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I do remember the wettttt wood from my 13 years in Salmon Arm area and before that the Lower Mainland. Our biggest issues here are frost protection, insulation and high water tables. I did some modular walls many moons ago and they were also a different height because of trimming for exact dimensions. I am now located just outside Saskatoon and have clients throughout the province.

Richard I do Canadian stud wall height at 9'-1 1/8" just as the standard templates are set. All of my training and design work was in B.C. Up until 11 years ago and this is the dimension always used. Do they do things different on the Island? I have also found you have to raise the baseline to match your extended heel height for either insulation value or window/soffit clearance.

Not exactly an X7 item but very positive. I have really noticed an increase of comments, suggestions and help from the Chief staff on the forum. As Chief is a smaller company, I am sure this takes time from other work but I really appreciate this input.

Many of us have home studios. I do have custom home clients in quite often but if I am doing a Reno/addition it can be easier to review on site. My main preference is to do presentations on line as my clients tend to be all over the province and the driving distances can take an entire day or sometimes two. Seeing a site once is usually enough. @jon. That is exactly what I will want by next year although there will probably be something even better by then. My Asus has been a great computer.

I've never had a client that wasn't thrilled to see their project on their TV. Packing around my laptop is more than enough equipment for me. I sometimes have clients that can't remember their network logo so I just use my cell phone hotspot if I want to access Dropbox on line but usually I have everything I need on board. My Asus N53S is old but still does a fine job. It has an i7, 8 GB & a GT540M NVIDIA graphics card. I will probably replace it with a new Asus when Windows 10 comes out.

I agree with Glenn. I would like items, such as a fireplace insert, to properly insert into the front wall and leave the back wall or material to stay where it belongs with proper framing around. The 3D should then be able to show the item if the other material is removed for the insert.

Another aha moment. Great for additions and renos. I'm sure it has been mentioned before but just not as simply.

Everything is currently installed on each computer. How would I go about getting them to both use the same data set. It sounds like the perfect solution for most people that use a work station and laptop at different locations.

If it was all there, Dropbox just didn't it all get synced. I have noticed files uploading long after I have saved them to the hard drive. It's possible either the plan file or layout file completed and the other didn't.

Ray I will give your symbols a try on my next drawing. Once I go to con docs I don't usually change much because clients understand that is much bigger dollars than at the design stage. It doesn't really take any more time at that stage but I like to give them an incentive to make final decisions and stick with it.

Joe, I was wondering if something like that would be possible. I like to do all of this in my sections where the current roof pitch label doesn't work. I definitely would rather it was live because I often change roof pitches in the course of a design and as Scott mentioned I don't want it to be wrong.

Did you close the computer at home before Dropbox synced the file to offsite storage?

So very much to learn and no time to learn it. 9 jobs on the go at once is 5 too many. 3 in Chief and 6 that were started in Vectorworks. I try to switch off days because it gets confusing. Off to the salt mines I go.......

How do you label your sections without text blocks? Sorry I am off topic but I had to ask.

I turned on roof label in my cross-section /elevation and nothing showed up. Is there something else I should be using Scott?

I tried every type of wording I could imagine to try and find some info on this item. Even tried google and no joy... How are new users supposed to find help if the help function can't?

Just in plan view it would seem.

That is what I was afraid of. I am used to dragging a line along the slope with the indicator tool and having it give mre the pitch. When I am working on a few different con docs at the same time it helps to not have to remember which one has what pitch. It will be faster to draw 2 lines and input the numbers as opposed to bringing something from the library and adding numbers.

Is there a roof pitch indicator for elevation and cross-section views or do I have to manually make one all the time? I have spent a lot of time hunting for something and have given up.

Mine is just starting out but I plan on using it almost exclusively so I imagine it will get big fast. Thanks for the input.

Does everyone put all their libraries together in that location?

I use Dropbox so that will work.

I am in the process of organizing my user library. I am putting in folders, subfolders and files similar to CA's. Is there a preferred method to maintain them on both my desktop and laptop? If I travel the laptop is my workstation so I need it to be current.

I will put them in as a Cad detail from now on. Good learning experience. Thanks.

I just zoomed into the schedule and sent the screen view to layout and placed it where I want. Is that going to create issues I don't know about? Have to get this initial Chief drawing out the door. So far, so good.