HumbleChief

I'm guessing Chief will get back to a February release eventually but not after a June 2022, August 2023, October 2024, and a December 2024 release. Just sayin'

NICE and this might be what jealousy looks like in a post

Probably true enough but also close enough to the release of X14 for me at least to wait and see.

Maybe not exactly on topic but Chief is currently running a software sale which usually presages a new release (X14) and was wondering what changes might be in store as far as video performance/requirements etc. Will the lower priced/spec'd cards work better in X14? Pure speculation of course and just wondering before upgrading my current card.

And a bit intimidating but once you get the hang of your City's requirements totally doable. If one can assume the attitude of one project at a time instead of trying to learn all of the code for all projects, it's a smaller bite, and remember as has been mentioned here a couple of times it's usually the zoning that can make or break a project and that again can be researched one project at a time. Steve, regarding your post, it seems every time I submit I get another "note" that I need to add from the latest plan checker and have an entire 24 x 36 page of 'notes'. One plan checker wanted me to list only the 'proper and current' notes so I asked if I could please be informed of what those notes might be. Never heard back so I jut keep adding them.

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I agree 100% and could have sworn I said the same thing in my post above. I'll try and be more clear next time. But more directly to the OP I would, once again, suggest learning the Zoning code, or whatever it's called in Canada, versus trying to know all there is regarding the 'building code' because even 'if a building complies with with building code doesn't mean that it is going be allowed for a specific location'.

In my experience in CA there are at least 2 VERY distinct areas of the code and one that is FAR more important to be well versed in than the other. Those 2 parts are zoning and building. With "building" I have NEVER had a plan that passes through the City without corrections of some kind but those corrections are a great way to learn "building" codes and in my case I use an engineer to create all details etc. so it's slightly easier. Zoning is a completely other animal. Whereas in building you can always use 'bigger wood' and 'more nails' (it's a joke between myself and a builder I work for) zoning is completely unforgiving and worth, no critical, you learn for almost every project. Setbacks; Floor Area Ratios (FAR); Height limitations; and a few other factors that will either allow or kill your project here in CA. You can indeed download and sturdy the CBC the IBC and all other 'building' code references but you don' understand the 'zoning' of the project you could be in for a very rude awakening if the City denied your project.

Curious, are any of you using DropBox? I had crazy delays when using Chief, as that's what I use all day, and THINK I tracked it down to DB taking forever to synch download or whatever it does. I deleted DB, reinstalled it and back to OK again. Not sure if OneDrive or other cloud services might cause similar delays?

THANKS Mick.

Curious why you would have "Temp and Undo folders myself onto my fastest Drive (NVME)" C: drive, but the data folder on what might we assume is the slower A: drive?

Understood, Chief is behaving badly. I've had this happen before and just adjusted the measurements to the nearest decimal place I am looking for but understand the frustration and the obvious bug.

Can you just change the absolute values to reflect the 2 decimal places? Or is it more a matter of Chief behaving badly?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/configuration-of-the-my-documents-folder-dfd9a90d-8f80-18d6-e7cc-f1566fc3b10b

Not sure you need Real Time Ray Tracing and not sure of exact specs but the minimums link show you need a RX 6000 if you want to do RTRT? Are the camera views the weak link? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02761/chief-architect-minimum-system-requirements.html#X13 Minimum: Video Card: 2 GB of dedicated video memory or Gen9/Skylake or newer Intel integrated graphics chipset DirectX 12 supporting Shader Model 6 for a Windows-based PC macOS GPUFamily2 v1 for a Mac For GPU real-time ray tracing, a Windows 10 computer with an NVIDIA RTX or an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card is required. 5 GB of available hard disk space Internet access 8 GB of RAM 64-bit Windows 10 / 11 macOS 10.15 / 11 (Catalina / Big Sur)

I would think it's really hard to know exactly where the sluggish is coming from but I wouldn't point to memory as a starting place. Chief uses the CPU and the graphics card (GPU) to do all of the work on a plan/renders/camera views etc. and any 'speed' or lack thereof likely has to come from those two components. Where is it sluggish'? Plan draw/redraw? Undo? Rendering? RTRT? Camera views? Everywhere? And as you know it might be just as fast as your older system but nothing worse than the 'feeling' of sluggish with a new rig.

Nice systems and specs and as always it becomes a matter of budget. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/alienware-x17-gaming-laptop/spd/alienware-x17-r1-laptop#configurations_section

LOTS of good choices among that line of LapTops. Looks like you'll pay for faster/better graphics card. 3060/3070/3080 in ascending order and SSD choices. I saw a couple that spec'd 1 TB SSD - that's NOT what you want. Make sure it's says PCIe NVMe SSD in the specs. similar to below. Again more SSD storage, more money, but those laptops looks great in my opinion and would buy as much as I could afford. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-GeForce-Keyboard-Windows-G713QR-ES96/dp/B08SJNPG9H/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=asus+rog+strix+g17+3080&qid=1639164735&s=electronics&sr=1-4 https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/For-Gaming/All-series/filter?SubSeries=ROG-Strix Cris, be a bit wary of all the spec's. Their web site says 1TB NVMe SSD but if you serach for the same model on Amazon there's no NVMe SSD.

I don't think the UHD graphics card is not going to be much fun and RayTracing uses the CPU and Camera Views use the GPU or UHD graphics card. Again that UHD graphics card will not be much fun, if it works at all.

I wonder if ogee isn't the OG of counter top edges? Just sayin'

I installed a new hard drive and a new copy of Win 10 and Chief and have a new folder (short cut) I've never seen called Documents>Files on My Computer>Chief Architect Premier X13 Data. When in preferences it doesn't show that folder/short cut and seems to point the proper data folder but was curious as I've never seen that before. I also find this preference in the last pic a bit strange - pointing to DropBox>Chief Architect Premier X13 Data Thanks

Same here can't go back to any other type.

Kinda funny but within that last link I posted re: Mark's video card this system below popped up. Seems like a very nice system for a very reasonable price. https://www.newegg.com/p/2E6-00BC-00BV5?Description=RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra Gaming&cm_re=RTX_3070 XC3 Ultra Gaming-_-9SIAJGZGYX1594-_-Product&quicklink=true

Curious as to what card you settled on Mark. I found this "RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra Gaming" https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=RTX+3070+XC3+Ultra+Gaming

The older 'cards' don't really RayTrace as that function has more to do with the CPU speed and cores than the Graphics card's speed. The new RTX cards do what's called Real Time Ray Tracing where the Ray Tracing function is off loaded from the CPU to the GPU resulting in much faster Ray Trace times. Obviously there's a lot of technical subtlety involved so if you do indeed decide to upgrade do a bunch more research before doing so as nothing sucks more than a new machine does not do what you expect it to.