John_Charles

Obviously I miss out on a couple of features but I'm still getting by on my GTX 1660 Ti.... It's part of a 6 yr old Omen HP Obelisk that I keep threatening to upgrade.... but then I get busy with other stuff... lol

Thanks everyone.. appreciate the input...

Hello I am doing a renovation on an existing property that has had an additional garage built before another extension was built over the top of both the new and old garage. I've discovered that although the footings are consistent around the outside of the garage, the rear 6' of the internal slab actually slopes down to a further 6" below the existing grade to meet with the now steeper slope driveway. Ie it's creating a 'ramp' in a concave style to the garage rear section and means the garage door sits lower than the garage floor grade (it has some decent cracks in it so I'm considering chopping it out but that gives me other issues regarding approach slope....). My question is, as a work around I'm simply setting down the garage door at a lower bottom height to simulate this in the drawings to the city, but would like to know if there is a better way or other suggestions? thanks Cheers

I'm having an issue with this also however I'm just trying to thicken it up. I have tried changing the appearance but seem to only get a line weight of 1 which shows up very light for a curve unless I zoom in.... any thoughts?

That's great! Thank you Joe and Kelly for explaining it! Much appreciated....

Thank you.... appreciate it...

I just want to raise the roof height to match the surrounding structure without losing the ceiling height of he smaller room. I've tried to do this with a ceiling plane as a work around but am wanting a simple way to do it so that framing is correct....

I have attached the sample model here... I'm not sure what I'm missing here....can anyone help? Thank you SAMPLE MODEL.plan

Michael am I missing something here? I have opened my TM model and this is the import (3ds) screen... don't see any option to keep scene material? Could you suggest further? Thanks

Would you mind showing me a shot of the dbx doing that?

Hello I'm revisiting an old drawing project that kicked my butt some years ago in Chief regarding the ceilings and roof alignment by simplifying the roof style (have some time between projects so just trying to do some practice/learning)..... Have discovered through searching years old posts that the roof alignment issue over a split level single story I was struggling with was best resolved by drawing the plan and lowering the floor level (that wasn't obvious to me at thetime but glad I know it now). I originally drew the plan and raised the floor level for everything except the garage and ended up with so many wall issues on a skilion roof structure it was horrendous... Which brings me to my question here... As Chief sets roof heights from ceiling heights, can anyone tell me the simple way you work around or where to find info on stopping the ceiling height affecting your roof, when you have adjoining rooms that have differing ceiling heights? I've attached my query in the form of a screenshot of a sample room with the main ceiling set at 140" and the smaller room at 100" as an example. It creates the wall issue and obviously the roof line. I had previously tried to keep the ceiling heights all the same and then just draw a manual ceiling plane but that became unwieldy when it came to framing, and pony walls/2nd story attempts gave rise to other issues with alignment. Does anyone have a better solution/suggest a simpler way? Thanks

Hello All.. I am trying to quickly knock up an as-built that has some separate rooms adjoining a living room that has a raked ceiling. I'm having an issue in how to treat the adjoining rooms (one is a bath and the other is a powder room) as they each have shelf ceilings over only the part of them that 'protrude' into the raked ceiling area.... ie I am trying to figure out how to put a shelf ceiling over only a part of a room, and it's not working for either the walls, ceiling or roof planes. In this image, the adjoining bathroom forms a box wall in the corner with a shelf ceiling over it, which then extends over the mini hall and pantry. My approach was to draw my raked ceiling plane and then build my roof. I have two issues that I can't for the life of me see a solution to. 1. I have tried to replicate this structure by drawing an invisible wall to part of the bath (doted line is raked ceiling) and same again with the cupboard and hall. That messed with the roof planes and walls where they intersected and the raked ceiling itself disappears. 2. The second issue is how to generate the internal wall above and internal raked ceiling over each of the shelf ceilings when it is part of another room and without affecting the roof planes? I have tried to manually adjust the walls by editing them manually but I'm sure there is a better way. Am I overthinking this and should I just forget the shelf ceilings and draw some poly shapes/soffits to simulate what is needed? Thanks for reading... Cheers

Hi RR Finally gotten around to dealing with buying a couple of new workstations only to find AI is everywhere in the systems. I don't want AI anywhere but that is another story.... Reason for my query, are any of the NViDIA cards available without AI/DLSS thta yu recommend or if not what is a good card from AMD? Cost isn't an issue as I'm buying prebuilt.... Thanks

yes I get both system slow downs and tabs hanging.... and I've already played around with virtual memory.... I'm actually not using Chrome at the moment as it got pretty bad at taking resources and we've found Firefox better over the last year or so... ha ha... yes have had MANY conversations with the wife (as has my son) and we've pointed out the realities of having so many tabs going, but in fairness to her, we SO OFTEN find (as builders) a product has come in as defective/damaged/missing components from transport and the supplier is out of stock/wants the damaged product returned/ we have to find someone local to repair it and she has to overcome supply chain issues to locate an alternative / other brand complete re-selection that hopefully matches set outs (usually doesn't) whilst reviewing specs, availability, dimensions, transport, etc or doesn't.... in this process book marking and saving tabs takes a back seat to being tenacious and finding a solution to yet another supply chain issue (but that's another story... ) and that's without her opening tab after tab of property either in the MLS or the Trulia's (resource vacuum) of the world either for sale or being sold (as we buy and sell our own projects)....so yes... I get her approach.... I agree, motherboard swap is the key and it's led me down the replacement rabbit hole.... I've actually installed CPU-Z on each machine to get the complete specs on each machine so have found the mainboard model numbers, looked them up and found the hardware limits for the boards are actually 32Gb eg HP Rother -Memory upgrade information Dual channel (1 DIMM per channel) memory architecture Two DDR4 UDIMM (288-pin) sockets Supports PC4-21300 (DDR4-2666) Supports 8 GB and 16 GB DDR4 UDIMMs Supports up to 4 GB on 32-bit systems note: 32-bit systems cannot address a full 4.0 GB of memory. Supports up to 32 GB (unbuffered) with two 16 GB DIMMs on 64-bit computers note: Maximum memory shown reflects the capability of the hardware and can be limited further in the operating system. So apparently I'm SOL on the RAM upgrade unless the MB comes out... I saw on a an old thread someone had said they buy their computers from a particular website and I both have no idea on reputable (configurable) brands other than the big ones or where to go next in finding and building a system.... I'd be interested in something like your main laptop but as a tower....

thanks RR... yes, we are on Win 11... and as I said above we've already tried tab suspenders etc. It's interesting that browsers are using more and more ram to serve a web page... this page alone with my posts and yours takes 200+ Mb of Ram, and my wife likes to have LOTS open (just how she works)... some Amazon ones take 400+Mb on their own. We've tried Edge, Firefox and Chrome and found that Chrome is the biggest resource hog when we are browsing although that also depends a lot on what extensions are active and what the specific task is... I know it goes in stages every few years and we generally switch around looking for a light weight browser from time to time... That said, my wife (despite discussions) just prefers to work with multiple tabs open as she multi tasks a lot so I don't see much option to do anything other than increase RAM or find a way to resource memory better than I'm already doing. RE the video card, I figured if I'm going to have to spend $1k plus on a card, as well as finding a solution to the RAM I might as well buy another one and be good to go for another few years... although I haven't looked into a SSD for a HP motherboard (great suggestion as I did it to an old mac years ago and hadn't thought of it for the HP's)... and that may be the issue for the lag as I have Chief located on my C: drive (which is almost full) and my work files in dropbox which is on a partitioned (D:) drive