tommy1

See my post on post #22.

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Glenn, I have had several people call me over the years wanting to know why when they change a wall type to a demo wall and turn it off, and use different layer sets, they start having problems after a while. They say that Chief has videos and tutorials for doing it this way. WELL, THAT'S TRUE! THEY DO! I simply tell them that doing this is not a method that I agree with and will almost guarantee problems with a sophisticated plan with multiple floors and even worse if you have elevated floors on a single floor. Back in X1 when they first came out with the demolition wall types and layer sets, this was an accepted method but not for Louis and me because it didn't take us long to find problems. I just looked up threads from powerful users telling you to do this back when X1 was out. Today, you can still see the videos and the wall types are still there in the drop down menu. Every time I've asked someone why they're using this method for doing existing and proposed plans, they say because they saw it in the training videos.

I too use this cad method too sometimes. The reason I mentioned using two plans is because in our existing plan (Existing/demo Plan) we hatch all wall that are to be demoed, and use a lot of text explaining what is going on for the demo. In the new plan, I hatch all existing walls. In a complicated plan, which is often the case, I do an existing cad overlay in a separate view (layer set) in the layout as you all mention. A lot of times I do it for the Engineers as a quick reference. If I do a cad overlay, I only show the walls, door and windows in the overlay....generally dashed and light grey.

If you're doing a remodel, I personally don't advocate having the existing plan and proposed plan in one plan file. I'm fairly certain that some people will though.

One way is to use an existing plan and a proposed plan. Have both plans linked to the layout.

Try going to Preferences>Render> Preview Options> Software Edge Smoothing> change it to 20% if it's higher. See if that helps.

I cannot believe this transfer fee cost!!!!!!!!! Is this true Chief? I hope someone will chime in here.

I just purchased this from HP's website. I did get a custom build. I also saved some money (30%) by getting a coupon discount which is added in the check out. I'm pretty happy with it so far. This laptop also runs a lot cooler than my previous one. See my specs below and compare it with others.

Try disconnecting the wall at one end and then rejoin it. If it still does it, try deleting the window an placing another window. You can also close the program and reopen. If you have the wall framed, try reframing it.

I bought some libraries from Jay Palmer a long time ago that has a lot of what you're looking for. He probably still has them. I use then every now and then. They come in a bunch of different widths.

Select the dimension and then use the "make parallel" tool to make it parallel to the framing member. Just did it.

If you like, you can send me your plan file and place text with arrows in the plan for what you want to do. I can take a look at it. Please send me your phone number too. My email address in is my signature. I have a 25MB file limit for each email attachment. If it's over that, then zip it.

High face count symbols can and will make a huge difference in the plan especially if there is many of then in the plan. You really have to watch out for millwork. Often you won't see much of a slow down in the render views but you will in an elevation or when an elevation is sent to the layout.

I'm working with a man who has a 3-1/2 story townhouse. It's a pain doing the stairs when they're on top of each other. To make it worse, the floors heights are different and each set of stairs has 2 landings.

On my new HP laptop (Windows 8.1), you can right click on the X6 shortcut on the desktop and choose if you want it to run this program on the video card only. I did not have this option this way on my other HP laptop (Windows 7). This made a huge difference for me.

Thanks Chief for fixing the scale macro in the layout. That's a huge plus for me. I also see that you fixed the room molding polyline from making a lot of extra breaks.

None of that is real difficult to do in Chief. I'm doing columns like that right now on a plan. Once you know your options on how to do things in Chief, you can do most anything.

Never mind. My bad. I was using the wrong file. It seems to be installing now. SORRY!

Thank you, I will try again in the morning. I'm pretty frustrated right now and too worked up.

When I try to use the X5 downloader, it starts but when I click "Next" to start the download, I get this error: "The server returned an error response: 403 = Forbidden" Has anyone seen this? I tried turning off the Firewall and running as Administrator at separate times. No help. Oh, I also deactivated it on my other laptop first.

I tried it in the back clip elevation too. No problems there either.

Nope. Still can't reproduce it. Is the problem only in this plan or in all plans?

I'm going to try something and see if I get your results.

I purchased a lot of Jay Palmer's symbol libraries (Chief Symbols) years ago back in Version 8, 9 and 10. Some of them are very good to have. I'm probably going to use one of the libraries in the next day or so that has a bunch of arched soldier courses with keystones. It has all different widths. Very helpful.