HumbleChief

I have a 1080 arriving today. I have NEVER had too much CPU or GPU for Chief.

Very, very, few crashes in Chief but this plan seems to be troublesome.

Crashed again while RayTracing...

I was working on a Layout and 3 plan files. have no idea what command caused the crash. Complicated scenario. I have 2 license. One license was set up to send archive in to one location the other another location. I looked for the archives in the wrong location, found nothing, gave up, opened the old file saved it and that over wrote the actual auto archived file so that work was officially gone. So wish I was smarter. I change locations for the archives and that changed my hot key set up so the hot key issue is moot.

Lost my hot keys too.....

No idea, can't come even close to remembering.

Thanks Jared but this was an older file, I had been working about 1 1/2 hours and Chief crashed. According to my setting there should have been an auto archive saved at least every hour but nothing at all no Layout file, no plan file, absolutely nothing. There are files from yesterday and it looks like they should but today's work just gone.

...nothing in archives, nothing anywhere - gone. Not happy. Feeling sick - just a warning to others that just when you least expect it. And why no archive files? Nothing? With these settings. Why no archive files?

Yes it would require a beam but I almost never represent that condition in an as built plan for a remodel as I find no need to do so. I was mainly concerned about how to keep the wall from actually disappearing while removing the lower portion. Eric's method solves that minor dilemma. When building the model for a new condition and representing that wall and framing correctly? I don't think it's going to happen in Chief, at least not automatically.

...and if you look closely you will see the framing is wrong when dragging the roof 'through' the wall instead of right to it. I think Chief is behaving badly in this case.

Thanks Eric, I have NEVER moved a roof plane 'through' a wall before like you've shown. That will help a lot in the future. BUT the framing is wrong - see video below.

Never have gotten this 'feature' to really work. It always seems to simply remove the wall, on this plan and many others. Any help appreciated. ROOF_CUTS_WALL_AT_BOTTOM.plan

Found this online and overlaid a grass pattern - worked pretty good. http://dotsoft.com/acadhatch.htm

Had it happen many many times. A refresh fixes it sometimes, a reboot fixes it sometimes, and sometimes it just fixes itself.

Not a texture but a pattern - anyone have anything close?

The whole space is definitely weird on a couple different levels and one of the reasons the owners want to remodel the space. It feels even more weird actually being in the space.

Wow Eric that's awesome and very close to what I actually need. A few adjustments and I should be good to go. Thank you VERY much.

It's has a second floor with a stairway that leads to that floor with a vaulted roof and a sort of dormer lookout over part of the second floor. I'm trying to manually build everything but am thinking there might be a faster/better way? I've attached a couple pics and the plan and thanks in advance for any help. ROOF_DILEMMA.plan

Me either, Thanks Dermot.

When moving a cabinet in to a corner the space wants to fill between cabinets even when there is a wall there. Is there a setting that will keep that from happening? COUNTER_TOP.plan Move cabinet... ...and corner counter top forms.

Not necessarily a MAC versus PC issue but I use both DropBox and Carbonite and curious as to why anyone would use just one solution. Carbonite is like $50 a year for unlimited backup and even though DropBox is supposed to have file recovery I don't trust it to be honest. I have only used Carbonite 2 times in many years, to recover 2 files that were hopelessly trashed and unrecoverable in Chief. Recovering those files saved me many many hours of work and I swear by Carbonite for that reason alone. I have 858 GB backed up right now and it is such cheap insurance that really works for me and after recovering those 2 files I wouldn't be without it.

PC's can be just as connected as MAC's these days and I just prefer the value and customization that PC's offer. I am also OS agnostic, just get me to my software so I can get my work done, either through Apple's OS or Windows OS, I don't care, but like I said I prefer PC's flexibility.

Don't see it on my bare template plan but as the plan grows so does the slowww. Hmmm, have no idea why.

like 2 - 3 seconds to place a switch, which isn't long but painful to watch and wasn't this slow before. Anyone else notice this?

Doesn't turn off that color, thanks. Do you get the same thing? I'm going to try my template file.