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Contact the admin at ContractorTalk. They have a much larger internet exposure and never have this kind of problem.

I used solid builder for whole house panelization back in KY 2004-ish. It has very clunky work flow but the ability to print each wall or each rafter, even plywood sheets - dimensioned was perfect. We would precut an entire home and take it to the site and put it up. Apartments and hotels were a hoot. It becomes more about sequencing and on site material handling. I have SB v24 but I don’t use it. Chief does plans for permit which is what my market wants…..soooo

These are from WEYERHAEUSER

MTS12 or larger. At the wall we would fill the I-joist web with plywood to add strength per vendor literature. LP https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/woodproducts/document-library/document_library_detail/tj-4000/

When I opened a camera to see a practice kitchen (I'm still trying to absorb Rene"s template and tools) the tool bar went poof. I guess I will see if I can set up a copy replace script to run that copies my archived toolbar folder to then be pasted over my corrupted one. Kind of lame but I need to move forward.

Framing is crazy for having many different regional names for things............HAP, heel height, etc. If a plan was to have the facia match at the same elevation (typ), as well as the overhangs be equal all the way around the house (on a bastard roof), we would raise the plate height on the steeper pitch portions. I would CAD the entire roof the night before I started cutting to make sure everything would work. Most plans are not very detailed for production. I still go to this level if I'm framing the roof. If not, I don't include this level of detail because it's confusing to some.

Baseline = HAP? (Height Above Plate) That's how it seems to me.

Update: Ever since the latest Chief update, X14 has been running smoothly on my M1 MAX MBP except for the occasional loss of toolbar icons. The worst was when I was laptop only on the kitchen table in a client's home, when I lost all the toolbar icons. That made doing real-time edits during the presentation much more unprofessional.....but I survived. All in all, chief things are much more stable now on macOS. I've even upgraded to the public beta of Ventura and everything seems solid. I wish every success to you.

I used Chief and an app to take specific screen shots.

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!