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Not sure why you want a hole? The electricians I deal with want centers. Can make a light symbol that has depth, fits into the ceiling and works. Quickie attached. IF for some reason you need to show the holes instead you could use a detail from view and paste it in place. Just make the CAD block for the symbol the size of the hole instead of the size of the fixture. Can light.calibz

Copy the material and change the angle of it.

notebookreview is for forums by brand and model, notebookcheck is for reviews with comparisons. 2070 super or Max Q-a 2080 Max Q will perform about the same as a 2070 Super but- less power so less heat but they tend to be thinner machines with a little less cooling ability. Max Q costs more most of the time. i7-is fine IMO -9 likely better? but not sure worth the cost. No 11th gens and no RTX 3000s till next year sometime. May or may not be worth the wait but really looking at 4-6 months for that to shake out. M2-make and model makes a difference. Keyboard-depends on brand, my 15" has all the same keys as my older 17 just a tad smaller keys. I use extra monitors and keyboard at desk but like to have full keyboard on the road. For steady full time use and long term life of a laptop upgrade thermal paste, consider pads. Get it re-pasted after a year or so sort of like getting oil changes. I don't do it myself, local guy cleans and pastes for $60-80 but Note that I get machines that can be easily opened and serviced.

Good luck with it-I liked HID too. Since you got the Max_Q I'd love to compare performance and thermals sometime in Februrary or March after the release of X13 and you've had it up and running for a while. If that's ok I'll PM you then?

Yeah can be a challenge. I see you read the other thread which should give you some idea overall. One thing between brands is what they don't tell you-what brand drive, RAM, screen brand, except for Asus and MSI it can be a challenge to find out what the MOBO is. A good place to get some comparison of machines is www.notebookcheck.net. You can also wade through info on specific models by brand at www.notebookreview.com forums. Now most of the folks posting over there are gamers so a lot does not apply or sounds like a foreign language. I just look for issues, in particular thermal performance or general problems like screens. Good places to shop and talk to sales (in the states at least) are HIDevolution, XoticPC and a few others that carry multiple brands AND does service themselves. I've bought from both of those and been happy. Unfortunately they will not know much about if anything about Chief. It helps if you have some idea what your needs are in CA and see where that gets you. There is also how you use the machine? I need it to do everything and anything all day every day. I also want a machine that will perform for 4-5 yrs which affects my thinking on budget. (My 9-1/2 yr old Sager/Clevo is still running the office)

Wall defaults, room divider, wall type, set thickness to 0.01 It will still read as "0" Correction Alaskan_son says NOT to set in default but make a new wall ype see here

That's known as Z fighting. It occurs as the camera gets far from an object. Fastest possible solution is go into your plan materials, select OSB, change from Matte to General Material, set transparency to 100% and everything else to 0. Might want to save as first if you also have a building in there besides those made as symbols. Before After

I'll bite since I went through researching all of this not long ago. The one in my signature runs Chief well with the two extra monitors. Got it end of August to replace my main machine a Sager 17" with 6700k/ GTX m980 w 8GB and a Spectre X360 13 used for field measures. Several brands offer the equivalent starting at around $1500 a tad more for 17's but end up higher if you customize. Should be easy enough to stay at your budget. Thermals are better, quieter, lighter, and snappier than the Sager. Typical of gaming laptops running Chief in performance mode battery life is not super, though better than the Sager. This one runs better in balanced than either of the others though which helps some with field measures. The power brick is 1/3 the wt of the old one and this machine is 2 lbs lighter than the Sager but heavier than the Spectre of course. CPU- I only looked at i7's, didn't considered i9s due to -cost, machine weight and thermals. Didn't consider desktop CPU this time for same reasons. GPU- I only considered RTX cards knowing they would be an advantage with X13. I briefly considered machines with RTX 2080 Max Q. Saves about a pound, costs an extra $500 but from what I read around thermals are not as good and performance of that card is about equivalent to the 2070 Super (depending on brand is a lower voltage desktop version and the sweet spot). Thought about waiting for RTX 3000 in laptops but those are likely not here until 2nd quarter 2021, too far out for where I was at. I only buy from places that will A) customize, B) test and burn-in the machine before shipping. Upgrades I got in order of importance: Thermals-pads and the best paste they offer The fastest NVMe available for the C drive-minimum 500GB as they slow down as they fill. 16GB ram minimum-stick with that for the budget. I only thought I might try a Ram Drive for undo so ended up with 32GB premium ram The rest were nice to have but based on budget ( I hit $2500) upgraded storage drive low back light bleed ( i run a black desktop) and calibrated monitor. I eventually got an extra OEM battery from a battery dealer at half the price of what the laptop dealer wanted. Have to turn the machine off and take out two screws to change but handy. I went to 15" for the sake of portability field measures, 1-1/2" narrower than the 17 only about $100 extra , and I bring a Asus DisplayLink monitor along for meetings or hook up to something at location. I use 2 extra monitors and a separate keyboard so the laptop sits on left at 45 to main screen and I just use it for email program, temporary holding, and hardware monitor.

