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1 hour ago, Renerabbitt said:

This decision will benefit me from the development of long awaited feature requests through dependable budgeting for Chief.
This decision will benefit me by thinning my low-budget, undercutting, competition on contract work.

Historical data shows me I am 500% faster than I was in X8...I have reaped benefits through increased margin for years...I don't love financial change, but a bit of pragmatism and a quick glance at your books should sit ones head back on straight.

Also...a good CPA should get you lined up and straightened out

 

I agree with Rene. I have used another cad system, Builders Cad, that quit updating their product and basically went out of business. I don't want that to happen again! That forced me to move to and learn another system, Chief Architect. Chief has done a good job of updating its product with new features. Hence I have always been more than happy to pay their SSA fee just to get the new features and libraries. I understand the SSA fees may not be enough to keep the product updates coming. I'm happy to see that Chief is keeping their existing users under their same program of the SSA. If I were a new user I would still buy Chief over any other software.

17 hours ago, stevenyhof said:

I'm working on a new plan and just noticed that my Living Area square feet notation is missing. This is the second plan I have worked on in the past number of days that this has happened. 

I keep a text file with Chief fixes that I only use once in a blue moon. The living area is one of the items. Another is turning off rooms in the layer set to show the subfloor ISO the finish floor.

I have always used intel processors. The motherboards and cpu seem to be advanced compared to i-9 motherboards. I see the single thread on the amd is slower at a standard clock rate compared to the i-9 9900k. Is anyone using the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X ? How is it working?

Hold the control key down and quickly double click on chief to open.

Sometimes this needs to be done a few times to work.

2 hours ago, DavidJPotter said:

If you really are having your life ruined by this current policy, then communicate to Chief Arcthect Inc directly. Complain to Customer service or directly to Scott Harris (they can do something about it). Here on the forum, we have no direct influence. Chief Inc is a small company, so communicating your concerns there is the proper communication venue, not here. We solve solvable problems here not ones out of our purview and authority.

 

DJP

I have notified chief architect.  Mainly want the users to understand what chief is doing to be sure they dont have the same issue I had today. Not often I dont have internet service. 

Have a great day. 

Okay.  I guess everyone thinks it's ok for chief to deactivate x10 and x11 everywhere  if you only deactivate x11 on one computer. But requires me to activate each one separately when I reactivate. 

I give

4 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

I don't understand.  I have both X10 & X11 installed and can open both simultaneously on a single machine. 

 

Of course if you don't activate at least one of them before going to a remote location without Internet access then you wouldn't be able to use either.

Just make sure you do this before leaving for a job site.  Then you will have both versions available.

If you only activate x10 you can not use x 11 on that machine. They deactivate simultaneously but must be activated separately.

When you unlicense  x11 it also unlicenses x10 or if you unlicense  x10 it also unlicenses x11. That is fine and I understand why it is being done. However is should also work the other way if I license x11 for my laptop then it should give me access to x10 or vise versa..

Case in point, I licensed x10 on my laptop to go into the field and meet with a client on a job, I have been working on for a while. Unfortunately the drawing had been opened and saved in x11 and was in the wrong file folder. Being in the middle of nowhere without internet connection I was hosed <that's the nice word> thanks to chiefs new way to  license. If you are going to remove access to x10 and x11 if just one is unlicensed then if I license one product the other should be licensed on the same machine it should automatically give access to the other product.

Chief please fix this MAJOR licensing problem.

2 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

 

Though this should always be done I have never found it to have much if any effect on speed, tends to be more related to display quality and certain camera attributes. No harm in checking.

I just had a friend put in a GTX 2080. Until he made this change he had 4 to 6 seconds lag time...

Remove chief from your control panel and see what happens

Be sure to go into NVIDIA control panel and set cheif X11 to use card. Otherwise chief is very slow. This should solve your issue. See attached.

Let me know.

Ken

23 hours ago, VisualDandD said:

In the southeast studs are standard at 93 in 105 in and 117 in.  

 

So walls are 8' 1 1/2".  9' 1 1/2". & 10' 1 1/2"

 

 

I always figured they thought we could not do fractions in the southeast... LOL

On 3/10/2014 at 6:38 PM, Kbird1 said:

I messed around with the texture posted by DJP above  and the chiefsiding.pat file and made a new 8" center material but you can change the size in the material definitions note the the size you input will need to be larger than real size to get it to measure (tape tool) correctly in elevations etc , eg for this 8" center board I have the size at 9 1/2".

 

note that due to the texture is is not "real" 3D but the best I have tried/seen so far.

change the .zip file extension to .calibz  (can't post calibz's)   and install as normal ,it should show in My Library as Board and Batten 8"

M.

