Rich_Winsor

Stairs... the final frontier. I wish I could help you Lady, but all I can offer is emotional support. I'm happy if I can get a couple of steps to line up with the front door. If you pull this off I think you should qualify for a bronze star with an oak leaf cluster. I have followed the spiral staircase threads with interest but haven't actually tried my hand at creating them. Hopefully some of the 'heavy hitters" will have some suggestions.

Here is the way I got my name out in the local community. I modeled one of the local landmarks, which happened to be the auditorium for a local high school and donated it to the school for their use. Even though I'm not really in the business, I have received several offers to model some other local buildings in the area. I am currently working on the oldest school house in the area which was built in 1905. Here is one of the images of the auditorium that the high school requested.

I'm not seeing any bleeding issues. I opened your plan but didn't see any saved interior camera views so I just took a Full Camera view of the cabinets and ran a High Quality Indoor Ray Trace. Can you post the troublesome camera view or perhaps the problem image and the settings you are using?

Mine is located on the Chief startup menu right below the "Auto-Build Entire Model" button. Seriously Anthem, what you are asking for doesn't really exist. I think Michael summed it up pretty well. Just for an example here is the same camera shot Ray Traced with 3 different simple 3D backgrounds and different material properties. It all depends on the effects you are trying to achieve. Top to Bottom: Daytime Nighttime Back to the Future Time

lol, Perry you know I was just kidding with you. What if you had died and come back as a zombie Chiefer? Then, technically, Dave is within his rights to end your "lifetime" subscription.

Looking good Justin. I see you are using the ZIP system sheathing. I have been looking into using it for a project of mine but I have been having trouble finding a local supplier. Seems like a very tidy installation, how do you like it?

Hey Perry, have you checked your pulse lately?

Hey Mick. Good to see you back. For a while there I thought you had fallen off the face of the earth. I even posted in the Chat Room asking about your whereabouts, but nobody cared. BTW, you might want to edit your listing for Michael's YouTube Channel.

That's some good stuff there Michael. +1 I've never bought into the whole process of just drawing your walls to any old dims first and then editing them later to make them the right length. For how I use the program I almost always know the length I want so it seems foolish and timewasting not to draw them correctly to start with. This seems a lot smoother than constantly hitting Tab and entering the value for the length of each wall there.

Anybody else getting this. I just installed the latest X9 update (Build 19.03.50x64) and now every time I open a new plan I'm getting this message which doesn't make sense since I'm not opening an existing plan but a brand new one in X9. I wasn't getting this message in the prior X9 Beta version.

Hey Scott, I don't know why but the quality of these 2 vids on dropbox are displaying in really crappy resolution on my screen and there doesn't seem to be any setting to improve the image quality. Your youtube vids are sharp and crisp as usual however.

Here's my 2 cents worth. The "G" in Glenn's version ain't right. It's more like the one in Johnny's version. But then in Johnny's version the "M" is correct but the "W" isn't.

Another advantage of PEX is that it has no resale value. You don't have to worry about vandals ripping out your water lines to sell for scrap metal. With Copper selling for about $2.50 a pound these days you don't want it laying around the construction site.

Hey David, the text in your avatar is an interesting spin on a quote by the most decorated Marine of all time. He said: "Pain is weakness leaving the body!"

I don't know if this is what the OP was talking about but there were a whole set of features that apparently haven't been brought forward to this version of the forum. There was a list of all the active users ranking them from the highest total of posts on down to people with just 1 post. There was a list of the highest rated content (based on reputation points) given to a post. You used to be able to see who else was viewing the thread you were viewing. I'm sure there are some more I'm not thinking of at the moment. While they certainly aren't game changers, I found them all useful on occasion. Maybe some of these features are still lurking here somewhere and I just haven't found them yet.

I did one of those many moons ago. It involved using Polyline Subtraction. I can't find the plan right now but I have a couple of saved images. BTW, has anybody heard from Bill Emery lately. I'm sure Bill could build that roof. He was a big help to me at the time.

Is the window that you have Chief open in maximized? Try hitting the Maximize/Restore Down button in the upper right hand corner of the window.

Chat room posts don't get counted in your post total. Didn't get counted in the previous version of the forum either. Who knows why?

You know, ya'll see this as an opportunity for more work, but I can't help thinking this is just going to lead to a major reduction in the quality of life for everybody involved. Our infrastructures weren't designed for the added level of use this type of expansion will generate. Who wants to fight for parking places in front of their own property? Who wants to see dozens of trash cans lining the streets on pickup day? Who wants to hear the neighbor's in-laws arguing over the back fence? Or their pets carrying on? Or the rowdy kids blasting music at all hours? How are emergency services going to access all these places? Has anybody really thought out the consequences of this law? If it leads to squalid overcrowded conditions and decreased property values what have we gained? Geez, if you want to live like sardines in a can move to Tokyo. JMHO

Don't know about you guys? These vids all play fine for me. But Bob, walk thru doesn't do it justice. It's more like a mad dash thru.

Don't know what to tell ya Chop. The vid plays in all of those Win10 apps on my rig.

Hey Chop, it runs on my Win10 machine running XVID 1.3.3. It is in gray scale (no color) though.

lol! Thanks for the reply Dan. No, "followers" would not have been my choice either. Hey, I'm just a guy doing drafting on a computer, not a messiah. Seems kind of condescending to be asking to be a follower as opposed to a friend. JMHO

To answer my own question I found it here.

I have never been a fan of change just for the sake of change. I must admit that so far I don't see anything of great enough significance to warrant a revamping of the forum. It's like when the local market decides that they are going to rearrange all the items in the store. All this does is inconvenience all the regular customers and it isn't going to bring in more new ones. Things I have noticed so far include no numbering of the posts in a thread. No friends in my profile section (I didn't have many but where did they go?). And what happened to my post count? I worked hard to accumulate over 500 posts and now I'm back down to 496. And what happened to the preview post feature? I used that a lot to proof my entries.