MarkMc

You can prevent that easily by getting a copy of Winaero Tweaker (free or donate no nags). It will disable Win Update with a click. (no idea why it slows your internet or takes hours mine does neither when I allow it to update). In any case with the tweaker you to decide when it updates. otherwise.....politics, religion and OS-not at the bar..

Odd, I recently used reference plan to speed up a project. Lot of furniture symbols was slogging it down so transferred those I could. Furniture plan was 27.5 mb, plan with everything in it 40.4MB, but the stripped down plan including reference was 15.8 MB. Wonder what the difference is? I might try using edit area on the reference plan, copy and paste into a new plan to see what happens-just a thought.

I used a layout linked to 5 plans. Moved on to another drive-could not link. Put it back and was fine. Moved to adjacent folder-could not link, put it back and fine. Along the way I tried closing and re-opening, same NG.

I tested a layout with multiple files linked and can reproduce the problem when any plan file is not in the same folder as the layout.

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-convert-an-stp-to-a-dwg

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No issues here. You're on a laptop? did you set X12 to use the NVIDIA card in the NVIDIA control center? and then set most things to performance?

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Painting walls to a color and having them always wrap without fail. Place a psolid on the floor, select a library color, use adjust material. When that opens select the color, add to custom colors, close. To change ALL the walls in a building - select any wall with adjust materials, when it opens it should be "drywall" select the custom color you added. You can do this without the first step and just select a color from the color picker. I usually need a specified BM color so use the first method. For a single wall or walls in a single room you can copy wall type and copy drywall material then apply the new material to the wall type..

For bookmarks, internal links to page in a PDF I use Bluebeam PDF Revu. Once the pdf is opened in BB you can set bookmarks be page region. I select the page number area, add a dash, then add the page label region, click OK (or make bookmarks?). That makes bookmark to each page listed with the pg number and title. Makes iPad users happy. I'd expect other pdf programs have that ability.

No, custom.

what Dermot Said- this is just cabinets, few minutes using wainscot panel I had, few more to make a new one with a template plan I use. Open cabinet DBX and check all faces, and accessory panel molding tab.

Down and dirty-export PBR view, then change rendering technique to line drawing, adjust all but line weight to 0, export with transparent image checked save as PNG. Layout import pretty picture, then import line drawing. All works best at higher DPI and edge smoothing on-rough idea here at low DPI (didn't already have any similar in wood so quickie)

You deleted the 0 layer correct? Then I'd try rebuild walls floor and ceiling, and rebuild 3D. IF that didn't work go to archives and fetch a file done prior to making a mess. Then follow the directions I posted first-right click a wall that is the correct color on both sides and select "SET AS DEFAULT" then new walls will match it.

Depends on which schedule, best asked in Q &A with specific

Get rid of 0 wall layer. Paint wall, lot of options there, then set as default.

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Not really, when you tab what you get is the CAD block which is why you can't change the label once inserted.

You cannot tab into a sink once it's inserted into a cabinet. It will show up in the fixture schedule. If you want to change the name you must do that to the sink once copied to the user library. The option of floating the sink in plan and then moving it works and gives more control. (it's also the only way to get two sinks into a vanity)

Yes regular cabinet BUT if adjacent to cabinets with doors you need a "zero filler" or whatever the maker calls it (if they offer one). OR a filler to create a larger gap. Just placed on an angle reveals as narrow as shown the doors won't work. Check with supplier

I'm planning a new build this year and asked at the show about video cards, specifically if anything changed or would change regarding the Radeon Pro cards. Answer I got was get a card that supports real time raytrace. Since they have no idea of what the supposed upcoming RT on AMD is an RTX card was suggested, especially for rendering.

it can be done in X12

Nowadays I use 3/4" which is easy in CA, more than that gets tricky and exactly what it looks like depends on framed or frameless (and if frameless check with the maker to make sure you get what you want) Plan attached.

It sounds as if you took a 3D view sent to layout as update on demand, then moved the camera sent to layout update on demand,...etc. So you only used one camera. Chief will update those views when printing. Since you used only one camera they will all look the same. IF that is the case then either send to layout using current screen as image OR export the view and then import it. The latter is used if you need better DPI than you get just using the send as image. IF that is not the case the best way to get an answer is to backup entire project from the layout, send to zip and post it. Note that the file must be under 25MB once zipped so if large plan you will need to trim the plan of non essentials.

When you say "change something" ; are you adding, removing, moving, or altering objects in the kitchen plan? and you expect that to not happen to those objects in another view? Just guessing here.