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Not at all. I've used chief since x6 and never had it pop up. Sometimes when I have very large terrain being modelled, but that would be the only time. And it's usually a "generating terrain" dialog if I remember correctly

it's constant for me. The only thing I did differently was install x16 onto a faster m2ssd which is not the same drive as windows. Move a CAD line, "rebuild 3d model" undo something, "rebuild 3d model" I have no idea why it's doing this. I run a top of the line computer.

I see what you're saying. Unfortunately that's even more work than just typing in my elevation label. I often build my terrain as per the survey but don't adjust my corners with elevation points as I want to see how it sits on the natural grade. So it would be great to get a macro/label that pulls the elevation from the terrain at that point. Perhaps not possible with chief.

I'm having trouble creating a macro that references the actual terrain elevation at that location. I would like to be able to place markers around the corners of my building which calls out the terrain elevation, not the room elevation. As of right now for example, I need to show corner property elevation numbers relative to sea level, rather than your typical 100'-0". So I draw my terrain at the correct elevations based on survey data and reference that back to the house "subfloor height above terrain" in the terrain specs. Then I just add a marker and type in my known elevations, it would be great if I can get a macro to reference the spot elevation of the terrain. Hopefully someone out there can help me out. Thanks!

Thanks! took some finesse but i got it.

Hoping someone knows how to adjust the library preview panel to be "two" panels wide rather than one strip. I have enough monitor room to display the folders on the side then the filter results and preview in a new column beside it, rather than the 3 items being on top of each other. I can't seem to adjust these other than vertically. Thanks!

Based on the last sentence, really what Chief needs if you aren't rendering is just one single super fast thread on your CPU then, to make those processes and layouts work more efficiently?

I too felt weird typing that. It's 8gb. Apparently Speccy can only read up to 4gb graphics cards and thats what I had up at the moment. What do you do for your sections then? I add CAD elements, text etc, and like to send it to layout using plot lines. Do you recommend I use live view?

I've got a 4gb gtx 1080, using x11. As I mentioned above I'll upload a plan when I have a chance. I never usually experience slowness in plan view, but cross sections with cad elements.

I'll definitely check out the NVME, even if I just reinstall chief onto it rather than windows. The layout in particular has a PDF on it that made me post, which I do know is the issue but I do have plans where when updating my plot line elevations it can cause some delays. I'll have a look around and see about uploading it. I usually add a bit of text on the layouts themselves but nothing dramatic. I also don't have many 3D objects in my files such as furniture etc. But in sections views I can get program delays/slowness with moving cad elements etc. I've changed chief to have limited undos as at one point I thought it might be slowing the software down but might look into the ramdisk idea as well. thanks for your reply by the way, I appreciate it.

My CPU is a 3.4ghz. I use SSD's, my ram is DDR4. Do you ever experience this issues? comparing our CPU's you do have a larger cache. Are you suggesting I upgrade my solid state?

I've been using chief since X6. Why will chief never use all of my computer memory? At most it uses ten percent, then goes to not responding when dealing with high detailed layouts, refreshing plot line elevations, generating layout previews etc. Can anyone help me to get chief to use more memory? I've tried setting the process to use more in task manager, it does help a bit. Chief also only ever uses a small percentage of my CPU if I'm not rendering I have a Ryzen 7 1700x 8 core CPU, 32GB of ram. Chief uses 1.3gb and 6% of my CPU max. I wish we had these settings like we do number of cores used in a render,

Never mind, I found the option; for any future users: baseline angle under general tab in roof. This allows for a roof pitch opposite the baseline direction

How exactly did you "tilt" the baseline? I seem to only be able to rotate it, which then changes my slope direction. Thanks!

Can't believe I didn't see that. Solves the problem, Thanks

Hi there I'm wondering if it is possible when drawing manual dimensions if one can choose the layer that they will be on before I put them in. For example. I've gone and done all of my floor plans with manual or automatic dimensions. Now I want to do a roof plan with dimensions, when I go to the layer set it pulls in the manual dimensions from before. It is possible while wanting to put in my next dimensions on the roof plan to already have them in the dimensions roof plan layer? Or would I have to change all my dimensions from before into a floor plan dimension layer, then start my roof plan and turn the new layer off? Thanks!