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How about a molding line? That would be fast and not mess up your material list or 3D.

So for your situation a heavy cad line would work fine if it came with a label. There seems to be a serious inconsistency as to how chief displays door and window headers, but I think that has been discussed and requested before. We will just have to see if chief was listening when X10 is released.

Johnny, What are you up to ? Why not just edit the wall detail if it is something that Chief can't do on it's own. The headers should already be there in some form or another and available to be edited.

Sounds like your deck and landing are at the same elevation ? If so just change the shape of the deck to form the landing and then the stair will cut an opening in the deck rail. If that is not it you can always post a screen shot or plan file.

Perry, I am pretty sure that any user with a login can do that on their own from their Digital Locker.

I would look for an appropriate flat bed trailer symbol and then just build on top with chief if you want a good 3D illustration. Start with the 3D warehouse but I think you already know that. Chief has one that might work but it is single axle. Looks like this one might work ok : https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/u11c8d532-14d7-4ed8-be66-555a80528656/FLAT-BED-TRAILER

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You are quite welcome. Love to see what how it worked out with when you are finished.

Glenn I was able to get some irregular sized cad blocks that I believe was driven by the maximum extension length of the dimensions. However nothing as extreme as the OP has posted so maybe the OP or buzzsaw would be able to post or send in to tech support a plan file that displays the same results as the original posting.

Sorry to hear you had a fire but it looks like you have a pretty good understanding of the basics. File explorer still exists in Win 10 and you should be able to keep the same format that you are used to and keep CA and your active files on the C: SSD drive and then archive to the HDD when necessary depending on the size of your SSD. If you have specific questions as you go there are lots of folks here willing to help.

You may want to connect with JohnB as it seems you are both shooting for the stars together and breaking Chief records.

Here is a thread where Michael and I hacked about with a three layer I joist concept which you may be able to adapt some aspects of or maybe Michael would be able to make a short video of the 3D molding process as I would love to see that as well. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/12736-provide-2-materials-for-i-joists/#comment-109726

I am not sure it there really is a limit and you may have already proven that by how far you have pushed it with your system. You may find that it will be quite interesting to open Task Manager while you are working and just see how efficiently Chief is using your system resources. X9 made some major improvements but I think you will be surprised how little of your system is actually being utilized. I have often pushed the software into a non responsive situation while it is only using about 17-18% of my CPU. So if you are only able to use a small portion of your system to run Chief that is why you need all the horsepower you can get. You will want to search and read as many threads as you can find on the subject of Speed and Performance and keep us informed of your progress. One thing tech told me recently on a big but not anything as large as your file was when working with a 3D view open turn off Auto Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings and just manually rebuild with F12 only when necessary because I was getting 5-6 minute rebuild times. If most of your slowdown is from Symbols it may just taxing your video card and not the CPU so you may want to also monitor that. You may be able to turn off layer displays that are not needed to speed things up. I am quite interested in this topic but as you read you will find that there are others that are more knowledgeable.

All I can say is wow, I am surprised you have gotten as far as you have that must be quite the system you have built. I think you have likely set a record and are now in uncharted territory. Did you read this ?

Hit your windows Key and R and type in winver it will tell you your Version and Build of Windows 10. I am running 1703 and your KB update numbers did not seem to correspond to what I have.

Rob is that the Anniversary Edition (1607) or the Creators Edition (1703) ?

I have not but unfortunately you are not alone and Chief Tech support or Microsoft should have an answer on Monday. It might be helpful to others if you could look up and post the windows update and if you are in fact still running Win 7 Pro.

Interesting that this has not been solved since it was posted so long ago. Seems to have been an issue in X7 and X8 and continues to happen in X9. The only clue I could find was that the size of the cad block seems to be linked to the dimension text size and the Extension lengths but not proportionally.

Do you have a restore point that you could fall back to until tech support can help out on Monday ? Or try running the update again.

Take the Schedule Number out of the Label column and add a Number column. Rename the Number column if you like.

Gene, Make sure the change is made in Plan Defaults and it should work fine.

Open the light DBX and set the Offset from ceiling under the General tab and you should be fine.

Not sure what options you have but as Larry has experienced the GTX 1080 is a nice luxury but a bit of overkill for Chief's current requirements. If the 1070 is an option that would allow you to get a larger SSD. Otherwise great choice.

This would definitely save some time for repetitive tasks requiring many circles. Especially when used with the General Preference of "Open Dialogs to the Last Panel Visited." Thanks Michael.

If you use the Circle about center tool, and hit tab as you draw you can select End Point Relative to Start and Polar and then your Distance Input is the Circle's Radius.