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So that leaves a big question. Well two questions really. 1) How much should be charged for supplying a take off AND (the big one) 2) Who is responsible if the takeoff is wrong by some significant margin?

Oh no, I am 76 now. That means that to get my money's worth out of these drives I have to live to about 160!!

Lines over lines really don't matter if they are using the dwg file to pick measurements. AutoCAD has a really easy way to change the background colour. Also a pretty good layer management system for changing layer colours. If the AutCAD user can't manage this, I would be questioning the qualifications of the engineer.

Yeah, here is a copy of the email from the supplier. From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 3:49 PM To: Doug Norton <info@measurite.ca>; John Cranston <jcranston66@outlook.com> Subject: Re: 825 Jomar Ave Pickering Hi Doug & John, I need final plans to do an accurate lumber take-off. Please forward them when they are available and we will take another look - or alternatively please forward a list of material required and we will be happy to price it out. Thanks, Lisa. I sent a return email explaining that until a permit is issued my drawings are always stamped not for construction. That these are, in fact, final drawings. She then sent back, "Send material take off and I will quote." lol

Hi Mark, I plan on adding an archive HDD to the machine, moving an existing one from my current machine. Doug

Thanks for the update Michael. A client's supplier just asked for it to quote the building package. I wanted to be sure before I generated it.

After all the years using CA I have never done a materials list. Do you have to generate all the framing to get the list complete?

I have installed to 2 2T SSD. One is for the OS and everything related to CA on that drive. Libraries, templates, everything, including project files, that are mirrored to MS One Drive. All of my project files amount to about 180GB. So not that much really. The second drive is for all other programs and all data that isn't related to CA. Could I improve things by not installing CA on the OS drive? Would it make that much difference?

Send the file through a link to OneDrive, Google Drive or Drop Box, among many methods for sending files too large to upload or send by email As far as the wall detail, is he looking for a plan view of the assembly or a vertical section? Perhaps just making a cad section manually and sending him that would suffice.

The advantage of exporting from a plan file is that everything is a 1:1 scale. Also the border, title block etc are not exported. It is just a cleaner export for doing CAD work in AutoCAD. Just my 2 cents.

Try posting the plan file, and what specifically your engineer is looking for. What is the objection that the engineer has, just posting that he couldn't use the dwg file is not really explaining the problem. Someone could come up with a useful answer to your question with enough information.

Here is a useful tutorial from Rene Rabbit.

Create a moulding polyline around the top of the pool and then make a coping shape to act as a pool coping. Texture the coping with a suitable tile.

I am surprised at the price! Just about the same for both.

Just out of curiosity, how much performance gain is there between an i7 12700k and an i9? The i7 is already 12th generation. That means you can use DDR5 memory with an i7. I opted for 4800 mHz. I have seen some videos with motherboards having a hard time registering (sometimes) all the memory with faster memory. Just my opinion but as building designers, we need the fastest STABLE computers possible. Bleeding edge speeds are great for gamers that can spend hours tweaking BIOS settings, but I just need to be working along with my design ideas, and not waiting for the computer to catch up. For me I am nearly there now with my current setup, with large projects dragging me down to painful waits. Again, just my opinion, but why spend more than you really need for a CA machine than you really need. (Unless you are a gamer as well...lol) Any thoughts?

I am building it. One hicup so far. The CPU cooling rig didn't have the right mounting bracket for the i7 12700k. Just waiting for it to arrive. Deepcool is sending one at no charge.

Yes I suppose I could write a series of macros for the conversions that I do the most. Maybe I should stop whining about this ..... lol

I see where you are coming from Michael. From my point of view saving the extra typing would be worth it, as I use area analysis a lot on my projects, and most of that involves units that are not supported by value.to_unit. Typing value.to_s("unit") just adds places where I will make a typing mistake. (I know, a typing mistake while coding? Unheard of.) Besides it would be great to have just one standard way of doing something.

Like a charm, thanks for the link. You know, after reading the dialog in that post, I can't see way CA wouldn't allow "area.to_acre". Let's assume that I make a mistake with the unit conversion. If %area.to_acre% produces an erroneous result so would %area.to_s("acre")% Same output, with a lot less typing. CA lets users put in their own conversion factors, as I have done for Ha, hectare and acre. What is the risk to CA?

If I add a conversion unit via the Preferences DBX can I use that unit in Ruby somehow? For example, I have set acre to be 43570 sq ft, and Ha to be 10000 sq m. I can set 10 to sq ft by %10.to_sq_ft% but not %10.to_Ha% nor %10.to_acre% Is there a way to set that up?

Hi David, I would suggest posting the plan file. It is difficult to diagnose the problem without seeing how you have the room and framing details set up.

I saw that Steve, but as I said in my opening comments, the post was about how CA deals with brick ledges, and not what you said, nor what the original poster said. Sorry if it seemed I was criticizing what you did. That was not my intent.

My post isn't directed to the original poster, and is not in any way a criticism of Steve's post, but rather to point out what I think is some strange behaviour by CA when doing brick ledges. I have noticed that CA doesn't seem to do brick ledges consistently. Here is the model that Steve posted with a section through the wall. Notice that there are actually no brick ledges in the wall cross section. In the plan posted by Steve the brick ledge was set to zero, so of course there would be no brick ledge. So I changed that to 3" as can be seen in the wall DBX Here are the resulting wall cross sections So I wondered if the problem may only be because a pony wall was used, but no, the result was the same Here is where I did the sections, (S1 was Steve's original section and S2 was one that I added. I also broke the wall to get both a pony wall section and a conventional section.) Has anyone else experienced this?

Ryan, I sent Greg a PM to see if I could help him. Doug

Me too, I am in Ontario just east of Toronto, and I have never seen this style of floor except for something like a cottage.