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Change the half wall to "stop at ceiling above". I first changed the invisible walls to room dividers since those have caused issues for me in the past with PBR,not sure it that matters. First one is with room dividers- still shows line, second is after changing the half wall. Think the first one was exported at 3000 wide 300 dpi. second was 3000, 600 dpi. There was no saved camera in there just the walk through BTW.

Thanks Eric, no thanks whoever decided it's obsolete.

Is it there? where? Have a couple of bath rooms and the cross section slider doesn't quite do it with PBR since it mucks up the light.

Since "blends" showed up, here is PBR with a line drawing on top, stacked them in Bluebeam and exported. And the original PDB. For some reason I've been undable to make that work again with the Z images.... have no idea what is. I showed the PBR with line on top to CA in Orlando -who knows if that arrives. The second set shows the undercabinet lights (these are Graham's lights but I may have adjusted something), and through one more in for luck. All are from X9 plans of jobs this last year. The first (T) and last (Z) were done pre-public beta, middle one was in the current release. All have extra light sources placed in them-dragged to be directional and almost all pointing up at some angle. None of these have updated materials. I know I had to reduce the reflection of the floor in T and maybe did that in Z, ceiling in Green is also matte. Green was the most challenging, there are lights inside the glass cabinets and a couple to show the ceiling beams. Follows are the settings Note that P settings are for T (don't ask) Z settings are for the Z images. I'd expect the settings will change with final release so wouldn't get too excited about those. What I'm finding is the rest of the lighting, makes big difference as does the backdrop and moving a camera more than about 110 degrees requires changes. You may or may not know that I've never posted (AFAIR) to this thead IOW you really don't want to see my RT's.

Ran across a discussion of that driver this morning. There were some interesting things said about nVidia drivers in general. Now these are mostly geeks and gamers so some of it is unintelligible to me. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/nvidia-geforce-drivers-v-390-77-whql-findings-fixes.813230/ I don't update drivers unless the mfg offers them. On my last machine I updated the nVidia driver because it's so often touted on here. Only time I ever had trouble with it. I'd at least read the release notes to see if it offered anything relevant to me.

Xoticpc and hidevolution both ship internationally. I have no idea if the prices work out better but likely not after duty is paid. Almost all Clevo sellers list wihout an OS, they are considered barebones systems, though in the last year or so Sager has started to include Win 10 Home standard. Don't know if they ship up to you. I've used both Sager and Xotic and happy enough with both. Likely will get the next one from Hidevolution. The one weakness, though it hasn't caused me any issues, with Sagers/Clevos are limited bios updates. Hidevotlution is partnered with Prema BIOS.

They are a newer reseller of Clevo and not on the list. I'd found one reference with a quick web search for Eluktronics and notebookreview.com. That's where I saw it was a Clevo (but I can usually tell looking through a brands line. There aren't any Clevos as small and light as a surface and I don't think they make any 2 in 1 machines or touch screen at this point. I'd expect this year maybe but that is not the target market AFAIK. There are a bunch of 2 in 1 machines in the pipeline from others. I got the Spectre at a steal so didn't wait and suits what I had in mind (or it did with X9, not as much with 10 but expect improvement next week About the smallest Clevo with some https://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP8952.html

Clevo machines are ALL sold by a " reseller" who rebrands them. Most customize them, varying degrees of service and testing. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v3-0-faq-and-reseller-info-read-before-posting.592609/

Those are Clevo machines (same as Sager, Evoc, and some others) which I like. Not so sure about the reseller though- a quick look only found one reference on notebookreview.com

Fill should be in Cabinet Defaults. I don't know if you have the ALDO? which is in View-Active Layer Display Options. If you do the easiest way to turn off cabinet labels would be from there (so long as you have that layer?) When you select objects any layers associated with what is selected show up there and no others. If you don't have that you can group select all the cabinets and "suppress label"

