HumbleChief

pttrey fnuny...

Weird, they show as invalid but seem to work as a label in a P line box... as they we designed to do? Moving on quickly as macros are of very little help to my small mind...

Wow they are all now broken and no longer valid in some way. Pretty sure why I don't use macros much....

Again very surprised by the lack of functionality...

I don't use macros much and a very few but I went to use them and now get evaluation errors with no changes from this end. Looks like something has changed from invalid names to again eval errors. Is there a new format required? Do I need to recreate? Here's simplest area_Rounded again forced to rename so maybe that's a clue?

A bit shocked by this lack of usability...Going suggestion....

I haven't done (or needed) much maintenance on my Cameras but was flummoxed when I couldn't find a setting...That blows a little. I'll see what Eric has to say.

Every time I cut a new elevation or cross section the ANNO set box is loaded with active defaults that I can't use and need to be changed with every new Elevation. I have a template plan where the Elevation cameras are set to the correct Anno Set but every new elevation requires manually re-setting the active defaults or choosing another Anno Set? Missing something?

Can it be done? I can see where the Layer Set can be set in defaults but can't see a place to set a Default ANNO set?

Again, I don't doubt your analysis, just wish Chief had some verification somewhere to make buying a new system easier. Referring to older posts/articles by Chief about not requiring that much RAM because Chief doesn't/can't access it and your experience showing the more RAM the better...

Curious as to how you've come to this conclusion. Not challenging your expertise or your analysis but truly wondering why you would make this claim??

Chief has never really published any docs on how to speed up Chief's performance other than RayTracing uses the CPU. Is more memory good? How much? Why? Why not? Clock speed is better? Probably but Chief never really said so. Cores? No one really knows, but those who know computers guess, which we all appreciate so there's no really no way to know what will get you what kind of performance gains with Chief. I've got an old but decent computer that will slow to a crawl with a large model? Upgraded both CPU's. No change. Upgraded the Graphics card. No change. Gave up spending money because there was simply no definitive place to look. Sure I could add drives and then more mem and hope for the best but it can be a crap shoot. Of course there are experts here that will give good advice that should not be ignored and you will probably get real close to Chief's best performance but there's never any good reason not to equip your computer with the best and fastest components you can afford....

Nice tips all around thanks...

Always appreciate your videos but personally would much rather watch your interpretation of Chief's video than Chief's video and your video above shows the process for one plan view but seems to stop short of showing the set up of the second plan view. Perhaps you think we might be bored or that it's redundant somehow? Dunno, but again personally I would like to see how you create the entire 2 plan view set and how they work with defaults, in your own words and techniques which again I find very valuable and perhaps more valuable than Chief's videos. In other words please "go in to depth" as your time and energy allows.. Thank you again... and a very small aside that you may ignore if you choose, the intro/outro noise may not add anything to your videos - just sayin'

+1

and another - great tips everyone much appreciated..

Yeah illustrated that in the video above but maybe not that much help...??

Each Plan View needs a unique Layer Set or they will simply show the changes made to their shared Layer Set. Did you create a new, unique, Layer Set for each Plan View with the items you want to display? Or does each Foundation Plan View share the same Layer set? If the latter is true you will see the behavior you are seeing... Create a new Layer Set for each Plan View and see if the helps... Also I believe you could create unique wall types to displayed/not display pony wall views in each Layer Set associated with each Plan View. Either way without a unique Layer Set (and perhaps a unique wall type) there's no chance of achieving what you're after... Steve can you post that plan please?

Dunno, maybe this will help?

Try drawing a completely enclosed bearing line area, then draw some more and hope for the best....

...yes hatch fills are easy, it's the other common fills that are now in an inconvenient library location instead of the more convenient drop down box. Oh well...

A small step backwards in usability IMO... The fills you use every day are now a couple clicks away in the library and the fills you never use are conveniently located in the drop down box? Weird...

Yeah, nice new X11 feature....

NICE!! Did not know how that worked but solved it er...Solver The video I watched today showed the 2 planes for the single axis but obviously just one plane will do the trick. Thanks again Eric.

Is it not reasonable to expect both those stretch zones to behave the same?