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I sent out an email reminder to all of the folks that I think want to join in the workshop this Friday. If you did not get a reminder, let me know and I will include you. We start promptly on time, so if you don't have your ducks in a row and you are not ready at 3:00 rpm pst, you will miss out. I like to respect everybody's time, so please be on time. Rob Littleton, I still need your email if you are interested. You can email it to me at dscotthall@macdotcom ............

errrrrr..... yeah, that worked, thanks.

BUMP, I can't explain it, but it is cumbersome looking for this post.... anybody have an idea how I can get to it quickly without hunting for it? For some reason in the past iteration of this site, I could find posts quite easily. Anyway, trying to keep this at the top so I can find it easily when I need to on Friday to set up the GTM.

You are in Jon, see first post, BTW, you have been spelling your last name wrong, I corrected it for you. You are welcome.

Switch to chief architect. Do a search, many discussions regarding this.

Hey guys, I will hold the GTM for macros on Friday,January 20th at 3:00 pm Pacific Standard Time. I will send out email invites at 2:45 pst. For those of you not versed in the process, answer the email I send you, follow instructions, and you should be able to join meeting in about 5 minutes. Joe will be there, I am not sure about Michael yet.

Hey guys, I am going to try to set up this GTM in the upcoming week. I do not have a commitment from Michael and I am not sure if I will be able to fit within Joe's schedule. If those guys can't make it, I will share with you what I know about these macros. This should be some good stuff for us to discuss. I will probably hold it Friday at 3:00 pm PST or early Saturday 5:00 am PST. I know, an early time on Saturday, I am trying to make it work for several different time zones.

I bet if you converted all poly solids into CONVERT TO SOLID, I think it will work,

Perry and I have been doing it that way for years. You don't need to make wall 1/128", make invisible and also at that wall make footing 8x8. ( shovel footing).

this is a junk post so I can find this post easily....... for some reason, this revamped web site is not as user friendly.

Yes,you have option to draw ref floor first or last, choose first, now make sure all of your rooms have a fill and turn on the ROOM LAYER in layer set. I use this all of the time. What happens is anything on lower floor will be hidden buy the room above that has a fill yet other things on lower floor will show because there is not a room above. You are on the right track.

you bet, send me your email.... and name to dscotthall@mac.com

Now that you are being more specific....... I do not believe the materials list has been improved.... they did spend time on the stairs, but I do not think there has been a super increase in the usability of the stairs and I say that from personal experience and from the input from others. I will say that some folks think there has been an improvement in the stairs..... but I do to think it will help me. I have already noted the improvements that matter to me and those are the macros that Joe Carrick and Michael the Alaskan have created.

You win Larry. I thought hitting only 4 keys was pretty quick, takes about .003 seconds, if CA can come up with a faster way, that is great.

If you did not like the last release, I think the latest release is even less exciting.... so don't waste your money if you are not a full time user.

There is no extra step, 4 key strokes for me and I am done. It works for me as is. It cannot get much quicker.

This is the way to go. I have set up hot keys to carry out these operations. 4 key strokes and I am done (less than Joe's 6 keystrokes...... I have practiced with keystrokes longer than Joe).... easy peasy.

X9 MACRO GOTOMEEETING LINEUP DIPSH**HALL, Jon Scussel (Spelling corrected), NYGreg, Perry (because he always shows up), Ray Rood the "Fireman", OKC, MARK MCA, JOE CARRICK, ROBERT EVANCE, "ALAN HIP WADERS LEHMAN" (you guys figure out what "hip waders mean") , DAVID SKOGG, CHOPSAW, LARRY "HOT KEY" HAWES, MOE G., SCOTT MENARD, BRIAN NEWKIRK , CHARLES VOLZ, MATT KENNEDY, ALAN BUTLER, JPC (i always love to hear what JPC has to offer), ZOWIE (I BET HE IS GREEK OR FROM THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA), CHRIS ROOD, LANCE VOORHEIS, CAPITAL DESIGNS, ..................... 24 TO DATE 25 MAX OKAY, there is some interest, I will keep a running log of those interested, the GTM will probably happen within 3 weeks, I need to get a commitment from The Alaskan Son and Joe Carrick so they can share how their macros work. This GTM will be a time saver and will definitely be worth your time. First 25 are guaranteed a seat. Now that we are in public X9 BETA, we can talk about X9 publicly. I have been working with X9 for several months now. It's interesting that I have forgotten what the new features are except for 2 features. Please, let me know what YOUR best new features are. But for me, the best new features were provided by outside MACRO WRITERS, Joe Carrick and Michael that Alaskan Guy. CA should get some credit because there was something they did under the hood that enabled Joe and Michael to write the macros. I am not sure if they added Hollybrock dual carbs or bored out cylinders or turbo injectors, but whatever it was, it is appreciated. Joe came up with a way to provide auto header labels. Not a perfect solution, but helpful until CA figures out how to do it. Michael came up with a way to auto tabulate areas. We know that CA will give you the living area.... personally I have never used it because I do not trust it and I do not trust my modeling skills to get accurate areas, so it is essentially useless info. What Michael did was to come up with macros that can auto tabulate FAR's, COVERAGES, NEW FLOOR AREAS, EXISTING FLOOR AREAS, IMPERVIOUS AREAS, REQUIRED ATTIC VENTILATION, REQUIRED CRAWL SPACE VENTILATION etc. It is not super auto, but with a little help from me, I get the info. Just yesterday I was meeting with a client,we were maxing out the FAR, in seconds I was able to get the right size footprint shape...... all done in front of client. Can you imagine how much time this saved me AND HOW MUCH TIME IT SAVED MY CLIENT. Do you think he is a client for life? Michael's macro is my highlight of X9. Anyway, if there is enough interest in this, I would be willing to host a GTM with interested parties to discuss their macros and to maybe "tweak" the macros. Joe and Michael do charge for the macros, however the price is very reasonable, less than $25.00 (I think). Pays for itself on the first job. NOTE FROM JOE: "I would be happy to contribute to this meeting. We just need to coordinate the date and time. I golf on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings - not negotiable Michael and I have similar (but different) approaches to Area Analysis and Door/window Labels. I also have some other macros that I can demo during the GTM. The final release of X9 will be mid February and I've been told there will be some additional capabilities in that release. It might be better to have the GTM a week or 2 after that."

Great OKC...... you are awesome......... hey, guess who is going to come by to see me this Friday? Yep, Steve Nestor....... so Steve emails me the other day and says he is going to come out and visit his son who is at UCSD..... and he suggests we have lunch together....... I say let's do it........ I always enjoy visiting with folks from the CA website....... I keep asking P. to come out and visit, it has not happened yet.

Are you guys looking for something for free? If not, pay it and move on. It's a dollar a day....

It's so funny, we all make mistakes, I made a mistake getting up this morning, give them a call and they will fix it, they are really good about that.

Yea, I guess you need to be current with SSA..... sounds like you will have to wait until the end of the month which is when you will be current.

Just call CA and they will probably hook you up in less time than it took me to type this. Go to the source if you want a quick resolution.

Are you kidding me..... I lasted 1.25 minutes, and then I had to turn off this 6 minute video. That guy can drag out a vid longer than I can......

Sorry for this misquote. Bottom line, I cannot control the direction of fj and cj independently...... something that has been an issue for me for 6+ years. I assume it is my problem.