My work is split between frameless inset almost exclusively, very little framed overlay (only super budget jobs) Some are semi-custom, some custom. Every maker or brand I've dealt with for the last 8 years makes frameless bases 24" deep standard, walls 13 or 13-1/2" standard. Insets bases are the same but one custom house uses 1" face frames so Base 24-1/2. Inset walls run come 13, 13-1/2 and 14" standard depending on who is making them (selling 12" deep inset is inviting trouble) All allow about 1/4" scribe at the back for wanky walls. Everyone I work with uses computerize panel saws so yield is not an issue with standard cabinet ply, they all do enough volume that it would matter. Counters-I've put in less than half a dozen "standard 25" deep" laminate counters in that time (about the same for the seven years prior). Most counters I see are Granite, E-stone, Corian and we do them at 25-1/2 to 26 on overlay; 25" deep counters on insets. Sinks, dishwashers and accessory inserts- A lot of American DW's need 24" depth or they stick out too far, worse if they are paneled (I prefer Euro DWs which are not an issue) Sinks we need enough meat for stone to support itself. Wine coolers get to be an issue as do many cabinet accessories are sized for 24" depth. As to tweaking depth- 75% of American women want an island, most in their kitchen, a few want Tahiti and a couple more will take Manhattan. I use NKBA aisle clearances as a minimum always (except in Manhattan) so there are times where tweaking is needed but if that is the case I'm working with much shallower cabinets than 24 and don't put appliances in the run.

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Don't use a sill. Make a symbol for the brick, then use -treatements, exterior millwork below casing. You will need to find the best origin and stretch areas to make it look right. Your signature doesn't say what version you are using? In X9 and later I make the symbol how I think it works and open a 3D view. If it looks wrong then I open the symbol in the library and make an adjustment- in X9 and above you can then just drag the revised symbol onto the old one and it (usually) replaces the old one. IF it doesn't then you have to use the dbx to re-select the symbol. Screen shot show the original symbol on the right and corrected origin on the left. Once I have a window I'm happy with I add it to the library and rename it. Then go to the next one of the same size that needs to be replaced, select, replace from library, replace all identical in plan. Presto

Few possibilities, all computer related. Interiors is the same basic program as Premier, just has some features turned off Your machine has both an nVidia card and an Intel card. Open the nVidia control panel and make add Chief architect to the 3D panel. Check Windows "Power Options" for both battery and plugged in. Make sure to have them set to Performance (or create a performance profile) and check that everything is set to that. Go to windows, control panel, system, advanced system settings, and set that to performance- (you can change a few things in the list but don't check all of them. Are you using a second monitor? those often use the Intel card. There is also a control app for the Intel card, set that to high or performance also. Lastly- some folks have had issues with some recent nVidia drivers. Check your driver version and then check the forum for recent topics on that (may be in Tips? but someone will likely post a link) FWIW I only run laptops and I will only allow drivers from the laptop Mfg. Chief often says be sure to have the latest video driver. I have not found that to be the case on any of the 4 I've used Chief on since X3 with the occasional exception of Intel drivers provided by Windows Update. YMMV.

Yes, plan open with layers you want, detail from view and go from there. For remodels that have demo I use build,walls, hatch wall before detail from view, delete hatching from plan when done.

Switch to the all on layer set, bet everything shows up. EDIT- one reason you can't see all the lines could be color. A lot of CAD users work on a black background and the lines can come in white hence you don't see them. I didn't notice the scale listing but that says you are correct it is paperspace. However all the line work should still be there. In that case in the directions I wrote earlier - with everything selected in the Chief CAD detail use transform replicate-resize. If it's at 1/8" to the foot resize by 96. You can do this so long as everything in the view is selected and not locked, even if you have already blocked it.

Menu-CAD, CAD detail management, new detail. Import the cad file to there. I usually just drag it in from windows explorer. IF you have a CAD program (or maybe some viewerrs?) I turn off layers I don't want before importing -I leave walls (and dimensions if they aren't a mess). I do the same for good PDFs (usually made from CAD) and then convert them to dwg with another program. I don't use CAD to walls. As soon as it is imported I "open object" (ctrl + e) and place all of it on one layer (I use CAD import- a layer I made for the purpose), then change the color of the lines to something like orange or bright green, while it is all selected turn it into an architectural block, then immediately "open object" (ctrl +E again) and change the layer of the block to the one you are using (CAD import). Now you can copy and paste the block into a blank plan, lock the layer, and trace over it. NOTE that you can unblock it after pasting and prior to locking the layer. Then Chief will snap to the lines but often that is worse than not having snaps.

It's one of the symbols. I just dragged them off the library before I sent the plan. Odd, they are all doors. Anyway delete the one labeled Extended Stile door BL_box and the message goes away. That one didn't help me anyway.

No- it is an extended stile-that is part of the cabinet when it is made.

