Rich_Winsor

I don't know of a single person who has updated

to a SSD who would ever think of going back to

"spinning disc" drives. Get the biggest SSD you

can afford and you won't regret it.

I think the mouse is going bad.

When a mouse goes bad.

I for one couldn't gripe cuz until now I didn't even know the cabinet outlet even existed.

In this case I would recommend a preemptive gripe.    

Here's what I get with my 8 Intel Core i7-3770K CPU

cores chugging along @ 3.50 GHz. Same deal as

Larry. Missing a lot of textures.

Edit: Oops, forgot that the export picture feature

doesn't show the ray trace time. 10 passes - Ray

Trace Time 3:11

This conversation has taken an interesting turn.

Just who is the arbiter of good taste in design?

Just who should be empowered to impose their

will and taste upon everyone else?

I have a sister who happens to live in one of the

Eichler homes in an exclusively Eichler neighborhood

that Richard references. I find it amusing that these 

tracts that were generally considered by the locals to

be the lower quality houses in less desirable areas are

now considered worthy of protection. I would venture

to say that any new house (foreigner) built in one of

these neighborhoods would stand out like a sore thumb

by exposing the insipid Eichler's for what they are.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

A local gal penned this little ditty in the sixty's about

just such a development. How ironic that these "little

boxes" are now deem worthy of historical preservation. 

 

Or depending on just how close you need the tile

to match you could take an existing flooring sample

from the Library Browser and adjust the Pattern and

Texture using the Adjust Material Definition tool. 

....Couldn't find them anywhere else so I had my son make them for me....

Would that make him Alaskan_Son_Son?  

....This is what you see in ACAD

 

Wow! Time marches on. I hardly recognize that

interface as the last version of AutoCAD for me

was 2006 and I didn't use that version much

because I didn't like the changes they made to

the GUI from 2005.  

Rich,

 

I have been meaning to ask.

Why are your text blocks so narrow.

Do you use a carriage return (Enter) where you want the end of the line, or to coincide with the window width you are typing into?

I think just about everyone else just lets the auto text wrap do it's thing.

 

No big deal, I am just curious.

Just a little idiosyncrasy of mine going back many

moons to when I used to post on an AOL message

board. Back then it was an active window size thing.

Nowadays with the ever increasing size of the screen

real estate I simply find it easier on my beady little

eyes to read short lines of text as opposed to long

strings which sprawl all the way across the monitor. 

And yes, I just hit enter to end the line at a length

that is comfortable for me.

Yeah, migrating the data isn't really a problem.

I've got old hard drives scattered around going

back for years and I have every combination of

patch cables necessary to hook any one of them

up to a USB port so I can just copy my data to

an external drive and then copy it back to my

new drive. It's the operating systems that I am

worried about. I'm pretty sure the dual boot

setup messes with the Master Boot Record

and I was wondering if the data migration utility

has the capability to transfer the MBR to the

new drive? As I initially said, I was just hoping

that maybe someone had been down this road

already and could vouch for the process. Guess

I will have to cogitate on this one a while longer.

I just picked up a Samsung 850 EVO SSD to

install in my back up rig. As a rule I prefer to

reinstall my software when I upgrade my hard

drive, but since its only a backup rig I thought

I might give Samsung's data migration utility a

try. My question revolves around the fact that

the drive I'm replacing is configured in a dual

boot setup so I can run both Windows XP Pro

and Windows 7 Ultimate. Does anybody have

any first hand experience with such a migration?

Will the utility handle such a situation?

I'm with Paul on this one. I was forced to go the

hardware lock route because I use the program

on desktop workstations in 2 locations. One has

a blazing fast (65+Mbps) internet connection and

the other has no internet access so the activate

deactivate dance is useless to me. I think you 

should allow installation on 2 rigs (as many other

software vendors do) and then if you want to do

the activate/deactivate thing for any installations

beyond the initial 2, fine and dandy.

The default sun angle is controlled in the "Adjust Lights" dbx.

Hind sight is always 20/20 but you should always get

your driver updates from the respective vendor's web

site and not from Window's Update or Device Manager.

Thanks to everyone for helping me get out of this very uncomfortable position. I feel great relief but still unsettled as I am not clear how all this came about or exactly what I may have done to cause this. There seems to be no information as to how this system works or what the intent is.

Maybe someone would clarify this for me .....

Jess,

If you want to learn more about reputation points,

which is what those little red and green boxes are,

check out this thread.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/134-reputation-points/page-1?hl= reputation  points

Now you are back to square one.

How do ya’ll deal with remembering all the valuable tips presented here on the forum on an almost daily basis. I know personally I used to just take note of them as I was reading them and then hope I could remember them or at least go back and re-read them when I had a need for the info. Of course that approach proved to be unreliable at best and unworkable the rest of the time. Between my feeble memory and the sketchiness of the search features I seldom could navigate back to the content I was looking for. Then in a moment of enlightenment, I stumbled upon a simple “no brainer” solution. I may be the last one to figure this out but all I did was to create a folder I call “Chief Forum Tips” and now whenever I come across a tip I want to remember I simply capture it using the Windows Snipping Tool, give it a name that is germane to the content, and save it to my Forum Tips folder. Now I have all the info together in an easily searchable location. I can just peruse the folder using the Windows Explorer preview panel to view the tips or I can use the Windows Search feature and I only have to search one folder instead of my whole hard drive or all of the internet. Another advantage of this system is that I have the info in MY POSSESSION so that in the event that the info is no longer available on the forum (as in the Old Forum going away) I still can have easy access to it. Anyhoo, you’ve probably already figured this out for yourselves but sometimes it can’t hurt to state the obvious.

I just did a similar roof for an as built duplex plan.

In this case the ridge was a massive 4 x 16 beam

running the length of the structure and the rafters

are 4 x 6's on 48" centers. 2 x 6 tongue & groove

for the roof/ceiling.

That's what I'm using. Used Jing for a while and it's pretty good but limited space for vids. I use Snagit to send videos. Great presentation tool and a nice surprise for clients. Next step up seems to be a lot more expensive.

 

Files are big BTW.

Larry,

I noticed the change and was going to comment

on it. I could never get your Jing vids to display

the whole screen correctly. No longer the case

as now everything is displaying peachy keen.

Very nice indeed Kjell. Pray tell, how big  

a file size does a video like that generate?

I have a 6 1/2 minute walkthrough of a 2

acre site that I created solely with Chief

software and that file is almost 400 MB.

Nice joke. Thanks for the humor.

Thanks Doug. Speaking of bike riding, now that

you have warmed up with a cross country jaunt

are you ready to tackle the highest peaks in

Europe?

http://www.hauteroute.org/

OK, so who did it?  Come on, fess up......

OK (sheepishly raising hand), I'll cop to it.

With the overall tenor of the forum lately and

all the sniveling about Chief's perceived lack

of CAD tools I thought it would be fun to see

what people's reactions would be. I wish I

had thought of the SSA angle while I was

trying to flesh out my phony article with some

plausible sounding techno-babble. Could of

had some real fun there. I was originally going

to create an imaginary publication called

"AutoCAD Weakly"  but it was running

late so I just borrowed a page from the

CADALYST web site and edited it in PSP to

suit my purposes.

Hope y'all got a chuckle out of it.

Hi Laura, while I am no ray trace maven this topic

has been bandied about on the forums quite a bit.

If you use the search feature in the upper right hand

corner it will lead you to quite a few threads. Be sure

to change "this topic" to "forums". I entered " ray trace

settings" and got numerous results. This is one of

the better ones:

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2803-raytrace-questions/?hl=+ray +trace +settings

Wow! This is the first that I have heard of this.