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What it uses depends on default settings. In each of the attached the first wall was drawn at 120". The perpendicular wall added by pulling the diamond on the end. Each pair represents a different setting in wall defaults, general, resize about. First two are about inner and outer surface-notice that the dimension is different depending on which direction you make the new wall. The third is as you note, about center in which case both dimensions are the same BUT neither is 120 due to resizing about wall center. Wondering-are you trying to draw a section of wall and then just add another section to the end in the same direction? The biggest problem I've had with folks I've trained has been working interiors and leaving the temp dimensions set to the default but using dimensions that are to surface. The other issue is paying attention when resizing a wall to the little arrows and which way it resizes. I guess Tommy will get you through but as I indicated it would still be a good idea to read up on some of this. Like Graham I often draw rough and finish out dimensions later. But nowadays I'm most often starting with an accurate overall length, then adding interior walls and locating those as I go. Doing this all the more since I started measuring with a laser directly into Chief. I recently throught together a spreadsheet to add chained dimensions up from hand drawn sheets clients send me. Attached in zip file-was made in Libre Office, converted a version to excel and I thinkthe formulas are simple enough to work there too but I didn't check that. Dimension worksheet.zip

Check dimension defaults, locate. Be sure to also look at walls, size about. Can't quite tell from your description why things are changing on you but it sounds like a good idea to read up on those or watch a video as that's not a typical problem.

On an iPad you'd be using the room planner app. There's section of the forum specific to that where you can find info. I just started using a Disto X3, but that is directly into Chief on my Spectre 2in1.

Is mouse orbit camera selected? If not well... If yes check mouse battery, then driver, otherwise don't know

Or into the shelf dialog as rollouts.

Typically those are installed fresh but x10 has the ability to migrate them as an option during install. Perhaps that was accidentally left on and since there was nothing to migrate that's what you got? Guessing but I'd uninstall reinstall and make sure it wasn't set to migrate.

I had a trial of PDF2CAD that I really liked. Had it for the longest time and didn't expire, when it suddenly did I was a bit short and not in great need so didn't replace it. So I've been checking some out recently as the need arose again. Cheapest one I found that I like is a plugin for Draftsight, it works with the free version of Draftsight. I use TurboCad but gettng used to Draftsight so may go that way https://www.graebert.com/pdfimport/ THe most full featured one I ran across but as expensive as Print2CAD. I tested this briefly over the summer and again recently on a different machine when they were running a sale. I passed but if you get a lot of PDFs and many with problems or have raster images in them it's worth a look. Just noticed it is still on sale.

DO you have a lot of point lights on?

A little more not a lot. OTOH opened 4 views each a separate room from Grandview-set all to PBR, 50 lights, improve lighting, raytrace shadows, reflections, ray cast shadows. GPU pegs at 100 for a second or two, video engine is 0, and max on bus interface is 15 BUT video memory hits 85% with 4 open, added in one standard view and it's at 95% and that doesn't drop even after the GPU goes to rest. .Those are on a 2560 display, would guess 4K needs more. -no lag navigating the views. There's a thread back last year when PBR came out where a lot of folks ran tests (I think it was in Q & A?) Everyone's GPU pegged to 100% during initial loading as far as I remember. (most CPUs cranked up a bit at first too) Those were all static, no one dealt with walk throughs (I don't use em)

I'd asked at the Academy in August if they knew if Chief would or could be optimized for the new RT aspect of the cards. At that time they had just gotten back from the launch and had no information. I intend to wait to hear. Talk on gaming forums is often either "wait and see" or "not worth it but will bring 10 series prices down". Now gaming is not Chief so there are challenges in distinguishing value there. I'm also keeping an eye on the AMD 7nm cards. I'd been hoping to get a new machine in 2019 but for the moment don't see it worth the cost. FWIW I think your Strix has 4GB Vram, yes? I manage to behave pretty badly with my 980m which has fewer cores but 8GB-might be worth keeping in mind?

While Rich's answer will solve some things there is a lot ot getting decent interiors. Search the forum for goodies- there is a huge thread that goes back a ways with tons of information on renderings.You find two threads with the search- oldest one is more about ray trace, newer one PBR goodies is about PBR and has some issues folks ran into with RT once PBR was offered. Note that the many (most) have switched to PBR.

Select the room, edit toolbar, make room molding polyline. Then right click to select that edge of pline and "no molding on selected edge"

A drawing to use to get a quote is not the same thing as a shop drawing. The drawing if presented to a client and the quote when returned always indicate something to the effect "final dimensions and pricing to be determined after template on job site" A decent drawing gets a more accurate quote- makes for happier client.

