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Yes that was the one. Thanks Mick.

I think this was discussed not too long ago but can't find the thread. You should be able to use the sub fascia or a copy of it that is edited but then the shadow board has the same issue so that may also have to be another copy of the sub fascia and then your decorative peak detail will likely have to be a psolid.

It is useful to be able to define the truss envelope for the purposes of illustrating the design and in some situations maybe even to communicate that to the truss manufacturer as @ShaneK has posted about in the past. And what about decorative trusses designed with the truss tool. I think you would want to illustrate that.

Thanks for the backup Glenn. Here are Eric's signature instructions. Please take a minute to fill out your signature (see mine for an example) by clicking on your user name at the top right of the page, click Account Settings, then Signature on the left. This info helps others help you. Your version of Chief (X9, X10) (Premier, Interiors) is the important info. Make sure you turn on View Signatures too.

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Never had it questioned but you are correct they are a little small. Usually place the detector in an open area and use the label so maybe that helps. Chief architect drawings are generally much clearer to start with than others I have seen so that is always a plus.

You may need to post your plan file to help eliminate some variables on that situation. Also great work on including your computer spec's. You could add your operating system and video card driver to that list and place it all in your signature so it shows up every time you post. Welcome to the Forum and I hope we can help get this sorted out for you.

I went through a similar upgrade on my 8700 last year and did not have any major issues. Not that that information alone is helpful but it should not be an impossible situation. I just plugged mine in and kept on going. I had already upgraded to windows 10 and bought a Samsung SSD but other than that it looks to me like the same situation. Hope you can get is sorted out because my computer still outperforms a lot of newer equipment. Should be good for a few more if necessary. Is your stock power supply ok for the 1060 ?

Thanks for the warning. Did you let Nvidia and Chief Tech support know ? It seems to take a long time to get these things sorted out so it would likely be best to get it on the list as soon as possible.

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Looks to me as that must be a railing wall beside an open below room. Not sure it should be a railing wall. Post the plan and someone will figure it out.

Others have posted some advice and low poly models that may be useful if your system can handle them : https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/search/?&q=3D People&search_in=titles

The insulation pattern is controlled by the block which has to be kept in your user library. Only the Distribution Path line color is controlled by the Distribution Path layer which in most situations I would not display any way. So it might actually be easier if the pattern color was controllable from the Distribution Path DBX otherwise you would need to take your cad block out of the library and unblock it, change the line color and reblock, rename and reinsert into library just to change the pattern color. A home made Cad Block seems to behave differently that a preset Chief Insulation Cad Box.

About 1/2 a second would be prefect for me but personal computing power is not there yet. The best you can get for fast raytracing will be the absolute latest in Dual Xeon processors. $$$$. Just a word of caution though as these do not usually have the highest clock speed it will cause other processes in Chief to lag. So I should rephrase and say a dedicated raytrace machine should have Dual Xeon processors.

Create a cad block of only one section of " S " insulation pattern and attach it to a Distribution Path.

Yes if there is a complete layout change that may be the only way. Then you could draw information from both plan files to make a preliminary layout presentation. If it was just a style change it is pretty quick to change cabinet defaults.

If you are just doing kitchens and not getting into structure or layout of the remainder of the house, I don't see any reason why you could not have two kitchens side by side or even a second structure in the same plan maybe 60' apart representing the neighbors house.

It seems to still exist but only for imported images. You can use the temporary dimensions but I really don't think that is a satisfactory substitute for what we lost.

Here is a short discussion I took part in recently about : https://structure.io/ Here is another company in the buisness : https://matterport.com/3d-scanning-construction-engineering/ There are others that have been discussed on the forum that you can search for. Like this one that just started :

I am not sure a reboot is necessary but it would not hurt to try. Othewise maybe someone would be willing to share a file with you. Or try restoring the toolbar name and see if you can get back to where you were before going ahead again.

It sounds like you followed the correct procedure. Did you remember to shut down and restart ? What was the issue that you were originally trying to solve ?

Wow is that ever dirty... In the opposite corner of where the scale is located there is a note: "Locations and dimensions are approximate." NOT COOL !!

No they pulled that trick that architects usually do when passing on drawings. It is over scaled by about 5% Transform and Replicate and call them and tell them they are bad.

Sounds like you would benefit from a faster processor. Look for one with a high clock speed and balance that out with the number of cores and your budget. In chief only raytracing will be able to take advantage of the extra cores. Everything else is purely clock speed.

I don't bother with the Print Preview in the print DBX because that is not a guarantee of what you get in the PDF. Also depending on your print driver what you get in your PDF is not a guarantee of what will print on paper. There are a lot of variables and a lot of things that can go wrong before it gets to paper.