Doug_N

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.

Good news, by doing some judicious shopping and tweaking of items I got everything in the proposed computer to MSI Pro Z690-A WIFI motherboard Corsair Vengance 32 GB DDR5 Intel Core i7-12700K For an increase in cost of $309. Well worth it I think.

For sure, it will appear in my signature! And I will post once I have the build done and tested.

Thanks, I am going to take your advice regarding 12th gen.

Great info guys, you are all advising me to go 12th gen CPU. That means DDR5 memory and 690 mother board as well I think. Anything else. I already have the fastest PCIe ssd This would increase my cost by about $600 think. I really don't think that I will wait for any price drop. Oh and I have changed the power supply from Seasonic to EVGA because of some bad reviews I have seen about Seasonic ripple and unexpected shutdowns in some circumstances.

Thanks for the advice! I am going to think about it.

Didn't I see somewhere that CA does not take advantage of multiple CPU cores?

Yes I am, I have always built my own computers, that way I get to choose the case, always a tower with lots of room, and I/O on the front of the case as well as each component from the mfg that I choose. Plus there is a feeling of accomplishment when it actually works. The SSD are a big thing here as well, so I am going with one 2TB that will be the operating system and program installs, and the other for data. Both of them will be PCIe drives for the highest throughput rates. I am also going to stick with Windows 10 pro for now. It will be enough of a challenge with the upgraded computer without any other variables sneaking into the mix.

That is really impressive. It hardly taxed the 3070 at all. What did it feel like when you were watching it?

That is why. The dealer has a few 3080 Ti in stock but no 3080s. I think he is trying to move them before the price drops any more.

Incredibly the 3080 Ti is almost the same price as the 3080! Also the 3080Ti is in stock, the 3080 would have me on a waiting list. So why not,

The PS is a Seasonic Focus Plus 850W

Mark, I need to do something now, I can't wait until the fall unfortunately. My system bogs down on some of the larger builds that I am working on. The system lags sometimes, dropping mouse drags (really irritating and time wasting.) Next gen cpu means another MB anyway because even to go the an Intel 12700k is almost a grand with only a 12% theoretical performance gain in CPU processing. Since most of CA performance is GPU dependent, I just can't see how spending a another 1k on CPU and motherboard would help. Am I wrong in this reasoning?

Mark, Thanks for catching the motherboard error! Why a 3080 and not a 3080 Ti?

Ok, so based on the experience of other CA users that I have seen discussing computers, here is what I ordered today. MS1 MEG Z590 Unify Motherboard (wifi and bluetooth built in) Intel Core i7 11700K CPU 32 Gig DDR4 memory 2 Corsair Force 2T SSD PCIe SSD MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU MS Windows 10 Pro Plus Tower, DVD drive, 850W Power Supply etc. I have to wait for some of these items to arrive at the store, so if any of you think that I should swap anything for something else, please let me know.

Ben, can you imagine doing that 40 times? One for each page? What I am hoping to find is a path to automating this process. Because each page is handled in an identical way, this is something that should lend itself to the wizards of bits and bytes to concoct a solution. Keeping my fingers crossed Doug