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I ended up putting in two interior walls perpendicular to the exterior wall spacing them 4' on each side of the window center to give me a base line for the start of the roof and drew in a manual roof and then deleted the interior walls I used after It was complete. Also I used the "Join Roof Planes" even though I had two different pitches. Took me about 20 minutes and worked like a champ. Thanks for the ideas!

The only issue I had was because of my video card was causing a lot of problems!!!

Running on my NVIDIA card now and everything it peachy!!!

Also on a side note:

I changed my ram from 6 to 16 and it did not make my system any better but the hot ticket was to change out my hard drive to a "SOLID STATE" or add a second one just to run your operating system and programs. 10X faster on my computer and solved a lot of problems.

Check out my system in my signature. Never has ran so good!

Here it is

I would like to know some other ways of making this gable roof over this kitchen window in the attached drawing. I always have to be creative and looking for an easier way. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I'm trying hard to find a reason to download my upgrade and so far you guys aren't helping. Crashes, icons from Teletoons, and problems with layout font....

I'm not excited about the loony tunes icons either but its not that bad. I'm getting used to them. X7 is great and giving me no problems so don't let that stop you from enjoying the benefits of X7.

Good Job CA!!!

Joey,

If you are talking about the ikons then when the final non-beta is released the ikons will change looks.

Ok, thank you!

Didn't think about it being the beta version. Does that mean its a test run and am I supposed to be giving my thoughts on what I think about it?

I don't like the new animation look in X7. Is there a way to go back the the X6 look for the icons? I also don't like the big over size check marks and x marks in the layer set dialog box. I guess I could get use to it but was just wondering it there is a quick way to revert back to the old x6 look?

Or call it a porch and uncheck "floor in this room"

That didn't work either. There should be a way though because it worked in X6

I don't think I mention that this is a slab foundation (monolithic pour). It works fine with the raised foundations.

Never mind, figured it out.

Thank You

You don't have to export to .dwg you can take your existing floor plan (strip out what you don't want to show using layers) and convert to CAD using Chief's tools. Select all and choose a line style/weight. Block your new cad lines and copy/paste in place into your flor plan. Put the block on its own layer, send to back group and lock. Very much like what you're describing but perhaps more 'in the box' using Chief's tools. There's a knowledge base article on the technique, I'll see if I can find it.

 

Here's one way.

 

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02208/

When I cut and paste the blocked cad detail into my plan file in comes out in solid black lines instead of gray dashed lines that I selected. What's up with that?

That worked with X6 but does not work with X7

I don't want there to be a foundation added to my porch when I use the automatic build foundation. I there a way to turn it off so it wont do that or do I just need to delete the foundations after it builds them?

Sorry about grammer

We are aware of a crash with Intel, but that should not crash. We want to get that fixed. It would be nice to let our support team know what your hardware configuration is so that we can try to verify that our fixes to the problem work on your hardware.

I'm sorry I'm not real sure who you are addressing? I fixed my problem by switching my default graphics processor to NVIDIA. Are you speaking of the Intel graphics processor? If so let me know what you are looking for and I will send the information on that hardware to you.

Joe,

How do you like your ASUS?

I forgot that when I installed X6 I had to set the default graphics processor to NVIDIA. I just remembered and I changed it and it works fine now. When you mentioned NVIDIA the light bulb came on in my head.

Thank You

Here is my computer information in my signature now.

All I'm doing is drawing in the floor plan and when I scroll the library the error message comes up.

Bummer!

I downloaded X7 today and as I'm drawing I keep getting this error message. Can anyone help me with this?

It is making your computer processsor work faster then the speeds the factory set it to.  Most of the time, the manufacturer limits the speed to control the power consumed and the heat generated.  It used to be a difficult and risky thing to do.  But Intel has been making a line of processors that allow overclocking (the K after the number) and the bios of some motherboards make it a pretty simple step.  If you do not plan to overclock, the stock fan and your power should be fine.

I understand. Thank you very much!

 I am no computer expert, but do you plan to overclock (the k series is made for that)  If so, you do not wan to to use the stock cooler.  Also  650W power may be light.

What is overclock?

After listening to all of you I decided to try to put together a list of parts to build my own system (PDF attached below).

This is what I came up with. Any thoughts. opinions and suggestions would be appreciated before I pull the trigger.

I was also looking at a Dell system (XPS 8700 http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8700/pd?oc=fddogs107h&model_id=xps-8700) because I have been happy with my laptop from Dell and their support. Their description is hard to compare with my list though.

Computer System.pdf

I'm still looking and deciding on a new PC myself.

Is there any benefit to having a touch screen?

Try the room wizard, that's a quick way to get started with the layout. Its in the space planning section of tools

I messed around with the room wizard once but it didn't seem like it would help me much. Maybe I just need to give it more of a chance and see what it is capable of.

Thanks Perry

Joey, our user group is online and free. You can attend from home. See Houston User Group. Call me if you would like more information. If you call and I don't answer, leave a number for me to call you.

Sent you a personal message. Would love to attend the on line meeting.

Joey, Orange county, That's where most of my work is, I've done over 4000 projects there over the last 40 years. Your a neighbor. Have you been there long, we also have a few others here.

My office is in La Mirada and most of my work is Whittier, La Mirada, Anaheim, Downey. Good reputation in this area for about 25 years.