your rear elevation's schedule and uncheck front elevation type notes and select rear elevation type notes. Alternatively you can send a snippet of just your note schedule to your layout

AGREED..don’t enjoy using X-10 when I have to, its that noticeable.

eh, I kind’ve agree...but, thats like saying Substance Painter shouldn’t post clips from video games their software helped create...when its now a major construct of the whole process. Almost like saying buy CA and it will make you a great architect and designer and renderer and we’ll give you a PC and all the tools to go with it. I dunno, I like seeing someone push the capabilities of the product.

Tying to create a vent schedule using custom windows and anything under 6" tall is automatically changed to 6". Is there any user control over this parameter?

‘CA is a cache monster in my opinion” I posted that somewhere else around here...totally agree about hard drive from testing and observation...great to see it broken down so eloquently...cheers and +1 still say that custom textures with 4K resolution requires a good vid card... I noticed a difference when I switched to pascal

Also really depends on what you need training for, I know Alaskan probably has his hands full but he is an excellent coach..I went to him for Macro writing

The Surface book will not allow you to undock while CA is running, it prompts you to close the program..it most likely has more to do with my library..would be my guess..this is getting off topic though, it does point to hardware related task however

Yes, the surface book 2 base houses a 1060 card(probably setup this way so you can upgrade the keyboard base and graphics card without needing to buy a full system in the future) When the tablet portion is un-docked, the dedicated chip is the only active gfx processor and the onboard ram comes into play as graphics memory.

THIS! and THISSSSSS!!!!! haha, The surface book 2 I tried out prompted a built in warning from CA that the graphics card wasn't sufficient for the library browser when it was undocked from its 1060 card. I had to set library preview from vector to standard in order for the library to be accessible with preview

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