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I saw that before.....what exactly does that do?

I figured it was the cooling fans. It doesn't surprise me. Thanks guys.

Just curious.......I now have the 3080 video card and the PBR's are insanely clean and realistic. I have noticed if I keep the rendering open for a bit, the computer starts roaring like a NASA rocket ship ready to take off. It stops when I close the rendering. Is there a lot going on with the video card when that happens?

More good advice!

Thanks for the suggestion guys. This will be the last home I annotate elevations in layout since it is almost done. I will go back to calling out in plan file and figure out the text issue.

I will say that once I started using "labels" that really has helped in other views. However, elevations are different.

Advice taken Rene.....it has just seemed easier. It avoids text hitting text and trying to fit the view on the sheet once the labeled views are brought into layout. If that makes sense.

For those of us who call out material in layout views; is there a way to lock them in place if the views change in size? In this situation the house size grew and the existing layout views needed stretching to capture the new area. As soon as those grips are pulled the callouts go nuts. Been battling this for several years and just now decided to ask.

got it, thanks.....worked great.

So, all I wanted to do is snap a screenshot of white subway tile with black grout and add it to library. I came up with this. Do we "snip" the .png a certain way to avoid the grout lines from doing this? Both screenshots below........

Buy CA legally and put it on a credit card if you do not have the cash right now. It will pay for itself in no time.

You JUST made my day. I am always telling my wife about things like this and that ONE huge job that could come along and put serious money in the bank for me. She thinks I'm crazy, lol. I told her the other day how cool it would be to have a celebrity contact me to do their mansion or something. The thing is when it comes to those type of jobs, I am willing to bet a licensed architect would be the man who would hired over a designer.

I hear ya, the bricked part is a fdn wall and the siding is an exterior wall already. Thanks. Just figured I was doing things the hard way but maybe there isn't a correct one way to achieve this.

Here is a CAD detail I normally use for these type walls.

Yeah, I tried that before and it seemed more time consuming. But it does look great.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/library&reset=true

I have gotten used to making my caps like shown below for quite a while now. Is there a better way to achieve brick caps instead of having to uncheck "full wall width" and manipulate the number just to get the cap to overhang the brick stem wall? It works great but obviously isn't constructed like this in the real world. It is also shown wrong in cross sections. The cap should only be covering the brick part of the wall. Just trying to get better folks.

I had to downsize the screen size setting on my huge monitor and found them hiding in the extreme right. Maybe try that.

As much of a pain and disappointment it is with all these crashes, even after buying a $3k computer with a 3080 card and plenty of power, I must say, the one good thing about X13 is I never lose more than 5 minutes of work. I don't mind redoing the last command but multiple times a day is unacceptable. I can only hope we don't have to "baby" the upcoming releases. As a paying customer I feel we can be a little irritated with this without getting grilled. X12 was the best ever in my opinion.

Joined and put down that I was referred by your company. Thanks Joey!

Yes, Definitely made sure to form an LLC a while back.

I agree on this, I have something similar.

This is good! How hard to become a member? I have heard of the company but never researched them. Sounds like it has many helpful benefits.

I cannot get State Farm to issue me an E&O policy. Their reasoning is engineer's check/stamp my work. Very aggravating actually.

Just wondering how engineer's in your area operate. Take for instance myself. Once I am complete with a full plan set, the client's choose an engineer from my suggestions and then I send off the dwg files to them to do their work. Some times they change the framing members, footers etc. and stamp their own work on THEIR drawing borders and we slip them into my plans. The county then views my work as the architectural drawings and their's as the engineered ones and still want them ALL to keep in their filing system. There have been a few times I have been asked by an engineer to change things and they stamp my actual work on MY borders. Just curious to see how other parts of the nation operate when it comes to designer's and engineer's. I have requests now and then of people who live in rural areas who do not require a stamp and making the liability greater on myself and I am wondering if I should stop doing those homes. How do you guys deal with homes not requiring stamps?