parkwest

Check your Secretary of State website and see what information they have for you.

This is what small claims court was designed to handle.

And get a design agreement ASAP!

5 minutes ago, ShaneK said:

I did it in chief, converted to symbol, deleted center stringer.

Excellent!

Could you change the width of the stringers? 

10 minutes ago, ShaneK said:

David gets a point or 2 or 3 but do tell your method of madness.

It's really simple. I draw the stairs in another cad program, save as a symbol, import into chief architect

Came across this the other day when I was looking for an alternative 

https://theperfectblock.com/

I don't think the OP wanted to remove all the stringers, just the middle stringer.

Good morning Honey,

Can you post your layout of your house and define what you mean by "the above problems"?

This will help you get "your proposal and pricing" a little faster.

Would it be great if you could tie your custom toolbar configuration to individual  saved plan views?

I took a closer look at your stairs and came up with this:

Will this work for you?

Good video, Steve!

It’s always fun to watch professionals at work!

Why not add the 4th floor?

I have been playing with this app for a couple days.  Here’s what I’m having fun with...

I will second the T520.

I have had mine for a while and I am impressed with the machine.

 I use it to “proof” plansets, and marketing banners and posters, along with printing 3D model templates for foam board house models.

4 minutes ago, Hartman said:

...  Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.  

First thing you are doing wrong is not giving people enough information for anyone to help you.

Post a plan file, or at least some renders...

Are you sure it's not your Saved Plan View that you want?

It ran steady at 4.68 while opening the camera view then it dropped down to just over 1 ghz while idling.

16 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

 

If possible just run it again, no need to time it, just watch task manager to see how fast your CPU is running. It should be up close to 5 or even a smidge over say 5.2.

CPU was 4.68 GHz

36 minutes ago, parkwest said:

1.) = 18 sec

2.) = 21 sec

3.) = 19 sec

4.) = 34 sec

Redid test:

13 sec

16 sec

14 sec

28 sec

Yes, I had the task manager open but on my second monitor so I couldn't keep track of everything going on.  I was using a stopwatch on my iPad to record the times...

18 hours ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

Here is another stress test model. This one looks at the effect of very high surface counts. The model contains 5,000 BBQ symbols for a total surface count of just under 19 million. The test here is a simple one.

 

1.) Open Plan.

2.) Open Camera View, Record Time to Display.

 

The results may surprise you.

 

This one should be of greatest interest to those with high core count processors as the processing here is fully threaded.

 

My 4 core/8 thread 6700K displays in 34 seconds.

 

The rule in respect to core/thread performance is in general, to reduce the time by half you need double the cores. Theoretically to drop my 38 seconds to 19 seconds will require 16 cores that can run at my 4.1 Ghz rate. To get this down to 8 seconds would require 32 cores, 4 seconds 64 cores, 2 seconds 128 cores and to 1 second 256 cores.

 

BBQ Parade.plan

 

16 seconds to open plan camera.

16 seconds to open new Full perspective overview camera.

23 hours ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

Here's a different stress test model. This one allows you to explore more typical CA functions related to walls, roofs, windows and doors. It should not bog down anyone's system but will run slower so you can see what's going on. Suggest having Task Manger open on the process tab so you can see what component does what at what time. At the bottom of task manger there is a digital clock so you can time your operations.

 

1.) Open Plan.

2.) Open Task Manger, Select Process Tab, Select Options "Always on Top".

2.) Open Standard Camera View, Record Time to Open.

3.) Zoom in on one of the Houses. Should be no problem.

4.) Click on a Wall Surface and Drag up Top Edge up. Record Time to Complete Task.

5.) Hit Undo, Record time to complete task.

6.) Zoom out to see all houses.

7.) Select Build, Roof, Build Roof, Roof, Build Roof Planes, Record Time to Complete Task.

 

What to watch for.

 

1.) The "3D Rebuild" pop up.

2.) In Task Manager Observe the activity levels of the CPU, GPU and Disk Drive, When They are Active and When are Not During the Processing.

3.) Depending on What you do Notice That the full 3D Rebuild only Occurs for Certain Changes.

 

My Results (Alien X51 R3)

 

1.) Open Standard Camera View = 18 seconds.

2.) Drag Wall Surface up = 22 seconds.

3.) Undo Drag Wall Surface up = 22 seconds.

4.) Build Roof Planes = 35 seconds.

 

Parade of Homes 400.plan

1.) = 18 sec

2.) = 21 sec

3.) = 19 sec

4.) = 34 sec

I agree with Jorge... carpenter uses more than one type of saw...

I just watched the video from Digital Canal about panelizing your framing...

Thought you might want to check it out...

https://digitalcanal.com/

I have seen a big improvement using my new computer.  I don’t know what Chief uses but I have been having fun doing ray trace renders... in the past I never had the time to do them.

 I just did a ray trace in my other CAD and it was done in just a few seconds.

 I opened a large plan along with the layout that I had been working on with my old computer and noticed immediately no lag time when making changes.

 The computer was just a smidge north of $3k.  No assembly needed!

And I would like to thank the guys on here for their great advice when I was shopping...