Thad58

I have been trying to get a brick band on this house with no luck. I can get it close using a soffit and changing the material but, in the camera, view it does not look the same. I have been using Chief since X3 and it is my first brick house. I can’t believe there is not a tool or a brick band molding for this. Is this something that must be done manually?

Ok I just purchased it I hope this is my best option because being a laptop I am stuck with this for IO hope at less 4 years.

Alienware x17 R1

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 11800H (8-Core, 24MB L3 Cache, up to 4.6GHz with Turbo Boost

Windows 10 Pro English

NVIDIA(R) GeForce RTX(TM) 3070 8GB GDDR6

17.3" FHD (1920 x 1080) 165Hz 3ms with ComfortView Plus

64GB DDR4 XMP 3466MHz

4TB (2x 2TB) M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD RAID0

$3,900.00

Thanks everyone for the input. I have a lot of things I stay up un so computers and hardware are not my thing

Thanks KBird and Anne I can run CA but this computer drive me crazy. A Dell Alienware computer maxed out is $4,900.00 

Mark, Are you running X13? 

Thanks K-Bird Yeah but this is business and I always think about the fact that it is inevitable that i will run X13 I should go ahead and get it out the way and spend the money. I should just fork out the $4,900.00 and max out in hope to get to use it 4 years. I have only had this open 4 year but had to rebuild it twice for about $600 a rebuild so I am not to far off. Plus I am impatient.

That is $226.00 more. Worth it?

Ok, I was told I needed a new video card and I have to have a laptop. I have several offices I work out of and work out of town. I am relying on Chief and my IT guy to come up with best solution.(See Below) This comes in at $2,900.00 but if I wanted to max out the video card I can only go to 3080. It would be a Intel I9 for extra $1,600.00.   The new 3090 is not available on a 17 inch screen

I would appreciate your opinion of if this. Chief has already gave a Ok to it or if anyone think the I9 and 3080-card. Is worth the $1,600.00

What Chief did with this release was not right. I had a heads up this was going to happen so it wasn't a surprise to me. I cant imagine the surprise people are having out there.

Alienware x17 R1 Gaming Laptop

Processor

11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 11800H (8-Core, 24MB L3 Cache, up to 4.6GHz with Turbo Boost Technology)

Processor Branding

11th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 non-vPro Processor Label

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro English

Video Card

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 6GB GDDR6

LCD

17.3" FHD (1920 x 1080) 165Hz 3ms with ComfortView Plus

Memory

64GB DDR4 XMP 3466MHz

Hard Drive

2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive

Keyboard

Alienware X-Series thin keyboard with per-key AlienFX lighting

Power Supply

Adapter 240W

Wireless

Killer™ Wi-Fi 6E (Pre-certified) AX1675 802.11ax 2x2 Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2

Primary Battery

So I just found out that X12 Templates are not compatible with X13. They need to be about to bring in defaults for the new features.

This X13 is a whole lot different than others. Chief just told me I cant even run it on my laptop and this is not a cheap laptop.

I am looking at the Dell Alienware. Anyone see a problem with this one?

ALIENWARE M17 R3 GAMING LAPTOP

• 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-10980HK
• Windows 10 Home
• NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ 8GB GDDR6 - Max Performance
• 32GB DDR4 2666MHz
• 4TB (2x 2TB PCIe M.2 SSD) RAID0 [Boot] + 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD [Storage]

OK so I figured out the material list. Now the dimensions on the joist is in inches not feet and inches. Chief said I need to write a Macro that will convert it to that but they don't give that assistants.. Anyone know how to write that Macro

I did a materials list and have it set to buy. Most of my ceiling joist move to nominal sizes and I set up my Structural Member Reporting to buy list and deleted all sizes that are not nominal; I have a few joist that do not change to a nominal size. Any suggestions I have screen shot of 3 of them I am talking about. Shows 10'7 should have been 12'

Yeah Glennw you are right I was using a default cabinet. I downloaded a cabinet off the manufacturers catalog and it works

Glen, Yes that worked but not all the way. Cabinets are 2 different colors LOL I will get with Chief Tuesday and let you know

Because if I open the plan in X12 it keeps the old defaults. Chief said there is a way of doing it but it would require a training session. I figured it cant be too hard.

So I have a old plan that was drawn on a old template. I understand that if I just copy and paste it and rename it it will open up just fine in X12, but then I have to reset all my defaults, walls, windows, floors etc...Is there a way to copy and paste the plan into a new template?  I tried to open the plan in X12 and import default setting but it only changes a few settings.

Got it. That is a lot of work of steps. Thanks I am going to change my template. 

But you cant grab a library color for the drywall. OK so Chief just responded and said that was a difficult task. I will let you know. I set up a meeting

I did that but it changes the material name to the color not the pattern. Or do i just rename the mater Drywall and the color number

It will not let you open the library

I want to change my default color to a Benjamin Moore color 2111-70. I down loaded it to my library but can not change the default color to it. 

Lake and Land I built one. I can send you the file

LOL Ok I have been at this 10 years from X3 to now X12. If you click the front elevation tab it automatically goes to the bottom of the page. You cant rotate it to the left of right side. 

Almost all my plans have to be rotated when  going to lay our because they are to long. Can the program be changes so the the plan is drawn with the front of the house being on the right or left of the screen for that when it goes to layout is does not have to be rotated and the titles are Front Left back and Right are in proper location? I tried to draw a plan with the front on the right side but it title as right side. I started with X3 and was told always to have the front of the house at the bottom of the page. 

Hope that makes since  

Where I live all the ARB's require Shutter Hinges and shutter dogs. I have been placing then manually. Is the any why to have them put on auto. I am sure I would have to edit the shutter in Chief to make a new one.t look for an easier way 

I was thinking of installing Windows 10 but see that Chief doe not list it as compatible. Has any one had a problem running Windows 10? I just loaded Windows 10 on my accounting computer and it is twice as fast as 7 that I am running