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I owned the HP design 110 plus for several years and loved it! I recently purchased the Design jet T520-24 (attachment below) on amazon a few months ago and I am very happy with it. In six months after the purchase of it and all the expenses of paper and ink it will pay for itself already. I used to just print very little on my old printer because I was afraid of over using it and wearing it out. So I would take my big sets of plans down to get them copied at the print shop. But my friend that works on printers said that these HP printers are almost bullet proof and they are built to print high volumes. I don't worry about it any more I print everything and it takes about 35 seconds to print each page and that fine. Its a roll feed so you don't have to keep feeding it. And also the T520 Is really easy load the paper. Its like a 110% improvement over the 100 plus. After unboxing the printer it only took me about 30min and I had it set up and I was printing my first page. Very easy to setup. I chose not to use the stand because I don't have a lot of room so I just have it sitting on a cabinet. The size of the printer is 40" wide x 20" deep and 11" tall.

Got it, Thank You

Thanks guys! This is one of those situations where they wanted to go over the top of the existing joist with new trusses and it led to a lot of out of the box thinking to make the plan work. I know there are other ways of doing this the way I did but this all works really well for the sections. I did all standard 2x4 roof framing and then put one trust joist in so it would pick up the look I want in the section view. Anyway I got the attic wall in and it looks good thanks to you.

I don't understand why I keep struggling with this cable not filling in. This is all automatic roofs and It doesn't seem like I should be having this problem. Plan is attached, any help would be appreciated. New Addition, Gullaba.zip

I did my second day out of 8 day's of online training today. It's going really good! I'm glad I'm doing it.

Perfect! That did it! Now I just have to add a folder to my template plan file for images!

I appreciate the video but it doesn't do it for items that I use the snipping on.

I got it to show up in the libuary but it wont paste as and image in my layout

I used the snipping tool to cut and paste a picture in my layout plan but now I would like to save that picture to the library. Does anyone know how to do that? I tried blocking it and putting it in but it doesn't work.

Thank you Chief for restoring Hatch

That's not much information to go on. Make sure the roof planes layer is turned on

If you hung out long enough you will see how that window just gets mysteriously center as you go through the video. That's how good she is, she did it without having to touch it! lol She seriously did an amazing job on that video. We should direct all newbies to that one.

Yes, I'm aware. Back to my original question. Why does CA set their default at 1-1/8"? Not important just curious to know where it was pulled from. I build on the west cost (California) so is this a east cost standard? Maybe because of the cold? Not sure?

The mill core (J Metal) that we use is 7/8" but they screed the brown coat to it and than the color added will make it one inch. Not sure why I'm even processing this after almost 40 years in construction. I guess because I'm full time doing drawings and design now and I like to be accurate.

Yea, if I'm not more confused afterlol You bet I will I'm very excited!

That's what I have always done is 7/8". However It always usually ends up being 1" on finish Not sure where Chief gets 1 1/8"

Just curious to know; I notice that Chief always defaults stucco thickness to be 1 1/8" when stucco molding is 1". Is stucco different thicknesses depending on the area?

Made a decision; I signed up for the online training. Thank you all for you input!

I thought she moved through it pretty good for a newbie. Nice overall lesson and covering a good amount of information. However for me I didn't see one thing that I learned from it and I would typically get something out of every video even if it just reminds me of a tool I forgot about. But I do think this video serves a good purpose for someone just getting to know the program.

Thanks guy's for your input, I appreciate it.

I have been using the software always in the highest version I can get since 2004. I think it was version 4.0 back then (not real sure) but I remember that they had just dropped "Broderbund" like the year before at the time. I have never had any formal training and don't mind going thought the basics even if it seems slow because even though I have done all my plans on it over the years I feel like I'm missing a lot of the basics that could be holding me back from being better. I have all my annotation sets in good order and I try to keep my plan fully live when it goes to layout. I still get confused by some things that should be very basic. I'm not totally settled with my system of construction documents and cad details. I typically just copy and pasted general notes from the city I'm working in and really don't have my own setup. Trying to get a better layout template setup. Also need to learn more about relinking plan to layout. I know enough to get by but I'm tiered of just getting by and have plans that aren't consistent. I have also been trying to get better at finishes and need to learn how to do presentation walk through and around. Here are some renderings I did of a wine cellar with outdoor patio themed with wine paraphernalia that I recently did to give you an Idea of what I can do. Also and ranch style house with guest house and garage

Thinking of signing up for the intermediate online training. Does anyone know who the instructor usually is? Also, was wondering who else has done it and if its worth it?

Nice! Thanks for the reply. Glad your still around!

The reason I said that is because I felt bad from all the comments. I hate to see people give up on such a great forum. It sounds like you just insulted me, that was un cool!!!

I think we chased off Henry and Pitchfork! I really do believe that someone should delete this whole thread. Its just taking up space. Just a thought