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I know, that happened to me, so I purchased it. With the black on white screen and the color camera ,I can actually read the numbers on the screen without a problem. In the past, some of the other models were very hard to read correctly, of course I'm old and eyesight is questionable. No more mistakes with this one

Glen, you are the master of figuring things out, I know I appreciate what you do here. I also learn something everyday. Chief should pay you to be here.

Disto for me. The camera alone makes it worth the price. You can zoom to see exactly what you are measuring to. I use it all the time to see exact position for property lines outside on a sunny day, with most other devices, you can't see the little red dot. http://www.appraiserslaser.com/laser-distance-meters/disto-distance-meters.html

I don't want Chief to develop more cad tools, I want Chief to concentrate on making the 3d model better and faster for everyone.

Scott has a really nice video on his YouTube channel (dshall)

Hvac and Electrical load drawings are just not required here in good old So. Cal. for Residential and never has. We are working under the 2013 CBC, CRC codes. Commercial --yes. We are the meca of code country here, codes and codes everywhere. but none of that. Anyway, if they were, I'd have an experienced Hvac or Mechanical Engineer do it.

Here it is

While your in the neighborhood, go see St. Andrews, Take a pic and just say , you played it.

Scott, No ,I haven't golfed in 5 years now , all my friends left town. I not sure I can even do it anymore.

Scott, you gone for 2 weeks? I got Joe coming to see me tomorrow, we will talk about you.

still not there, you must close the plan before you send it.

I got that from you a long time ago, then Chief chimed in and said the lower the number the harder Chief has to work.

If you use a grid snaps, set it to 1/4" and not any lower. Do you really want 1/32" dimension's in your plan, not me. A very low setting will tax Chief b/c of the extra decimal points needed to figure everything out within the program.

Curb height is controlled by the top of curb box, put it wherever you want, it looks a little high to me. Change the wall type to get block

If you are using grid snaps, set them to like 1/4". That I find works good b/c since a typ. wall is 3.5", it will snap with better alignment. Any smaller will tax you computer(extra decimals) and Chief, and some big jobs could overload the system.

Curt I also start all my plans with a test , I will draw a standard box, then setup whatever roof in going to use and set all the roof defaults, Then set all the other defaults, delete it, and start laying out my floor. I like working the roof out first.

Draw a cad circle the size you want and place curved walls along that line. You cannot draw 1 wall in a complete circle, you must use 2 walls to do it.

In the past Chief has had more problems with the ATI cards than the Nvidia cards. That my observations based on being here a long time. Just fact. usually an easy fix, none the less a fix. Old cards are always a problem for everyone.

Ok thanks, got it. I must admit, I have never given that tool much thought. I think a few of us decided a long time ago not to use it b/c we just couldn't come up with a reason for it, truthfully. Now I know someone likes it. To each there own.

I also did it from the menu, sorry.

No what I'm saying is you would have to send a new "make copy" to get the correct layerset you just changed, wouldn't you.

It all about the top of curb and floor heights Fixed for you fixed floor Lenox.plan

Clients, who do they think they are, have fun you dog, put some photos on here.

If you make a change using "make copy" , then wouldn't you have to send it to the layout again to update it. I have never used that setting b/c it makes a lot of layout sets and its confusing about which one it is using. Not using it then you know which layerset is being used, the only one.

I try to only work on one or the other for that reason.