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Hi, Walkthroughs seem to use the "Preview" mode. Short of changing the default settings of "Preview" mode to match "Final View with Shadows" is there a way to just change the mode used when making walkthroughs? Thanks.

I have found that it often works better to print to a PDF and then print from the PDF to the printer. For me it was simpler to get the results I wanted - I guess the PDF printer feature works the same way as my mind - which some folks might find a bit scary.

I'd be interested to know what specific issues you encountered. Perhaps someone here knows an approach that would help. A previous plan I worked on had stacked stairs from floors 1 to 3 with a stepped landing in each and I don't recall it being a terribly frustrating experience BUT it was a couple of years back. Thanks!

From the CA online help for beams: Check Bearing Beam to specify the selected Floor/Ceiling Beam as a load-bearing beam. When checked, automatically generated joists run perpendicular to the selected beam and either lap or butt over it, as specified in the Build Framing dialog. SeeFloor Panels. Only available for Floor/Ceiling Beams. The default settings for beams and joists seem to be "optimized" for the intended use.

Hey D. Scott, What you may not know is that the designers and testers spend a good deal of time discussing how best to annoy you. You should feel special!

I'm running X6 on one machine with a i7-920 (2.67GHz) processor and just 6GB memory and have no complaints. Something with your hardware or software is dragging down your performance. What are you using for anti-virus\anti-malware software?

JOOC what is the timing on the memory? That can have a large effect on performance.

I was trying to make two points - one is that there is going to be a cost associated with improving the performance and the cost may be too great - and up to a point another programmer or two can speed the process of creating the new code to improve the performance but finding a top notch programmer who is really going to add to your pool of talent is not easy.

Generally when first writing a program you stick with simple straight forward code, known algorithims, etc. Then during testing if you find unacceptable performance you begin to analyze the code for the bottlenecks. Once those areas are identified you rewrite the associated code and sometimes the required code can be much more complex. And the faster you try to make it the harder it is to get each successive increment in speed. All of which takes time and you face dimishing returns. And as we all know time is money. That's an over simplification but it touches on the issues. Also while the world is full of programmers, top notch programmers are harder to find. Programming is a field that is easy to enter but very, very hard to master.

I can't. Then they wouldn't be super secret but your asking for super secret so if I gave them to you they wouldn't be what you asked for and... See the problem.

And it surely wont pass inspection.

Well based on your picture and the color of your hair I think I must be older. Once you configure the hardware and software it pretty much takes care of itself. About the only time you interact with it is when one of the drives fails - as all drives do. Then you pop out the failed drive - they drives are in little "carriers" and you can change drives with power on - remove four screws holding the failed drive to the carrier - attach the new drive to the carrier with the same four screws - and slide the carrier back into the NAS. The NAS takes care of putting the new drive back into action. If you are belt-and-suspenders type you could have a 2nd or 3rd NAS unit to keep extra copies of the set of files or you could sign up for one of the on-line file backup services and have a set of files off-site. And setting things up is really not that difficult - not with all the folks here ready to help out.

Well I don't know a whole lot more then I did. Why don't you want them on your PC? If that is the machine you work from then you could keep one set of files on that machine and and another set out on a NAS unit (network attached storage). A good NAS unit can be configured with redundant drives and "hot spares" - hot spares are drives which are not in use but if one of the active drives fails a hot spare drive is automatically activated to replace the failed drive. You are notified via Email that such an event has occured so you can take appropriate action. Then you would have a program on the PC that would automatically backup any changed file on the PC to the NAS unit. So you would never fetch a file from the NAS but always work on the PC files and the files on the NAS would always be in sync with the files on the PC. How does that sound?

Sorry don't understand what you are doing. Does you entire collection of files take up a lot of disk space? Perhaps something like Dropbox could be put to work to achieve a safe and workable solution - to whatever it is that you are trying to do.

But you can't see the door casing - problem solved!

I have used several Samsungs (the Pro series) and have been quite happy. I just recently replaced a 256GB unit with a 512GB unit as I was running out of space. I used to just put stuff on my hard drive but I have gotten spoiled with the speed of the SSD - thus the upgrade. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=samsung+ssd&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Five sheds!?!? Wow! You're putting "Two Sheds Jackson" to shame!

This does not directly apply to your question but it is related to using SIPs. In some two story home designs you will find the designer has called for the 2nd level platform (floor joists, subflooring, etc) to sit on top of the 1st level panels. Then the 2nd level panels sit on the 2nd level sub-flooring. Other times the the designer will have the 2nd level platform hang from the top of the 1st level panels. Then the 2nd level panels sit on top of the 1st level panels. Obviously the 1st level panels in the second case are going to be taller then the first case by the thickness of the 2nd level platform. Of course you may have panels that span both levels but that's another issue entirely.

Not entirely sure what you are asking but... Imagine that you had a roof with a more typical overhang. Would it make sense to continue the measurement of the wall to the top of the roof? I treat them the same as a stick framed wall.

Hi, At the top of each forum is the "mark as read" item. But the "mark all as read" item is at the very bottom for the forum list page. This seems a bit odd to my why of thinking.