RobUSMC

47 minutes ago, richoffan said:

So the software is going to cost more...a lot more. It some ways it will "cull the litter" oh well (sorry just got a new puppy!) I do strongly feel Chief has an obligation to its long time users, supporters, testers, collaborators (you get the idea) to a definitive pricing structure for SSA for the foreseeable future. "Joe, the SSA price will not change on Jan. 10." is not an answer. A grace period for renewal and / or  a way to keep a card on file - everyone from MS to Adobe to Norton etc can do it - I'm sure you can figure it out. For how long will our perpetual licenses be supported (guaranteed) if a user choses to opt out of SSA and many other things. For the record not happy. It ain't broke - don't fix it. 

I agree. I have been using Chief since version 8.0 back in 1999 and there should be a sort of loyalty on the part of CA since users life myself have been loyal to them for 20+ years and with three licenses. I hope they do the right thing.

Thanks Susan. I already watched one of her videos and picked up a few tips.  Ill reach out to her.  Attached is a room rendering of before I saw her video and then an after watching and changing the setting she recommended.  I feel it is much better

Thanks.   It used to be a max of 8 lights.  I didn't know it had increased.

Does any offer or knows someone that does training on how to get produce better realistic renderings with better light settings.

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I spoke to tech support today about the GTX 960M and he said it would rum X-14 but may struggle with heavy rendering but dont be surprised with more X-14 updates it may stop working.

Ive always struggled with lighting settings.  In this case I have rope lighting on the bottom of floating cabinets and under a set of uppers.

One bottom light shows in rendered view but its brighter one one end that the other, It doesn't show at all on the bottom of the other floating cabinet or the undercabinet string.  Attached is the plan. Its just a simple family room.  Thanks

205499119_HillviewFamilyRoom11-29-2022.zip

Thanks.  Like I said in my post, Ive search #D warehouse and didnt find anything close

Would anyone happen to have a loop pendant light that looks like this?  Ive searched 3D WH and no luck.  Thanks

Thanks

In the library it states to go to the CWP website to download the catalog but the only thing I can find is for the 2020 design software. We are even a dealer but I cant find a CA file.  Has anyone else downloaded this?

On 11/25/2022 at 5:26 PM, MarkMc said:

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DBL shaker 2-5.calibz 7.81 kB · 5 downloads

Mark, That was perfect.  Thank you so very much.  If I owe you anything please let me know.

On 11/26/2022 at 10:32 AM, SusanC said:

Hi Rob,

I often run into the exact issues you are describing and Mark is definitely the expert on cabinets!

I recently put a suggestion on the Suggestions forum requesting the ability to customize cabinet doors more easily through the cabinet dialog box instead of always having to do a work around.  If you'd like to chime in on that request, it can be found by typing into the search bar "Custom Cabinet Door Styles" (be sure to use the quotation marks).  The more users who request a new feature, the better the chance Chief will produce it.  

Thanks!

Susan   

I will do that now Susan.  Thanks

Got it.  Thanks Michael

Thank you so much Mark.  Can I adjust the rail width.  The default "framed" door looks to have a little narrower rails  probably 2.5"

In the past after Ive drawn a polyline solid on a wall like for wall tile in a shower I just drew another polyline solid on top of it, opened it and selected "Hole in polyline" to cut out for a window.  Im using X-14 for the first time trying to do the same and when I open the second PS there is no box to check to select its a hole.  I looked in the user manual and it states the way I was doing it was correct as its always been.  See attached from X-12 and now X-14.  Can someone tell me where the check box is now located to convert it to a hole?  Thanks

Has anyone seen a plain double stacked shaker style door in the library.  We build all our own in house and with tall pantry cabinets the lower area doors are usually a single shaker door with a center mid rail.  I found one close but it has an inside beaded profile and wont match the other doors. I know I can split a door horizontally but I need them to open as one and be a single area behind the door for rollouts or other.  See attached.

Thanks

Thanks.  I think I'm taking everyone's input and not going with the 4090 and getting the 3090 over the other option of the 3080Ti

Thanks for all the input.  Again I am not a tech guy or a gamer.  However, Other than having a design build company, I'm also a pediatric trauma flight nurse and absolutely love helicopters and is what I did in the Marine Corps. so from time to time I do play around with a helicopter flight simulator.  Just a few more questions... Again the system I have now that I will move to one of my designers is also an alienware and the GPU is the RTX 3060 with an intel i-9 CPU (was the fastest when I got the system a few years ago)  Using an online comparison benchmark webite  https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4090-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3060/4136vs4105 the 4090 seems to blow the 3060 away.  I guess my question is if I go with the 3080 Ti or 3090 now, will I see a significant difference in speed, renderings, camera views, raytracing, etc.. compared to the 3060?  I don't know if it matters but I do use a 3 monitor system... 32" and two 30".  Last question... I see the "Ti" with some chips... what does that mean? My only other two options I have if I dont go with the 4090 is the 3080 Ti or the 3090... Thank you SO much for your help. I'm WAY out of my zone for sure.

Im not a gamer.  My thought on this system was to stay ahead of the game and have a longer usable system for CA and what could come in the future.

Thanks Joe.  I think Im going to just upgrade to a full new system.

I just found out my older Dell Alienware desktop one of my designers is using will not support X-14. Im going to order myself a new system and give her my 2 year old Alienware.  Here are the specs of what I built online. About a $5k set up.  Does this look like a good set up, over kill?  I am NOT a tech guy and just looking for input.  I have a Dell business account so I wont go to another brand. Thanks

13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 13900KF (24-Core, 68MB Cache, 3.0GHz to 5.8GHz P-Core Thermal Velocity)

Windows 11 Pro, English

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 24GB GDDR6X

64GB Dual Channel DDR5 (2x 32GB) at 4800MT/s   There is an option for 64 GB, 2 X 32 GB, DDR5, 5200 MHz, XMP  for another $100

1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

Dark Side of the Moon 1350W PSU, Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel

Just spoke to support and the video card for X-14 now must be at least a 10 series preferably the 30 series. So time for new PC's

Already checked that.  The Nvidia 700 series is listed but not the GTX 690.  Ive emailed support

Here are the original specs

GTX 690 GPU Engine Specs:

3072 CUDA Cores

915 Base Clock (MHz)

1019 Boost Clock (MHz)

234 Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)

GTX 690 Memory Specs:

6.0 Memory Speed (Gbps)

4096 MB (2048 MB per GPU) GDDR5 Standard Memory Config

512-bit (256-bit per GPU) Memory Interface Width

384 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)

GTX 690 Support:

GPU Boost, PhysX, TXAA, NVIDIA G-SYNC-ready  Important Technologies

3D Vision, CUDA, DirectX 11, Adaptive V Sync, FXAA, NVIDIA Surround, SLI Other Supported Technologies ¹

4.2 OpenGL

12 API Microsoft DirectX

PCI Express 3.0Bus Support

Yes  Certified for Windows 7

Quad SLI Options ²

Display Support:

4 displays Multi Monitor

4096 x 2160 Maximum Digital Resolution ⁴

2048 x 1536 Maximum VGA Resolution

Yes  HDCP

Yes (via dongle)HDMI ³

Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Display port 1.2Standard Display Connectors

Internal Audio Input for HDMI

GTX 690 Graphics Card Dimensions:

3D Vision Ready:

Yes  3D Blu-Ray

Yes  3D Gaming

Yes  3D Vision Live (Photos and Videos)