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    Nvidia wants me to update my driver to this version which it says was released today. I'm still running 362.00 (without any problems) since the recent update issues. Has anybody tried this latest update?
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    Those are a "specialty item" extra. What do you think you get for just $2,995.00?
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    It has always been my policy to take possession of what I have paid for. Unfortunately I violated my own policy by not downloading all the content available from Chief. As others have mentioned the task of downloading and then accessing everything seemed daunting so I adopted a download as needed approach. Now, in light of these disturbing new policy changes from Chief I felt compelled to download all the available content. So for the last week I have spent 15 to 20 minutes a night downloading everything from the 3D Library to a couple of DVD'S. FYI, it amounted to just about 5.5 GB of disk space. On a related note, I'm not sure "nickel & diming" is the proper term for the money grab. The "specialty niche" Crime Scene & Fire Investigation package has been downloaded 27,675 times. @ $19.99 a pop that works out to over a cool half a million bucks. Now, of course there wouldn't have been near that number of downloads if it hadn't been free, but we aren't talking about chump change here either.
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    Kool! Is that a Porsche Spyder in the driveway? Looks like Jimmy Dean's #130.
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    Graham tried to organize something like this using a camera view from the Riverstone Plan. Unfortunately it fizzled out without getting any significant results. See the end of this thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4962-processor-core-usage-in-chief/page-9 I was kind of hoping it might get some traction but apparently I was among the minority.
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    Interesting. I was offered the update to ver. 362.00 last week which I performed, but I wasn't offered the opportunity to update to the balky ver. 364.47. Glad they tried it out on Perry's rig first.
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    What driver version is that Perry? I just updated to version 362.00 in the last couple of days and haven't seen any problems.
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    Well, as long as we keep acquiescing to these ever more stringent software licensing agreements what else do you expect? Almost all my software used to be able to be installed on multiple rigs. Now I can't rightly remember them all, but I do remember that Adobe Acrobat used to allow 3 installs (no longer). I'm pretty sure programs like QuickBooks and Office also allowed more than 1 installation. At present the only significant software I have that still allows more than one installation per license is SolidWorks, but I'm sure as we continue to cave in it won't be long before I lose that capability also. Check out the attached thumbnail for SolidWorks sensible protocol for stand alone installations.
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    Before you resort to such drastic measures, have you tried to "Reset Side Windows" in "Reset Options" of the "Preferences" dbx? Edit: Jeez, in the time it took to capture an image Michael has struck again.
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    Have you explored the "Advanced Settings"? You can pretty much adjust anything there.
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    Yeah Graham, I guess we could say that you .....
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    Just saw an ad for these. http://www.varidesk.com/
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    Thanks Yusuf. Funny you should mention interesting. I have been reading portions of the Kebra Nagast. Wow! Talk about interesting. Our history talks about some guy riding around on a horse saying the British are coming. Your history talks about the Queen of Sheba shacking up with King Solomon and having a kid who steals the Arc of the Covenant and takes it back to Abyssinia/Ethiopia. BTW, what have you guys done with the Arc?
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    Mr. P, I've forgotten exactly why you can't upgrade. Something about Dell not providing drivers? How does this manifest itself? Do you not have access to the Win 10 download? Or will the download not complete? Have you considered making an installation disk and installing Win 10 that way. I used this approach on a rig I have the isn't connected to the internet. Win 10 installs some generic drivers for your hardware. If the installation isn't working for you, you can uninstall Win 10 and go back to your original OS as long as you do it within 30 days. After that you would have to reinstall your old OS to get it back. It just seems that there must be a way. After all Microsoft wants there to be a way. They want everybody to be on Win 10.
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    This definitely falls in the "Where there's a will, there's usually a way." category, but I was able to plumb my well model using some pipe fittings from imported SU along with Chief's Polyline Shapes. The model and Ray Traces were all done completely within Chief. BTW, Chief has a HVAC catalog available in the 3D Library you might want to check out (before they decide it's a specialty niche and want to charge you for it).
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    Sure Dennis, come on over and pick it up.
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    I get the same problem with overlapping glass panes. Here is a quick example where I was working on a symbol for a partially open window.
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    Just messin' around.
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    What Larry said. As you can see from my out of date signature I was once running a Quadro 4000 because originally I built my workstation for SolidWorks. When I started running Chief I was disappointed with the Quadro's performance. During one of my numerous hardware upgrades I opted for the NVidia GTX780Ti which I got for way cheaper than I had paid for the Quadro. The NVidia card runs circles around what the Quadro could do in Chief and interestingly enough I haven't really noticed any fall off in SolidWorks performance although I don't really push the SolidWorks software that hard with the work I use it for.
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    I don't think this is hijacking as it seems germane to the thread, but why can't we use the copy & paste functions with cameras (and the undo/redo functions as well)? There are many times I have wished that I could duplicate a camera setup that I had used in a previous iteration of a plan. Just recently I wanted to Copy & Reflect About a camera position so I could have identical shots of two duplexes that have mirror image floor plans. Also if you use the edit handles to move a camera in plan view you can't Undo the moves. What gives?
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    Here's a quick take. No textures came thru with the plan so I just changed the color of the siding material to look more like your photo. Changed all the cans to 60W Point Lights and gave them a light yellow color. Used pretty basic setup: Outdoor/High Quality/ Dark/No Blur/No Caustics and Default Image Properties. It takes a lot of passes to get rid of the grain and there is still some bleeding but it should get you headed in the right direction. Left Image was 15 passes in 12 minutes Right Image shows 46 passes in 30+ minutes Edit: Oh yeah, I changed out the background image too. The fireworks weren't doing it for me.
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    For me it's right there at the top of the page in the "Featured" section. https://3dlibrary.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?r=site/detail/998
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    Here is a little vignette I composed to use in an upcoming project. It turned out so well I thought I would share it with you. For some reason I like to title my images. I call this one “The Empty Chair”.
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    I don't know about her drawing skills, but she definitely has the flexible part down. Sorry, it was one of those things triggered by the title of the thread.