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I call floor plans and elevations "floor plans and elevations" and call renderings (3d) "renderings" or "3D renderings". CA's 3D model is just the means to produce those plans and renderings I use the phrase "Regulatory compliant plans" to note that I will stand by my services until they pass the jurisdiction's regulatory approval. ... just a tidbit on how to sell more

What is the purpose of BIM for residential design? Around here the trades and the floor/roof people put together packages based on the plans provided. Or are you suggesting CA get into the non residential market?

never know, maybe this change will cause a run on product sales. For me I will also pay a premium to ensure there is also competition n the marketplace. The reason I would not choose revit is because if everyone went to revit, then a) no one would listen to what you want as the pool is so large b) they become more expensive due to no competition. And not to mention the grass is not always greener on the other side. I have seen revit plans with so many errors in them, you could tell how much was hand built/manipulated In my view, CA does a good job of listening to their users. I personally do not use the support service very often other than to report bugs. One thing CA could do is to charge for support differently than product (if it made a large monetary difference). CA has great videos, as do other people and a great user community. By separating support out, it may give a monetary break to those that want to take the risk to learn it themselves, and allow CA to be more price competitive.

Perpetual SLA (software license agreements) usually stipulate you have the right to use and there typically is no expiry in the SLA. It is the "contract" between the vendor and end customer. So he answer to the question should be in the SLA

what might happen is the O/S will expire you. your computer will die, you will need to buy a new one, with a new O/S and it will not work with your X? version

I think if I was starting out I'd be hesitant to do subscription. I'll gladly pay the upfront fee plus $585 a year as long as the improvements from version to version are making me more efficient. And for me from X12 to X13 to X14, they were definitely there. I do mostly basement developments (where half the time full elevations are required), same form factor plans, some small additions, rarely a new custom house. So my business is more repetitive work, so it is all about the efficiency, and I would find it difficult to believe a different software could do it much quicker ( there are a few thing I have suggested which could probably take another 10% off). I mean literally, I do basements in 2-3 hours, elevations in 3 hours, and as builts with elevations in 8 hours, But most of my clients are a variation of a rectangle and about half my work is for regulatory purposes or for sales purposes so the detail does not always have to be there. So I am fortunate I suppose in that I do not do a lot of finicky time consuming work where I see a lot of the workarounds/know how must be applied. I'd be a little worried the new customer signups might be less with this new model, which will then trigger the SSA to increase in order to achieve the same revenue. but we will see. In the meantime, it does not impact myself other than when I want to sell my license it will be worth less as it will be tombstoned on whatever version I end up at...but I can live with that as long as the product keeps making me more efficient on every version

it will be interesting to see a trend of new customers under this model. I can tell you when adobe went to subscription, the Total cost of ownership over 5 years quadrupled and I went elsewhere because there were others that were not subscription. But if every vendor goes to subscription, we all have to live with it. I personally think the perpetual + SSA is a good model. but you are also correct that they must make a profit. But i would ask, how did they make a profit in prior years, lots of new users...and now the rate of new users has slowed? I suppose that will eventually occur in most industries. so perhaps we should be happy we rode the wave while we could

well the other thing it changes is the residual value of your perpetual license. consider if you paid $2600 for the license 5 years ago and paid SSA every year, and now you have X14. Say you are now retiring or getting out of the biz, you could sell your X14 licenses at a discount, but still get probably what,...$1800 for it? But after Jan, what would you get? so we all just lost some of that residual value, because if someone was to buy X14 from you after january it is now tombstoned at X14. I can tell you when I bought X12 from someone, I bought it because I could upgrade it, and that upgrade fee determined the price. now, what would someone pay for X14? It is still worth something but with no upside to the next version, I suspect that would reduce the price significantly

If I understand this correctly, one can no longer by a used, say X12 license and then pay to upgrade it to X14, after January. Is this correct?

