HumbleChief

Even more importantly I have created my symbol and it looks like crap.

Here's the 2 plans that are creating the mess. Want to inset the window and cut the stucco around the window symbol.

Any help greatly appreciated.

WINDOW SYMBOL 1.plan

WINDOW FLOOR PLAN 1.plan

More importantly, is that a wicked cool looking floating analog clock?

That's a Chief Symbol I created using their new animated 3D symbol device. Took me 2 years to get it to tell the correct time more than twice a day. Or was it a 'gadget' I added from Win 7 - can't remember.

I think I know what's happening. I created the shape in a CAD detail not in a plan - doh - that should work.

I want to create a custom symbol and use it as a window but when I shape the window in 2d CAD (see attached) I don't get the option to create a slab or molding polyline, only an option to create a spline. Is this shape simply not going to happen? Options?

...except that the symbol was imported from Sketch up . Is there a texture aspect ratio in an SU model?

If you follow Chief's tutorial above (Lew alluded to same technique) keep the frame for the pass through and size/offset the frame to act as a tile wrap.

Draw a material region on the wall for your tile then with the eye dropper add your tile texture as needed.

Using a pass through Window

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01255/

But I guess you'd d still need to wrap the opening with tile if it's in a shower?

Make sure all your walls are connected.

Windows OS as in signature and I have numerous problems with PDF's as well as I'm also dealing with the same mandatory Title 24 pages. Slow, Slow, Slow, to redraw. Painfully slow. Files are huge as you've noted and I can't print to my printer without converting the entire Layout file to PDF. If I forget to convert to PDF I get random blank areas or other printing anomalies on the imported PDF pages.

PDF usage in Chief is BY FAR the most painful part of Layout and printing for me in Chief. HATE working with PDF's in Chief.

I talked to tech support about the printing problem and they said it was actually a printer memory problem. Not enough memory to keep up with modern PDF file sizes. They didn't sound like they were working on any fixes but I wasn't talking to the engineers so who know.

The benefits of being able to import PDF's outweigh the down sides but man I wish there was some improvement in the PDF area.

BTW I've posted numerous times about PDF problems but there didn't seem to be much agreement on there being problems beyond my desk so I dropped it.

I have almost 600mb used on my 840evo 1tb drive. I also have a 1tb backup drive ( my old main drive). on a desktop you just plug it into an unused elect. and data wires, then just copy your drive over to the SSD, then go into the bios and switch the boot drive to the new SSD and done. The software that comes with it makes it real simple. If you have a laptop you need the usb transfer cable.

Thanks Perry (I assume you mean 600 GB) I appreciate the reply and info. I have to say I feel a bit inadequate having used only 160 GB these many years but since that's the case I should be able to fit everything on a 256 gig (maybe 512 to be safe) with no problem and use my 1TB drive for back-up as well as the cloud service I use (Carbonite). Again, thanks for the post.

I put everything on the 1tb SSD I have, also backup to the cloud, no fus -no muss

Thanks for the reply Perry re: your SSD. I was wondering if you could share how much space you've used on your 1TB drive?

I was curious about those with SSD's. I'm just now checking the disk usage on my current 1 TB disk that has everything on it - OS, programs, data files. pics - everything and I've used only 160GB. This after a couple years of usage meaning at least to me I'll never need a 1TB disk for anything in the near future.

I've also read that a good strategy for an SSD is to put the OS and programs on it and data files on another disk. I'm thinking that means anything over 256 GB SSD would be overkill - for me and my usage at least.

Anyone follow a similar strategy? OS and programs on SSD and files on another disk? And if so why would you need a 512 or 1 TB SSD? Am I that stingy in my disk usage? Are you all using that much more disk space than I?

Thanks for any insight.

Thanks for that great write up Steve. Very clear and informative. Didn't know there would be relationship between a faster GPU and better performance during RT's - makes sense just didn't connect the two.

I've been tempted by an SSD card but my system is pretty fast overall. As you see in my specs it's a pretty capable system but still nothing mind blowing about the speed. I had an older i7 and this is probably twice as fast but even twice as fast is not really 'fast' to me. When the models get large even 2 Xeon processors slow down.

Raytracing speed is all about the lights and set-up (and CPU of course) as Perry suggests. Trying doing a search and see if there's some setting changes that will help quicken your RT's unless you like a lot of lights in which case you will wait. I almost never use lights and brighten the spaces with the light editor in the RT window.

Icon and preferences setting do the same thing. You could post the plan but there may be very few users who can open with X3 to check the problem, but you could post the plan. Sorry I can't be of any more help

Make sure your 'Edit Behaviors are set to 'Default'

Not really.  The U.S. pays the most and has the slowest internet speeds of just about any other developed nation.  Monopolies anyone?

These aren't really complicated relationships to figure out. In some Countries/Cities the purpose and intent is to provide fast reliable internet connections for the people who live there. In other countries the purpose and intent is to provide internet service at the highest profit margins. Not really that complex.

#5 hit add to post button for each pic.

Those symbols are on a layer "Cameras, Inactive." If the Camera is however 'Active' meaning the view is open in another tab they will show until that view is closed.

Also on Layer Cameras, Labels.

Nuts,  you ain't far removed from the hinterlands too,  I am in the 8th largest city in the USofA and I am getting ripped off......  I am telling you.....  things will change on Monday or ..  or.... or....  or something will happen.

Yeah that's some slow speeds Scott. I'd kill puppies if my internet were any slower.

Larry,

DSL or Cable? looks like DSL

COX Cable Perry

Here's my speed in Vista,CA

Awesome Scott, Thanks so much for the answer.

...I select the garage and lower the floor to -4" - ALL the other rooms assume this -4" floor height. Probably simple but am stumped again by the structure dbx.

Plan attached

FLOOR HEGHTS 1.zip

How the *ell do you guys hold all of that stuff, I don't want to use a table and move it from room to room. I'm only there for 1 hour at the most.

Having 'help' is a huge 'help' when measuring as-builts but I was thinking the same thing. I think your comment also gets back to Scott's original post about how the video doesn't really show how the product is used, real world, in the field on a real as-built measure.

I think I've seen neck harnesses that will hold a tablet but I think 3 or 4 hands is probably the best solution.

Larry:

 

I would think the issues that you mention would be the same for a tape also

 

Lew

Sorry Lew, I don't have the ability to make myself clear. Maybe more coffee.