MarkMc

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  1. I did a test, in library new material, name, color picker, first time using the color picker it does as you say , click ok and makes the color black. Then do it again and it works. Tested again a few times more. Same then one had to click ok, color picker a couple of times for it to work
  2. Supposedly how to get Win 11 to work with fewer issues Issue with AMD to be patched
  3. I couldn't find in bonus libraries but they do have in core Cabinets Doors Drawers & Panels, specialty storage. Thanks for posting yours. Not sure why I was unable to get legs to work yesterday but got it fine now. Fished out an old plan from my symbols plan folder for a MFG specific shelf not having finished migrating libraries to new machine (maybe by X14). This one is added as a shelf instead of a door. Cabinet to right has side panel inset below shelf which both keeps the shelf open below and allows for use of a symbol with profile if needed. Interestingly when first converting to side panel inset the shelf disappears, once I added openings on each side as part of cleaning up extra lines the shelf magically re-appears. vanity 2.plan
  4. Here a ladder shelf made from polyline solids converted to a cabinet door symbol. Read up about symbols, stretch planes, zone and origins. Then open the included symbol to start to get an idea. Sides are easy enough. make the front look the way you want each side and back to look. Then go around to each of those and first select match front, then change that to custom. When done go back to the front and finish it off the way it needs to be. IF you wanted full height legs with reveal as on the picture you would need to make a custom door symbol for the sides. See below I'm sure Eric's post will be helpful. Ladder Shelf cabinet.plan
  5. My last laptop was a Sager DTOP replacement (Clevo) which was upgradeable, no soldering. It had a 980M but the sockets were changed so could not upgrade even to 1000 series without hacking the board and the case. Bought new and gave to nephew.
  6. What Chopsaw said so, select all lines, change layer color, lines color by layer, lock layer, turn on color, trace snapping and changing to lines as you go. Helps to have a shortcut key to change line to arc. X13Flatwork traced.plan
  7. If you are using X13 you can use the object eyedropper on rooms now. Do one room on first floor, object eyedropper, click other rooms, then go to second floor. Pretty quick.
  8. That was my first thought but then saw this with casings. I just used default brick wall for bottom, you must have a different setting somewhere than I have? Never mind, just noticed you have a sill, I did not, guessing same for OP
  9. Guessing the issue is molding cutting the brick pony wall? No exterior casing, add custom symbol for Exterior Milwork, lock symbol height, width stretch plane 0, offset Z origin. If there are other heights you need another symbol.
  10. From the support after I told them changing the settings worked. "To make things simple you shouldn't change any of those setting for Chief. Once you do all bets are off on whether or not Chief will work correctly. The defaults from Nvidia will work just fine and there should be no need to change anything."
  11. I was having issues, per tech support things will run better with default settings in NV CP. So ... Restore NV Control panel to default settings, remove Chief from program settings. Put chief back into program settings, I only changed Open GL rendering to use the Nvidia card (but I doubt that matters with X13) Be sure Windows Graphic Settings has Chief set to High Performance. Solved my problems.
  12. Are you using X13? Dimension defaults got a complete overhaul. Are using the kitchen template or some other? If you open the dimension defauls further there will a list If on X13 you might look into the help about dimensions, might also go to the end of help to see what's new. .
  13. I use CAD to trace and regularly convert PDFs to dwg since you can snap to it. Unblock all blocks (match properties to select); place all on a single layer and get as many line as is ez to layer color, lock layer. Set wall default, generator resize about inner surface, set plan default snap distance to 1/2", then turn grid snaps off. Trace, if needed move wall so drywall is correct with arrow key which will move it 1/2", the snap setting. After walls place doors and windows dragging so they snap. Goes very quickly. I suppose that could be combined with cad to walls if layers are correct. I have not even attempted CAD to walls in years so can't say.