Open the cabinet DBX and chack the back tab. The L shaped door symbol is used as a side panel inset. That symbol has the origin set so it goes into the cabinet and the depth plane set outside the bounding boz so it doesn't resize. The left side is split vertically with a 12" opening toward the back. Cabinet has no toe kick and is raised off floor. A polyline solid is the toe kick and another is floated in as aa shelf. As mentioned a complete cabinet could be made using additional custom door symbols. That's what I normally do since I've already made the parts though often I leave the toe kick if it is not exposed. Making a complete cabinet is more work. Getting shelf symbols correct can be a PIA for me anyway, only bother if I need them. Variations can be made for pipe chases in the middle of a cabinet vertical or horizontal. I'll dig up. A few and post in a little while

A simpler method is two cabinets with openings facing each other, which has the advantage of being a bit easier to adjust depths I often think in terms of the first one since I already have a full library of parts to do things like that and just not crazy about arch blocks. Depends on what you need at the time

Plan will give you an idea how to do it. This is about the easiest way, can block the parts which I left as other finishes. Included the cabinet door symbol that makes the pipe chase-open symbol and look at origins and stretch planes. Read up on those if need be.... The hard way entails making cabinet door symbols for shelves, sides with toe kick notch, toe kick front pipe chase.plan

Guess some changes will be shown this Thursday. wall framing

Have you tried either Foxit or Xodo. Have had some Mac clients use Xodo , I use Foxit which also has an iThingy, I like it better than xodo

I too keep a copy of the ref manual on my phone. A search for "pointer icons" locates the chart, each icon has a link to specific info.

Were in the demo.

Work avoidance, lining up everything in a cobbled together over the course of 100 years as built, sides sometimes can't help myself. What I know is limited. Larry among others has one though.

1) Learn to use temp dimensions 2) use the correct template and dim defaults-OOB Kitchen template with NKBA defaults 3) The kitchen and bath industry is broad, room for lots of approaches. Kind of what makes the world go round. My experience differs. When I was laid off in 2010 and went out on my own every dealer was falling over themselves getting in Chinese cabinets. I got two hi-end brands and built a business during the recession around repeat clients-builders, architects, interior designers who came to me because of the level of drawings supplied using Chief. I only ever produced better renderings toward the end of a job, long after it was a done deal and I had a retainer. (Note that I've owned Thea for over a decade, tried all of the freebies out there-I just don't need them for the clients I have) FWIW the majority of dealers I met who carried the same (most expensive) brand I carried use nothing but 2D ACAD. That brand requires full, well done floor plans and CAD drawings of any custom cabinet config, does not support 2020 or any other specific software. Chief made that easy for me. Prior to using CA I used 2020 combined with Envisioneer, TurboCad and Bluebeam PDF Revu. Chief replaced all of that and is faster and easier. Obviously your approach works for you and you're passionate about it but maybe tone it down a bit. Down votes? wasn't me, thought about it but I've never down voted a single person, won't start now. It appears you like the button though, at least there appear to be more of those than usual.

