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What? for an emergency transfer? Do you see the activation in your Digital Locker? you haven't done your Forum sig. BTW with the Version etc you have must be pretty old I guess.

Patterns only show in Vector View , move the lines there 1st to where you want them , then set the texture up the same way, ie same measurements..... CA actually sets all patterns and Textures off the 0,0 coordinate of the Grid, BTW Post the plan file while chief is closed , with some text Notes and someone will look if not me.....

Only Tech Support or Sales can help you most likely , it is probable you didn't deactivate before changing OS's and now the CA Activation Server thinks you are someone else trying to use the program. try the Chat button here 1st perhaps .....https://www.chiefarchitect.com/company/contact.html M

The Overview camera will go out so it's view encompasses EVERYTHING drawn in the plan and the house apparently had a nuclear missile dropped on it last night as the camera is about 3 miles up in space The house is at 0,0 or close , I checked , I set the Overview back to default height and 0.0 and it goes there , you see the corner of the house then the view snaps back out into space for some reason.... M.

I also use Macrium Reflect Free to Image the HDD every 2 days to an external drive , just in case something like this happens , I also do a manual Image before any major updates from MickeySoft. M

STD view may have a "light" limit while PBR doesn't perhaps? (OpenGL used to have an 8 light limit)

He means you should use the x and y number to move it around till you get it right...bit laborious but the only way.... M

Might not be All either as an overview camera here went to about 11 million feet from earth ......and 2 million feet out right somewhere too looking at the x and y coordinates.

Just one plan corrupt? hopefully you don't have a failing HDD or something as I have not seen this level of corruption in 10+ years... M.

Don't you have an archive newer than that ? is autosave not On in Preferences? Tell them the Dog ate it , but you'll have it Friday for them.... No backup of your Own to USB or something Either ? ......tough lesson to learn....

Rent to Own pay monthly all other users pay yearly for SSA as far as I know . What I was told in the Past was that early access was a Bonus and not a right for all Users, it is why I Pro-rated my SSA this year to push it to August as I kept missing out or having to pay early etc to make sure I was valid come march 30th which is usually the date the Beta Expires. M.

As I said in my 1st post there is an issue with this plan after being open in X9 for 10 minutes , i can't goto the 2nd floor , and now can't get from the 3D view back to the 1st floor. Re extracted your plan and open in X10 and still acting very weird like you have a bad symbol or terrain or something in there Elev. camera finally opened and you maybe right about the 2nd floor , so I hope you have that backup in your archive....

Was just trying to look at the 2nd floor in an overview but the Camera is messed up it is 141803109 9/16" above the house Floor... almost 12 million ft !

The Plan file attached has Walls set to Main Layer Only.... as you can see I changed some Fills.... Not convinced there isn't something going on though as the file keeps wanting to rebuild the 3D (F12) and a 3D view get me a grey background ONLY *** Overview says it is 141803109 9/16" above the Floor ?

You may have a backup of some Files in the Archives Folder which is in the Chief Data Folder in My Documents... surprised TS didn't tell you that already though? M.

Good news but strange , since the initial Post imported fine for me.... M.

We'd all like that the ML is my pet peeve as it was one of the reasons , as a Designer/Builder/GC , I purchased it in the 1st place. With X11 we are finally able to use it more easily , but in the past I didn't trust it either , and I could do it the old fashioned way as quickly....as I felt like I had to double check everything the ML did. It still only Lists EXACTLY whats in the model except for a few Roof Items and Rebar/mesh , the rest and Waste is left for us to add currently, which as you current Spreadsheet will no doubt tell you would be ALOT of work....

I made 4" and 9" Walls for you in the new plan and 9" with Stone as well. I will try and do a short video tomorrow , night

You can add a layer to the Wall definition, 0" thick , of any colour available and it will give you the Square footage , same as it still does for the Ceiling. Of course that sqft is only about 1/3 of what you need assuming Primer/sealer and 2 top coats. However you don't need it for the Drywall as I pointed out above, simply change the Material Properties so it reports Area,(sqft) not Count ( ie.Sheets) , and if you want the sheets too add the macro to the Walls Component DBX in the Code Column. If you want to add waste eg 10% add it in the Extras column. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/21359-is-there-still-no-way-to-calculate-drywall/?do=findComment&comment=174501 M.

Your Welcome , it's not finished and I didn't really know what kinds of Walls you use or want there so Everything is mostly 4 1/2" Brick with Plaster or 9" Brick with Plaster and some Walls are 9" Brick with a Stone Face with a plaster interior. I wasn't sure if Siding was really being used or you just used it since it was the Default Wall being a CA Newbie? but any wall can be changed easily and new Definitions made if necessary. The 2nd floor Roof was okay , it just needed to reach past the walls so the roof would let the Attic level walls build properly , the issue was actually the same on the 3rd level. , I'll see if I can make a short Video. M.

Thanks Glenn, I'll keep that in mind , I actually didn't find a light Issue in the Stripped down Plan , but there is alot of Wall mis-alignments etc due to some weird wall definitions, it is obvious the plan has been played with alot over the years. M.

Did you just Open the plan in X10 or did you Try copy and pasting into a X10 Plan? copy and paste could be an issue yes. M.

This was My initial thoughts on walls but I have seen a numbers of plans now from here on the Forum with Light Bleed Issues and most were fixed by changing the Wall type to an Exterior Type...what that change also does I am not sure, in regards to how the Light engine works, ( maybe nothing?) , so I am only speaking from personal experience and maybe it was purely luck? but it's not the 1st plan of Aamir's I've seen this the Issue...or maybe it is the same plan ? worked on over the years?

As you will see I changed many of the Walls to how you normally build there , as well as playing around with a few other things to make it work better, if the Building is between two other Buildings it maybe better to ROUGHLY model them too so you can pull the Roof Plans right to the other Buildings. I think I remember working in another plan of yours and the Issue there was also that you had use Interior Walls for Exterior walls and light was bleeding into the house.... There shouldn't be any reason you can't move the plan into X10 or even X11 if you have upgraded this week. Mick.

It calculates Sqft/Sq/m just fine George , the Issues normally show up when you use Count (Sheets) not Area , that was why I suggested Michael use Area and then use the Macro to convert to Sheets for better accuracy. Not sure if it still does it used to have an issue with Conc. Block Calcs as it only used Sqft/Sq/m for the Calc. which means the Order was normally short. have not checked in X11 if that has improved. M.