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How simple was that. I'm thinking the worse.

Sometimes you need to shut off the computer and re-boot. I always shut down every night.

Doesn't the truss base work? That looks like a simple roof overbuild to me. Here in Calif. we do those all the time. I mostly build all my projects using all conventional lumber but some existing homes are trusses. Isn't that roof overbuild done conventionally anyway?

Ok, I posted it at 1:04pm. I do know any computer can not keep the time correct if the internal battery is low or going out. How old is your computer?

If I turn on Framing-rafters, I get them.

Chief goes on Pacific time

They can if you make one as "No room def"

The pic looks like you can see thru the overhangs into the room, maybe that has something to do with it. add soffits or try to frame the roof, you shouldn't be able to see thru it.

Nice he best answered his own question, at least give Joe a point

Just get the best processor and video card you can afford. That's the basic's of what it all boils down to.

Use the Bearing line tool to keep the joists separate and you can set them at any direction you want.

I guess there are not enough people like me that really need this stuff to save me a lot of time on every plan I do.

I always keep my sections live and only use the Auto detail for insulation and foundation embellishments. Look into using Annosets to automate most of the work.

once you draw in the trusses than they will stick and new re- framing will only frame where no trusses exists.

You must frame the model to be able to see it in the sections. Also you need to make sure that the framing layers, cabinets, etc, are on in section view.

I think most of the slowness is valid in X7, hopefully it is fixed in the final release. Although, some systems could be causing some slowness.

I would think that Chief would have at least created a lot of macro's that users could use on every plan, and save time. The arrow dis-connect is a big problem for not using that type of macro, for me. I do use as many as I can though, thanks to you and some others. I think The people at Chief could create pages of macro's to use, at least Create them if we ask for them on an individual basis until they build up pages of them, to include with a new version.

I can see it's there, just too light, try to increase the lineweight in the patterns layer or edit the material to have a darker line, not sure without seeing the plan

Did you happen to paint the interior walls of that room, that also happens with showers if you paint the walls with tile. Try to use the new "Wall material region tool" instead when you have glass, and change the walls back to default.

Thanks Chief for giving us a great tool that very few know how to use.

You can also export to Rescheck and those numbers should be there and you can check them

The conditioned area is not necessarily the square footage of the house ,it depends on the design, but that is a big difference, not sure what you have though.

Nice video Scott, yep the only way is really to manipulate the auto detail, to get the section correct like he wants it unless somehow you use pony walls and a manual slab floor.

I have been using Ccleaner for many years now and clean my registry every Saturday, the default settings have never givien me any problems-ever. I don't even back the registryup anymore.

You can adjust the conditioned area of the house in the room DBX and from there you can get the conditioned area from the material list.