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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.
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    Wow! That was interesting. If you have a 3D Connexion mouse try navigating the forum with it. Tilting forward & back scrolls up and down and Spinning left and right widens or shrinks the screen.
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    Look them up on Amazon. They have them in stock and a lot cheaper than the Best Buy prices you cited. Wired - $ 93 Wireless - $ 121 Free Shipping included.
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    Actually there is one setting you can control in X8. Check the "Render" settings in Preferences. I find the "Rotate about Camera Focal Point" to be more like the behavior of Chief's Mouse-Orbit Camera tool.
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    Thanks for confirming the behavior Barton. I can't believe more people aren't up in arms about this. Trying to accurately drag the slider in 1% increments with the mouse or manually entering every change by keyboard just aren't viable options if you are trying to compare how small adjustments in the sliders are reflected in the current Ray Trace image. Anyhow, I submitted it as a bug in my first ever Chief Support Case. We shall see what the powers that be have to say. With all the nice new features they have introduced with this release it would be a shame if we have to take a step backwards in productivity with this change.