I run 512 just fine. I know a lot of people say to get more, but not sure why. My understanding is you would have to check read/write speeds and then decide. But even that I'm not sure would make much of a difference with CA, as I assume CA caches to memory for the vast majority of functions (and I would assume you have enough memory that the disk cache is not needed). So the question would be how often does CA read and write to disk, and is it enough to make a difference. (queue the multitude of comments to come from people who have actually measured as I am purely speculating ...) My windows and installed programs are about 130GB this leaves > 300GB. With my CA directory for each client being mostly topping out at 300MB, I could do 1000 projects before I run out of space .well i just did some playing around and CA is reading and writing to disk fairly frequently, so probably best to check the performance of each size of drive. so maybe buy more for performance if it is significant and cheap, but for pure storage, 512 GB is lots, at least for me. I also have a backup drive, so storage is even less of an issue it does bring up a question, what exactly is the best bang for one's buck for performance, CPU, video card, video card memory, etc.

looks like the key here is to ensure it is flat on the x,y plane . this works: 26.11.2022_16.57.59_REC.mp4

perfect, I forgot about the cad Detail from view merci

I am looking for a CAD block for a heating element in a duct for a makeup air unit. I found a nice symbol, wall radiator towel warmer. but its 2d block is a top view. is there a method to convert the symbol's other plane into a 2D CAD block. i.e. I want the picture below as a CAD block thanks

curious, how would the client even know. It is fairly typical around here to have storey pole elevations in Metres above sea level, but that can be accomplished even if one does 2. ..maybe there is a downvote bot...as I cannot possibly see a reason to downvote your assessment

i would try: 0. leaving main floor at 0 1. entering all the terrain points 2. determine the distance from the subfloor to the terain at a specific point adjacent to the house 3. adjust the "subfloor height above terrain" to match so for instance if the terrain is at 97' ASL at the front of the house and 95' ASL at the back of the house and you want the subfloor to be 3' above the front of the house, the value would be 100' Below are two terrain regions left at 97', right at 95', and "subfloor height above terrain" at 100' but i've never found a way to autostorey pole it correctly. if you set the grade level marker in the defaults to -100 ft and then remove it from the storey pole dimension, it will show correctly... just requires the manual work, but maybe others have found a way.

I thought about this as well, but then decided maybe upgrading the hardware more frequently would be the better choice, as you never know what might be coming next, plus you get the new o/s when you upgrade HW

I believe you could implicitly figure out level 3 is the attic by using a room label macro, and then publish that to a global variable. But as the OP desires this on layout, the plan would have to be open as well to run the room label macro (or start reading and writing files). Me thinks it would be a lot of work ensuring the value was for the specific plan

one thing I have noticed is my memory is not pinned, video card memory is not pinned, and my CPU is not pinned but CA is not "lightning quick" . so I'm not sure the extras you are scoping out would be much better than half of what you spec. ...but that is just my experience. I'd be curious to find out what exactly if anything is a measurable difference, because then I think everyone could spend the money on what is making the difference. i.e I'd go spend the extra $500 on the better processor if that was the factor

i do a fair amount of basement entries, just not usually fully enclosed (usually post and roof, or just railing). But there are a couple things to ensure you do in order to avoid redoing. 1. set the terrain height correctly relative to the main floor of the main building. I typically measure this with a tape measure against a known entity, such as front steps or window (then you go inside an ,measure distance to floor) 2. Once that is set, measure your top of concrete stairwell walls from grade. Usually here it is above grade a few inches.your picture looks like ~8 inches 3. then adjust your exterior room height at the basement level you created to have the proper ceiling height to match 2 4. pull a section and make sure the measurements are correct then do the rest

nothing in the file?

i cant figure out what it is/does. It looks like something I had 20 years ago. It was an electronic pen with special paper. When you came back to the office you would dock the pen and it would download the images to your computer. It even had OCR but could not really read my writing

yes it matches yours ...or maybe I should uncheck it..i'll try that ...although its definition implies this would maintain the correct exterior layer When Auto Reverse Wall Layers is checked, walls will automatically reverse their layers to ensure that exterior layers face the exterior of the structure. Uncheck this to leave the orientation of the wall layers unchanged.

i checked and it is "main layer outside" yes that works nicely....eyedropper does as well...now that I know it is the exterior material that is being changed attached is narrated 13.11.2022_13.00.50_REC.mp4

now i know how it happened. CA is changing it 13.11.2022_10.58.04_REC.mp4

well i did find out the problem, the material for that wall's exterior surface is "drywall". no idea how that happened