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Yeah, someone else does it for you :) Plan attached with stages and one final to convert to a symbol- or get the one that is in the wall and add to library garage door.plan

Great, we have a Ryzen 7 -3.7-4.3 GHz (Ridge Runner) and a 9900k 3.6-5 GHz (parkwest) both with 2080 Ti to compare. Different RAM and possibly SSDs but that shouldn't matter with the tests so far. Leaves me wondering what AMDs 3000 series will do when it comes.

There are freeware programs such as PDF split and merge, PDFtools-etc. You have to search for them. I used to have a half dozen different free programs to allow me to do most of what I needed to get done with PDFs. Eventually got Adobe included when I was taking some classes and got a copy of Framemaker. At some point I needed an update, tried a few, bought Foxit Phantom. Eventually I found Bluebeam. Back then it was $150, think my second license was $250 and I upgraded the first license a few years later (not since). It's now $350. My take is that I work with a lot of PDF files for a lot of things so the ROI is darn good, a lot better than mucking around with free programs. I made these quickly this morning in Bluebeam (PDF-XChange does most of the same and is cheaper but the license is not perpetual). Page began as a PDF print of a blank Chief layout page set as a template in BB. Opened that with two of your PDFs, tiled, took "snapshots" in the program (G key, drag), pasted, scaled a few by percentage, then I also made a quick sequencing stamp for page numbers (likely need a few but just save them). I do something like this often; for what it sounds like you need I'd do this extensively. Note that the snapshots are all highlighted. That means the document is not flattened so allowing any or all to be moved, copied or deleted. I think the process would be-flatten, keep a copy of all pages made, likely in a single file with bookmarks (really easy). Then if changes to placement need to be made on a page OR items deleted OR you just want to place snapshots on pages of a Chief PDF then-open go to page, un-flatten make changes. Re: bookmarks. Individual bookmarks are a pretty common feature in real PDF editors. I make bookmarks for every Chief PDF layout now first selecting the area of the page number, then selecting the page title. Bluebeam will then make bookmarks for every page showing the number and title. If setting up a system as described I'd allow page numbers to show and add a text box (select "apply to every page") to name the sheets. Using that to create the bookmarks takes a minute or two. IF document is changed delete them all and redo.

Uncheck use default Reference manual pg 909, got to via index F, floor defaults, then link to molding defaults.

Not concerned, just a fact to consider. Absolutely impossible that the monitoring is writing 800,000 kbs for 10-20 seconds. Writing to the Undo file OTOH makes sense, since it's system usage.

No I have not changed settings. Thing is that Chief doesn't show a spike but system goes up first at 125,000 per second, as much as 800,000 per second. I have next to nothing running in the background ever. In this case was Resource monitor and HWmontior. Nothing using net, nothing else could write to disc. For the BBQ I only tried once, think I got 36 seconds and disk kicked up. Similar results for CPU/GPU as before except temp went up this time on the CPU- rarely see it that high.

Here's mine. For each action I reset HWmonitor then took a screen shot after so the table represents that action ONLY. I had resource monitor open, and later when back and redid them with just the disk showing so I could pay more attention. Interesting that Chief did not always show up at all in that, also interesting was that with nothing but the resource monitor open system disk usage spiked quite a it while Chief,when it did show up, did not equal the spikes in system disk usage. Also I don't trust Chiefs built in timer which may skew the results you are getting. In some cases it was just too fast to read before it went away. In most others it simply did not come close to matching real world results on a stop watch, I mean silly off. Open Camera-17 sec first time, repeats were 9 Zoom-instant Drag up-21 heavy disk undo 12 build roof-36 Heavy disk zoom out -instant All operations that took significant time hit the CPU -all cores at or near 100%, all clocks at max turbo. GPU-never fully used. Had fans on full to make sure there was no throttle, though I almost never get any.

Got it to open in a browser and converted it. Those plans were done in ProKitchen software. That can do 3D renderings, why would you need something different?

File won't open. Could be that you had it open when you posted it, I know that Chief files are that way

What Chopsaw notes controls the individual dimension defaults. Added to that - the current active dimension default controls which default the temp dimensions uses. Example here- only thing that was changed was the active dimension default, no change made to the temporary dimensions default. Pretty handy.

