Rich_Winsor

This is a slippery slope for sure. Without getting political I can only say that increasing the population density of neighborhoods that don't have the infrastructure to support the increase is a recipe for trouble. IMHO

Corel VideoStudio X10 has a nice live screen capture feature.

If you don't mind, how loud is the computer. I have read some reviews that the fans are noisy.

Many moons ago I did something sort of like that. Use your bird's eye picture as the background and tweak your camera position so that your Chief model is in the proper orientation for the picture.

God love you guys, but when you start hashing out these macros I might as well be reading this stuff. More than ever I am convinced that macros should have a forum of their own.

Don't want to range too far afield here but @CharlesVolz you have a typo (an extra "lot") in the 4th paragraph. Just a FYI.

Don't know how many of you have taken the Customer Survey in the Announcements Forum? Also don't know exactly who is compiling the results, but it does afford one the opportunity to input suggestions to improve the program. I suppose It can't hurt to fill it out and ask for the main improvements you would like to see. I sent one in.

Even a blind pig finds an occasional acorn. Berkeley was also the first town to ban the Fire Dept. from having U.S. flags on their fire engines. Don't believe that ban has been universally adopted.

Nice work Graham. BTW, how much does a bottle of that 400 year old Rembrandt signature wine go for?

I think they are over-reacting. Just because the giant bankrupt energy provider nearly blew San Bruno to kingdom come and almost burned down the entire state last summer is no reason to fly off the handle and ban natural gas.

Don't know if it's an argument, but it looks like a one sided conversation to me. The guy is trying hard to make an impression but the young lady seems disinterested. Now that I think about it I've found myself in his shoes before.

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It's odd that your X11 "icons" would look like X9 "icons" since the installation of X11 or any future update of X11 would automatically update the "icons". Chief calls the "icons" buttons and you will find them @ C\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X11 (64 bit)\resources\buttons There are hundreds of them. You could copy them all, or just the ones you want from your employee's 'puter and then paste them into the buttons folder on your rig. You may be asked for administrative permission to overwrite the existing buttons. Also be aware that if you are hand picking a few buttons to change, there are many similar buttons. Be sure you are copying the correct ones.

Not sure if this is what you mean, but Chief has it's own Screen Capture tool.

Check out Xfrog. http://xfrog.com/category/xfrogplants.html

I always knew it was ALDO's fault. Lots of good info Graham.

I really don't know how you guys put up with this never ending regulation. Next thing you know they will be limiting the VOCs in the construction workers farts (though this might not be a bad idea ).

Don't know if this was mentioned but one of the main reasons I prefer to build my own rigs is that you can install only the applications you want. You don't get a machine with all kinds of bloatware eating up your resources before you even start.

Isn't this what PNG files are for?

What a great thread, but we need to get back on topic. Just finished the pour for our duplex garage. We used the AnchorMates to good effect. Another downside to "stab and jab" is that hopefully there is some rebar in there that can get in the way. I had my guys tie the anchor bolts together with a length of rebar. If this garage blows over it's gonna take the foundation with it. Here's a fuzzy shot getting laid out for the pour.

If it doesn't work out for you, you could put your name on the list for one of these. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/now/aurora-supercomputer/overview.html

LOL… and here is a happy little Normal Map that I like to apply to my floor texture.

I found some basic pipe fittings @ 3D Warehouse and was able to import them into Chief but I wasn't smart enough to get the origin offsets to line up properly so aligning the fittings onto the pipes was a total crap shoot. The results turned out pretty well though.

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Don't know what to say Chad, but your image is showing a wood grain texture that isn't the default for Siding 6. Have you applied a bump or normal map to your siding? BTW, zooming in or out doesn't change anything on my end.