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Hello wizards, I consider myself more or less adept in the Chief dark arts, but after many a rat vaporized and many an orb pondered, this particular spell continues to elude me. So I humbly ask any of you wise in the ways of the arcane: could you describe how I could go about achieving this look? I have attempted the use of molding polylines and distribution polylines, but nothing comes out quite right.

Thank you all for your input! I did some more research and talked it through with my boss and we decided to go ahead and get a new machine with better components all the way around. Hopefully that will solve my issue. If I still run into slowness I'll see what I can find out vis á vis my texture files, @Renerabbitt

Hello, Working with Chief generally works well, but the programs slows down over time, through the day, till all operations of any type consistently take 2-15+ seconds. Sometimes much longer depending on what it is. (for example, opening the library to select materials or fixtures usually takes 20 seconds and sometimes a couple minutes). If I restart my system, usually the program speeds up a bit, but it's not long before it bogs down again. Seconds may not seem like much, but when 2000 operations are taking 5 seconds on average, this adds almost 3 unnecessary hours that must be billed and push back deliverable times. And with larger than usual projects, of which I have several going on right now, the problem compounds and becomes prohibitively slow. I say all this as preface because my PC's specs seem well capable of handling Chief, so I'm not sure if a hardware upgrade is going to solve my issue. The components are over 5 years old, however, and I'm no computer whiz but I know that is old for processing components. So I need some advice: does it make sense to invest in a new machine/upgraded parts to improve Chief's performance? Or is there something else I'm doing wrong that could improve performance without hardware upgrades? My PC's specs: Processor | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz (3.70 GHz) Installed RAM | 64.0 GB Graphics card | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB) Storage | 790 GB of 4.55 TB used System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor My main drive where I store my Chief Architect project files is a 1TB NVMe SSD, synced to OneDrive I'm using Premier X17

I have a RAM disk and would like the Temporary and Undo folders to be located there to improve undo speed. Maybe it's simply a beta thing, but it seems I am not allowed to change the paths for these two folders in preferences (Preferences>Folders>All Program Paths>"Show"). Right now the folders are located by default in my AppData folder. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but does anybody know if there's a way to change the Temp and Undo folders like we can in X16?

So I am trying to develop my template plan optimizing for material lists. I am having an issue: the Deck Material List "Size" line items for the Deck Stair Jacks and Aluminum Deck Stair Railing does not match its corresponding values in the deck stair components tab; namely, the formula does not evaluate in the materials list like it does in the components tab. I hope I'm explaining it clearly enough. You will (hopefully) see it for yourself in the plan. I know this is probly a pretty niche problem, but I'm sure one of you macro/Ruby wizards can help me. template plan.plan

What the heck is this? It shows up under some footings sometimes, but not all. And sometimes it goes away and comes back inexplicably. I can't select it and can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of it. It's not ruining anything major, just my happiness and sanity. Let me know if anyone has some insight. Plan here

Yes I need this feature as well. can't figure out how to do it.

Something weird is going on. When I draw one terrain break, everything works as normal. But if I draw another one, the first one ceases to break the terrain and instead causes some kind of tectonic plate shift. Did I do something wrong, or do I need to change a setting, or is this a bug? Pls help Stutzman Home

Scott, I tried it again today, and everything worked fine and as expected. I have no idea what I was doing wrong or differently before. weird

I edited the chords/web members. One thing I figured out is if I create a truss, lock the web, multiple copy, then edit the truss, only one truss with that label changes (not even the first one weirdly). if I then check "Force truss rebuild" on all the trusses with the same label, my edits are reverted back to the default, BUT if I hit undo, all the trusses with the same label change to what I had edited. So I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but at least there is a workaround, albeit very specific and clunky.

Just upgraded to X15. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but when I check "Lock Truss envelope and webbing" on a floor truss and then I move or copy the truss, all my manual edits are lost. I've tried all the various combinations of those four checkboxes on the Truss spec dbx, and I can't get my edits to stick around. can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Metz Plan 002.plan

Michael I gave an upvote simply to counteract the downvote. I guess you were downvoted by a fervent CA apologist? I have looked into TW and although I really appreciate the one-time-purchase, I don't think I can justify it with how rarely I do walkthroughs. I have played around a bit with the free version though and it seems like a great program.

ELEVATION SNAPS! Thank the Lord and Chief Architect gods!!

Is there a way to automatically generate bookshelf girts spaced 2' O.C. between posts in a post framed wall in Chief? (Idk if there's a different term for them, but around here we call flat girts btwn posts "bookshelf girts," and it is the typical way to frame a post frame building.) Currently the closest I can get is to check the Exterior box under Build Framing dbx>Wall>Blocking. This only generates one blocking run. I was wondering if I'm just missing a way to do something similar but have multiple runs auto generate and I could specify the spacing? From what I can tell, it seems Chief only knows about flat girts on the outside of the posts. ^^What I can get currently with auto framing^^ ^^What I'd like to get with auto framing^^

I hope I'm not missing it staring me in the face, but is there a vertical lift garage door symbol anywhere to be downloaded? Or do I need to fashion one myself?