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maybe give these guys a call, check for your local distributor..They are getting away with UL listed assemblies on treated lumber: http://www.frtw.com/?q=distributors

folder preferences are in edit/preferences/general/folder/

for some reason your at-mention didnt ping me...anywho...I dropped a new cad lin in and then moved the dimension handles to the new cad line and deleted the dimension. alternatively, you can group select my drawing and cad-block the selection, paste it in your plan and use the point to point move tool to position in your new plan..then delete the old.

Very strange behavior..I went ahead and fixed it: Chief Talk Question (1).plan

a belated response, SOL for renaming framing as we don't have direct control over default layers for auto-generation to my knowledge. something that may help you, I assume you are referencing the "active layer display options" window, you can click the gear icon at the bottom of this window and toggle "Layer Name Filter" which will give you a search box at the top of the layer sets where you can filter by ceiling joist etc.. Hope that helps

a simple way of doing this is splitting a roof plane and setting different members for each.

Love this design, beautiful lines, great respect for the exterior and natural light, awesome mixture and nod to certain styles... given what you've put together I would venture a guess that you are already wrestling with this, but the wine cellar doesn't feel natural to the space, seems like an after thought at the moment. Looking forward to seeing a finalized design if you're willing to share, nice work!

Viking, Thermador, and sub-zero all do I'm sure

Not a bug, any customization in 1 toolbar configuration is for that configuration only, it is not global, nor is there an option to make global changes to multiple configurations. I would venture a guess that I have spent more hours than anyone could conceive of spending on toolbar configs. I've been building them out for the touchscreen environment.There are a host of problems when trying to extend your customization to other configurations. Biggest problem in describing my methods is that that nomenclature used by CA doesn't easily distinguish between different elements of the toolbar schema. I start by making a master config including all possible "toolbars"(The individual toolbar sets that can be dragged and docked or floating anywhere you like. I make them for MEP, Dimensioning, Framing etc. Once I have ALL of them built, I copy/paste, say, the MEP configuration, and then as SNestor shows, I un-check everything that I don't want on the MEP config. I do this for all of the various toolbar configs that I enjoy. That way when switching configs, there are a number of items of toolbars that never disappear, with only a core set of toolbars switching dependent on what I am working on. When you make a global change, you have to do the copy/paste deal all over again. When you make a localized change you should make it in the master config and then copy back again... Cumbersome, but I have sped his up over time. To really be efficient you have to do some pre-planning for an extensive overhaul if that's what you desire. My 3d toolbars took a crazy amount of time to setup. Posting an example:

Might consider getting a bit further down the line on this project, tough to discern what needs to be done for these roofs without having knowledge of the project and what aspects of the .plan are correct. Seems like your 1st floor elevation is too short, would be helpful to have windows and doors in place or north marker and elevation references. If someone were to ffer help at this junction they would need to invest time into familiarizing themselves with your project first.

just rent Amazon EC2 if it ever gets to the point... sit in your living room working from a small touch screen tablet linked to 100 amazon machines that just laugh at CA. I may set this up next year, So I can truly work from anywhere

Many thanks to Graham, I have told him in PMs and publicly that his donated time is extremely generous. I've also shared some PMs with him voicing frustrations for the lack of guidance from the developers on system specs in these forums. This is a fun thread, and its interesting, I would not call it difinitive To respond to what you said, and speaking for myself, I agree with you whole heatedly, but I was once a dumb 20 year old kid looking to get into the industry and wondering what system specs I should focus on, would've been nice if I was spared all of my failures by a truly definitive approach to system building...then again maybe that's what I can attribute some success to, perseverance. ...I still can't successfully build an ad hoc network..been trying for 10 years

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