stevenyhof

1 minute ago, Renerabbitt said:

Is it that you have a CAD detail that is being used for reference heights?

Yes. In ADT I made a program where I could enter in my wall heights and footings, floor joist and grade, and it would add these "section construction lines" to my 2D area generated from the 3D model. So I am setting up something similar in Chief using layers and objects. Instead of a program generating what I want as reference lines, I can just choose the layer that fits my heights. If there is another way, I am open to see it work on a video.

Now that my work is done and everything set up, and with only one click of a button I have everything I need, how could something else give me all my different heights with an example of the structure? These work in conjunction with my foundation pony walls which are all set up as well to a perfect daylight and walkout wall. I literally spend less than 2 minutes adding my foundation pony walls (daylight) to my generated stem walls and set their heights to frost walls if needed, in my four elevations.

Again, I would love to learn more of what Chief can offer.

Thank you,

Steve

18 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

I think I gathered that you are using layers to drive line style.
I personally think it is far easier to simply use line style from your library or even your toolbars instead, as it is just click and draw and doesnt require having additional layers, modifying multiple layer sets or changing layers/changing the active cad layer
 

"I think I gathered that you are using layers to drive line style."

Nope! I am not drawing these lines. These have been setup to give me precise heights without having to think through this process again. Took me a few hours to setup. I have set up a number of things and now I can crank out plans faster than ADT. The plan I show in the video is like 3000 ish sq.ft. and was completed with 4 sections in less than 35 hours.

Thank you,

Steve

I should add that once I am done setting the heights of my walls, I turn the layer off as I no longer need the lines.

1 hour ago, Renerabbitt said:

I don’t follow what you are showing me here, how are layers controlling your floor joist types? Maybe I have a better method

This will help explain what I am doing...

https://www.loom.com/share/5e075ef2a1a7424587fdc15e8c0a3af8

29 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

hey @stevenyhof long time 
You are creating a new layer and that new layer is visible in the layer set that is active in your current view. When you switch to a camera view, your layer set changes according to the plans defaults for that class of camera view. In the layerset associated with the camera view that new layer would need to be made visible.

I’ve noticed that you have a bunch of custom layers in your default plan. I would strongly recommend that you stay as close to default layers as possible. When you choose to scale your business or collaborate, it makes it that much more difficult for someone else to work with your custom plan.

Ah!! Of course  - Thank you!! I figured it was something simple. 

Yes, I have a few of custom layers, most I have abandoned. But I use some custom layers to set up my different foundation and floor joist types. 

Example

Not sure what it is in the template, but I took the wall from the older plan and pasted that into the template and updated the lines and color, renamed it to what I wanted and it works fine.

I'll add this...
https://www.loom.com/share/55d3a1d485e249ec85b5e286e4fdd32b

Hello,

Anyone know why change a new (copy of a) layer makes it not display?

https://www.loom.com/share/74a91a05a39b4852b611ed0f7ce985b5

Thank you,

Steve

Ah! I see... That makes it simple!

Thank you, Sir!

4 hours ago, rgardner said:

Probably not it and I didn't have a lot of time thus I didn't watch the entirety of it but it looks like the one that wasn't working does not actually have the "Reference Display" toggle button on. (OOB f9)...

I knew it would be something obvious... I was so focused on the list of details below I completely missed the checkbox above 

Thank you!!

I have two jobs open showing the Reference layer - one project is working the other is not ???

https://www.loom.com/share/aaa229e27da84df5b89baa01c889df3a

Thoughts?

Thank you,

Steve

They are on CAD, Elevation Details layer

35 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

All Off layer set perhaps.

This is the trick! Thank you!

Is there a way to erase entities on a visible layer? Or like the shift key, select all from a specific layer?
Or, more specifically, I had to mirror a plan and my sections are messed up with Auto Details that were applied to the section. How do I delete these details so I can apply again?

Thank you,

Steve

I just wanted to add that I cloned the C: drive to a new 1TB Samsung SSD 980 PRO - Replacing my 970 and I can see a considerable difference in the speed of the undo and other functions. X12 was not really an issue with refreshing the 3D model, but in X13 (standard mode) when I delete a roof plane (for example) and then undo, the model would fade for a moment, sometimes like 1 to 2 seconds and then rebuild. Now it is hardly noticeable and the object(s) pop back into place. 

I put my old ram back in, back to 32 from 64 and faster because I was getting a blue blank screen. However, I am still getting this blue screen so looking into why that is happening. When we went to update the graphic driver I would get the blue screen. I am running 4 monitors so thinking of disconnected 2 of them to see how it goes. Maybe something is going on with my driver.

Bottom line, upgrading to the 980 made a noticeable difference for anyone wanting to gain some more speed. I also updated my storage drive D: to a 2TB 980 PRO so loading plans is faster also.

Thank you everyone who helped with advice here!

BTW, I tried using Macrium Reflect but kept getting an error so ended up using AOMEI Backupper which worked perfectly. 