  14. If you that doesn't solve it for you then post more information please.
  15. DItto to Rene's suggestion and ANY other GPU overlay software. I was having random crashes with regularity but not sufficiently reproducible to send in. Then started getting one that I could reproduce and contacted support. Along the way they mentioned GPU overlay software, monitors AND control panel. I checked all of those I had though none were running as a rule except Control Panel. I reset Nvidia CP to default and have not had a crash since. I was also told by Kbird that there are issues with RIva Tuner (and I think Nahimic)
  16. #1-as long as it is in the user library-For this sort of thing I use a custom object information field Make a library folder for your defaults, share that with everyone. Use those for your template defaults. Update as needed. Note that using "replace from library, all objects works if someone makes a mistake as do special Style Palettes limited to the items(S) #2-no. You can however select a schedule, copy, and paste into a spreadsheet. I'd been doing this all the time with cabinets. If you want the pricing back in the plan you can copy from the spreadsheet and paste into a RT box or a text box
  17. Sorry misunderstood earlier. An alternative -Added two sided exterior partition wall, made pony wall at opening, adjust wall intersections, had to add a little parallel wall on left side. Don't know if it's easier since I hate wall intersections but attached anyway. Angle wall.plan
  18. Got my current issue solved with tech support. Short answer for me for now is set Nvidia Control Panel back to the default settings and have X13 profile use the same. (setting it to always use the discreet GPU is OK I tested that) Longer answer and some maybe useful tidbits and the end re reporting. They had me do some troubleshooting steps enable diagnostics changes in the render panel of preferences,so that they would get a more useful report, then to close reopen, and get a crash, click send in a report. At the same time he asked " One more thing. Do you have any 3rd party applications installed that modify the graphics settings on your machine. These would be things that for example display an overlay on screen showing stats about the card or overclock the card in some way. Have you changed any of the graphics settings using the Nvidia Control panel or GeForce Experience?" SO while I waited to hear back about the reports I tested those things. EVGA Precision X1 made no difference but I rarely have that running so did not expect it. UltraMon made no difference. BUT I reverted the Nvidia Control panel to the defaults, then deleted the X13 profile, the put X13 back into the profile but made no changes from the default. The immediate problem went away. Now I have not touched the NV CP in well over a month, maybe two, and some of the global settings I changed are being used by X12 so no idea what or why but happy. Having had this sort of issue pretty often, just not reproducible, since the fall, I can only hope it is gone completely, will see. Regarding that I asked what should be changed and I was told not to change ANY control panel settings. Now that flies in the face of what I've seen and done in the past (without issues of any kind) particularly when there is an intel card attached to the CPU, and on laptops. For now I've only changed that one setting in the X13 profile to always use the discreet GPU. In any case I made note of all the non default settings I had before and any discrepancy between x13 and x12 settings (few) If I ever get some free time I'll try to see if any settings help or hinder, one at a time, but only when I have some freedom to fiddle (yeah like that's soon) Important!! FWIW at one point I was told to make sure to click send in a report. Now I thought I had but made it crash and did as told. Then noted that I'd allowed multiple reports on this and similar issues be sent in over the last few months. Was told What I get from that is that just clicking send report is not much help to them. So in the future if I click send report I plan on immediately following up so that there is "enough information" or at least all I have.
  19. Roll back did not help. Checking other plans to see. I've been getting similar all along but this is the first time I can reproduce with some constancy. This is after a reboot.
  20. On quick way- psolid same size as tile, transform replicate to get a second one layered in front. Set back one to say 1/2" thick with emissive material, font one to 1/4" thick to match wall material. Convert to symbol, figure out spacing of tiles on wall. place new symbol over one on say the left side of the wall, check position, transoform replicate to place the rest multiple qty by spacing X and Z PDF with bloom on in camera
  21. Just managed to generate repeatedly with current update- Plan view open, perspective overview (standard view) with cross section slider, split screen on one monitor floor plan and perspective then a back clipped elevation from side of building . Switched back to plan. Then Full Camera of interior- boom. Going to roll back since I managed to do this 4 times in a row. Three crash/lock ups and one with the bonus of black backgrounds and the Full camera switched to sort of show the full overview on drugs. Sent this in.
  22. Might check out the end pages of this thread. These refer to prior to the update. I have not yet done enough with the update to know if there is a change but what you describe was happening prior to it. I'm currently trying to work out if DropBox has anything to do with it (some talk about Google and OneDrive there) For some time now I've had auto save set to 3 minutes. When I get it it is always with having both an elevation AND a 3D view, usually when both are visible either on separate monitors or a split screen (seems worse). When it first locks I have sometime been able to solve it by hitting Ctrl + W on the locked view, usually the perspective. It has not been reproducible but does happen often enough to be a problem.
  23. Plan defaults-works for both windows and doors, just slide them into adjacent wall once setting is checked.
  24. No but a very large number of semi custom makers will reduce heights at no charge. They will charge to reduce toe heights though. So unless you are using an really inexpensive stock only brand you there are choices.
  25. I've snapped them at the bottom, top, every different layer of the wall, copied and pasted, typed in lengths (I believe the ones in plan I posted were not same length?), added foundation and get this every time. Originally I hacked it with landings but at some point lost those due to terrain changes and just left it since they are getting torn out. Figured I'd fix it for final when I had all the terrain infor. I just got it to work by adding a landing at the top of the wall and that works even if I bury the landing in the wall. NOTHING else has worked, or show me? The first one I showed was drawn to a landing for testing but didn't work until I used Kbirds solution of giving the room a definition. So thanks I guess :)\