Couldn't get DavidJames thing to work with image I tried but found this in the reference manual which answers your original questions. "Using Paste Image You can also import an image by first copying it to the system clipboard, then navigating to a Chief Architect window and selecting Edit> Paste> Paste from the menu, or by using the Screen Capture tools. See “Paste Special” on page 185 and “Creating Screen Captures” on page 1174. so this was screen capture copy and paste special into layout.

Gonna have to go a bit around for that I think. Psolid in elevation using Standard View , sized as needed, apply your image. Control layers as needed, send to layout- scale.

AFAIK the new image wants a file path in which case simpler if you save the image first instead of just paste it at least to get it into the library. Unless you others know how to full the DBX when pasting.

Technique options-for PBR adjust exposure and/or brightness; for standard render adjust ambient.

Edit camera- turn off bloom. Do the same for camera defaults.

Some pdfs are better than others. Convert to png as Chop suggests. Download a trial of Bluebeam PDF revu and try "reduce file size". Often that helps. It will also convert all pages to png with one click while you're at it. (last I knew it didn't watermark) Sometimes I insert the PDF in BB instead, either printing dummy blank pages from Chief (easiest) or having a page template in BB (fast but requires set up). There are pdf to dwg converters but that also depends on -the PDF, needs, how much text. The one I use (Print2CAD) does OCR but that can get tedious to configure and get right.

There were two main issues.There were some lines or other items, not visible in anything, that stretched out miles, maybe to infinity. The other issue was that things were on multiple work planes and at least a few objects crossed several Z axis so it was sort of a 3D CAD though it would come into Chief. Tried it in both Draftsight and nanoCAD, one could open it the other nogo. When I opened it in TurboCAD at some point got a warning about selecting a 3D object in 2d but didn't get it. Later I opened it and rotated to discover the extra work planes. So then placed all on one work plane, then brought it into Chief. I was unable to find and remove the infinity line so after bringing it into CA resized by 0.125. Isolated what was needed, copied, pasted, resized. IF I had not opened it in TCAD don't know if it would have worked regardless since I believe the "infinity" line (s) were on a work plane that couldn't be accessed, but I'm guessing there. That works well. There are quite a few blocks in this. If I were doing this completely I'd have cleaned it up in TCAD (Deluxe only) which will list all blocks with images of each and allows delete or explode from the list. I usually do layer clean up in CAD too, which one depends on the file and what I'm best at with which program. (sometimes wish I still had a usable copy of Intellicad

emailed you a fresh one with all layers imported instead of to single layer.

Worked it out I think. Double check the scale. Flattened it all, imported, then resized, copied the part ou need, and resized again. I may have missed size?? but appears ok. Back to home improvement now :) site plan.plan

Give them a call and tell them where you're at, which sounds like a mixed bag. Might consider one on one instead which Chief also offers or you could sort through forum users. They DO btw have at least one trainer who is/was a builder and produces plans for others. From what I can tell he's been around since day 1.

Scott they go on the right- the plan included two cabinets- one the way it starts with doors still on the front and one finished properly in the corner. I often intend for folks to open things and check DBX to see what is going on for themselves.

I took online training in the beginning, twice and had everyone who worked for me take one. None of those were the intermediate. I still get to live demos whenever I can, and helped a little for a day twice. Last year I went to the academy and was torn between going to the intermediate or the advanced since there are things in both that would help (settled on advanced) Even thought about going back this year but looks like I'm computer shopping int he fall so another time. I always get something out of them. I'd expect the online course plan is very similar to the live one-thorough and methodical. They do start with some basics which can appear boring or basic. That is because so many people have don't have some of the basics down and they are the foundation. I have one client who took the class and pretty much ignored the beginning and then complained she didn't get enough out of it- hence they still don't get the basics. I think they do a good job and it doesn't matter who is doing the training IMO. Not much if any in the way of work arounds is covered which is just fine-you have to know the rules before you break em. Is it worth it? I'm a fan of the in house training. How long have you been at it? ever had any formal training? what do you hope to get out of it? Since you are asking at all it might be worthwhile. Just don't expect miracles and pay close attention to what you think you already know.

To what is shown in video you need an a corner cabinet with diagonal front. That won't work for what you want though. You need to start with an angle front cabinet-attached. Angle cabinet.plan

Customize toolbars.

Just checked- no need to go to X10. You can add it in 11