Alaskan_Son

You're probably right Joe, although making symbols like that aren't one of my strong suits.

Thanks Curt. I was hoping someone might recognize it so I didn't have to search through the zillions of doors in the Sketchup warehouse.

I'm looking for a particular door design. Wondering if perhaps any of you have one or can tell me where to find it. I've searched all the Chief libraries and can't seem to find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry, this is the best picture I have...

Cory, What method did you use to make those lintels??

As Glenn also mentioned in another thread, you can even break the moulding polyline and delete just a section of the gutter if you wanted to.

Like Glenn said, unlock the gutter layer and then you can manually select the edges (new unlocked moulding polylines) on which you don't want gutters, open the moulding polyline dbx and then check "no moulding on selected edge".

Glenn, I'm not sure if you really considered the OP's PC specs, but based on the limited info he provided I would say your system is close to twice as effective as his even if you think it is "old".

I think you may be missing the point. Most of us aren't having your problems because our systems are newer and/or faster. Upgrade your PC and you'll likely fix the problem. I haven't seen any of the Chiefers here post specs as low as yours in a long time if ever. It's just not what you should be using if you want optimal performance. And it can be any number of other things. Either in your plan as Glenn suggested or in one of your settings or in your GPU, etc. Post a plan or give more details if you really want to get to the root of the problem.

I don't personally need the symbols at this point, but it would be awesome if maybe you can edit your "best answer" to include where you found them in case any of us need to locate them in the future. Just a thought.

I'm sure you can convert it to a symbol that can be imported into an older version of Chief but it would be relatively useless.

Nope. Sorry.

Nicely done Glenn.

Hmmm...I guess that still leaves you with a patch required underneath the bay window. It definitely seems buggy because if you change that main wall type to delete the pony wall, open the bay window dbx and change it to something other than "use main wall type", open the main wall again and add the pony wall, it will draw correctly in the preview pane, but as soon as you close the dbx the brick (or whatever you use for the pony wall) builds all the way around the bay window again.

I was actually able to recreate the same thing before you attached the plan. The only way I seemed to be able to get it to work right was to break the exterior wall on either side of the bay window and then change the wall type for the section the bay window was in. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to matter what wall type you use, the brick will automatically continue.

Alan, can you attach the plan?

No...but my previous post may have. You have that much more of a program and a newer version. The home designer product you were using was likely built on an older software platform optimized for older systems and likely wasn't near as taxing on the video card as X6. Add to that all the extra features and graphics options (which can be heavily taxing dending on your settings) and you get slowness. You may want to go through and double check some of your settings depending on what exactly you mean by "slow". To start with, is it slow in plan view, slow in 3D, or slow in both??

Steve, on further review, I realized your PC processor is actually below the minimum 2.4 GHz required by Chief, and that much further below what is recommended.

In my opinion the PC you described is painfully lacking. I think you'll find anything less than what you see in my signature line will be relatively slow, and the upgrade from the home version brought with it a lot more features which are bound to slow the program down. Plus, I'm assuming the new software is designed to run optimally with a newer system, and older systems won't run the new program as well as they did the older one. I would also look at your video card on that PC. Bottom line, I think your system is outdated and could use a substantial upgrade. I can't give any answer regarding the Mac as I have zero experience on that subject and even the good folks at Chief are relatively new to the territory.

They look the same to me as well. Only thing I see is that the lines separating the bricks don't show in perspective view. Is this what you're referring to??

Thanks Dan. That answered my question.

I'm sorry, I could be wrong, but it seems you and Brian have both side stepped the point of my question... Can Google or any other search engine view our personal profile or signature information?? I realize its a public forum and that any passer by can stop in and look at that information, but having that info available to a search engine is a very different thing.

If you still have X3 downloaded did you try to open it with that?? If you can, open it AND save it with X3 and then open that new file with X6. Just an idea.

You can also drag the thumbnail view up to a new tab.

I haven't read the book, but cloud technology has always seemed highly suspect to me as its negative possibilities are enormous and the likelyhood that technology will be abused is all but certain. I pretty much never use any cloud based services with the VERY occasional exception of dropbox. On a partly related subject...As a builder I am required to have certification from one of the 3 letter federal government entities for completing work on certain houses. Well, when I registered my information with them, I must have mistakenly entered one of the letters in the middle of our company name as a capital letter (AlasKan instead of Alaskan). Either that or they did, because when they responded to me, it was to "AlasKan". At any rate, ever since then, I have received a HUGE amount of fear mongering emails selling products related to federally mandated code adherence addressed to the misspelled company name. Its borderline disgusting.

Thanks Brian, but you didn't fully answer the question... What is the "community index"?? Is that simply the threads themselves or can search engines also gather info from our profiles and signatures??