Chrisb222

"Closed Stringer" vs. cut stringer:

This thread might help you.

Like this? All I did was pull the bottom of the window down.

I want that too, can't currently be done with standard tools. See this suggestion if you want to add your voice to the request:

C'mon, who really NEEDS a Hellcat??

Agreed, I participated in the test and thank Graham for taking the time, it's definitely an interesting thread.

I had the same thoughts. My puny system performs well in everything I do, which is designing average sized single family residences. Would it be more beneficial if folks had an idea of what their money gets them in those situations, what basics are needed to perform fairly well, and whether it's really worth it to buy the baddest and most expensive? Or going by Larry's analogy, does it matter whether the Corvette's 6.2L supercharged LTI or the 6.2 Hemi Hellcat is more powerful, if all we're doing is going to the grocery store? These tests help determine which hardware configurations are the fastest, but what about real-life situations? Sure, some people have huge projects and use lots of embedded files, but I suspect that for the average CA user, just knowing the basics they need to get the job done is more useful...

These times are until the operation and the displayed view were both fully completed. Several seconds elapsed between the operation completion and the view update. Open standard camera, :36 Drag wall surface up, :46 Undo above, :44 Build roof planes, 3D, 1:19 Build roof planes, plan, :27 Mac Mini (Late 2014) MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 2 cores 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory Intel Iris Graphics 1536 MB Apple ATA HDD 1 TB (2) Samsung S24D300 1920 x 1080 Displays

The confusing part is that you would normally expect Default settings to be global, but in the case of the appearance of pony walls in plan view, it can be set differently from within each Saved Plan View.

Saved Plan Views will respect different settings like you want. You need to set up different SPVs for the views you want to have different effects on the pony wall view. Once a SPV is created, go into Defaults > Walls > Pony Wall, and set the view you want for that SPV. Do this for each SPV. Then make sure that the pony wall setting for "Display in Plan View" is set to Default for all SPVs.

I agree it's just a sleeker, more nimble program. You combine the performance enhancements with the feature enhancements, and it is truly a great upgrade.

Right. I tested it again after seeing Larry's results, and did a few more operations like his. They all executed in the 2 to 6 second range. As I stated earlier, this is with a 2014 era $700 i5 Mac Mini using CPU based Intel graphics driving two 24" monitors.

Might reveal the crazy workarounds they had to employ to get the model to work. Just kidding but it does remind me of how someone once mentioned that the Chief videos never encounter any difficulties...

For a ray trace, open the final image in Photoshop or a free image editor (I use GIMP as it's open source), select the gray background with a magic wand, delete it and save/export as .png

Pony wall would work.

Well stated.

Cool. Please report your results and impressions of the experience. Thanks.

Well I'm pretty proud that my little Mac Mini is running with the big dog$. $700, quiet as a mouse, and not much bigger. Can't PBR but I prefer RT anyway. Yeah, I'm happy...

No. Everything I do in plan view causes my computer to hang for 2-4 seconds.

That's the thing. Eric DOES give positive, meaningful feedback on questions. More than anyone else I've seen on this forum. And yes, the answer to the OP's question is easily discovered with just a smidge of personal effort at self-help.

For myself I'm very happy with my humble little $700 Mac Mini with onboard CPU graphics. PBR would be the only justification for anything more powerful, unless you need muscle for huge projects. I only design single family homes and almost never experience any lag.

In response to the part I bolded, an alternative would be for CA to utilize more of the resources available, at least according to the findings of this study. In regards to anecdotal experiences, I can attest that onboard CPU graphics are not capable of producing PBRs. At all. I thought about upgrading my system just to produce PBRs but I actually prefer ray tracing and have adapted to the new RT requirements fairly well. After seeing this study I'm glad I didn't because my puny Mac Mini 2014 with Iris CPU graphics actually runs X11 at a very pleasant speed, and drives two 24" monitors perfectly... as long as I don't try to PBR. Seems that for my purposes a more powerful system would be a waste of money.

Yeah it became a thing shortly after the internet was born. I think it applies more to text such as this forum where writing is a substitute for speaking to each other face to face. Contracts and other forms of writing probably don't have the same "rules," for instance I use caps almost exclusively on construction documents, but all caps = shouting is definitely a thing among discussion forums.

Well said! Go back and read the OP, all caps and worded to sound very demanding. I grin sometimes at some of the questions that are asked because it's apparent that the person made no effort whatsoever to find the answer on their own. I exhaust everything I can get my hands on, using every technique I can imagine to try and solve my problem before asking here. Even then, sometimes I just live with the problem instead of bothering other users with my issue. Not to say that I don't post questions, because I do, I just view this forum as a last resort and try not to bother people with my problems. And I always try to express thanks for the help I receive. I'm very grateful for those who are here who help me with the things that I really need figured out. Eric is certainly one of the most willing, generous, and helpful people here.

Not sure if this is what you're after, but to get a site survey perfectly parallel to a house, once I have the survey drawn (imported in your case) I select the line I want to be parallel to the house, open it, highlight and copy its angle, then select the entire survey, open transform/replicate, and paste that angle into the angle command. Sometimes I have to rotate the survey 90° one way or the other, but this method aligns them perfectly.