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I would say no b/c my engineer will do the calculations, but I am looking for a way to add them to the plans quickly. I really don't add them to the plan until the engineer has done his work. As we all know there are too many varibles even within a 50 mi radius form me..

YOUR CORRECT, I HAVE LITTLE FAITH

My plans once won "best remodel of the year" from the city, and when the city interview the builder for an article , the builder took all the credit and didn't even mention me but my name was all over the plans. I didn't find out about it until it was done.

I did get the core lib update the last couple of days, you might open the lib. tab and check update lib. catalogs. and see if that works for you

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I don't think that Joe could possibly design all the different requirements from all the different regions of the U.S. into one macro.

Every time you drag walls down the whole wall follows so your bottom plate will be at the bottom of the floor joists level. I never try to drag walls, it will mess up your sections.

very nice Glen but does it show up in the materials list and schedules?

That's something I could use also, right now I use cad lines and callouts for the holdowns

Pretty good, how old is she? Now you have someone to help you in your old age. My grandkids aren't even interested--to complicated., they would rather play games.

not yet maybe in the next version but you can create your own symbols to do it but it's an advance method

also make sure you have room definition in each room, just a guess

if you use the SAM method like Scott does, you do not need to keep up with the templates and update them, you simply just start the new drawing with an old one, then erase what you need to and start drawing. I don't use the sam personally but I can see how it eliminates some drawing time with setup. I actually get away using maybe 15 annosets and 15 layersets , using the SAM method you can see how those guys have many many layer and annosets, they just build up and it's too much for me ,so I stick with using 1 template and work off of that. My brain just can't handle hundreds of anno's and layersets. Those guys seem to be doing fine with it. Whatever floats your boat is good.

I feel your pain, this is what I get in Southern Cali., in residential sometimes the building departments will waive this but, if not ,I need to get a professional to draw it up and the client will pay for it.. That's all I can do or move to another state that follows the codes and not so much B.S. I deal in 50 different cities and they are all different. It's a mess for sure.

I did not know that you can't use the 1920 as a second monitor, so what you are saying is I have to buy 2 new 4k monitors?

Mick, my eyes are just getting old. I did increase the text size to 14 and now much better. I really don't care for setting everything to 150 % thru windows with Chief as it changes everything including my drawing space, much better just to enlarge the menus and change them to a bold text.. My monitor is just a 1920x1080 and have been thinking a 4k if it would help (not sure). Thanks for the help.

Thanks Mick, I was having a hard time viewing my 42 " monitor b/c windows fonts were to grey, so I tried it out and now I can draw another 20 years, thank you very much for sharing this app. I'll never forget you.

Nice Eric

funny I have one of those on a plan I'm working on also.

OK, THANKS FOR CHIMMING IN BUDDY

I'm pretty sure when I bought my first Alienware, that's who they were before Dell purchased them. Don't ask what year but I know it was prior to 2005.

I think Alienware were always Alienware but Dell did buy them a few years ago, I thought the laps were liquid cooled , I guess not, I must have read this to fast. Thanks Mark.

Since going with Alienware many many years ago, never had any cooling problems ever--liquid cooled just works

I USE THE gf experience , all the other drivers don't bother me. Have more space then I'll ever use on this computer. also have a secondary 4tb drive for overflow if needed.

I'm with Larry (humble chief) on this one, you can reference as many plans to any layout that you want, simple.. Also don't forget you may have new foundation and framing plans, roof plans, etc.