Rich_Winsor

Can't speak to X5 options but here is what is available in X7.

Here's my quick take based on your PDF file. Is this what you are looking for?

Interesting, I guess my CPU is having a good day. I reran the ray trace using all the textures this time and it beat the previous (no Textures) version by a second.

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.

When a mouse goes bad.

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.

Would that make him Alaskan_Son_Son?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/