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I think the "x" is actually the plenum portion of the FAU.

There are others, but I can't remember off the top of my head. I know I turned this one in a long time ago.

for one, Take a wall elevation of a Cabnet and try to change the countertop to 100, it just doesn't do it.

Look like some kind of ceiling to me. Make it an open below room.

I agree, some of the line weights just aren't working in some views.

This is the most spam EVER.

Try X6, it works better.

They bribe the plan checker, simple as that. Went in to the city the other day and the plan checker said it will be 4 weeks before he could get to it. He also said that he could do it during his off hours for $500. The city of Yorba Linda fired their inspectors and plan checkers (cleaned house) for taking bribes. about a year ago. That's what we have become. Does anyone just do their job anymore?. They become too busy at work doing who knows what and take all the plan checks on the side, double the money, why not.

If you look closely at the washer dryer symbols, you see that Chief has put a period at the back for a wall separation distance, at least I think that's how they do it now.

Especially the place in cabinet outlets, they have never worked correctly even though I have reported it.

Looks like you need to lower or turn off the ceilings in those rooms

I don't think it works, tried it and nothing. Works only in vector view, if it worked at all. Not a good tool if you ask me.

Very easily done automatically by adjusting it in the wall DBX. Chief has videos on this

Hay, I could use it for those times when a hip rafter slips below the ceiling line ( always happens) instead of turning the roof framing off, which I don't like to do b/c I like seeing the rafter tails through the windows. I'll give it a try and see if this thing works

I just place an (e) in the label, draw the as-builts then Place an (n) when I'm ready to draw the new plan I also do that with doors and fixtures. It all set up in my template plan.

Just open the old layout in the new version and save as..

I agree Joey, we are just trying to get Chief to let us do it within the program. They have come a long way to doing just that, a little more tweaking is all that's needed at this point.

I am using 8.1 and not having any issues like that. I also upgraded from win 7

There are also some file recover programs you can install for free.

IMO get the best video card you can but I don't think you need 8gb, I have 3gb and its been more then enough. I have the NVidia 780 gtx 3gb and it work fine and fast but the best upgrade I ever did was an SSD hard drive, that really kept things fast

Also, do you have lots of things running in the background, especially some older virus protectors can slow you down.

I have the same card and I leave shadows on all the time. No problems here You might try to turn on optimizations and turn off all software edge smoothing off, let the hardware do that

I was just going by your statement earlier, sometimes the sun will never be the way you want it to be, so in those cases, fake it, just for the view. Who really knows if Chief's sun is totally accurate to begin with anyway. I wouldn't guarantee it.

If you want an easy way to put the sun anywhere you want, without sun studies, just delete the sun angle and adjust it manually and put it anywhere you want, I never use the sun angle. You can place it anywhere around the building in 3 seconds, using degree's of a circle. I may not be actuate but its fast and easy. .

Joey does a lot of cad embellishments in his drawings and they look very nice, indeed, but I don't have the time to do that kind of stuff and still make money. Chief has gotten it pretty good in regards to line weights but auto hangers would be very nice as I have to manually add them to the sections now.