Electromen

Uh.... yeah, sure Vinnie that 286 rig will do the job....

...if the job you have in mind is a new door stop.    

 

That reminds me just last year I finally threw out an

old 386 machine that had IBM's OS/2 WARP installed.

Man, installing that OS was a trip. You had to feed 36

3 1/2" floppy discs in the proper sequence and pray to

God that none of them hung up during the process.

Actually the OS worked pretty well.... at least for playing

the installed version of Mahjong which was about as far 

as I got with it.

Reminds me of the days when I used Chief '97 and Windows 3.1 

The 3D worked back then, it always has.

Tuesday evening I started a high quality, kitchen Ray Trace.  I meant to stop it in about an hour.  I went to bed and the next morning I went skiing with family.  That evening I remembered about the Ray Trace and finally stopped it after 23 hours 8 min. and 238 passes.

I was surprised to find the file size was only 102K as a jpeg.  The quality of the photo is outstanding.  

Has anyone else let it go that long?

They should be banned from this forum.

You could always tell Chief that you are at the equator.

It could be the time of year and the sun angle.  Did you set up - Preferences > CAD > Sun Angle?

Shadows would be different now than in summer.

Hi there everyone!

 

I know it's Sunday but thing has me scratching my head.  Can someone let me know why half the exterior color on this project is Red (which is the correct), and half is black (not right).  I've dont the material eyedropper and just tried to paint it, but it won't change.  It's like the house has been divided diagonally the way it's off.......Help!

 

Attached is the plan and a pic.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Bob

Hi Bob,  I'm no expert but it looks to me that the sunlight is causing it.  Toggle the sunlight off & on and you'll see it all matches.  On the full camera view, right click away from the building the "Toggle Sunlight" should be an option.

Mac editions don't Driver update from NVidia, only Apple does that Hopefully they have an updated driver. They should, as that card has been out

for a while now.

OWC, Other World Computing, is where I bought it.  The sales rep told me that it's supported by the Apple OS updates.

You convinced me, I just ordered an EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition Graphics Card for my Mac Pro.

I upgrading from a Radeon HD 4870.  I should see about a 5X increase.

Thanks David and Joe, you saved me a huge amount of time.

I have an X6 plan for a Patio home.  Our next electrical job is the same Patio home with different kitchen cabinets.  Is there a way to make universal changes to all the cabinets?  The only way I know is to change each cabinet individually.   The finish and cabinet style is different.

Grandpap told me that only Chicken Coops and Outhouses have doors that swing out.

I guess we can add powder rooms and commercial buildings

We wire about 60 custom homes per year starting at $425,000.  

90% of the powder room doors swing out.

From an electrical standpoint, I would recommend installing a new 20 amp 12/2 dedicated circuit to the microwave.

By three wires, do you mean black, white, ground, or three cables.  Cables would be 12/2  wires.

The outlet is usually installed inside the cabinet above the microwave, not behind it.  

The microwave will come with a template to mount the back plate and a template for the cabinet to drill the holes.

It usually takes two people, one to hold the microwave and one to install install the screws from the cabinet down into the top of the appliance.

Well,  do you want to help me install a microwave over the stove in the rental?  I barely know how a screwdriver works and somehow I have to figure this out.  Been watching lots of youtube videos on the process.

 

 If I don't show up tomorrow morning it's probably because I forgot to turn off the circuit breaker..........  turn off circuit breaker.....   turn off circuit breaker.....   turn off circuit breaker......  turn off circuit breaker......  turn off circuit breaker,.....

If you're serious, 

Is there a microwave there now?

I remember it too,  is there a point you are trying to make?

None

Yep,  just tested again,  15 sheets printed,  3.5 mb pdf file size from pc,  70 mb file size from mac.  Mac file is 20 times larger,  tough to email a file of that size.

I remember discussing that in the old forum HERE

The only thing that hangs me up is the printing to PDF, must deactivate license on Mac so I can go to PC to print. Depending on the mood of my PC, that can be a 5 minute process or a 25 minute debacle. Did I say I hate my PC?

