madcowscarnival

Looks like a font issue, I don't know the specific solution, but my workaround would be to try and print or save as an image file, PNG or otherwise, then import that file into Chief. My issue a while back (not related to Chief) was a PDF would demonstrate correctly on screen, but printed with all the heading text in wingdings. Never corrected the issue, made the original designer print hard copies for me.

Kamingk, I had your same type of reservations when I first started posting on this forum, primarily as my plans are basic and more focused on structural information than the high-level finished plans you see by other users. It seems everyone here is very professional in their forum interactions. People who produce simple plans aren't going to take advanced plans and try to reproduce, people with advanced plans already know how to produce amazing data with Chief. Very often there is data/settings/events that are so much simpler to open the plan and quickly check rather than try to explain the process. I think you should give it a shot, the answers you receive will no doubt solve the problem. If it is a complex solution, you may even get a video made and posted back, a truly amazing and free resource with some of the most proficient minds using ChiefArchitect. EDIT: If you decide to post the plan, close out CA first, then upload.

That's it. Just to temper some expectations though: you already have a very fast machine, the m.2 drive is about 6X faster than a SATA SSD (3500 MB/s R/W to 530 MB/s), but in "real world" terms you probably won't notice it quite as much. Also, Carmel Hill, that will be a top shelf machine for years to come. I'd bump to 32GB RAM if your budget allows.

Yes, exactly that.* * - enthusiastic caveat here: you will have to clone your boot drive, but the software from Samsung is very straightforward.

That's a good board, I run its little brother. You can literally plug and play an m.2 into the native slot, use Samsungs clone software (with a Samsung drive like evo 970 or so) and have a native m.2 boot drive

And if you're not sure what your MOBO is, and really for anyone else interested in their hardware specs, I'd recommend CPU-Z from CPUid (www.cpuid.com). Lightweight system device reader.

Adam, what MOBO are you running? It surely supports PCIe. There are PCIe to m.2 adapter cards that "can" function as boot drives with nearly the same speed as a native m.2 slot. I put the quotes in there as some OS and MOBO cannot boot through PCIe. However, in my limited reading up on Windows 10, it seems that OS has drivers built-in to permit that type of booting.

OP, that original rig had plenty of specs, I doubt you'll notice a marked difference between the two particularly in Chief. Biggest update you might be able to do (if not in already) is upgrade to m.2 SSD. @Rich_Winsor, I too build my own rigs and keep Win7 primarily to keep using older programs. Just recently built a new one as I was beginning to have mobo or HDD errors. If you're planning on building another one get a board with an m.2 socket. It was difficult getting it going but it is almost ridiculous how quickly AutoCAD, Chief and QB will open.

My apologies, it should read "works just like any other drive, but nothing stored locally..." Windows reads it as a normal drive, 319GB used / 168 free, is actually the capacity of the cloud account.

Thanks, I edited the new screenshot to remove some more info.

Yes, the mapped drive functions just as any other drive, nothing stored locally. For instance, if I open an AutoCad file on my work computer and forget to close out, then try to open the file on my home machine, it will report that it's open on another computer and create a read-only instance of the file. I don't know anything about collaborative use, as I only access the file myself.

@HumbleChief just really quick, can you edit out my attachment on the quote? It may contain mapping info to my OneDrive. Replying to your question shortly

Here's a screen shot of my computer drives. I only log in to the onedrive once after restart or lost internet connection. That ExpanDrive looks handy for other users though, thanks.

@HumbleChief really? I did not know that. Unfortunately it seems, as I'm on Windows 7, its not possible to map dropbox (not able to use "an app"). I do use it manually for sharing files with clients as necessary. Though with large global limits on email, that's the quickest for me.

I feel like a shill always adding unrequested info about microsoft One Drive. But, the biggest advantage for me (working on multiple computers) is it is a mappable drive, so your computer sees it as just another hard drive. I had no issues working off of it, not storing the file on my local drive, but I have pretty good internet as well. There is no need to sync, auto or manual, and you can set up a local hard drive backup from the mapped drive (SyncToy).

I've been previously told to use PNG, which I do with great success. I believe the value of the PNG is scaled graphics which you wouldn't get with a jpg that only has as good of a resolution as it was originally saved or printed to. I have not checked my final file size with it, but operation within the program is much faster.

We not only have all of our hard drive data, but even paper files back to the 70's (Engineering firm). I also have boxes of 3.5" floppys from construction and inspection projects and boxes of ZIP drives. I suppose one day I'll need to clear a bunch out, but there hasn't been a pressing need for space and I do have functional readers for all the data (which is getting really difficult).

Just out of curiosity, is there any particular reason to delete previous versions other than good housekeeping? I've kept all my previous versions and could pull them up and use them, if there was ever a need to.

On a previous post a while back, after someone recommended I just call CA about an update, they wound up shooting me what felt like a very fair price from X6 to X10. I don't precisely recall what it was, but it felt like a mistake on their end. This is basically a hobby program for me as well, but I do want to try to stay current and entry-level proficient.

An additional option that had been given to me in a similar post is use .PNG file type. I believe that PNG offers a better file size to resolution ratio and it barely slows CA down. Especially in details from code where I desire a higher resolution instead of converting a PDF to a higher-res jpg which can become a large file quickly.

Thanks Renerabbit. I figured it was an easy solution, and had tried the "extend downward" but didn't realize the need to change side walls to gable.

This seems to be the same plan as the previous post, but the only way I'm aware of to make CA do this is rotating the baseline angle. I've never seen the join tool do that, only manually.

Renerabbit, slightly off-topic, what auto roof method did you use to extend the slope down on the garage bump-out? I know its easy with manual, but I'm curious about auto settings there.

I'm far from even proficient with this program, but with three specified roof pitches, I would go through the effort of setting up roof info in the wall dialog boxes and use the autobuild function. Ignore the main body of the house, and the hip instead of shed at the garage doors, this is how I attempted it. Seems to have built out correctly. EDIT: Deleted my attachment. Renerabbits is the same thing, but better

KBird, yeah, I frequently find odd behavior in my program. After your post I even went in again attempting to select and get some sort of grip handle to pull down. Nothing. However, Alaskan_Son, the half wall worked great with the behavior I was looking for. Thank you