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Sorry about that, didn't know.

Layer sets and layers are the power of Chief, use them wisely , my son.

I would say your video card is a little old, but because it is , try turning off the always update and see. You know you can always update everything in the layout by hitting one button on the layout, its the update all views button.

Are your pattern lines black or gray, and did you adjust the correct color in the pattern section. I like them gray. try and see how it shows when actually printing to paper. It's a lot of hit and miss to get exactly what you want.. It does work believe me. You preferences could be different than what I like.

Change the roof plane height, there is no setting for wall heights. moving the roof down will change the wall automatically

You could also clean your computer and registry, just in case you have too much junk in the trunk. I do it every week. I use Ccleaner.

two of the best , right there. Scott is the best terrain dic with person I know, thanks buddy, very helpful. Glen is the best at everything , for sure.

I have been able to get around doing this using the computer method, by trading off energy requirements for different areas. A little more here , a little less there, I guess it depends on your climate zone.

Do you have your views sent to layout set as "always update", if so try to turn those off in all your views. another thing is do you have the layout and the plan open all the time? Close the layout when working on the plan. Those things might help. Other things might be how big is your plan, or do you have a symbol that is large or corrupt, lots of round railing can also do it , if so just turn them off when working on your plan. Not sure about your video card, I always use NVidia. Good luck, post the plan so I can test it on my machine.

Tried it, not what it's built up to be. Small Grandkids are great, but they turn into teenagers. If we could only skip that section.

I think you are correct, Chief will slow down with big complicated plans with lots of round railing, Lots of cad details or PDF's. But I don't get too many very large jobs.

You can have as many floors as you want, if you don't draw any walls on that 2nd floor, you won't have one. I do 1 story plans all the time using 3 floors just in case I need them for skylight shafts, raised ceilings. It an attic if no wall are there.

Carbonite has unlimited storage for a very small price, that's why I like it. I have 750 gb backed up, 50 bucks a year-not bad

I haven't seen that, do you have a lot of programs running in the background?

lazy-boys are great aren't they.

I think Chief recommends at least 1gb of video ram. ray-tracing uses the "CPU and not the video ram

I'm much larger then you, according to my wife

When you turn off the walls the doors go off with it. I always put the balcony railing wall also on a separate layer so they can show up in site and roof plans As for your exterior walls only showing the doors, anyone's guess without seeing the plan

nice, Shane

yes , change the layer of the wall, weather or not it's bearing doesn't matter.

Sorry I don't have time either, and when I do, it expensive. Hope you get someone on such short notiuce

I use a lot of "PDF's" without any of those problems, you probably have a pdf image, not a vector pdf.

I have the update with no problems and I have a dell (Alienware is owned by Dell). When I wanted to upgrade to windows 10 with my old computer, couldn't do it b/c Dell won't update any drivers on older machines, mine was 5 years old, I did add some new stuff to it though. NVidia should have the driver you need. Never heard of anyone locking the video card, try a different IT guy.

I show my exterior and interior bearing walls as "Walls-normal" and non-bearing interior walls as ""walls-interior-non-bearing". This is so I can have a live site plan without showing all the walls and show just the exterior walls for a roof plan, for those I change the line type to dotted and a light gray color.

I always have my line weights on, so never tried it with them off. The patterns can be controlled by adjusting the pattern in the material edit section. Sometimes the pattern will show a white line which won't print in vector views, like in some brick materials. Just adjust the material itself.