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Chief is the best resource for how to videos. For Home pro check out this wonderful dude’s YouTube channel... https://www.youtube.com/user/c16467 hes on the forum so you can contact him.

Yes, I’m on X11. Need to update my profile. I’ll try setting material to report “area”, thanks for the tip.

I suppose you’re right. So is there a way to calculate exact surface area that’s a little more elegant and efficient than my crude polyline labels? I’d rather be the one calculating waste. Also walk in showers are usually calculated separately so I can order Denshield backer board separately.

So Chief is adding an extra 1-1/2 sheets of 4x8?

I just tried it with a 12’x12’ room including an 8ft ceiling and the material list yielded 18 sheets of 4x8 = 576sq.ft. If you do do the math it should be 528sq.ft. assuming no waste. Unless Chief calculates for those guys who like to measure once and cut twice? lol

If it is indeed waste I would much rather have the exact surface area and let me calculate waste. Has anyone tried this experiment? Just start a plan with one room 10’ x 10’ interior measurements. Take a material list for drywall.

10’x10’ room with 9’ ceiling, you agree should be 460sq.ft. Material list for the entire floor ofwich there is only this one room, yields 16 sheets of 4’x8’ drywall = 512sq.ft. So where does the difference come from? (Also it still boggles the mind that a material list for the room only yields just the ceiling as a calculation for drywall on the room. Why?)

I’ve tried this with a 10’ x 10’ room and did not get accurate results. Have you tried this and compared with actually calculating materials manually? I must be doing something wrong because I’ve never been able to get drywall calculated accurately with the materials list.

Material list polyline stretched past the midpoint of the walls I want to include is the closest (but no cigar) method out of the box as far as I can tell. I double check this with room polylines for every room and closet that includes a label for which I have a crude macro in the form of: “perimeter.round/12*9 + area.round” that formula returns square feet for 9 foot ceiling of which I have a similar formula for 8 and 10 foot ceilings. Only because I’m not smart enough to include the “ceiling height” calculation. I realize that the ruby gurus are probably laughing, and I don’t blame them but shouldn’t Chief have a more straight forward way to calculate drywall? It’s probably the most basic metric upon which nearly all contractors use to quote on a job.

Nice lighting and shadow reflection of tree on brick along with the tree's reflection in window. I'm guessing PBR will be the main focus. Is it 6:30 Coeur D'Alene time?

Another cause of random toolbar issues is the use of multiple monitors or if you use a laptop to run multiple monitors. I found that mixing different size monitors has an effect on overall toolbar stability.

Priority seems to be: 1) number of processor cores 2) ssd card mandatory 3) 16gigs minimum. 4) video card compatibility trumps video card memory. Multiply those factors by as much money as you can afford in that order.

As a builder and land developer I don’t like this sentiment. Canada is the champion in over legislation and an invasive environmental department. I always envied the general American sentiment of smaller government and less legislation.

I think you have to think like a lawyer. That is, work with retainers, if you can. Otherwise a contract is only worth the paper it’s written on.

Not bold enough to sign up for beta. Especially on a Mac.

Yes, they announced the beta mid December, I believe. This is what I find strange since there’s been no other news or teasers. It’s not like other years.

Hey All, Usually betas are announced middle of January and new realseases, middle of February. But their are usually previews of the next release by now. Why so quiet on the Chief front? Am I a little too anxious? Seems strange. Anyone else find it odd?

Here’s the video for those interested. Great video, thanks for posting. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6045/chic-cottage-building-project-part-12-foundations.html

You’re videos are really well made! thanks!

Have you ever used a MacBook Pro? If so, how does the MacPro compare?

Grumpy old men still hung over after Christmas...lol

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For the lazy, if you click the link, Chief has plastered the page with this... "*Chief Architect X11 release scheduled for Q1 2019" I personally get the feeling it's going to be a pretty big upgrade along with an interface overhaul to hopefully get away from the early 2000's cartoonish look we're sporting now. (just my spider senses tingling, that is)

See this post....

Ok I’ll let the genie out of the bottle. We we all know what OP is referring to, and I think it’s a great idea. There are recurrent issues, bugs, necessary work-arounds that we all navigate through on a regular basis, because the software isn’t perfect. I don’t expect it to be. However, all of the training videos from Chief show the perfect world where everything works out as planned. They rarely point out potential and common issues, because although the videos are meant to be instructional, Chief is always selling. I don’t blame them for that either. It would be nice to have some videos for common problems and workarounds but who has time for this? So I think, as Scott mentioned, just post your plan with a short description of the problem and someone will answer in less than an hour.