DRAWZILLA

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.

Maybe we should all move there, sounds like easy work. No California Green crap.

I put all my camera's on their own layers I have about 7 layers for camera's. They don't get in the way.

I control all the lineweights going to the layout using a specific layerset attached to an Anno-set. I call it my elevation anno-set. you also can have different anno-sets for each different view, like show fence on this view and not on the other view. Just adjust all the lineweights as you like them, like roof walls(will make your wall lines larger like 40 or so.) windows 30, doors 30, etc. You can send to the layout and change the layer set after sent. I have all 4 elevation views already sent to the template layout, so I really don't have to do it again.

Thanks Jerry but that condition would not be approved here, codes for short pony walls like that would have to be a solid beam to work. Hinge effect is also in play

Just keep the DXF in the background and trace it.

simple just draw a cad detail of the tie in. Chief will not generate that 2x12 automatically. You can do it manually, but if you ask me, it's not worth the time.

framingMy 3d models are perfect except for that 2story over a 1 story, never show a 3d view anyway, if you just don't include a framing material for the existing ceiling, works like a charm-no sweat. just fill in the ceilings in the sections if they are in a different direction- very easy to do.

I think Chief just fixed that with the latest update