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Okay, let me see......... yeah, mine says "LAST auto saved ......." Brian's says "VIEW auto saved....." I assume it is all the same thing.

I believe you get the auto save message, but do you see "VIEW AUTO SAVE" button? Maybe the "VIEW AUTO SAVE" button appears after the post disappears.

Occasionally for a split second something pops up while I am typing that says AUTO SAVED. I do not see the Brian's "VIEW AUTO SAVE" button. As I am typing this, the last auto save was 2 minutes ago, whoops, it auto saved at 2 minutes 0 seconds, but I still do not see Brian's "VIEW AUTO SAVE" button. Last save at 4:55:45 next auto save at .....waiting....... 4:57:45, yep every two minutes. BTW, have not seen the AUTO SAVED button pop up during this post. That is not a big deal.

I completely agree with you Joe. With the size projects we do, faster to keep it down to one prison per project except for cad details.

I was thinking of this just today. In the past I would put these in the job folder. But why not put these joeys in the library. Is there a downside?

Actually the forum is 4 minutes faster than my iPad time which is set to the atomic clock.

It looks right to me. Maybe it's your machine.

Jon, sure wish you would join us Saturday, I would be interested in hearing your methods.

I am thinking about getting a new Disto. With P.'s help I am sure I can find one. The big feature is the auto leveling. Auto leveling allows you to measure a true horizontal distance even if the line of sight is at an angle up to 45 degrees from horizontal.

CA, you hear this? Two experienced have almost given up on stairs. Let's please improve for x7

I can't explain it Joe. I think others have mentioned this. Maybe it is our particular computers. All I know is if I take too long to type my answer and then hit the post key, it does not get posted. Everything I typed disappeared into the abyss.

I just spent 10 minutes putting together a post and because I did not hit the POST button soon enough, all that info was lost. Please guys, fix this along with not timing us out. Ain't it funny, seconds of our life are so important these days that minor inconveniences like this are exasperating.

I agree with Ron, a closed pline is the most accurate way to go. Now if CA would just work it out so that the pline has a label that includes an area, we can take that macro and shuffle it around to our own area analysis text blocks. Hey CA, do us a favor and work this out, thank you, thank you very much.

That is exactly what I am saying, and if I did not have to talk to Lynn when she got home 20 minutes ago, I would of said that........ you guys know how it is........ we have to pretend that our wives are more important than Chief Talk........ oops, I hope she did not hear that. Give it a play Andy, check and see what level the roof framing will show on IN PLAN depending on what level. Do an experiment..... add 5 floors to your house, move the roof plan up 5 floors, check and see what level it displays on.

Hey Charlie, a comment, your renders looked "MUDDLED", I wonder why. Back in the day I would get that kind of muddled look but I don't get it too much anymore. I wonder if it is your computer hardware or lack of lights or the sun is in the wrong location. But if you are interested in finding out why, post the plan and I will see if I get the same muddled look and if so, see if I can figure out how to make it look better. You know I have been the 2 minute man, a 2 minute raytrace is all I can wait for and for the most part they turn out pretty good, unfortunately due to my ADD I am now the 3 second man, I shoot a RENDERING, save as a JPEG, and that is good enough for me. With the new quick shadows in X6, the renders are pretty darn good...... well good enough for me and my clients. I finish up the revisions for a client, print plan to PDF and take about 12-15 renders for a kitchen remodel, takes about 37 seconds and my clients love me. Anyway, post the plan if interested and I will take a look at it.

Depends on the type of fence you deleted to fix your issue, if it was a chain link fence with MANY FACES...... oh boy, don't use a chain length fence, don't know what kind of fence you were using.

Wow, it sure would be nice of you to share your little secret with the rest of us...... that is what this forum is about, sharing.......

That never seemed to work for me, your solution makes sense, it just did not seem to work for me.

That is not a good idea unless you know what you are doing. Specifically the roof framing will go to the floor below, if that is what you want, you are good to go. Larry had the best answer, use the ref sets.

I should of guessed it was German, Schniepp or Schnapps, two great imports from the olde country.

This is silly, I don't need invisible walls, I have the side of the building. I changed the max contraction to 6', should be plenty. Still does not work. What am I missing? Maybe somebody can post a small plan showing that it can work.

I don't understand the problem, post a small plan and explain your question.

No, you would still have the railing, you are simply defining the edge of deck surface, give it a play.

This is such a stupid question, it should not even be asked, but can I do it? No, but I know it can be done..... I think I know it can be done...... ran into this just yesterday...... I thought if you opened stair dvx and CHECKED WINDERS, it would work, but it didn't....... what am I doing wrong?..... I bet the Great Glenn Woodward knows how to do it....... will somebody please get him out of bed to answer this question? Thanks Schniepp for asking the question.... Schniepp? What kind of name is that? You must be from some foreign country.

Moakster, that was so good, thanks....... hey, what happened? Aren't you the Moakster still? I think you may have changed your moniker, nice job Kevin.