HumbleChief

I was timing your video, not my system, and it seemed you may have counted a little more quickly in the X7 version of the camera shot - but the rest of the slow downs? Not cool for the users or the programmers. But either way I'm with you, there's trouble in River city, and those little delays really add up and X7 just feels 'sluggish' overall compared to X6. Did you try emptying the temp cache folder? (type %temp% in the windows search bar and delete everything that's not being used 'skip' the stuff that is) Made a difference in my system - until CA then created huge temp files and the slow downs returned. Tech is on it I'm sure and I hope X7 returned with X6's speed.

I got between 4.9 and 5.1 seconds with X6 in your first camera view example and about 5.1 - 5.3 seconds in X7. Couldn't find an appreciable difference when I was using a stop watch - just sayin'. The save delay and camera view delete delay are a niggling pain that I feel with every plan. Ugh. ..and I agree that the difference is noticeable and just drags on the creative juices when using X7.

What is a 'Kudo'? and why would I want one or give one out?

I didn't try Doug's suggestion - here's what I got. http://screencast.com/t/1hZ1v1laaDBa Got the same results as Doug. Fast again with All On then back to floor plan set.

I'm not sure what problem the solution is chasing? Can someone explain the problem?

Thanks Glenn,

OK Glenn, I can call off the crazy/stupid for the time being. Is there another way to create the plant-on molding I was trying to accomplish? And BTW for anyone else trying this type of plant-on you (or at least I) need to create a molding that 'leans' the other way to get the molding to flow around the outside, regardless of the inside/exterior selection. This shape gives this result.

I don't get that option, what am I doing wrong? http://screencast.com/t/cfMJzEODW

Zoomed way in and grabbed a section of line and it worked - Thanks - Great video - very helpful.

Why do 3D P-Lines only show that single useless line?

Thanks so much. Shift select doesn't seem to do anything that I can tell but yes it's in the attic - where I drew it doh!!

Thanks Perry. Didn't try that - I'll have to revisit my stupid

Thanks Joe but there's no option to create a molding poly line just a 3D molding poly line. Transform/Replicate works to move it. Did I say thanks?

I simply don't know how to move a 3D molding poly line in plan view or 3D. Nothing like CA to make me feel really stupid - and actually I mean that. There is NO OTHER software that has so many secret handshakes and bizarre techniques that I've ever used that just makes me feel stupid. I've actually pondered the possibility that I am stupid and then I try a new technique in Chief and it confirms my suspicions. [/rant] http://screencast.com/t/Odt0xsPnsC 3D Molding Plan 2.plan 3D Molding.plan

Bob, If you rotate the 'texture' material by changing the 'angle' 90 degrees you should get that grain to go the other direction as Alan suggests but also you can use any picture from any place to create a material and use that as a texture. Here's hundreds of wood grains to choose from below. It took me a while to understand the whole 'texture' and 'material' paradigm that chief uses, and I would never accuse anyone of being as dim witted as I, but if you're stuck, ask and there will surely be someone here to help. Good luck. https://www.google.com/search?q=WOOD+GRAIN+PICS&espv=2&biw=853&bih=626&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1UrRVJvlM8ibNv_kg9gL&ved=0CCAQsAQ Here's a Chief Knowledge base article that's probably more than you need but I always forget how do this stuff.

Talks funny and everything. (Nice work Glenn) http://screencast.com/t/t6wIKFYBVbD https://www.facebook.com/ChiefArchitect?fref=nf

That's funny Alan. I print directly from the plan file all the time when scale doesn't matter. Fast way to get info to a client, truss company etc. BTW you can come by with your dogs any time - I love puppies! I also was born in Carmel and grew up in Monterey so whenever I see your sig I reminisce a bit.

I was asking Chief to print the 'current view', not the whole window, not the whole terrain perimeter but the 'current view' those are two different requests - which it will do - most of the time. Try it and see if the 'current view'; doesn't include only the data in the 'current view'. Looks like it's working today or at least maybe my brain is working today.

Of course it's working OK today on a plan that would not cooperate the other day. Here's the 'current screen' And here's what should print - pretty close. Just couldn't get it to happen the other day.

This works differently in X7 than it did in X6. I print from plan view all the time and save to PDF. It's a really fast way to print a simple plan view of the 'current view'. The 'current view' is exactly that in X6 - the view in your screen. Like below. But in X7 it doesn't print the current view. It's always way too big as if it's ignoring the command - that used to work in X6. Here's the exact same view and the exact same plan but different view sizes.

Try it Dennis, will take 5 mins tops. I think it works fine but maybe I don't understand your question. You, of course, have to start them individually but they queue up fine and RT one after the other. Again maybe I don't understand what you're saying.

Yes you can have RayTraces in a queue and when one is finished the others will start, do it all the time. Try 3 or 4 RT's with a 2 or 3 pass limit and watch them RT one at a time till all of them are finished

I think this used to work differently in the recent past but I'm printing a simple 8.5 x 11 PDF and when I select current view I get nothing even remotely resembling the current view in the print preview window - thought I used to. The problem is it takes many trial and error attempts to get the print size to fit the page properly - a little crazy making. It's not plan specific as near as I can tell but I'll post the plan anyway. Here's a couple of screens shots. Here's the actual 'current view'... and here's what I get from the PDF preview. pdf problem 1.plan

I think that's very cool. It looks like each window has a different texture - is that so? Or did you change the orientation? Or??

Yup that was it. Never knew that was even there. Thanks Glenn