Alaskan_Son

It depends on the speed of your Internet connection, but yes… mine took several hours as well. Actually, I left it running overnight.

I've never used Alienware but have only heard good things. What I HAVE used is ASUS and MSI machines (all built as "gaming" rigs with NVIDEA video cards) and I've been very happy with both brands. What I have not been happy with is any of the Dell computers we've ever owned. They all seem to work great at first but seem to develop problems after just a couple years. And I'm not talking the cheapo Dell stuff either. We've had several of their higher end workstation type laptops and we've seemed to develop notable problems with all of them.

You should be able to log in to your digital locker and download x7 to your second computer OR just download the trial version and enter your activation key.

It's great that William was able to point you in the right direction. Care to share what you were doing wrong so others might learn from it? On a side note, a plan would have been better, but perhaps if YOU had attached at least a screenshot of YOUR dbx settings that would have helped us help you. Just a thought. It took you 4 or 5 days to get your issue figured out and I can almost guarantee it would have been solved within an hour or 2 with a plan.

What about just making your own using a "Louvered" window?

He attached the layout, not a printed copy of the plans. Open that same layout and do a save as PDF through the print DBX and see what you get. Even worse...have a whole set of plans printed up with those settings before you figure out whats going on.

I think there's a reason you don't have an answer yet. There are a ton of variables. Are your settings actually what you say they are or is it possible you made a mistake? What are your room defintions? What are your foundation settings? What are your garage room settings? Do you have auto foundations turned on? Does your garage room have a floor or is the floor provided by room below? What are your absolute floor elevations? The list could go on. There are just a ton of variables. This was done very quickly. All automatically and with automatic foundations turned on, so it can be done. We would just need to see your plan to see what you're doing wrong...

Absolutely. Count me in.

That's because its just a download link. I would assume the download automatically started. Check your downloads to see if its there.

It would be a lot easier to answer your question accurately if you would attach the plan.

Changing the margins is best. If you try to print with the margins set like they were none of the title blocks would print.

YOU figured it out? I see.

Those 2 lines are your drawing margins as Glenn and I pointed out. You either want them or you don't. If you don't, change the numbers that say 6" to 0"

The majority of what people call workarounds here aren't so much workarounds as they are using the correct tools for the job. Granted Chief does require a handful of genuine "workarounds" in some areas, but not nearly as many as people make it sound. I think we've just become accustomed to throwing that word around and it's just kinda stuck. Truth is that the vast majority of times people have a problem requiring a workaround they're simply doing it wrong or at the least...the hard way. I think people like to call anything that's not exactly as they think it should be or like another program does it a "workaround". And regarding the idea of forgetting those complex workaround procedures and having to relearn them...I believe the truth is that most people simply don't put in the effort to actually learn how to do it right the first time (and I myself have been guilty of this as well). We come to the forum get a quick how-to answer, say thank you (maybe), fix our problem real quick and never take the time to grasp any of it. If we don't take the time to truly understand things, of course we're gonna forget them. My point...Take the time to learn and really understand how Chief works, why it does what it does, which tools to use and how and when to use them, and so on...and I think you will rarely need "workarounds" for any given task and you won't so often forget how to get it done.

Hey now... Its actually already Thursday in Sydney so technically Glenn is almost a whole day late.

Print>Drawing Sheet Setup>Drawing Margins

You bet. This is probably a god one to send into tech support. I would, but...I don't care nearly enough about it.

You betcha.

Attach a plan for a better answer, but I would guess that your default walls are set to "No Room Definition" for some reason.

Just putting a space seems to solve it as well and the space ends up at the end so it really becomes a non-issue I think.

Sounds like you "understand" it about as well as I do : )

You actually just have to shift select it one time or marquee select it.

Video card has nothing to do with ray traces. The video card is used for standard rendering techniques only. Ray traces are 100% CPU.

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I for one just draw the existing structure and then make sure not to modify it. If you wanted to you could even put all the existing structural components on their own layers and lock them to avoid making any changes by mistake.