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Not sure how many have a noticed a distinct change in Chief's willingness to share new technologies and features in upcoming versions. This was always thought of as bad business letting your competitors know what you have planned in advance and X13 is breaking that mold in a refreshing and organized manner. Great strategy IMO as a way to build momentum up to the new release. Check out the webinars including X13 upcoming improvements on the web site. Looking forward to each and every one of them. NICE.

Webinar is showing all the new features. VERY nice, but for PC only...

THANK YOU!! It was the 1" stucco layer that I had added to the main layer instead of a new 1" exterior layer. So helpful and very much appreciated.

Been working on this longer than I care to admit but cannot get the elevation, which of course is the only thing I need. to look OK. Different steps and gaps that I can't seem to repair. Thank you in advance. ELEVATION NIGHTMARE 1.plan

Saw the notice on Facebook. Perhaps this link will post and help? https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7400747205488089613?fbclid=IwAR1eVCEDvdczxEDjwW4TEF9H4ET3HTHoL-05jKwv-cskIJ0Pu-B-wDCJCX8 Also here. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/events/

"Don’t miss the 3D Solids Webinar and see what features will be in X13. Join us this Thursday as we cover how 3D solids can be shaped and molded for a variety of objects as well as a sneak-peek into how Chief Architect is improving in X13." https://www.chiefarchitect.com/events/

I have indeed experienced a simple Truss calc package that the City of San Diego simply could not open. Opened fine here. Opened fine on my plan runner's machine but the City was stymied and was getting an error message like the file was locked and needed editing. There was no reason to 'edit' the file as it simply needed to be opened. Have no idea how they remedied the problem which is no help you to I'm afraid but my plan runner and the plan checker teamed up and solved it.

Thursday, October 29, 2020, at 12:00 PM PDT 3D rendering is what most clients want and need to visualize your designs. This session will cover how to create the best possible renderings in the shortest amount of time. Chief Architect is completely replacing its rendering engine in its next generation and you can see the new improvements first hand. One of our design professionals will be hosting this live session, and taking live questions about the process from attendees. Thursday, October 29, 2020, at 12:00 PM PDT 3D rendering is what most clients want and need to visualize your designs. This session will cover how to create the best possible renderings in the shortest amount of time. Chief Architect is completely replacing its rendering engine in its next generation and you can see the new improvements first hand. One of our design professionals will be hosting this live session, and taking live questions about the process from attendees.

There's a facebook post on Chief's site re: some X13 3D previews in tomorrow's (October 1st) webinar. Won't let all the info be posted but worth a look perhaps...

Thanks Rene, I didn't realize how comfortable I was with the above described method until I tried the single CAD schedule detail. Not for me, but I'll adapt if it looks better for some reason.

Thanks Mike, I think I'm out of the single CAD schedule idea. Just can't get it to be flexible enough for my usage.

Thanks Kyle, I think I understand the logic you present and it seems as though that's the only way to manage schedules in this way but I can't seem to find a real upside to the technique? How do you manage schedules? Others? Thanks

I've recently adopted a CAD detail that contains all my relevant schedules (versus my previous single CAD detail for each schedule) but don't want to send them all to Layout as a single CAD detail. I thought I saw this technique in a training video but can't seem to get it to conform to my needs. Not really fond of the send as image feature either but am curious how you all manage schedules and what I might be missing. Thank you

Curious where are your _auto_save and _auto_save_bak files? I have 2 created for today's files I was working on. Not saying I understand any of this but might help somehow?

Here's the help file, but I still find it quite confusing. Auto Save auto saves but you should manually save any way? And a file is auto saved only if you have saved it previously? Confusing to me but maybe that's why I was told to 'save' to get auto save to save automatically?

Diane, not exactly sure but a manual 'save' might be part of the archiving strategy. I called tech support regarding this issue, and it's been a while, but I think I remember that being important as I had a bad/older plan file with no archives even though I thought I set up prefs to create them automatically. Made no sense at the time as the implication from the pref's etc. is that archive will be created 'automatically' but not so sure. Can anyone confirm?

I've learned that without a manual 'save' during plan creation that archives are not automatically created. I've also learned I don't understand the process - at all - and only occasionally get an archive file that actually helps. Frustrating. Not sure about OneDrive but DropBox has a version history feature (looks like Graham has confirmed OneDrive's feature above) but that might also require a 'save' at some point to ensure it's current enough to be of any use. Also Carbonite has a continual backup that can be useful for version history and has saved my bacon a couple times which is huge in my book.

Wow, that's a story and should have figured you would have tried the easiest method first. Does sound like at least s survey is in order. Good luck.

Can't the "dimensions as drawn" be compared to an easily obtainable parcel map?

I noticed a feature - Add Topo lines - $40. A super bargain in my book.

Floor plans too? Seems like a bargain in real dollars and time invested. As builts anyone?

$159 for the premium package https://getasiteplan.com/product/premium-site-plan/ and $259 for the gold package... https://getasiteplan.com/product/gold-package-site-plan/

VERY interesting. Have you tried it? Curious...

...and always appreciate your posts and wisdom.

...and a thanks to Glennw who posted and perhaps deleted a response similar to retaining the deck/room framing.