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    CA Stress Testing Results

    in General Q & A

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    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.

    CA Stress Testing Results

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    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

    New Computer advice

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    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...

    Is Buying A Different Program The Best Way To Draw Dormers?

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    20 hours ago, Richard_Morrison said:

    This is not really much different than the "stab and jab" approach that many contractors take with bolts placed after the concrete is poured, except that you couldn't really see if the bolts were fully embedded since the mudsill would block your view. Stab & jab is also a good recipe for a cone of laitance, which reduces the structural strength of the anchor bolts in pullout. 

     

    Yep!  It’s a miracle that the human race has survived....  with all these older homes just slipping off the foundations everyday due to lactating anchor bolts placed into the concrete by mere mortals.

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    Is Buying A Different Program The Best Way To Draw Dormers?

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    6 hours ago, Richard_Morrison said:

    This is what https://www.strongtie.com/anchorholders_anchorbolts/am_holder/p/anchormate is for. If there were a 2x6 or 3x6 mudsill in place prior to the pour, with a standard 8" foundation wall, you would be pouring concrete into a 2-1/2" slot, and make it harder for the concrete folks to trowel the top of the foundation wall. 

     

    We didn’t have those anchor holders back in the 70’s when I worked for a foundation company... I was thinking about placing the mudsills with the anchor bolts after the top had been troweled... you could stack all the sill plates, layout and drill mass production wise...

    Suppressing Layout Box Labels

    in Tips & Techniques

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    Layout Box Borders and Labels

    A border will display around each layout box when the “Layout Box Borders” layer is set to display in the Layout Page Display Options dialog. See Layout Page Display Options.

    Layout boxes can also display labels when the “Layout Box Labels” layer is set to display. See Object Labels.

    Automatic layout box labels display basic information about the original view in the plan. For example, plan view sent to layout from Floor 1 will have an automatic labelthat says, “1st Floor”. A camera view sent to layout will have a label that states the camera’s name. Layout box labels have their own edit handles and can be customized to include text as well as Object Specific Text Macros. See Text Macros.

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