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Thanks Mick!

Oh. Basically this forum post has been answered. Yes the Leica Disto E7100i does indeed work with CA X7 running in Windows 10!

Okay. I purchase the cheaper Leica Disto E7100i and downloaded the Disto Transfer software, paired the Disto with my PC/laptop. Launched the Disto transfer software and changed the pairing code's as recommended by the CA tech article, launched CA X7 running in Windows 10 and tried a simple box. Set up the internal wall to wall measurement dimensions, click on the wall I wanted to measure and move, aimed the Disto at the target wall and hit the Dist button. It immediately measured it, and I heard a beep on my laptop and the wall and dimension changed to what was displayed on the Disto window, along with a simple dialog box in CA. So far it works like a charm. Now I'm going to try installing all this on my cheapo Tablet and see if I have a field as-built measuring device that works! Very cool!

So what did you guys discover? Can you CA on a PC communicate with the Disto if you install the Disto transfer software? (does not mention support for Windows 10)

This seems to be a growing trend with the OS, background downloading and updating. It really bugs me when this happens. I'm not sure if that was the culprit, but the other day I was using X7 and trying to access one of the core furniture libraries and CA grinded to a hourglass spinning slow down. Every symbol I clicked on to get the image of the symbol took about 5 mins to display. CA kept giving messages about rendering the image and then just slowly grinded through the data until it could display. I could not tell what was eating CPU or graphic card cycles, or if it was some other OS updating in the background thing. Anybody else notice an odd slow down in their libraries?

Takes about an hour, and it must reboot a few times.

I've got the Nvida card on my Toshiba Qosmio, and I'm running a USB 20" monitor. When I first updated to 10, the system did not recognize the second monitor, but with little effort I got Windows to see the Display Monitor software and install it correctly. Now it runs just fine and I can run CA in either monitor without problems. Still testing though.

I know that I just completed the upgrade to V10 and my CA X7 works just fine so far. No problems or glitches....yet.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm really tired of using the laser measuring device with paper and pencil. Since I know nothing about tablets and don't really want one, I spoke to tech support and the every helpful Nigel told me that a Surface type windows based 2-1 type machine, "if it can run Chief Architect, will also work with the Distro". So I decided to pull the trigger on an inexpensive Woot purchased Asus Transformer T100 ultrabook. The detachable screen is 10", very thin, and light, it also meets the bare minimums to run CA. So with fingers crossed, I also bought the $150 Disto and pray that the three things will work for doing my field measuements. I'll keep you guys informed. This system is as cheap, if not cheaper than a powerful tablet, plus it allows you to bypass the Room Planner App and input information directly into CA. We shall see!

Is anybody using this software for as-built dimensions? I'm thinking of taking the plunge, but cannot decided on the right Android pad, that will communicate with the Bluetooth Laser. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Jon, Can you give us a bit more information on this Texture site? What is the benefit and cost of using these? I have rare occasion for extra textures which CA does not have, and have created a special file for these, but I'm always interested in finding more like the site you listed. Can you give some user feedback?

I'm new to tablets and if I get this it would be strictly for "as-built" dimensions. I'm still using a laser and paper! So what tablets will this work on? Getting confused by the 2gb ram issue and the Bluetooth "LE" as the specs on tablets don't often say what version of Bluetooth they have installed. Anybody know which Android tablets this APP will work on??

Also please post how to turn that into a panel so we can experiment with other options. Good job.

Any of your talent CA user know of a way to mix and match balusters in railings? My client sent me some picture idea's which look cool but I'm restricted not by the choice of symbols in our CA library, but by the single railing choice for balusters. Can't come up with a simple work around yet. Any idea's would be appreciated. And this is the actual model...

I notice Ben Palmer comment about the check box for printing in color, and his lament concerning this as a new default in X7. I'm wondering if I'm alone in taking advantage of the lower cost to print in color, and if anyone else creates permit/construction documents in full color? I've been doing it ever since my print house brought a large scale color printer about 5 years ago. I know it is not AIA or CSI standards to print in color, but I don't really care. I like the way it makes the drawings easier to read rather than just depending upon line weights and grey scale screening. CA does such a fine job of rendering color, it just makes sense to create final documents in color too.

Thanks Ben, Looks like they are now aware of the transparency problem so hopefully it will be solved in an update or in the next release. As to the color check box, I'm going to open a new thread as you pose and interesting comment about printing in color.

Here is the answer from CA's tech support ticket people: John - When I follow your instructions, and add the transparency fill to the plan - and then send to layout, I can reproduce it every time. I will forward this issue to our Development Staff; hopefully they can get it fixed. In the interim, the 'Save as PDF' option will work. Like you, I have been using PDF995 for a long time, so it's critical that we make this and other PDF drivers work. Hopefully, we can get this fixed ASAP. Thank you- Nigelk

I'll do that. Other than that, I'd say my question was answered successfully! Thanks everyone for all your help.

Well I finally found the "SAVE as PDF" in the destination Print dialog box, right at the top. It was fast and worked great! I hate to ask how long that has been there! Anyway it worked great and the problem is gone! Thanks Doug for the explanation. Obviously it is a glitch in the 3rd party PDF printer driver software. SheetA7_SavePDF.pdf

I've got very little in the Layout layer dialog box, I've tried turning the few I had on, off, and turning off those that don't have the red + sign.

Well I tried upping the DPI to 1200 and the problem is just as evident for me. Since there is no internal PDF printer like the useful 3d party ones. How do I "save to PDF"?

I'll try the internal PDF printer provided by CA and see if it goes away. I'll post my results. It was on every page of the layout btw.

Drat, I've never looked to see if CA added a good internal pdf printer. I'll have to give that a try.

It is subtle, Like a 25% screen over a portion, if you zoom in 100% you'll see it.

That is my issue, I've not found anything in the template. It seems like there is something there but I cannot find it. It only appears on printing, not on the image on the computer before creating the PDF