***Updated File plus added New Pattern file used to update the Materials

 

B&B Siding.calibz

My B&B Patterns.zip

 

 

Since Making This Library , another way of doing this was discovered , have a look at the thread and the new library is here:

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5383-is-there-a-way-to-trimextend-psolids-in-elevation-view/page-2#entry47072

Thanks for the pattern!

9 minutes ago, WhistlerBuilder said:

There have been lots of helpful tips for working with larger files. Thank you for all your comments. This discussion has already born fruit for me. Just for reference I am going to post my pc specs.

Operating System
            Windows 10 Home 64-bit
        CPU
            Intel Core i7 6700 @ 3.40GHz    42 °C
            Skylake 14nm Technology
        RAM
            32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1071MHz (15-15-15-35)
        Motherboard
            ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z170 PRO GAMING (LGA1151)    46 °C
        Graphics
            S27B350 (1920x1080@60Hz)
            S22D300 (1920x1080@60Hz)
            3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (EVGA)    56 °C
        Storage
            223GB INTEL SSDSC2BP240G4 (SSD)    27 °C
            232GB Samsung SSD 840 Series (SSD)    30 °C
            931GB Seagate Expansion SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA))    40 °C
            2794GB Seagate Expansion Desk SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA))    47 °C

Here is a comparison to My computer.

cpu i7-6700 = cpu mark 11090 mine i7-5690x = cpu mark 20180

disk drive 223GB INTEL SSDSC2BP240G4 (SSD) disk mark 3957 which is fast by most test, mine pci-e ssd disk mark 13633 Super fast.

Video card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 G3d Mark =5001, Mine GTX 980 11222

Hope this helps!

2 minutes ago, rlackore said:

I wonder if we're under-valuing disk performance. My Passmark ratings (v9.0) are generally very good:

 

 

But my disk bench can't come close to touching Ken's. Unlike Ken, I DO experience significant slow-down with very large models, especially when running with more than one Chief window open on multiple displays. I also operate on in a Domain with all our working files on a LAN, which may degrade performance.

The PCI-e ssd is one of the major items to speed up the computer. Even moving from a ssd drive to the PCI-e made a huge difference in speed. Do not under estimate how a hard drive effects the system speed. I do work with all of my files local to improve speed.

6 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

This bad boy looks pretty impressive.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117643

 

19,995 on passmark running stock clock.

My 5960x overclocked is $1015.00 compared to the 6950x at $1649.00. My cpu mark is 20180 compared to 19,995 for the more expensive chip.

1 minute ago, HumbleChief said:

Thanks Ken, have built many myself but am looking for a genuine performance gain before I drop another $2500++ on a computer. Your system looks promising.

 

Curious if you are up to speed on the latest and greatest in new CPU's? Is your 5960x still the top dog, without completely breaking the bank? Or are there newer chips that outperform it? I read recently that the newer chips were not that impressive for the cost. Thanks in advance.

I would not go the extra cost of the new cpu. No real advantage / cost ratio. I had looked at swapping mine out and selling my cpu but after the investigation decide to stay where I am.

1 minute ago, HumbleChief said:

Found the link thanks. Did you build yourself?

I did build it. Not overly hard if you are not scared of computers. Many links on the web to help answer build questions. I do like the ASUS ROG motherboard it is a name I personally trust.

3 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Would love to see those passmark results. Seems to be missing a link?

They show up on the link when I click on them.

Take a look at this topic in computer speed for comparisons.  There are other benchmarks before and after my post below

I have never found my computer slow in large complex 6000 sf plus detailed with many 3d items.

If you want to get an idea what speed a new computer would be the run a complete backup of your drawing and contact me. We can even d an online meeting for you to see the speed.

You may want to post the details page or send plan & layout to someone that can give an answer. I am on the other coast and use different details for your area if you want to me to take a look. My email is below. Maybe share via dropbox if it is huge.

What do you use for your hard drive? You did not list all of the system specs.

Thanks Joe!

Yes there is one. It shows up when you select an item. Look up "Point to Point Move" in help"

edit

I copy and paste in place then move point to point.

I use a 17" asus rog with a ssd hard drive. Great machine. Here is a newer version of what I am running.

Glenn

Robert,

 

How far is your object away from absolute zero?

I suspect that it's a long way as I can only duplicate what you are seeing under that circumstance.

If so, move it closer to absolute zero.

 

These pics are using X8.

No problems when I move the object close to zero.

 

Glenn,

I would have never thought of that but you are most likely correct! My patterns show correctly unless they are moved far from zero

Larry is correct. I think the roof defaults are control + R