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Acme Brick has a program you can use , no Chief Library at present (just Revit) though http://www.brick.com/architect/md-intro.htm

Looks good if you are specing the deck make sure it has waterproof membrane of some kind under it .and up the walls.....

P. did you post the correct plan back here ? none of the walls are aligned according to the edit bar and if I look in camera view the bricks are also misaligned by about 3/4" . was I wrong about the "HomeMade Brick Pony Wall's" main layer being assigned wrong?

Just make the "deck" planks 3" thick concrete material with no gap (0") and make the planks 1/2 the width of the deck or wider so you don't see joints , it works but maybe someone can point out the downfalls if any of my method?

Jon are you talking about the edit toolbar ? it is possible if the toolbars are unlocked to move it , even to another screen , so it maybe "lost" if floating somewhere , so use the Reset option for "Side Windows" in the Preferences , and restart Chief and see what happens. , (this will set them all to default though.)

@Rashid ....the layers for YOUR "brick pony wall" wall you made, are setup with a 5" offset in the main layers for the wall below , try them like this.......... My guess is you'll need to redo foundation or rejoin walls etc with that large of a correction needed. you also have an error showing up with a "wall sloping downward"

Alex , close the plan before trying to upload a copy to the forum ,Chief locks the file while you work on it..... you don't need to close Chief , just the plan.

the remove from selected edge button , at least I thought it was new in X7 ? maybe it only shows for interior applications?

select it and use the new tool on the Edit Toolbar in X7 ,last one on RH side on mine , I was just using it on a room molding polyline so assume it works in your situation too. M.

You don't need ,nor does Chief even Recommend Quadro cards Abe, any good gaming card your motherboard can handle will work , you can get cheap Nvidia cards for under a $100 , sometimes well under, so it depends on your budget and what the MB PCIE slot can handle voltage wise but a cheap card like the 630 or 730 is enough ,if budget and motherboard allow a 660 is still a decent card. the better the NV Card the more likely it will need extra power plugs from the power supply too , which maybe a factor , ie you PS may not have them.? Mick

that is a nice case been using Coolmaster HAF 922's for a few years now for their great ventilation. your GTX was $100 less than mine , ouch ! thanks for the info M.

its an easy swap back if I notice problems ( delete buttons folder ,rename original folder to buttons) , I just wanted to see if the X6 icons were actually more to my preference or if it was just a perception thing ,but I still think its easier to find stuff with the old icons , and since I only work at 1920x1080 , I am not sure the new "flat" icons help me at all? any "new" icons in X7 are using there original icon files BTW. on the other hand you CANT miss rich's 6 new ones M.

I agree Chief doesn't really Push the GTX970 but I think I'm "good" for a few years too but need to do a Build myself , and the one component you don't list (naturally) is the Motherboard, so I'm curious since I will overclock an i7 too I wish GTX970 were that cheap here ,very surprising ,which one did you get? BTW I'm using that Dual Monitor -multi-taskbar program (3 monitors and TV) and the extra toolsbars are nice to have , even the Beta Start button is working for me , though I think you wanted a program with way more functionality didn't you? http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/

hmmm he was working on it with me too and then suddenly stopped answering his email....am guessing he got what he wanted though... M.

Thanks Perry another good video , did you send that little Plan into TS to report that Bug? In that situation with a framed floor and a concrete deck it actually destroys the structure , no sill plate any longer and the stemwall "grows" ( rather than shrinks) for some reason. even if you drop the Porch floor to -15" ( 2 x 7 1/2" steps) elevation from -6 , where the Porch slab should just butt into the stem wall it screws it up. or have I set something up wrong ? you used "straight deck edge" to make the Porch Room correct ?

if you aren't getting a new computer Truco, you may want to ask about getting another 4GB of Ram too . M.

Watch the icons on the bottom of the RH side toolbar too then, as they are mostly toggles too and easily clicked by accident. eg your grid, temp. dims,snaps etc

I guess so new to me as well..... pictures pretty please

I saw Perry mention that he uses CCleaner to do a registry cleanup each week on another Forum thread , and I use it weekly for general cleanup , though don't do the Registry , being in the " don't fix what aint broke camp" about the registry but decided to give it a try (with a reg. backup) and X7 has not Crashed again yet though X7 usage has been less and I've used the library little since. M.

Thanks Rich , look forward to the "Mona Lisa" , might even change back to the X7 icons then *** just gotta figure out their original names the forum has renamed them it seems... That was a Pita ....bad, bad forum here are the 6 new icons zipped up and named correctly... all 3kb of them... Rich's New Chief Toolbar Icons.zip

have you perhaps toggled the textures off in the standard camera view by accident? on off

Its a mapped Drive from his description Doug , not on his local box , and the BU software sees the "mapped drive" during BU to Dropbox. What happens if he manually rename the Archive folders to something shorter , does Chief auto change them or just write new ones as it thinks the archive is "gone" when you rename them? You (net admin) might have to make the Nas Mapping something like below with a warning to other Employees as everyones Mapped drives will need to be redone. Y:\CAR SF\CAR CF\2015 Clients\Beebe\Plans\Final

I like those Rich , would you mind posting the 3 you have shown here please ...and thanks played in X7 tonight , no issues with my X6 icon Change that I found. M.

You can change them back if required/wanted , see my post in the other thread about how too: working for me so far. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3860-cartoonish-toolbar-icons/#entry37273

For those of you who would like the old X6 Icons in X7 , I changed them back to the X6 ones to "see" if it would work , and so far so good but YMMV as there are new Tools in X7 ,so far I see one red square ...fixed below****. the How Too: - Close X6 and X7 if Open - Rename C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\buttons to - C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\buttons_Large ( ie they are backed up) - Copy Buttons folder from X6 ie - C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X6 (64 bit)\resources\buttons to - C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\ ****Because there are 40+ new icons in X7 ,copy the contents of the Buttons_large folder back into the Buttons Folder Not copying the Conflicted files (1370, check box for conflicts) ,this way you don't have to figure out which ones are already in there. Now ReOpen X7 and see if everything is working ok To revert back delete the folder C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\buttons and rename C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\buttons_Large to C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X7 (64 bit)\resources\buttons Mick