I'm with Tommy and Graham too. Had been doing so many baths and gotten really tired of fighting to get the side wall to extend a few inches past the glass and meet the curb I made some symbols for showers. Exploded solids to faces so I could have different materials on each- few partition walls, half wall, glass wall, glass wall with notch so I don't end up with extra lines on drawings for glass bids. Took a couple of hours and has saved a good bit more.

An alternative solution- made completely from cabinets which gives control over all modlings, and faces. You still need to make a custom counter top to get the middle section and can run into some issues when resizing the corners. Also once blocked clips show up on the back of the cabinet but go away once unblocked. There are always several ways to get there in Chief-just a matter of which your are most comfortable with. as cabinets.plan

Several ways to get what you want but not with auto fillers. (I've not used auto in years; don't show in schedule among other things) You can alter one of symbols in the link- increase and lock depth, may need to change origin. For what you are after I place a filler, leave it checked as a filler, change front to door panel/slab. Place in library. Often noted as filler overlay. To get both fillers and overlays properly into schedule I have blocks in library made of a filler 3/4" deep, door panel set on the face, and a psolid no material, very thin to force all to correct depth from wall. After placing fillers in plan go around room and use replace from library.

I"ve also seen that in this class MSI have good heat dissipation. Note that similar prices on these can be had at HIDevolution with the added benefit of more extensive customization-change RAM, SSD, thermal options and more models. (FWIW they still list Back Friday deals that were to expire yesterday-and sing up to the forums at notebook review they offer a discount for the forum last I knew-though that could have been on the EVoc series only?)

Did you save the section view camera?

Paste into a new plan and convert to symbol- save the plan for editing in the future- won't show in material list or framing schedule but can cheat having both in plan- I see Eric had the same idea.

attached- interior doors- moved up 1/16", exterior doors- no solution-add stair or landing which hides it. Mulled doors.plan

Depends on -is it primary machine for all day use= as much power as you can afford. (3yr old Sager listed in signature-desktop proecessor- new would be 9700k with a 1080 and as much else as I could afford) Secondary for client visits = lighter, little less power and heat dissipation good enough for 2 hrs of moderate use-(8750H with a 1060) I usually take the Sager but have used the Spectre if work is light weight but rely more on ready done drawings/pdf/images with that. Secondary for site work only = light and portable suitable for just roughing in plans ( I use the Spectre for this often running X9) Doing lots of renderings? ray trace = more processor, or PBR = more video card or just standard views? In most cases the first thing I try to find out is how well a machine handles heat, the better ti does the longer it can be used without throttling. I'm also a fan of SSDs but prefer to have checked and see no advantage of having really big ones for storage but have found that having two smaller ones in Raid 0 appears to speed up undo (but that is only available in upper end machines) I've gotten fond of a couple of dealers that specialize in gaming machines- the current Sager was from Xoticpc, my next one will come from Hidevolution. Both have people you can talk with though neither knows much about Chief. Being on my second Sager and third laptop using Chief I have a bit of a base line to talk with them about. I also research machines on NotebookReview.com. forums. Lot of gamers so some information is not relevant, but a little digging finds heat issues and oddities not in typical reviews.

I deal with this in a variety of ways. Most often I'm converting the pdf to dwg if at all possible-easier to scale and lower impact on performance. Sometimes I convert pdf to PNG so I can use the maintain aspect ratio-again lower impact on performance than a pdf. The last option is to measure a known distance in the pdf prior to import which give me a ratio to work with. I do this in Bluebeam but think there are other programs that can do that? And yes having aspect ration available for PDFs would be nice

Guessing that you might mean extended stiles? Cabinet hacks-clips, stiles, sides and interiors

What I don't understand is having a filler on a drawer? On a door do you mean a center batten?

To make it work auto as you have you need to turn off automatic fillers. Honest I'd be doing it some other way. What depends on how you want to deal with schedules and how you want them shown in plan. Attached zip file has your plan with autofillers turned off-gables show up immediately. Thing is that gets awfully fussy -I personally never use auto filler (I don't use much auto anything on cabinets to tell the truth-but I'm a bit of a PIA). Attached zip has a second plan with some options to get panels without using auto panels. I'd be using a cabinet to make the gables myself-they could be included in schedule, show up in floor plan, can block those to a cabinet and store block in library then use replace from (reflect as needed) then unblock and resize the actual cabinet. With any YMMV. Need an image or plan of what you mean by that- I have not run into that naming but it's likely I have done that modification along the way. panel options.zip