HumbleChief

Is your system working ok? If so why mess with it? If not maybe new drivers will help some issue specifically?

Holy heck, I always upgrade to the latest release but not any more. I don't really want to mess with what is working and yes I know your mileage may vary and all the other great advice from the folks at Chief but my time is too valuable to mess with any changes to my system. I'll play with X14 but only until it's stable on my system and want absolutely nothing to do with Win 11 until forced to upgrade in, I think, 4 years.

Or check here?

Maybe click on the little yellow pencil and 'edit' your NKBA Dimension setting and see what layer is specified there?

Apologies in advance because I rarely understand the problem correctly but perhaps this will shed some light?

..but only to the point that that older technology will allow. If looking to '"upgrade my system to the current X13 recommendations" and you're thinking that your older system might be 'customizable' to meet those X13 requirements I'd think again or perhaps your son can find a way to use your older system? Still not sure what your considering, upgrading existing or buying new? Best of luck either way.

Not sure if you want to upgrade your current system or buy a new one? Your current system is most likely too old to really benefit from new components so can we assume you're shopping for a whole new rig? If so desktop or laptop? I think the MSI desk top systems below are a very good value as posted in another thread. Quite a few Alienware users here though I've always thought they were over priced but that gets right to the heart of the matter. Budget? And why do you want to upgrade to current X13 requirements? Do you need/want what Chief calls 'RTRT' Real Time Ray Tracing? Which is actually 'MFRT' Much Faster Ray Tracing? I personally am intrigued by the feature but haven't found a need in my work flow. Do you really need/want it? Can you get by with a lesser graphics card (as I can) and upgrade when/if the prices come down? Good luck and would love to know what you choose. https://us-store.msi.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=20_74_108&filter=27 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz&id=2275

Can you define the style you'd like to see here? Perhaps "Use Text Style" instead of "Use Layer for Text Style"

From my experience Chief pastes to the Layer the text (or item) came from, not to the current CAD or any other Layer currently open in a plan. If the layer that the text cam from is turned off in the plan view then you paste, click anywhere and the text disappears, obviously because that layer from the other view is not turned on. One thing I've done is paste the text, then immediately open the ALDO dbx and select 'display' for that text Layer.

This "Downvote" arrow is a completely meaningless, useless and childish way for some one to express their displeasure at your post and you opinion within - anonymously. Those same children will probably come out and give this post a "Downvote" arrow as well. Is it something about the stupid rating system being recognized as childish behavior? Dunno, but I covet them a bit these days so down vote away.

Then plan you posted (or at least the plan I downloaded) is not the plan you're showing in the post (pic) above. You're pic shows a small room off the laundry room and family room. The plan I downloaded does not. Also your original post states that everything is selected including the foundation but the plan you posted has no foundation.

Works fine on my system as well. What you're showing is the 'Make Room (Molding) Polyline' selection by selecting just outside of the wall(s) area. Again rooms select just fine when I open the plan.

I thought I was following the logic you presented above trying to understand 'virtual' mono slabs that can be created "when there is no foundation floor level to supply the floor for the floor above?" It works either way, with one in the template or without one and foundation built later. The important part is I now have a better understanding of how the dbx's work for mono slabs, both with and without a floor 0. Thank you again.

I THINK I understand and hopefully the OP has a better understanding as well. It seems that the first floor can have a "Monolithic Slab Foundation" floor checked in the structure tab without needing an actual 'foundation' level. Chief will build this 'virtual' foundation without, again, having an actual foundation level which I suppose once "Build Foundation/Mono Slab" is selected Chief then creates a foundation which I guess we can then call the 'real' foundation? Right or wrong this approach creates a LOT more flexibility when creating mono slabs and the actual foundation level need not be created until later in the build process. I've changed my template to include this condition - mono slab floors and no initial foundation level - which is a change from my previous template with Auto Build Mono Slab Foundation turned on. Can't express my gratitude enough for the clarification and again hope the OP gains a better understanding as well to help with his initial question.

What's virtual versus real auto rebuild slab? Thanks.

...and sincere apologies to the OP. I hope this discussion helped in your quest as well.

NICE Renee. Never knew that!!

Thanks Glenn and yes I'm a bit of a block head as my mind wants to work in singular, incorrect fashion, and definitely not the way Chief actually works. I saw through Eric's video how easy it is to set the floor height on a mono slab. Not by setting the actual floor height which will turn off auto foundation (this is so lame I can barely deal with it, sorry, and I will never stop banging the drum of this unintuitive, borderline stupid GUI 'feature', sorry again) but by setting the height of the stem wall instead? I simply never tried that, not thinking for a minute that the floor height would be set by anything other than the floor height. Probably simple and straight forward to most and my embarrassment at not understanding this is difficult to bare because it literally took me 20 years to understand this methodology. That's one down and a few more to go. As always I appreciate your offer of help and your help in general but I will take this new found knowledge on and take on new and exciting mono slab adventures.

Yeah I figured as much on the video quality and doesn't diminish my appreciation for your video and advice. I reloaded and the video was excellent. "Everything seems so unintuitive." Intuitive is not an easy thing to define but my intuition would tell me to adjust the floor height one would set the height in the floor height dbx but when trying that it requires the auto build foundation be turned off as you note. But if you change the stem wall height it then changes the floor height and let's you keep auto build foundation on. In my opinion this is the poster child for not only unintuitive but down right incomprehensible. Been raving about such things for 20 years and just have to adjust to the way Chief works and not the way one thinks it should work. Thanks again for your help. Maybe this will help the OP as well.

Thanks again Eric. The video quality was pretty poor but it looks like the floor height is controlled by the stem wall height? And here I thought it would have been controlled by the floor height specification. I guess assuming that the floor height would have been controlled by the floor height specification was a reasonable assumption but NEVER understood that the floor height is controlled by the stem wall height and not the floor height. Of course. Thanks again Eric.

AHA! THANK YOU Eric. I see you changed the floor heights with a wood floor THEN built the mono slab foundation. My templates default to 'auto rebuild' a mono slab. Can the floor heights be changed with the mono slab already built? From the first floor? Or only from the mono slab 'room' below? THANK YOU again. Both the OP and I must have slabs already built as we both saw the floor height return to '0' when trying to change the room height form the first floor.

I find this answer fascinating and Glenn is one the most helpful and knowledgeable posters here on ChiefTalk and to the OP I've been using Chief for over 20 years and have no idea how this is accomplished. "Set the floor level of each bay as needed." I get the same return to '0' when I try and do so from the structure dbx. Have always been flummoxed by Chief's use of 'rooms' in a slab foundation. Any help is very much appreciated. This is as close as I could get and still can't quite figure it out.

This advice will save you a LOT of pain in the future with building any structure in Chief.

Thanks for that Eric, did not know that existed.

There ya go children... the much coveted down vote...