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One of the engineers I use on the Monterey peninsula uses CA but I find that minimally helpful. Most engineers are just using the plan and section views. I can export dwg for that easily enough.

It varies so much based on your printer/plotter. I have drawings set up so they print well on my HP110 but if I send a job to the UPS store they are too light. Trial and error. One thing I try to do is use the stock colors that are clickable in CA. I used to make custom colors but that is a waste of time and I have heard that CA performs best with their stock colors.

The answer is above in the thread. Print to PDF. Do not export the picture.

I think you are clicking in the wrong place.

Grayscale is the culprit. Color is a lot faster. I will have to start printing to pdf in grayscale so I don't burn up too much color ink.

Even on the fast setting I am still printing at around 3:30 min.

I just printed this for a test file. 6.5 mins on my 110p. Set to print grayscale with black ink only on the normal print setting. Who do I have to sleep with to find out how to get that to print in 2 mins? Stallings revised section.pdf

Jonathan, what is the speed like on the T120? The HP110 is super slow, sometimes over 5 minutes per page on standard print settings. Not much faster on draft/fast setting.

@Jon. The specs on that printer (Assuming the 24" model) read that it will output a D sized sheet with line drawings at 35 seconds. Are you seeing speeds like that?

I still have a working HP110 that I use primarily for all 24x36 prints. I ditched the all in ones from HP for a Brother MFC J6920dw that is great for my 11x17. Two paper trays so I can load one with 11x17 and one with 8.5x11. Much better on ink than the HP machines. Very interested in upgrading my large format too since I do a lot of printing (6 sets yesterday) and the 110 is really slow.

I have a main monitor that is a 30" Dell. Money well spent. The second monitor is a cheap 27". I have not used 3 monitors but some people like it. Since I can't do three things at once (one at once is often a stretch) I suspect the 3rd monitor would just distract me. I have the main window of CA on the main monitor and the library and project browser remote. A budget of 2-3k for the cpu memory and graphics card is respectable. This all depends on your back up storage system and if you choose a really large SSD drive for loading programs. Get at least 256 SSD if you get one or else it will fill too fast.

Are you using Chiefs native save to pdf?

Generally saving to a PDF is the most universal way to share images.

Don't ask me why but I moved the wall upstairs with the extraneous line and then moved it back. The line went away. It is possible the wall was slightly offset.

Outstanding. I have never noticed the sub texts before. Big dope slap to the forehead.

It seems like even though I have a 50/50 guess when placing trailing text in dimension string I am wrong 100% of the time. What supplies the logic in which is the 1and2 string? It is not a left to right based on the text.

Here is the basic test for whether SSA is worth it: 1. Are you a professional? 2. Are you a hobbyist that is only doing one house and abandoning the software use after that? If you answer yes to 1 then get the SSA. If you are not making enough money to support the SSA you need a business coach.

Based on the call for Beta testers for X8, we should be seeing X8 in the first quarter of next year.

Transparency is only available in X7. Are you using X7?

Post your plan file. Sometimes this is a room definition problem, but hard to know without poking around the plan.

Lady, you need to sketch out what you are trying to achieve. That building is not working very well at the moment. If your plate height currently is what you want for the roof then the rooms upstairs are unusable. The plate height for the upstairs rooms probably need to start at about 60" minimum for those spaces to have a fighting chance.

Here is one I ran through the FotoSketcher program.

The things that make that more real looking would be better textures and using bump maps. Search the forum for some great threads recently regarding grass textures. If you can put a bump map on your roof that would really help since you see so much roof.

I have renamed all my plants in the library along with the bonus libraries. This includes a sub category note on each one for general description. If you would like to have a copy of this....Just kidding.

Sold. Everyone welcome Jamie to the fold. I promised him I would put in a good word with Scott so he would wait for his second post to go all bridge troll on him.