6 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

There are always backups in the Archive Folder , inside the Chief Data Folder which is usually in My Documents unless you specified it to be put somewhere else.

 

With X13 I also Lowered my Autosave time , but you can also set an Auto Archive down lower as well.

 

 

Ah! Right there it is!! Thank you, Mick!

I had the computer crash and the temp files remain. I tested it by opening a plan, making some changes and the undo temp files showed up. When I closed normally the temp files were removed - all good.

Further question on temp files...

When my computer crashed, (I think I over clocked the new ram and put that back to auto) and went back in to open a plan I was working on, it wanted to use an auto saved version, which I excepted. However, it said it was corrupted and would not open. So I went to open the file again without the saved version and it was like an hour old. Most of the things I worked on were gone. That was fine because I was messing around with a portal framing detail. However, if it was a clients plan, I may not be so dismissive. I have the preferences set up to save every 2 minutes. Where can I go to find a backup file that is more than 2 minutes old?

In AutoCAD I created a system to backup with every save which created a copy of the last backup and put that into a separate "Previous" folder and then it would overwrite the file in the main "Current" folder. So even when the software crashed and would possibly corrupts the "Current" file, I always had a "Previous" backup.

Does CA do something similar so I can get my hands on at least a more recent file?

Thank you,

Steve

57 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

typically this happens only when the program doesn't close cleanly as it should "clean up" after each session on it own

but is also one reason I specify my Own Temp and Undo Folders as well, and clean them out myself when Chief is closed if needed.

 

M.

I figured. Now that I have the Temp folder under my own path I will watch it. Thank you

5 minutes ago, Dermot said:

In theory, yes.  I would recommend that you close all programs when you do this though.  Some of those temp files may by in use.

Thank you very much! I do see that on my X12 I used the default Temp folder which is also used by many other programs, where my X13 I set up my own Temp folder.

Can I go into me Temp folder and delete old dated or even all Temp files to clean things up?

2 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

Chief is single threaded so all the Cores in New Processors really don't help that much in Chief, I think Graham Korbey did some test about a  year ago here on the Forum, but for multitasking they should. The New 12th gen on Z690 are much better at this which is why gamers are raving about the newer 12th gen as many games are still single threaded too.

Great to know - thank you for the info!

7 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

It's not a MOVE it does a Exact Copy (Clone) of the Drive and leaves the Original as is...... once every is up and running you can Format the Old SSD and use it for Storage either internally or placed in an External Enclosure and Rin backups to it eg Images with Macrium which is what I do...

Ah! Thus the "Clone". Thank you

5 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Which is, to me, the most important question, and almost impossible to answer without throwing down the cash to find out. I had an older dual Xeon machine that would chug through Ray Traces, which is what it was designed for, but was pretty slow through most of Chief's operations day to day. I upgraded to my current rig and it was way, way, faster but don't know where to go for an upgrade from here.

I agree. My son keeps showing me gaming setups, and I keep coming back to him with, ok, thats nice, but will it speed up CA's typical CAD operations within the drawing. He does not know the answer to that. I have done some research on CAD setups, but not enough to know what I would be talking about.

Chief has their recommendations and requirements, but it would be nice if Chief developers would chime into some of this and say, well, if you don't mind spending some extra dollars, we would highly recommend this because it helps with, X, Y and Z, etc.

17 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

Despite Larry's issue with Cloning  (BAD SSD) I use and recommend Macrium Reflect , even the free version will work for Cloning and running backup Images.

I've never done this. Makes me nervous moving my operating system. For now I am thinking of reinstalling CA on the new drive and set up my paths. Leave the C: as is. I know my son wants me to move everything to the new drive so I will cross that road when they show up. I just cannot afford to be down for long.

15 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Even the 12th Gen is only 16% overall better apparently, though CA is Single Core Coded and the difference there is 33%,

I see some gamers raving about them, but if you have a recent computer I think most are fine....

 

 the extra cost for i9 Chips is usually not worth it unless almost the same price which is not usually the case.

 

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-12700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-10700K/4119vs4070

 

M.

Thank you. I'm assuming adding my Undo and Temp, and perhaps all of CA onto the NVME is a good start.

4 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

I would tend to agree with this and would go Z690 and a 12th gen 12700K or higher (budget?) ( or KF)  if a CPU and MoBo are in the Cards, this is likely the closest for a while to a "real change" in hardware but not one that is needed likely for another year or two. I tend to trade back and forwards with Asus and Gigabyte boards , one other feature to look for is dual Bios's in case there is an issue.

 

As Larry also pointed out the Z400 series boards are PCIe3 only but can use a 11700k CPU , a Z590 also can do 11700 but has PCIE 4 for both Video cards ( no real benefit ) and the extra 4 PCIe lanes for the NVME and often have 2 or 3 NMVE slots.

 

Mick. 

Great info. I will bookmark this thread for future upgrade advise.

5 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Same experience here. Didn't stop me from thinking that a new hard drive would be noticeably faster but sometimes I just like new stuff.