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Stream Deck or even better, Touch Portal, is great for automating things including app-specific shortcut keys (hot keys)

I bought the whole package (device, walking stick, etc) because I'm a sucker for new tech. It didn't work as I wanted so it sits on my shelf. I can't recommend it. That's about $400 cast to the wind.

Supported Hotkeys CA X14.xlsx

I love it! I offer this to builders who might find it valuable to have access to a Matterport scan BEFORE everything is covered up, at least for the life of any warranty they provide.......just in case. Great job!

2018 iPad Pro. (the overly big one) I think the iPad mini would be a great size. The one I have is a bit large and the size isn't necessary to mask off the windows or mirrors.

Great job, Doug. I use my Matterport as a back up, in case I miss something. Saves me a return trip to measure something or to ID a window or whatever. Mattertags are useful to store textual info or to link to other things. I try to imagine what info would be useful to the H/O or a contractor, that they could access from a computer and not have to go to the site. Noting code violations was a great use of the Matterport. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zyDT83Qz1rs&brand=0 Best to you.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oxmWCZm23nz&brand=0 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=EF9QfzT933w&brand=0 Since it didn't stitch together, I ended up with two separate single scans. It wasn't as useful in the crawlspace as I was hoping. I had a Milwaukee floodlight on top of it and did my best to get it level, but who knows when it's 3 feet of vertical working space with the camera sitting flat on the ground and me crawling around like a grumpy old man down there.

- 1 ½ hour. The H/O wanted to follow me and talk so it slowed things down quite a bit. - Matterport suggests about 6 feet in between shots, all doors open, a shot outside and inside each door.....each shot takes only about 14 seconds to rotate the camera. It can be quick. The one room had an ousting door that if open blocked another door, so I did closed and open and it is the room you can get digitally "stuck" in. - I was hired by the first contractor to ID the code violations and create a plan to correct them. - the post production work was another 2 hours to annotate all of the matter tags. - The close-up stills were from a camera phone. As I was working the site, I was thinking what additional info would be valuable to the client or home owner, say you're out to get a breaker, but you forgot to check your panel...etc. I just saved the close-up shots to dropbox and then linked to them in Matterport. The only downside to Matterport is that I have to pay $800/year to have them process and store my projects. There is no file that I can have to keep. It only works under subscription. I tried scanning a crawlspace of a house built in 1900, but the scans would not stitch together because the ground sloped too much.

If you are on a mac, there is a subscription to a series of 200 pps that have very useful tools. The subscription app is called Setapp ($10/mo). One of the best PDF file reducing apps I have used is included called PDF squeezer. It typically reduces any PDF I put in there to around 75% less than it was originally. You can play around with the level of size reduction until you're happy. At the medium setting, it has no visible reduction in quality in my opinion.

During a 2 hour screen share (just ended) with a multi-project builder......all my toolbar icons disappeared. He was a good sport as we hunted the file menus for the commands I needed to use the app. Not a professional look for sure. I was using join.me to share the screen. Had a plan open with 1 or 2 3D views for him to see on monitor 2 while I made edits on monitor 1. X14 beta latest update 2021 DEC M1 max MBP in clamshell (closed) I update all software on all machines daily before anything else. After the toolbar icons disappeared I noticed that the 3D manipulation with the mouse was EXTREMELY sensitive.......scroll zoom was like 50 times more and panning seems accelerated as well.

Maybe a bug.....unk ATT When i use circle, filled bullets in dark mode (or any of the non character bullets) on the mac and also have chief in forced dark or as system, the bullets do not export to pdf or if they do they're exporting white. As soon as i switch the mac to light mode and have chief follow the system settings, therefore becoming light, the bullets appear and they print to pdf as would be expected. I think somehow the bullets are being reverse colored at the time of exporting to pdf so that they are coming out white when in dark mode instead of black or whatever color might be chosen. Light Mode left Dark Mode right

I'm asking. Why do you do that? I asked about a deck once and that was your answer...a question. No help at all. If it doesn't do that, then why would I waste time to find out. Someone could just say....nope......or yep.......and that would be that. Autocad DOES it. That's what I use. Maybe someone else can ANSWER my question - not with a question.

Can all the components be dimensioned? I would do that in auto cad, when I was a full time framer and create a cut drawing. it would be cool if Chief could do that.

If I could become 25% of your skill with CA, its worth it. I'm not focused on rendering as much, but your work flow is where I need to follow. I just bought your pro level and I look forward to learning more workflow tweaks as I incorporate your plan template into my business. Thank you for this. I wish you mountains of success.

Yep. X14 is a hit. No crashes yet. I WAS able to lock it up, but I was pulling many linked plans from dropbox onto a layout that resides in dropbox................it timed out and before I let it run its course, I force quit it. It could be dropbox, or 100 other things........... It's great to have it stable!

X14 has been ROCK SOLID on my M1 MAX mac. I have tried to crash it by opening huge plans and multiple layouts links to all kinds of things.................it just keeps on going. Thanks for the fixes from X13, Chief!!

try pressing the number 2 key as a keyboard short cut. As in, "Connect this plane edge 2 this one."

I bought the expensive model. I use it mostly for as-builts and in-progress new home building scanning. I found it useful to scan a home I was called into to ID code violations. Unpermitted work was done and a stop work order issued. I like how I can view the place any time I need to, and also share the link with contractors so they have an idea what they are walking into. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zyDT83Qz1rs&brand=0 So I stopped naming projects by female first names, you'll notice why... I hope to include this level of information on all my on-site projects. It's best to navigate the "model" by using the tools in the lower left of the screen. I actually fell down the stairs when carrying the camera and tripod.......the stairs.....uggggh the stairs.

Hey Steve, Every other app on this MBP works as expected......many things are very quick. Chief is the ONLY app that has crashed and it crashes between 1 time a day and sometimes every few hours. I really want to use the mac because it's new and portable with crazy-long battery life. When things get too much I go back to the 2016 Windows desktop. I've submitted tickets to troubleshooting with tech-support but the crashes occur so randomly that I don't think they will be able to solve this problem. I'm unable to predictably re-create these problems. As an outside observer, I am assuming that some line of code somewhere is not specific in addressing something that Apple has modified by their new design. I'm at a loss and so I save and save often until it gets to the point where I have to switch machines. It rapidly takes the joy out of using the software when it does this so often.

a NEW crash An internal rendering error has occurred (assertion failure): mHead-»size == mSize I was in a CAD detail creating this in 2D......all the text vanished. I copied the log that gets generated to send to apple 402,415 words 1225 pages This has to get solved.

(macOS) My current set up is (1) 34" ultra wide and the MBP closed (clamshell). I used to use a 43" but it was blocking my view outside. (win 11) Now, the 3080 windows machine has the 43" plus a 27" in portrait mode and it works okay. It chief crashes much less than the mac does.

Another random mac problem. This just happened. Tool bar icons just vanish...... I guess I will try to work on the windows machine...............this kind of distraction really blows.

Both are great. David Michael has a one time life time access to many custom things. I have taken a couple of courses from Dan Baumann and I've learned many things. Dan and his team are great. Steve Nestor is also a genius. Check out his work. And search Y/T for older DS Hall.......he's great and funny. Rene Rabbit is NEXT LEVEL!!

HP isn't what they used to be. Razor seems pretty solid for a windows design laptop. https://bit.ly/35buv1y