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Hope so Scott, our AUD is 72 cents, not so good for us down under.

Yeah whatever?...X8 better be good for SSA to go to $495.00 IMO.

SSA was $395.00 Once.

They are going to publish the list of the X8 release soon as promised. We can wait till then if we are not beta testing this time.

Does X8 plug into other apps yet?

Are SPDs linked to the 3d structure and can they effect a change of floor or roof height without throwing out other 3d elements?

Maybe Justin time?

Yeah Cool, 2 hands 2 mice, LH 3D navigation, if you have a RH conventional mouse, sqeeky clean! Waiting on the X8 release notes now, not too much praise guys as there are lots of CAD software programs out there in the same field that we need to catch and beat in all areas of functionality. Extra 2d tool kits, 3d element drawing of walls etc., Complete ML accurate take off, to name a few.

I don't know what others think but CA to me is very easy to learn and use. The problems come when you need a work around so that's when you need to ask and search on this forum. I have been using CA since V6 and that's probably why I find it easy? As I have been around and seen it develop with input from us users too!..All the best Terry with learning CA and I agree about having the training videos properly organised for the latest vesrion.

Not X8 due rating?

X8 is the Moon Landing Version?

Cool! That will help some of us make a decision.

Absolutely!

JC above is the customization wizard, custom kitchen designer Architect. He has lots of videos posted on this site for you to learn his tricks of the trade as he has helped many a user.

Extremely Funny! It is confusing but it all has to do with the way CA works with 3d room modules system of programming. Richard, if we put it in AC terminology our 3d room modules are created with "Zones" as you know and they are more simple than a CA 3d room module. In AC A Zone is basically a 3d polyline that represents the inside volume of a room definition. Other elements are not directly connected to the Zone in AC but they are in CA and thats is why CA works the way it does. CA needs revision and I hope when they do that, in a Story Pole Slab system to re-write the old CA code. Ask Doug Parks what he thinks?

Hi Ryan, have you got SSA, if so you can view some training videos on roofing online from the CA website that will show you step by step how to edit roof planes, build roofs and add automatic dormers etc. Specific to your problem you may have to change the settings of the upper dormer room and or the room underneath so the roof will not automatically build around it? You need to enter the room dialog box to change how the roof will build over the rooms in question.

Yes the macro is cool but I like the CA method shown in the training videos of how to define areas. This method of producing the room shape automatically from one click of the mouse with the moding polyline tool is by far the best method and fastest way of defining areas. You can even click on the outside of your floor plan and wham it follows the shape of the outside walls. Do it again then peel back the polyline to exclude the garage area if you wish. Also click inside a room and wham it follows the shape of the inside of a room automatically. Next, create a layer called areas and place all these areas on this layer and hatch the polylines as you wish turn layer on and off as you wish. All you need to do then is add in the area text macro simillar to what Richard has done with the cross box cad tool method and you are done.

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If CA could do what Softplan does with Softlist I think we would all be very happy with ML take off.

Just draw your framing plans in Chief and do it by hand or since you are in the US visit head office and ask for a job and show them how the program should work for ML. All the best and yes CA should do all the heavy lifting for us!

You can publish an accurate model and all the plans and framing plans and the ML data but unless you do your own accurate take off, all that ML data should not be relied upon. Please see the Chief Architect diclaimer about ML.

Wife Client, yeah thats a tough gig, have fun with it and in the end its your own mix. You can use the barrel roof tool for curved roof if you make that choice. You can search the styles you like online to pick up some ideas too?

http://artsandcraftshomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Robinson.jpg You are after an Arts and Crafts look with auto roof returns and barge end splays is that right? Over the curved bay window you could bring out a projected gabel or a multi hip projection same too for the other bay window. If you experiment and show your client, let them choose what they prefer? Check out the roofing video's to see how to do this. So far Scott H has been tidying up your roof model very well? I would make your model even more complicated and more Arts and Craft with a low broken pitch or dual pitch roof close down to the external walls. Or curve the roof over the curved bay window like this picture above? You might have a big job on your hands with this curved roof section part in CA, try get a curved polyline solid to do the roof and the curved fascia to see if it is possible? Well worth the effort to reproduce a feature like this if it is possible in CA?

From those new details above, that is the realistic way to do it. I did not pick up the existing rhombus footing from your first sketch. Now if we could edit a cross section of a footing from rectangle to rhombus in the cross section window and the 3d model was changed, that would be good for CA? I would use cadimage slab edge in AC if I needed extra tools to edit the monos slab footing to get that shape in your detail above from the cross section in AC.

Training Video 361.