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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

Doesn't look like either piece of advice is correct. I always thought that attic walls rebuilt themselves when they were deleted. Can't get that to happen. Selecting 'gable wall' still creates an attic wall - at least here it does. Really bizarre. Can't get attic walls to auto re-build. Thought that was a no brainer. Oh well. Basil you can always go to the attic level and move that attic wall into position. There's also a small icon that aligns wall above and below. You can also check 'balloon through ceiling above' in the structure tab of the lower wall if you want to eliminate the attic wall.

That's pretty impressive Joe. Nice work.

That gable wall is an attic wall. Just delete it, it should regenerate properly. If not hit At Q and make sure rebuild attic walls is checked

Thank Perry That's my usual MO as well unless I need/want to change a ceiling height and can't because of that message. This 3 story house had that message coming and going and I was/am dumbfounded as to why it occurs sometimes. I went to the garage to change heights and couldn't because of that message. Went to the floor above and quadruple checked the floor heights and couldn't find any that 'varied'. Just muscled my way through and I THINK I have it dialed in now but am not sure when it will change again, or why.

The mind is an amazing thing and mine no less so. I have been reading and re-reading this message over and over again (for almost 15 years) and somehow never REALLY read it. "Ceiling values may not be changed as the FLOOR above this room has varying heights." Somehow I read 'rooms' into the phrase, but many times a 'floor' will have many rooms which could each have a different floor height. I still wonder how, with a simple single floor, one could get that message other than what you pointed out Basil. I always get it fixed, usually by selecting un-selecting those items you showed but will continue to explore and see if I can truly understand it one day. The biggest issue is when it appears out of nowhere during plan development as it did the other day. Plan was perfect all defaults set up just right. Sections and all heights perfect then bam, something happens to cause that and the garage ceiling height can't be changed. Check the floor above and can't see any variations in height in any room or the defaults and the games begin. Appreciate you taking your time to explore this.

Double click a wall, go to wall types and select your wall, go to define and you'll see the wall definition dbx, Your main layers are set up there. Better yet what are trying to do? What do you want it to look/build like?

Thanks Joey. Same here but I'm trying understand the why.