Printing to PDF on my Mac is very quick.  I just did a four page layout, including a floor overview, in less than two seconds. I wonder what the difference is.  Do you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat?

Im sorry, I think I used the wrong term. I am looking for the 3d models. (still a noob!)

 

Thanks

Bruce

I'm sorry, that is beyond my expertise.

Maybe you could edit an existing symbol

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00805/68/Chief-Architect/Symbols/Editing-2D-CAD-Blocks-Assigned-to-3D-Symbols.html

Some may know this, some may not.

On a Mac, clicking the red X closes the window but does not Quit the program.  The Program is still running.  Example: Safari > select Safari > Quit Safari will quit the program, clicking the red X only closes the window.

Command + Tab will show which Programs are open, Command +Tab again will cycle through the open Programs.

Command +Q will quit the Program.

To see the Memory being used; from the desktop > select Go > Utilities > Activity Monitor 

Select the Memory Tab. Take a look at the Toolbar under View, it gives some interesting options.

One thing I learned from a local Network Admin that deals with MACs everyday is that you need to reboot them more often than with Windows systems.

 

If you see odd font issues, menus that don't look right etc. these can also be indicators of system memory problems. It's a good idea to restart before they become serious problems.

 

If you do restart and it solves a problem try to note what applications you were running at the time. Since Chief demands a lot from your hardware and memory it can expose weakness on a system where other software does not. That's a generally true for both MAC and Window systems.

I've had a few crashes on my Mac Pro.  I've found that starting from a cold boot works best.  By cold boot, I mean turning the computer off and waiting ten seconds or more before starting again.  From what I've been told, turning it off clears the memory while a reboot does not always clear it.

I would also try running "Repair Disk Permission".

Apple Numbers is similar to Excel, Pages is similar to Word and Keynote is similar to PowerPoint.  In most cases the Apple software can open the Microsoft counterpart, so Numbers can open an Excel document.

I use Pages and Numbers for business.  I have them on my Mac and my iPhone.  Any document that I store on iCloud can be opened and edited on both a Mac and iPhone.  If you own a Mac, you get 5GB of free storage space on iCloud.  

To setup iCloud:

Go to the Apple icon in the upper left corner > System Preferences >  iCloud.  Setup is easy.

After that you can select the items that Sync on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.  I have everything checked except Keychain and Back to my Mac.

Now the cool part, if you add a Bookmark in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, it's now on your Mac and vice versa.  Make a Calendar change, it changes on all instantly.  The same is true with Mail accounts, Notes, Reminders, Photos and Documents.

Find my Mac will locate you wireless computer and IOS devices like iPad and iPhone.  It will show you there location on a map.

To see what's on iCloud, you can access it in https://www.icloud.com

You can add documents to iCloud simply by dragging them from Finder.

Here's another suggestion:

If you buy an Apple TV for $99, you can mirror your display to your TV wireless.  You can use the TV to show customers CA.  

The Apple TV is a small device that connects to your TV with HDMI.  It makes your TV "Smart" but it can also mirror your computer display wireless.

I like this idea.

 

This would also be a good place to discuss how certain hardware works. For example the new Mac Pros.

 

The Mac hardware I developed on consists of an older Mac Pro and a MacBook Air. Both systems handle Chief well although the MacBook Air is a bit weak to be used as a full time Chief machine.

 

We recently acquired a new low end Mac Pro. Our first use of it indicates that the performance doesn't really justify the cost. However, it seems to run Chief well. We have a higher end on on order that should be here soon. Perhaps it will provide better benchmarks.

 

From a compatibility standpoint these seem to get an A. From a return on investment standpoint I would give them and F.

 

 

 

I think the investment pays off in longevity of the hardware.  I have a 2009 Mac Pro dual quad core.  I added a solid state drive (SSD) and added some RAM.  This computer is still very fast and reliable.