dshall

40 years and never had a contract, knock on wood.

Hey guys, I just sent out invites, if you did not get one, let me know. We start promptly on the hour.

Okay guys, I just checked my GOTOMEETING, it is still working. I will send out email invites 15 minutes before show time. Answer the email and follow prompts, easy peasy. We will start promptly on the hour. If you have headphones with a mute button, please use them, no worries if you do not have them, I can always mute you (back ground noise is sometimes an issue). The meeting may last 2 hours, it will not go past 3 hours. You can always bail out at any time. The first 20 minutes I will develop a terrain with walk out basement, site retaining walls and any other dastardly conditions we can dream up. I can then turn it over to anybody else who might want to share. I am hoping that during the demonstration an example of CA's peccadilloes will show up, and together we will find a solution.

very true..... I do not think a 3d molding would work either..... I do not know what the ideal solution would be... the bucking wall works the best in section.... but it does have many downsides...

Absolutely, that is the way to go. A truss base and a girder truss.

Did you guys notice the color picker has changed. In the beginning the color palette was native to the PC , and then CA tried to use the MAC color palette, it was not successful so they switched back to the PC color palette...... and now they are back to the MAC color palette. I am not sure if I like the MAC version as much. It seems more difficult to use. Any comments? The picture of the MAC color palette is attached.

Glenn and I are putting on a terrain workshop: Friday July 1 4:00 pm pst time which would be Saturday July 2nd 9:00 am OZ time. If you are interested, email me at dscotthall@mac.com and I will include you in the invites. This could be a real good workshop for those that do not understand terrains. I think I understand them quite well with the exception of a few peccadilloes. We will create some terrain scenarios and if we are lucky(or maybe not lucky), we will uncover some of the peccadilloes and we will see if we have some solutions for them. Attendees: dsh, The Great Glenn Woodward, Antoine (if he can get his a$$ out of bed), David Kawasaki, "P" Slab Man, Gavin Dennis (or is it Dennis Gavin?), JB "The Mad Baehmer", John Scussel, Alan Lehman, JPC, Rich Winsor, Graeme, Chopsaw,

This is what I refer to as a bucked wall. do a search for the bucking wall thread and you might get some additional insight. Perry came up with the best solution for my case. Jerry, did you draw a small plan with an example of your solution?

Not a good solution if a correct plan view is warranted.

Absolutely, move terrain, leave building where it is.

show us a picture of the window that is giving you problems.

time for a quick vid Bud.

I have a sneaky feeling you have more problems than the stairs....

I think the drop box is the best thing since the almighty created woman. I do not think I have ever had any problems with it. What I do know is I can check out ANY FILES on my iPhone, my iPad, or my iMac any time and anywhere. I have clients that use it and they love it. I have clients that I share files with and we love it. I do not think I have ever had a problem with the lag. Drop box is essentially the iCloud or "the cloud". The computer hard drive is not a place to store files in my opinion. I think all files should be stored on the cloud.

Thanks Larry, I will check on that, I am assuming I know have extended version.

I think the font is defined by the layer the line is on.

The best usage of this would be to define the property line lengths and bearings. Think about it, it will show the length of the pl in meters or feet or inches and it will show the bearings in one of 4 optional display formats and you can control the size of the info, but the display units are now defined for any other lines you might want to use this for. Does anybody else employ this feature? And if so, what do you use is for?

A great question, I will try to answer, but I could be wrong. The only purpose of this is to define THE FORMAT (I.E. inches or feet or meters) that will be displayed if you have selected A LINE and you want some text associated with the line that will tell you the length of said line and THE BEARINGS of said line. You will be able to control the text size based on the layer the line is on, but the FORMAT is fixed (I.E. inches or feet or meters). I do not use this, I think it has very limited usages, it is confusing and blah blah blah, IOW, get a life and do not worry about this....... however, Michael or Glenn may espouse some info that I do not know. I am glad you asked the question, you and I just might learn something new.

I have been using drop box since moses parted the Red Sea. I have never had problems. I do pay extra so that supposedly if a catastrophe happened, I could go back to a certain date and retrieve the files..... I think it is called rat storage. CA has always suggested that I save to a hard drive.... I do not want to take the time to mess with that, I am counting on drop box and rat storage to save me in case of catastrophe. I am also considering signing up for iCloud storage just in case drop box lets me down.

Check out the Chief Architect web site, they offer the program at a very good price.

I just returned from appointment, and I can now get on........ thanks for your confirmation..... I never know if it is me or CA or my darn service provider who is limiting my access. This morning II could get on most sites but not this one until now, go figure.

Mac El Capitan OS & chieftalk, mine is not working, is yours?

Thx Adrean, I will check it out.

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.... And who will pay for it?