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Have some fun and re-generate yourself. Lots of work and X7 coming soon. On your way up look at this very small town called Olancha, believe it or

not ,I lived there as a kid, they filmed a "twilight zone" in our house. My mom wore a radiation badge b/c we could see the mushroom cloud over the

mountains. Not many people alive can say they have seen a mushroom cloud.

Chief has said in the past that the Quadro cards could cause some problems, they recommend a gaming card not a cad card

Thanks guys, that's out of the box thinking for sure

I never make changes in front of the client, too much can happen. I also don't want to be there any more than I have too. I send movies to the client, to see the 3d. Very simple to do and a 3 min video takes 3 minutes to make. They can also watch it as many times as they want at their leisure..

Joe, would love to hear which setting it was. I have similar issues with material dbx getting behind the main window until I click somewhere again.

Sometimes my mouse cursor also disappears in the drawing area but is visible again when I'm over the icons.

I have also seen this condition before, try updating your mouse drivers or just use the generic Microsoft driver and see if that helps. I don't see

this anymore.

Yes, he has done many video's on this a while back, check chieftutor.com. I don't think he has any recent one's.

Thanks Buddy, He usually announces his vacations.

It doesn't

I was answering his question about a method where he could have a foundation, basement, 1st floor plans that will re-generate the foundation walls correctly. Foundation alignment is then possible. I never put a basement w- rooms on the foundation level.

If you make your bay a separate room then you can use "cantilevered underside" in the materials section. the only problem is that you cant adjust the thickness thus sometimes you get some z-fighting with the flr jsts in the seat. You just have to turn off the flr joists in that view, to get what

you need.

Yes it is backwards but that's how you do it.

Joe, where's Scott, haven't seen him around these parts lately?

Yes, I too wish I was more diligent about updating my templates.  I get caught in this same trap all the time too.  Just get so busy and trying to get to the next project all the time.

I keep my template plans and layouts in my X6 folder so when I come across something not just right, I just open them and fix and re-save for any new jobs. It would be nice if Chief had a "Make default" for everything that would automatically go to your templates

All of my main details are already in the layout, Done. All the others are in the lib. I just modify a detail as needed and I have many to choose from. Very rarely do I ever draw a cad detail as I have just about every condition already available to me. Nothing like a lib that has just about everything you need, but it takes years to get it just right.

You can make the basement floor 1 and go up from there. then no problem. this method also will give you a foundation plan.

Turn off soffits in the roof DBX. The sub fascia controls the eave overhang if soffits are on. No sure if that's whats going on with you though.

If I have to rotate a plan, I just rotate in the layout--not the plan.

The good thing about copy / paste method is that the layer comes with it.

You can also control the showing of window labels for each window in the window DBX--label tab

Check your mouse for an updated driver or low batteries

I also add S.C. for solid core to the door label.

Some rooms might have a ceiling and a floor above, that's why we have this, no matter what floor its on, like a garage with a second floor over part of the room. The 1 story portion of the room will have ceiling joists.

Yes there is a bug, when you uncheck "Obscure glass in vector views" in the 3d DBX ,it should do it. It works for glass doors

Textures and patterns are two different things you must adjust both as needed ,they don't work together and are not connected at all.

Yes, one way is to make the door a slab type and use hidden hinges and make the door the same material as the walls and remove all hardware. You can use a molding p-line as the base on the door and call it a push open door. also set the jamb to 0"

Don't use a room wall material as the inside of the glass also get painted with that material, always has, use a wall material region instead.

Yes, it's already in the room DBX, look there. As for permanent changes ,other than a template plan, there is no way to change them permanently