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    Break and remove/delete 3d molding

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    1 minute ago, Renerabbitt said:

    Happy to help, Is there a reason you aren't taking advantage of the built in exterior casing? especially on the windows?

    Yes, I did add the casing to the side of the window in the window DBX. But I needed an additional casing to go over the brick. I did look and try some of the options to get the casing to span over the brick but nothing I tried worked. I do have a 1" casing on the window, and then a 5.5" casing over the brick. (which is just a square 4" x 5.5"

    Break and remove/delete 3d molding

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    I tried adding a 3 sided 3d molding to my garage opening for trim around the brick (what the client wants). but it seems to be snapping to different surfaces and gets funny, so I made a 3d molding polyline - worked perfectly for the front arch top windows. So I thought to do the same for the garage door and then just break and delete the bottom. But is there a way to break a polyline in two places and delete what you don't want?

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    Roof Skylight - Ceiling Hole Missing

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    Just now, DavidJPotter said:

     

    Or you could just start over being careful to separate all rooms as necessary before placing skylights and trey ceilings, your choice.

     

    DJP

    I did have the tray over the dining and living at first, then removed a opening that separated the kitchen, that made one large room. I pulled the tray over the kitchen with the cleint, he did not like that so pulled it back. So I have had some messing with it. I will remove the tray and start again and see if that works.

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    5 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

     

    Turn that off. When it's on CA has to recalculate the shadow projections every time you move or change the model. The camera features I mentioned are really only need if you are preparing final renderings. Personally when working on primary structure I find all of these added effects distracting and tend to draw ones focus away from more important aspects. Not really very efficient to be focused on a particular shingle when the physical roof structure is not yet complete.

    Very good. I will turn that off. Thank you

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    4 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

    Steve - Not sure you saw the Thread from Rene "SLOWWW plan file suddenly" posted yesterday. Worth taking a look at as it's a great example of how just one or two elements in a plan can bring even the best of system to it's knees. Really important to keep this in mind when ones system starts to slow down. Also, as mentioned before camera settings can have a significant impact on performance, when working on basic model structure I never have lights, reflections, bloom, shadows or sun follows camera turned on. Makes a big difference.

    I did see that. I will continue to fine tune my template(s) for this. I do have the sun follow, but that is the only change I made to camera - that I am aware of.

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    BTW, Graham, I was in my late teens when we owned a Kitchen store. We built houses and did lots of remodels. (I'm the youngest of four brothers). Back then, I was the "processor":) I drew all the perspectives of the kitchens we sold and even added grain to the cabinets. That was over 40 years ago... 

    This would be a close example of a perspective back then...

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    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    2 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

     

    My suggestion at this time would be to wait a month or two. NVidia is just releasing their RTX 3000 series cards, these offer at least a 30% or more performance improvement over the RTX 2000 series and are expected to be priced under the RTX 2000 series, seems like a win win situation, better performance at a lower cost.

     

    CPU looks good, alternative might be the I9 9900K.

     

    I would suggest you strongly consider a liquid cooler. To get the most out of those CPU's you will want to overclock them so they will run constantly at their higher frequency across all cores. A liquid cooler will do a better job of keeping temperatures in line to prevent the CPU from throttling down.

     

    32 GB or RAM is more than sufficient, overkill for Chief but you may have other programs that might benefit from this. Regardless, as RAM is so cheap why not go for a bit more.

     

    MNVe drive looks good, might consider the Pro series for a bit more throughput. There are some faster ones that use PCle 4.0 but I believe that at this time only AMD CPU's & motherboards support this.

     

    I know there can be some satisfaction in building your own but why not consider say a Dell Alienware Aurora. These are solid machines and when tested/reviewed they are always in the top tier. They do a good job of matching up components to deliver consistent performance and quality, all at a very competitive price and they are always running special discounts.

    Thank you for the feedback and info. Concerning Dell, I have had them all, even Alienware, and ASUS out performed for both laptops and desktops. I can always upgrade the video card, but as it is, I am getting too much lag with Chief and need to get something in place. I will update my Signature with new info once I have it in place. 

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    5 hours ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

    That's done from within OneDrive. Just assign the CA Auto Archive folder to OneDrive and it will back it up to the cloud every time it sees a change. OneDrive is very efficient so it's unlikely you will notice a difference. Other users use Google Drive, DropBox and iCloud.

    Do you prefer OneDrive over google? 

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    Just now, TheKitchenAbode said:

    Most of these services only provide about 5GB free and if you need more they have paid subscriptions

    I have a paid subscription.

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    Hey, I ran your plan on my Spectra, it's CPU is about the same as yours and I only have an integrated graphics chip and 8GB or Ram. It was not a problem and I still had my browser, email and excel running at the same time.

    Very good!

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    Just now, TheKitchenAbode said:

     

    That's done from within OneDrive. Just assign the CA Auto Archive folder to OneDrive and it will back it up to the cloud every time it sees a change. OneDrive is very efficient so it's unlikely you will notice a difference. Other users use Google Drive, DropBox and iCloud.

    Ah! I will look into that. Thank you!

    Refresh time - Rebuilding the model

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    Just now, TheKitchenAbode said:

     

    There are many other backup programs that don't use anywhere near that amount of resources. Why don't you consider using Windows OneDrive for file back-up and just let Windows Defender take care of virus control. A new system will help but if you still have those kinds of programs operating in the background you will be depriving yourself of the new systems potential performance.

    I will look into one drive. Once thing Code 42 does is backup every day - meaning, I can go back to specific days and find a file that was completed to a point on that day. It does not overwrite files, but keeps making new backups each day of files that change. This is also an old service, so maybe OneDrive offers such features.