My main interest in the Ryzens was/is having PCIE4 and cores, a minimum of 8. So yes 3800X or 3900X/XT. PCIE 4 doesn't yet make as much difference, there are drives that can use it and the 3000 Nvidia and new Navi cards also support it. Intel is bringing PCIE4 to it's CPUs in the first quarter of 2021. I really don't have any first hand experience and was going to stay out of this-thanks Mick Here's more than you asked for. First off, if it were me. I would first think about just changing the SSD since performance suffers as they get full. IF the MOBO accepts an M.2 I'd get a really good one (look at the 4k numbers not the big numbers) likely PCIE4 and then use it in a new system for the C drive. If not then I'd look at a bigger and at least better, likely used SSD to be used as data storage in the new system. That would buy time to sort out what to get, see exactly what X13 brings, learn if Intel's new CPUs are a better bet and likely give some sort of a performance boost in the interim. This link shows the CPU you are looking only shows an 8% improvement over what you currently have. The GPU has a 22% boost and does RTRT. I'd consider it minimum myself. Link here. While benchmarks are a bit of voodoo, more useful for gamers and marketing they do offer at least a relative idea. BUT those numbers are an aggregate, in Chief your performance gain can be more or less. Without knowing a lot about all of the various parts of the benchmarks it can still be difficult to tell. I jsut whent from a 6700k to a i7-10875H , supposedly a 2% increase. The apparent difference in Chief is better than that, the utilization numbers indicate so mostly due to the much larger increase, 88% in 64-core speed and the extra cores. FWIW I asked CA at IBS about multi-threading and performance and was told that they where doing work on it-no idea how that pans out but the improved performance they showed in the preview for rendering Watercolor w/lines is most welcome. What resources does CA use? Every now and then I check this. Two screen shots from 'CPUID HWMonitor' showing utilization of system in my signature with a moderate, 20mb, house plan. Drive and RAM don't show a lot and not included with this software. (the only reason I have so much RAM is was a small increase and in case I ever get around to trying a RAM drive-we'll see if that happens) first is open exterior elevation from layout (plan and layout already open) note how little the GPU is used with layout, one plan view and the elevation open reset minimum to 0 then opened half a dozen tabs-few interior elevations, plan view and likely one camera (don't remember) Then GPU intensive-same plan open a PBR- my previous system (6700k, GTX980m w/8GB vram) would have pegged both CPU on some cores and GPU at 100% albeit briefly. I tested PBR on one of the worst plans that I have for that- 40mb hospital cafeteria,150 custom symbols and over a dozen textures, plenty of lights. Originally I ended up splitting the plan and used reference sets for both 2d and 3D, furniture on one and the building on another, so I could work. I tested the complete plan not the split ones, it pegged the everything, all cores and the GPU at 100%. I mention it because the other thing I noticed was it use 100% of GPU memory when active or moving around the PBR and the GPU memory never went below 90%. So if doing a lot of PBR work the video memory matters. What a new system needs to be only you can decide that. As Joey said he manages to stay under $1k and has been doing this successfully for a long time. If you check signatures on the forum you will see people using a a very wide range. Noticed one recently that is about 10 yrs old. I normally aim for a 5 year life span (my new system is an exception; intended to build a desktop but gave daughter my field measure laptop and wanted an RTX card NOW :) I figure 1)a target budget-what I'd like, 2) a maximum I'm willing to spend-what I can get my hands on, and 3)what I can get away with and the CFO (wife) will allow. Usually end up in the middle somewhere. Then deduct a 25% tax write off and divide by 5 for annual cost, then 50 for weekly overhead. Joey's system comes down to $150/yr or about $3 per week. I've taken to getting BTO, built to order, machines at around $2500 (give or take 25% depending on budgets 2 and 3). $2500 less 25% tax deduction comes out to $375/yr; $31/month (when I had a showroom rent was $1200/mo) or about $7.50 per week . ROI based on hourly rates: at $75/hr the new system would need to save me 5 hours a year at $100 only 4 hrs a year. I always consider the entire system since I have found that better parts matter to performance, but do lean heavily toward the CPU for Chief. It does appear that X13 will make better use of GPU and the 3000 series appears to be a big boost there. (but with Navi an unknown in Chief and there may be price pressure on whatever RTX 2000 series are still around?) Since I started with BTO laptops I also look at the extras-thermal protection, screen calibration, system burn-in and testing, no bloat ware, never bother with extra warranty any more though...All in all a PIA but that's who I am; just happy that I only have to deal with it every 5 years. As I said more than you asked for...but trust me on the sunscreen

The video indicated that there would be more consistency of materials (and I think they also said lighting?, have to go back and see) between render techniques. At the user group meeting prior to X12 they previewed a new PBR that looked great, though I did not get to play with it. That did not make it into the release. I asked about it at IBS and was told it was dropped from because Apple decided to drop OpenGLand they were redoing the engine. I'm hoping what we get is at least as good as what I saw back then.

For anyone who does not understand how to use the cabinets (which are Here for stand alone ones shown in the following) Here is a typical sequence for configuring the cabinets. Basically you need to select "layout" either vertical or horizontal. IF you use Layouts to split or resize you never have to mess with the beads (which are side panel inset) NOTE one thing you do not want to do is reflect the cabinet. IF you do the beads will be wrong. IF your cabinet supplier prefers that you order individual cabinets and specify them as combined then you will want to use the cabinet at this link These are rarely split, rather placed individually, sized and forced to overlap. This allows a combined cabinet to show up in the schedule as it's individual cabinets instead of one big cabinet. One of these days I may get around to showing setting up a brand catalog using Style Palettes but that's been in my tod list since they came out so don't hold your breadth. I noticed the other day that Renerabbit has a videos that might give you the general idea of using palettes for individual items. (cabinets, windows and doors, panels as RR uses them)

What I created does everything I need quickly and easily. With a template and style palettes I can create a beaded inset kitchen, using any door style, including combined cabinets, with a complete schedule transferred to an order, faster (fewer clicks) than any of the programs you mention. So I don't need Chief to do more with this, I'd rather they work on other things. I don't think you understand how to use what I posted but it sounds like you've found other options that are a better fit, good luck.

I kind of doubt it. How about 2020, Autokitchen, Prokitchen ???, Not that I'm aware of,..not even with a hack ( easy with the uploaded cabinets.) Maybe Cabinetvision, dont know.

Needed these as entire job is surface mount-single switch, 2 gang switch, duplex (2 of em) and quad) Surface Mount Electric.calibz