Doggies1954

They should be placed in the plan then you wouldn't be having any problems.

I got my invite a couple of days ago. Can I upgrade from Win 7 Home Premiun direct to 10 or would it be better to do a clean install. I hate the thought of putting everything back on. Then again it may get a lot of the crap off.

When I place fence on the terrain it sometimes follows terrain correctly, but often it "sinks" under.

Have you checked 'follow terrain' in the Stairs dbx?

Nice Rich.

Perry that would be at Cheers where everybody knows your name  

You need to upload the plan file, not the layout file.

yes, I now have the X7 beta

 

contact CA's customer service to discuss

 

Lew

 

So did Lew get the beta upgrade to X7 option in his digital Locker?

Or did his complaint prompt CA to release the X7 trial early?

Further to my post above, This is from CA Customer Support.

 Lew called and simply renewed his SSA, which did indeed give him access to X7.

I just checked and X7 is not in my digital locker and I have current SSA.  Should I just wait or contact Chief ?

As my SSA expires on the 12 Feb as I have mentioned in another post, I felt it very unfair of not having access to X7 because my SSA does not go till the 5th March. Lew suggested calling but as I'm on the other side of the world, I emailed CA. I mentioned that I had been using Chief for 20 years, since V4 but obviously they couldn't care less. So much for customer loyalty. Looks like I'll stay with X6. 

This is their response:

V4 was the first metric version I am told? 

That's right from memory. It was also the 1st version with auto roofs. It has come a long way since then. I can't believe I've being using it for 20 years.

If you are not sure, then download the trial and then make up your mind.

Arthur

I would if the bloody thing was in my locker but it's not. Now Lew has his in his locker and his SSA expires on the 1st Feb. Mine expires on the 12th Feb. but it's still not there.

Richard

It's a b it hard to upgrade when X7 isn't even in my locker.

I first purchased Chief in 1994 (V4) and have upgraded every release since. My SSA expires on the 12 Feb and there is nothing in my locker re X7.If I can't d/load X7 beta even tho my SSA is still current, I wont be paying my SSA renewal. I'm with Lew on this one. After 20 years of loyal service it means nothing. Customer loyalty has left the building.

Nice grass Alan.

That's going to take fooreeevvveeer.

Sorry but that's just not true. It should only take you a few minutes to do what Matty said.

I often think the people who

come on here and bemoan the perceived shortcomings

of the software would be better served by applying the

same zeal to finding creative approaches to solving their

problems. 

Well said Rich.

Abe

On the Menu: Tools, Toolbars and Hotkeys, Customize Toolbars and down the bottom RH side, click rest toolbars.

Probably best to contact tech support.    

Just use a ceiling plane. I do it all the time in the situation you have shown.

CA recommends learning auto-roofs

as 24+ roof styles can be done via auto-gen

then using manual as needed

in general once you use manual for a roof system

you  need to stop using auto

this is why I have been advocating for being allowed to

marquee a section and having auto apply only to that section

some how I doubt if we will ever have this feature 

Lew

This is where you said it. If I misinterpreted your sentence then I apologize. But you can still use manual roofs with an auto generated roof. Even with editing it can still be done.

you  need to stop using auto

Lew

would you please explain to me why this is so.

Absolute rubbish. I use auto all the time unless I want to create a roof section manually. Been using CA since V4.

Each to their own.

During registration there is a page you should have printed out which contains all the info to do with the software.

Product, Product Key, who it is registered to, Company, your details.

The last line has your Emergency Transfer Password.

This will not work with Transform/Replicate - it only works with the Copy/Paste Edit Tool

You gotta love Chief's inconsistencies 

Lew, they are two different tools. Not inconsistent at all.

Both have different operations.

Same as Scott. No problem here on the update,  

Maybe hitting the maximize button will correct the problem.

I've been using Chief since V4 and never had this problem.

Thanks to Doug & MickyToo the above solved the problem. I don't know how it happened but hopefully will remember the solution if I do it again.

Bill, the double image was caused by me saving the file twice when I was snipping the screen.

Kirk, my system is only 18 months old and reasonably fast.

Perry, I run on a laptop. No second monitor.