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You can always 'Insert New Floor' in between/under any existing floor.

Good post for the suggestion forum - would love the ability too.

Never used the Layer eyedropper/a painter in 15 years of CA useage. May have to learn that rascal.

Not overkill at all and would advise setting up ALL of your Anno Sets just the way you want them and once they are done they will serve you far into the future. Remember Anno/Layer Sets are plan specific so you either need to save them as a template (which most likely will be constantly changing as you refine your Anno/Layer Sets) or 'save as' the last plan you worked on to preserve your latest Anno Layer Set modifications. If you've worked on your Anno/Layer Sets for a long time and have them dialed in a template will work great but if, like me, you are constantly changing Anno/Layer setting the save as method may work best.

It looks like the cross section slider is only available in standard/perspective view not orthographic view (re: Bryce).

I've had this problem with PDF's for a very very long time and have just learned to live with it. Talked to the tech folks a couple times and as helpful as they are there was nothing even coming close to a solution. Was mainly wondering if it was something unique with my system or if others had seen it.

I'm thinking floor plans as in plan view. Maybe the OP wants a 3D or orthographic view of some kind? Or a floor plan in plan view? I dunno.

Have you seen this behavior Perry?

I thought the OP asked for floor plans, not 3D views?

Thanks very much for the reply Richard. After reading your post a couple times I think I'm doing just what you suggest. It looks a little messy through the video but I did indeed "put all of the holdowns on the the "holdown" layer, and the shear wall annotations on its own layer. (Both could be on a single layer, though, if you wanted)". My question was more about how to put those items on those designated layers and it seems like you confirmed that you select each item and put them on the "holdown layer' for lack of a better term, then reference that Layer Set for Layout. I was just wondering if there was a better way to select each item that goes on the reference Layer Set.

I'm just beginning to set up my reference layers and I understand how reference sets work and can set them up quite easily but I am having trouble with how to get the reference information to that set. I only want certain items to be referenced, do you select each item one by one and set it to the reference layer? Do you set your Anno set to use the reference layer by default? Here's a stumbling video that I hope makes the question clearer. http://www.screencast.com/t/jFK5LbHF

I'm obviously a pretty poor communicator and my apologies for that shortcoming. I'll try again. This pdf was created by another party and I imported it into Chief. I don't have, don't want, have never needed, the original Adobe Acrobat Program and I don't need to create pdf's. This pdf was already created by someone else. It's about a 3 MB sized file. The anomaly isn't unique to this single file, page or instance. It's constant with most every pdf that is embedded into a Layout page. My signature has my computer specs and I have a hard time thinking that my GTX780 video card is running out of of gas. Possible, but not that likely me thinks.

Yup

Neither in this case Perry, that's the simple Chief Layout page with a full page pdf imported from the engineer. It will happen with every pdf file that's whole page and sometimes with smaller files as well. It will print fine when I use Chief's pdf printer but this before I print to pdf.

I get random blank areas when zooming. http://www.screencast.com/t/6FaCMJuoB

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/samples.html#plans

Scott there is no 'Indoor High Quality' Setting per se. There is one that comes stock with Chief but has been altered a lot in my usage. However within that setting are 'settings' that we could duplicate but we would need a screen shot of the settings your are using. What setting is 'lots of focal blur'? Also wouldn't running the RT for "no more than 1 hour" just give us an RT that ran for the same amount of time? How about a number of passes instead? Then we could compare times instead of all having the same time?

That's random roof underlayment. Try messing with the roof planes in no particular way, just pull them in a couple different directions and see if you can get it to go away.

Scott, A couple questions for you. What coolers are you using, and if you don't mid telling what did you pay for your system. Oh yeah what file are you using for the time you posted?

Graham I believe Scott's time is 1:45:00. 1 hour 45 minutes 00 seconds but can't really be sure.

Which version of Win 8 do you have? The lower versions only support one processor. EDIT: Not sure that's true do more research. http://superuser.com/questions/495105/how-many-physical-processors-does-windows-8-support http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/can-someone-point-me-to-a-clear-and-coherent/01bf018e-c1c4-4cb5-99fe-3091731080c9

No time right now Scott but if it were me I'd google the problem and see what fixes there are out there. Here's a start. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=only+1+xeon+processor+showing

My dual 6 core Xeon processor system shows 24 cores and when I Ray Trace all 24 are pegged at 100%. Maybe there's a bios setting to increase cores/usage?

That should do the trick.

Attic wall behavior was changed in X6 and X7. You actually have to delete the attic wall twice to get it to auto-rebuild. X5 would auto-rebuild instantly. http://www.screencast.com/t/bBOzMboP8db