DavidJames

When you say that your system is crashing when your CPU reaches 100%, to me this sounds like it could possibly be your CPU overheating. Have you checked your CPU temps while raytracing?

I had this issue the other day when dealing with furred walls. The only solution I was able to come up with just to play with the stemwall heights in the Room Specification DBX. Also, it looks as though some of your footings aren't lining up. You can adjust this in the foundation tab in the the same DBX.

I'm self-taught. Much like yourself, I found that the videos that Chief Architect has online, as well as the knowledgeable people in this forum is more than enough help. You're clearly utilizing both options so you're on the right path. Keep it up

I ended up changing your railing to a half-height wall and using polyline solids to cover up the areas that were displaying concrete. I also made a room molding polyline in the raised area so that I could control where the molding was going/displaying (unfortunately I didn't have your baseboard profile in my library so you'll have to change it back). Boyett_ProjectR1.zip

You can always try zipping the file, or uploading it to a cloud drive (Dropbox, Google Drive etc) and pasting the download link.

Could you post the plan file so I can take a look?

I'd suggest using AVG instead.

I used Softplan for about a year before losing my USB security lock. Rather than spend $1,000 on replacing it, I decided to try Chief Architect instead. Much like Johnny, I didn't like Softplan at all as I found it extremely clunky, unrefined and just very limited. It actually only took maybe 10 minutes of using Chief to regret ever purchasing Softplan. Also, Chief has better support, and a better online community.

Your system should be fine. I'm assuming you're probably running windows 7/10? If you haven't done so already, I'd make sure your OS and all system drivers are up to date and then try running CA again

I've only encountered one bug, and it was due to a video card driver issue. I'd be willing to go out on a limb and say that any issues you're experiencing probably aren't related to the software, but rather your system. That being said, what are your system specs?

You need to change the rail style to panels, then under the newels and balusters tab, change the panel type to "cable".

No worries at all

My pleasure

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I moved the railings by holding CTRL and then used the "connect walls" command to rejoin them.

Like this? Just move the railing walls out to where you want them to be. You'll just need to then turn off autoframe and adjust the pads and beams accordingly.

Create a room for that entryway that you want raised via invisible walls or the room divider tool. Once created, you can open up the Room Specification DBX and, under the structure tab, raise the floor and ceiling height to whatever you want.

I'm assuming you want to have a raised entry like this?

There's something going on in your "rooms" layer that is causing the issue. Turning off that layer will remove the error entirely, however you'll lose your room hatching.

This is happening because your stairs and your landing have a white fill. Double-click on your landing, select the fill tab, change it to "none".

Viki, if your tech is attempting to charge you $1700 for a clean install + software installation, you need to find yourself a new tech as that's a monumental ripoff. That being said, for a computer that's 7-8 years old, I don't think I would even spend $500 on something that may end up not even fixing the issues you are having. In my opinion, based on the age of your current PC, I'd say you're overdue for a new system. Keep your video card and your hard drive though .

Much like yourself, I was planning on upgrading to a Ryzen system as well. I was debating between the 1800x and the 7820x for months. I ultimately went with the 7820x because it essentially provided single threaded performance close to the 7700k (single-threaded king), and multi-threaded performance meeting/exceeding the 6950x (10 core, $1700, beast of a chip). The Ryzen chips are great, don't get me wrong; they really shine with multi-threaded performance but unfortunately fall behind when it comes to single-threaded performance by quite a large margin. Some of the software I use benefits from ST, and some of the software I use benefits MT so to me the 7820x ended up being the better option. As TheKitchenAbode has said, the 8700k should be a great option for you. Keep in mind that the 8700k, much like the 1700x/1800x, only supports dual-channel memory. Is there much of a difference between dual/quad channel? Depending on the software it can double your memory bandwidth, or it can have absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Here's a comparison between your current chip and the 8700k: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2400/3937vs803

I ended up going with a 7820x + 32GB of Quad Channel ram for this exact reason. Built the system just yesterday.

Can you post your plan file so we can take a look?

I'm really confused as to what you're after buuuut... Couldn't you just do a copy-in-place and then reflect-about the copy? That way you have the original version remaining, plus the reflected version as well?

Unfortunately Chief doesn't have this option. I have a seat with Weyerhaeuser's Javelin software. I just end up re-drawing it in the software for complete member analysis.