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HI Todd , missed this earlier.....you don't say why your Videocard isn't supported? but I would suggest a Single Nvidia Gaming card like a 1060 6GB or the newer 1660 6GB/8GB , as CA does not support SLI (two V.cards) , you are lucky as VideoCards have come down alot in Price recently. do some research on your motherboard 1st and make sure it can support the newer PCIe Specs of new Cards though, as it looks like it maybe PCIe 2x only , and while the new Cards would be backward Compatible I am not sure they would operate at their Full potential as the would with PCIe 3x , but likely okay for CA ( it's not a 3D game) https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/P8P67_DELUXE/ Personally I currently use EVGA VideoCards and find their Forum is a good place to get advice...maybe copy and paste your 1st post over there...with a link to the MB too. https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-10-Series-f103.aspx M.

Although my current File doesn't exceed the Limits , I think the Standard View not loading is due to too many Trees in the Forest I "planted" behind the house for Views , as I get a out of memory error, so I may need to just go back to an Image of a Forest instead. M.

What I hadn't noticed to till today was that at the bottom of the KB Tutorial I linked above there is an Attachment from Chief with 3 new 3D Viewer Layersets you can import into any Plan ( or your Template File) and switch too for different Views before exporting to the 3D Viewer, they are a good Starting point though you may lose terrain , plants etc especially at the Good setting. ie GOOD-BETTER-BEST

Larry was trying/hoping to change the File>Templates>Save As Template or New from Template default location , which it seems can't be done. Generally though that would be the same directory as the New Plan File Location I'd think though.

Had more luck this morning..... I extended the back wall of the garage foundation to the house , and the used the short wall at the left of the new Family Room entrance on level one and extended it right across the house to the back corner and it built properly with the "Lower Wall if split by Butting Roof" set to 5ee. I did have to change the material to the 23 Cedar Street Siding from the default though. Personally for that reason I change the Walltype Definition once I know what they are as CA still does weird thing when "painting" exterior walls in Particular.. I guess the Plan isn't quite finished as I see no Door onto the deck...so couldn't help adding one M. 23 Cedar St v3_MHD2.plan

Well i had to do a full Demo, I deleted the old foundation level where the garage/breeze way was and redrew the level one walls , then went back down and redrew the foundation walls and all appears to be okay now.... I also Auto built the 6/12 pitch Roofs instead.... M. 23 Cedar St v3_MHD.plan

Hmmmm this is a weird one ...it has something to do with the old Garage/basement ....it is building auto walls under the wall you drew for the family room wall..... as soon as I pull the wall back at the exterior door and auto wall pops up and the error fixes itself ????? see pic...selection is me pulling the 1st wall back....and now look at where the door was.... *** it gets weirder ..... I deleted all the family room walls and the program is autogenerating what looks like concrete foundation walls but when you look at the 3D

Am wonder why you have a second Floor ? Also shouldn't that wall be marked "if Butting Roof, wall is " ...XXXXXX PS a number of the basement walls aren't aligned but that shouldn't effect the issue I don't think... nice job on the Terrain though...

Not sure I have ever seen anyone label every single joist length for the Framers , but if it was REALLY needed I would use a Framing Schedule and callouts instead (auto labels) and put a simple rounding macro in the Label of the Framing members and use the label column in the Schedule.( renamed to Length FT) Putting the macro in the label of the Framing members is fairly quick if you make a Layer Set to ONLY show Framing , you can then quickly marquee select the framing on each level and insert the macro from TMM, and it should popup in the Schedule in the New Length FT column. ( of course I am sure the Macro gurus around here would have a better solution ) M.

He may have missed it in post 2 (Mark) and 3 (Dermot) but the easiest Answer is to turn plan views OFF ie set them to None before you start sending to Layout.... Dermot's Post he linked too...... I have posted this information before but I might have to keep posting it until everyone has learned about Saved Plan Views. From your description it sounds like you are sending views to layout that are linked to Saved Plan Views. If you change anything associated with the Saved Plan View, such as the layer set or current floor, then this will affect your layout view. Here are some ways to solve your problems: - You can stop using saved plan views by switching your Saved Plan View Control that appears in the default toolbar to "None". You can also do this in your default template so that new plans won't start in a saved plan view. - You can unlink a layout box from a saved plan view by opening the Layout Box Specification dialog and setting the Linked Saved Plan View combo box to "None". In X11, there is also a new edit toolbar button that will allow you to link or unlink a layout box from a saved plan view. - You can learn how to use Saved Plan Views. If you use a different saved plan view for each layout view, you won't have to worry about accidentally changing them. More information about Saved Plan Views can be found in the reference manual or in this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html?playlist=100

Me too , just a bit too heavy for my liking, found it distracting but it was something, that was asked for by some Users, glad to see boxes around Fields again though in DBX's. Not sure about now but initially themes were done by Shawn in his Own time , for himself....... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/21332-big-thumbs-down-for-outdated-ui-in-x11/?do=findComment&comment=175984

Okay that was not my understanding , as SSA would mean you were eligible for the next version free (one of the benefits of SSA), but it is my belief you can get SSA by purchasing the Upgrade to X11($1200), thus get X12 perhaps next year (depending on X12 release timing) AFAIK you can't buy SSA for X9 ( $525) as you are now two version behind , unless their policies have changed? M.

Double check with Sales as I think SSA is only available for current versions, though they could upgrade from X9 to X11 for $1200 which includes SSA. M.

Now there's a tidbit I missed in the manual ie per Floor setting ..... thx Rob.

================================================================================= March 20th 2019 UPDATE New Creator Drivers were released yesterday for 10 series and RTX Cards version 419.67 https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/145178# 9 thru 6 series are still on 419.35 https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/144363 =================================================================================

New Creator Drivers were released yesterday for 10 series and RTX Cards version 419.67 https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/145178# 9 thru 6 series are still on 419.35 https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/144363

Page Zero is your Template Page and will automatically replicate to EVERY other page , anything here like the Title block is automatically on every other page, you don't need to copy to every page Page 1 would be the Coversheet , then Others as you need like Floor 1 exisitng, flr2 existing etc. Edit each Page's Information in the Project Browser and you can also use the Layout Page Tile as the Page Info in the Title Block eg Floor 1 Existing etc. Download some of the sample plans in the Gallery Chief has and look at the Layouts included and how they are setup... M.

Likely a face or texture count issue as CS mentioned , try and optimise the File 1st..... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03044/optimizing-a-chief-architect-plan-for-export-to-the-3d-viewer.html

Yes 1st time around , I just slide the CAD Block over the Symbol..snapped to it , as each time I assigned it back to the Symbol the dashed linetype was overridden to solid , but after playing with it some more , I found I was able to place a Sink outside the cabinet, change it to a new Dashed line style layer and then insert/drag it into the cabinet instead. M.

so you just changed the Symbol to the Dashed Line Layer ? that seems to work too actually.....thx.

I actually had that in my reply and edited it out....... as when I tried it it still only displayed what I selected not everything.... weird...

Not here , all is well , I did a Clean install though.... M.

At least with the Sink , as I tested it ( Pic Below), you can insert the CAD Block, (via CBM) , explode it then change the Line Style and Colour etc for everything (marquee select) , then block it again.....however if you assign it back to the Symbol , that seems to cause the lines to go solid again, so just put the CAD Block over the symbol instead for plan views.... may need to adjust the Drawing Order, I didn't below... M.

The Select Materials DBX not remembering the Preview Pane Sizes ...is a pain

I have Reported it , so hopefully it will get "fixed" .....or at least I'll be told what setting i have wrong M.