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Perry, Did you read the article Steve posted. Bottom of 1 page talks about a software boost for speed. Rapid mode. Have you tried it?

Wow, great info Steve. Thanks so much for you time & expertise. Yes the power supply was a weak link. It died earlier this year so I now have a 500+ watt from CompUSA. I just took a big hit buying CA last month and it runs OK. Slightly longer load time than ACAD2006. So a new box will have to wait. I am not concerned by start up times. I leave my computer on 24/7 and restart every 3 day mostly. I think I will get the SSD 850 512 I have 296gb used on my 1TB C: drive. I use the 2TB as back up for my & my wife's computer. Actually 2 each 2TB drives & a Black X External Drive Dock. So I keep one of the 2TB drives in my fire proof safe. Maybe the RAID1 would be a better choice with the SSD as C: drive and the two 2TB drives as the RAID set up.

Knock wood, I haven't had any issues with the ATI although my Wife's computer has. I bought Dell Refurbished & have been happy with them. I may go the build your own route next time. I see the 1 TB EVO is 450 & pro is 600+ Wow, that's quite a hit for Pro. My question is would you be better off with 512 Pro or a 1TB EVO?

stevg, I see the Samsung 840 Pro SSD for $300 and the 850 pro for $350. Is it worth the $50 for the 850? (both 512) I have an older box, 2011 vintage, see specs in attached pictures. Seems to run OK except for Ray Trace but I don't do much of that yet. So I guess the SSD will still be a good investment? Thanks for your time & a great post!

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I'll try it later today.

Thanks Perry. I'm going to quit for today as I'm pulling out what hair I have left. I think I may remove all the roof and start over. maybe do the thin 2nd floor trick. My plan is attached & the roof looks like I want it to look but the walls & molding are fighting me. The main problem area is the left side of the entry where the little roof is. I seem to be having trouble controlling the plate height after the fact. The design is driven by a need to not use the hum drum roof from right to left as in my earlier design. I know the break up causes some complicated roofing but that is what I need to do. Per the Architect. And the left upper gable actually extends right of lower gable and that wall is part of the entry. Take a look if you feel like it. BellaVistaLot3-r2.plan

The actual construction is a pre manufactured gable truss that sits on the cmu wall, no plate. If the wind load was too great then a cmu wall would extends up with a rake beam to cap the wall.

Ha! funny man. I guess you aren't buying the stucco. Stucco is lucky if you get 5/8, here well specify : STUCCO NOTE : ALL REFERENCES TO "STUCCO" ON THESE PRINTS SHALL BE INTERPRETED AS MEANING "DECORATIVE CEMENTIOUS FINISH" , SHALL BE LESS THAN 5/8" IN THICKNESS AND COMPLY WITH ASTM C 926 & ASTM C 1063 And all dimensions are to outside of block so stucco is ignored for dimensions & at typical 3/8" is not worth showing. Just my take.

This is getting interesting See attached, looking at more soffits around the house I see this. Doubled freeze. The larger one is from the roof plane that I added. Where is the smaller one coming from?

That fixed it for me. I guess somewhere there is a default that I need to change.

I have the same problem with my 8" stucco wall. BellaVistaLot3-11.plan

The roof plane when parallel to the drywall, i.e. snapped into place did heal the open end. The cut & drag covers most of the exposed drywall from the interior wall that is extended up to form the gable wall. There is still a little drywall showing & the Freeze is open. Not a big deal as I won't be zooming in with views used on the plans.

I now how to do a solid but how to break the roof plane in such a way to close the hole? I can do this with an additional roof plane but not what I wanted.

In elevation you can select the gable wall and drag the gap closed.

See attached, how to close this end?

See attached file with hatches deleted & only hatch outlines remain. NACC SUITE 118. Level 0.zip

Wow what a mess. That DWG is nothing but hatches, no lines or plines.

Could have used it last week on electrical. I miss the ENTER to repeat the last command. (ACAD works that way, also has option to use Multiple on most commands) To me that is more versatile.

OK more dumb questions from the newbie. I have 5 bar sinks in the medical office and when a schedule is created they show up as "Square [13]" When I select the sink via select then tab it is a CAD block. I can select the cabinet & then components and I see the fixture & can re-label them there. What I want to do for future insertions of this sink is fix that label in the library object. Help says I can edit in place with tools i.e. edit it using any of the options in its contextual menu Can't find a way to edit it. The catalog list it as "Square" under Bar Sinks I can't even change that name. Do we have access to these objects?

Thanks for the input. I figured out what is causing the odd elements in the picture posted but not how to correct it. The porch is a room with invisible exterior walls. Although not seen these walls are driving the roof & ceiling objects. The Beams that hold the roof up are set back from the exterior of the wall some 6 to 8 inches so the ceiling ( am guessing) is a vaulted ceiling element that is now exposed. Why it is offset from the top chord of the trusses I haven't figured out.

Spoke too soon, I got the Gable end wall back but no Freeze is showing. I modified both roof plans to add freeze & shadow boards. I don't know what a shadow board is. I thought it was the same as a freeze.

OK I solved the attic wall issue. I needed to be in plan view AND in the Attic Level to fix the gable end at the rear.

Oops looks like the file size may have choked the upload. Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xp6uksflz40ycar/McGucken-3.zip?dl=0

Plan attached. Do I need to do that Save Complete or can you manage with .plan file as is? Also while you are looking, I deleted the rear gable walls trying to get the freeze to go all the way down. It only appeared on the gable wall over the covered porch. Now I can't get the gable wall to rebuild. CA is so new to me that I am struggling with some of the basic things, at least they should be basic things.

Look at the attached picture, I think the ceiling plane extends out too far so the poly solid I used for the arch doesn't cover the ceiling. Also looks like the eve vents or something is exposed below the soffit that is following the roof slope. How to deal with these items?