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Anything I want to show dotted like cab. and toilets, or just anything in the plan, I just make sure its turned on when I send it to ,"View to cad" ,and its all converted, then just put it all on 1 layer and lock it.

2nd floor and roof are not automatic, if you have turned off auto roofs.you must do it manually, but after moving the walls, you can delete the roof you have and re-build them automatically.

works for me , but you have to be in standard mode to ray-trace See what happens when you post the plan--instant answers

Just turn off the walls after you make a p-line with a fill (trace the walls) and a dotted line , put on it's own layer, did not look at your plan though. you can always use the outside- room p-line tool.

I just add another floor and adjust the floor and ceiling levels and build it like it's really built, adding vents and details needed, this will also frame, p-solids won't

You can always do a screen capture ( SnagIt), not sure if it's legal though.

There are several 2d tree drawings in the bonus catalog / image cad blocks lib. But no 3d with these.

You can also just delete the toolbar file in the data location and it will automatically re-build if needed, but only at last resort.

The NVidia 1000 line of cards spec out of this world ,and at a great price. That's what I would do b/c I don't like waiting for anything. Time is money

Yes Scott , you are correct, you know me better than me.

One thing I see with using Chief's built-in PDF is, it generates a much larger file size for one.

Well the UGM is a great place to learn, I was there a couple of years ago. even though I wasn't there to learn, I couldn't keep myself away from the training classes b/c they are usually working off the new versions for part of the week. I think the actual training is for all versions. It was nice to sit in on those too.

I use a plot plan ref set for 2 story's , it's all automatic.

We do this all the time at any of Scott Hall's seminar's, learn something new every time. Try it at the next one he has.

Time for a new computer, just the cost of doing business, old technology just gets old and upgrading your computer will just go so far. Edit , after seeing your spec's it should be ok.

I have always said that anything can be done if you want to pay for it, 2nd floor load doesn't bother me.

I have actually seen a corner garden window a while back, must have been a custom built one.

Yes , you just send the whole plan to the layout to keep it live and just turn on and off what you need to show, it really helps to set up an anno-set to help save time, thing like having a separate layer for plot plan text and lines. I always say keep it live for everything.

Upgrade to X9 if you can, you are missing out of a lot of tools to draw faster ,and works much better.

The only thing I can think of would be to use walls to box out the windows then slam regular type windows together in the corner, but not the same. I guess you could make a symbol to do it.

You can always add another floor and put it up there.

Yes why not , they do for dormers

You can always copy any plans forward ,so you can keep an old plan unchanged.

it's only ok if you have one window per wall, other than that manually build

Yep, that's what I'm thinking also