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It's done guys, not a bad word was uttered . No dedicated circuit, crhord thru upper cab to outlet. Lynn came by and helped. Taking hood down yesterday, lady stumbled by, looking to rent a place, we had place to rent, did deal today. Productive weekend.

No micro now, took out hood yesterday. 3 wires there, must connect to convenience outlet, then mount outlet and micro, put plugs in holes out outlet, turn elec back on and then watch Tiger make a come back. Sounds easy....

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Well,  do you want to help me install a microwave over the stove in the rental?  I barely know how a screwdriver works and somehow I have to figure this out.  Been watching lots of youtube videos on the process.

 If I don't show up tomorrow morning it's probably because I forgot to turn off the circuit breaker..........  turn off circuit breaker.....   turn off circuit breaker.....   turn off circuit breaker......  turn off circuit breaker......  turn off circuit breaker,.....

I remember discussing that in the old forum HERE

I remember it too,  is there a point you are trying to make?

Yep,  just tested again,  15 sheets printed,  3.5 mb pdf file size from pc,  70 mb file size from mac.  Mac file is 20 times larger,  tough to email a file of that size.

Printing to PDF on my Mac is very quick.  I just did a four page layout, including a floor overview, in less than two seconds. I wonder what the difference is.  Do you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat?

It's not the amount of time it takes to print,  my speed is probably comparable,  it's the size of the PDF.  How large s that PDF you just created?

It's working now,  but not a great vid......

Here is a link to the DSORENSON VID,  not great stuff,  so take your chances.

http://youtu.be/WiSXn8B-umU

.....not a great vid,  bottom line dsorenson,  try minimizing your "ACTIVE" contour lines.  I believe too many contour lines will slow chief down and give you some of the jiggedy jaggegies.  Use enough contour lines to define the terrain.

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How to ensure the minimum separation distance is zero?

go to  EDIT<DEFAULT SETTINGS<(double click on window) WINDOW<GENERAL<MINIMUM SEPARATION,   change that from 2" to zero.  This should be defaulted to ZERO   O.O.B.,  but it ain't,  keep that way for all of your plans.

Draw a regular wall,  put in a doorway,   put in two pass thru windows and push up against door opening.  Confirm that the minimum separation distance is zero.  Done vids on this.

The pic was done with doorways and pass thrus in a full height normal wall.  

Okay,  worked with your  pony walls,  there is an issue with the walls screwing up.  One of the walls did screw up on me.  As soon as it screwed up,  I deleted and selected an existing wall and dragged it around to replace deleted wall.  As you can see by pic,  for whatever reason,  I was able to do some weird stuff.

Bottom line,  as soon as wall screws up,  delete it,  and drag a new wall in it's place.  This  procedure should not be necessary,  but it is.

Wait,  I inadvertently eliminated the fact you were using pony walls......  the issue may persist.

See if you can open this and step foundation

Okay,  got it,  yep,  it screwed  up when I started creating the step footing.  So what did I do?  I deleted the offensive foundation walls,  went to plan,  dragged the end of a wall that remained,  and replaced the wall that I had deleted.  I believe there were either 2 or 3 foundation walls I had to delete and create a new wall.  

As you can see by the pic,  it is working.  But,  I did experience the problem you were having,  I was having the same problem,  but by deleting the bad wall and replacing it,  all was well.

I wish you would post that plan,  love to see if it happens on my computer.  Just tried it on an older plan and no problems.  It was just so weird when you initially posted the question,  I tried it and I was stunned that it screwed up similar to what you are showing.  Have not seen it since.  I wonder if it just happened during on particular version of beta.  Do you have the same problem if you open a new plan and try it.  It may be a corrupt plan at this point.  

Delete foundation and give it another go.

Early to bed,  early to rise.....

symbol type....when you create a symbol you can choose: fixture, molding, etc.....

 

Rebooted and the problem seems to have subsided for now.

I thought that is what you were trying to do.  Yep,  never had that problem,  one of those funny gremlins that pop up once in a while that can be fixed with a few curse words and a reboot.

I purchased X6 Xmas and have been having a problem stepping the foundation for houses that are on sloped  lots ( some of you may have seen my earlier posts). I had some replies and I have been corresponding with Tech Support. It is how March and I'm no further ahead. As you can see by the attached sketch I can step the top of the wall but the bottom section is just a tangle of lines. Previously I was using X-2 and had no problem preforming this simple task.

Has anyone had this problem and how can I fix it.

 

Thanks for your time

 

RCarter

When I first saw this several months ago,  I thought it was you,  but I gave it a try and I had the same issue.  For some reason I did not follow up on it.  Here is a  pic of one I just did,  and I did not have the problem this time.  If you  post a dummied down version of the plan,  I will take a look.

....., but could not select anything other than the default option in the "type" dropdown list.  Then I tried to change wall type in the wall dbx. ......

No  problems here in making a symbol,  where is the "type" option,  your question is very unclear,  I bet the  problem is you,  explain again what you are trying to do and we will figure it out.

BTW, I just viewed CA's video on the spiral ducting and the prebuilt elbows ca has. Seems like that method could be used for the plumbing diagram. Just resize the pieces for the plumbing pipes.

Mike, do you want to explain why he must call it a garage? Hey Mike, can't you see Russia from Wasilla?

Scott - 

i'm pretty happy with things - x6 seems ti run great, but I'm still gonna go get a new box - I want a gang of cores so I can do renders in 5 minutes......

hows ur mac at renders?

Remember Mike, I am the Father of the crappy ray trace, 3 minutes and I'm done. Did 7 today in under 35 minutes and they look great for my purposes. For every exterior ray trace I manipulate the sun angle to maximize the look, 13.2 seconds per ray trace, hit the HJ quick key, badda bing, I'm ray tracing. Whilst that is working, a quick HB to take another shot, repeat previous instructions, stir, preheat oven to 350 and let them cook. Export the jpegs and send to client along with PDF of plans.

The only thing that hangs me up is the printing to PDF, must deactivate license on Mac so I can go to PC to print. Depending on the mood of my PC, that can be a 5 minute process or a 25 minute debacle. Did I say I hate my PC?

I just realized DSorenson is probably a one post wonder, when will I learn?

Larry, if DSorenson does not post his plan, that is good for me, instead of spending an hour on something I don't get paid for, I will work on something that pays me.

And you are correct, the terrains are still a bit inconsistent for my taste, but I can usually get them to work for me.

I hope you PC guys are experiencing this too,  but I just want to say that working on the MAC in X6 is getting quicker and quicker every day.  Not to say there aren't a few hiccups here and there,  but for the most part this program is working.  I hope you PC guys are seeing the same thing.

And for you folks out there who are having PERSISTENT issues,  it is probably not the program,  it is probably you or your hardware.

CA ain't perfect yet,  but I had a real good day  with very few issues coming up.  I just want you guys to understand that CA should probably be working for you......  for the most part CA works well ......  but not perfect.

Post the plan and I will do a vid.....  these things can be a bit tricky and are rarely consistent.