So I figured out a new way to make cabinets with extended stiles that will read the proper width in schedule (that is will not include the extended stile in the width since it is an add on when ordered that way) The issue I'm having is getting the extended stile to show in plan as part of the symbol. I've never been really good at getting adjusting CAD blocks and making them work with a symbol. I've tried an assortment of ways to change the block to show as part of the symbol with no luck. Is it possible? Chief will not always show a cabinet door in plan to begin with, but I've tried pretty much every option without success. File is X10 ExtendedStile Base.plan

Just tried it. Guess you use all on to tax the system? taxes my eyes and brain. Yeah that is laggy in both X10 and 9 oddly for me it seemed worse in 9. Oddly both CPU and GPU usage is much at all, no memory use or reads to speak of and zero writes. We have a decent difference in our GPUs and for some actions I tested memory use was hitting 6.8 where I have a bigger cushion there but don't know if that matters. I get a very slight edge when writing to disk (undos) with Raid. We both know that raw numbers alone are not the only factor-could be bottlenecks at the Mobo? I don't even know what mine has. OTOH you are having ok results with an older Spectre than I'm getting on mine.

I get about the same stretching a roof and undo. Don't have that issue with the DBX- 1/2 second to open by either keyboard or double click, select another object instantly after close. I've got 113K surfaces with the default camera layerset. Checked stretch roof and undo in X9 and it was a whisper slower.

Not so sure I wasted all that time, at least it kept me amused and I wanted to get an idea of how some of my plans compared. Pretty close . Just checked Larry's famous roof undo plan. Did not check undo again since we went through that (I was ever so slightly faster than him as I recall?). Plan, full overview, and interior perspective open, no layout. Opening DBX for: roof plane, psolid and a couple of other objects were on par with X9 instant; window and wall were just under a second, fireplace split the difference. Went back to Grandview and about the same as that plan. Didn't bother monitoring anything since results were close to each other-not terrible to me but would like to see it faster.

Scott how does your problem plan compare to Grandview? If similar get in touch, if worse you're prolly right. In any case.. I just diddled about on the Sager- took 3 plans I had brought over to X10 and grandview, then kept gpu-z, windows perfomance thing, and CPU-Z open. Oddly one or two of my files were a tad slower than grandview but didn't use as much resources. I had turned off anything extraneous at all when first test them, while I had rebooted prior to running grandview. Plans-H oddly the smallest-20 mb about 12000 ; Z-32mb-28k surfaces; P two plans 8 and 30mb w/ layout 2.8mb,and grandview layout and plan. Ran each one at a time but if layout then that and all layout files. Went through series of views, moved, changed vector-standard-pdb (PBR with full light sets where I had them RCS & bloom off but all else on); opened DBx's, moved roof plane and undo, full overviews with same cycles, send to layout live view, update individual views, opened views from layout...pretty much anything I could think of. Preference-edge smoothing high, horizon ON. Everything possible in my OS is set to max performance so a lot of cute Windows things are off all the time. In short- Only Grandview pegged my processor briefly to 100% and only with PBR on. GPU- only ever pegged for a second with PBR. The biggest changes I saw in GPU were memory and core clock (idle 162 - 1252 and memory usage (208 idle-1613). Highest was update vector live view. DBX - 1 to 1-12 seconds. slower than X9 but not annoying, library no issue. Managed once or twice to get the white screen after switching to PBR but went away after switching back and forth (occasionally 3 times). The only exception was that I was unable to clear the burnt out white screen if I had another PBR open. Memory used hit 6.8 gb but that was with firefox open and grandview moving and undoing a roof plane- (was fast enough) I have not got a clue what it all means in conjunction with what Graham had to offer, but was a good way to waste the morning.

I was rummaging around looking to see if there was a way to improve single core performance (because of Graham's observations). In the course of that I ran across some comparitive information on CPU performance using 3DS Max and Revit. I found it interesting and perhaps more useful than some of the benchmarks stuff I usually run across which often appears aimed at gamers. There is info relevant to i-7 (6th to 8th gen) Xeon, and Ryzen, that I found interesting, might be worth a read. There are a bunch of other articles there and I'm going to go back an rummage around more. Revit Article 3DS article Coffee Lake article I'd think about running both GPU-Z and CPU-Z to understand what is going on with Chief. I agree that the public beta has performance issues and I believe they will improve with final releases (at least hope so), not sure how much is all.