Beiträge von Thorvald

I am not sure if I understand what you say, Der_planer. In AutoCad you are simply asked if you want to keep original or delete, when t.ex. mirroring.

Hi.

The clip board copy function is quite nice. I would like to have the same possibility as in wall macro - to insert the copied items mirrored.

The edit/mirror function in PlanCad: When you mirror something it would be nice if the program asks if you want to keep original objects or if you want to delete original objects. Or maybe two mirror functions in the edit menu - one to keep original objects and one to delete original objects.

The mirror function is very good programmed - it mirrors measurements etc. correct - I don't think AutoCad can do that.

Hi - the first quote is from this post: Posted: 21am30UTC(21.04.2008 07:38.

So the thruth is that Dietrichs can benefit from multicore processors, and that Dietrichs is running on more than one core, if there are more than one available!!??

Zitat von Jens Krause

very few programs split up their calculations to different tasks, and Dietrich's does not, either. So we do not benefit from dual core or quad core technology.

First you said above - and now you say this:

Zitat von Jens Krause

Our Software is compatible with multi-core processors. We continually adapt our Software to the latest computer technologies and we have already made the necessary steps to divide our processes to several CPUs.

I am not sure about what you mean. I know that Dietrichs can run on a core 2 duo t.ex. But first you say that Dietrichs can't benefit from multicore processors and now you say it does?? Or maybe you say it is comming soon??

Ok, I understand that now. Will future updates of Dietrichs take the benefit to use more than one core in multicore processors??

So basically most programs uses only one of the cores in dual core, quad core processors?? And does that mean that with a 2,2 GHz quadcore the programs only take benefit from 0,55 GHz, and this is much lower than a 3GHz single core processor??

Ok - I will do that next time.

I am considering a new computer. I am interested in Acer Aspire Prestige series, t.ex. this one:

Acer Aspire M5100
AMD PHENOM 9500 Quad core (2,2 GHz)
4 GB DDR2 ram 667 MHz (4x1024 MB)
960 GB SATA Harddisk 7200 rpm.(3x320 GB)
GeForce 8600 GS 512/1278 MB
DVI, VGA. HDTV
LAN 10/100/100 WLAN 802.11 b/g

Windows Vista Home Premium

Does Dietrichs take the benefits of a quadcore processor??

Hello.

It seems to me that sometimes the color of the story overview is changing in different situations. Sometimes it is black, with green current wall and red arrow and sometimes it is red, with green current wall and red arrow and sometimes.

I prefer that it is black or maybe grey, with green current wall and red arrow. Is there a setting anywhere to gain this allways??

Aah, you mean, when you take out wall drawings and under general settings??

Hi.

Is there a setting - and where - to change the number of decimals from t.ex 920.000 to 920, when one have opening description on wall drawings??

In timber list, the wood dimensions are also shown as t.ex. 47.000 x 200.000. Is this connected to above question?

Hi.

Is it possible to exchange .pla-files? An example is, that my drawer insert my drawing blocks on the drawing - but the result is another than I expected, because I made a mistake, when I took the wall drawings from the design program. Then I take out the wall drawings again with other settings, and send to my drawer, the new .pla files. But he says it doesn't work. Should it not be possible this way??

You are right Der_planer - I didn't know that, but now I do. I have been suggested these two cards:

Sapphire RADEON X1950 PRO and XFX GeForce 7950 GT, bot with 512 MB ram and both for AGP.

Yeahh - but it is also a bit expensive, but on the other hand I am going to work with even bigger projects, so maybe I should just go for it - so I can enjoy the work.

The next question would be - exactly what graphic card I should go for?? One example could be NVidia Geforce 9800GX2. Should I go for more ram - t.ex. min. 512 MB?

As you might have understood, I am working with fairly large projects - and one thing that could improve the performance of computer is better graphic cards when it comes to problems in OpenGL. But at a certain limit even on my laptop the program chrashed and deleted 3 stories and left only a small basement floor. Luckily I have trained my 6th sence after advice from Der_planer and I had a recent backup copy of the project, so I didn't loose much. Then I realized that maybe I should delete all assisting geometry (architect plans) and now I am almost finished with all 3 stories + roof of this quite big house. Well it is still a little heavy in OpenGL but yet much better in the design modules.

I think a problem is that DXF is so heavy as it is. One example is a architecture plan that is 2,32 MB in DWG and converted to DXF it is 24,8 MB. So of course the building model becomes heavy when having 4 of these plans...

My suggestion for further development for Dietrichs is to do something about this. The smartest thing could be to be able to use DWG directly, both in import and export - because the connection to AutoCad is also a bit weak - and in some cases you have to exchange information with "AutoCad people". Another possibility could be - t.ex. in coorporation with AutoDesk - to develop another drawing file format that is even lighter than DWG. Then when you import a dwg the Dietrichs program automatic converts to this "lightweight dwg" format. The same at export, so the exported result is dwg.

I don't understand what kind of information you want to copy. It is possible to assign timber members to whatever element you want. Example: You have a building where the one half is a mirrored copy of other half. So t.ex ceiling structure you can mirror in D-Cam. But then the mirrored part maybe should belong to another ceiling number - this you can do in D-Cam. But it is possibly not what you are asking for.

Maybe another example is that you have some facadeboards and for some reason they are not of same color - then you would like to "copy & paste" the correct color to the other boards??

If you start OpenGL in other moduls it is working?
- No.
In wall design and DICAM you can start OpenGL with smaller projects?
- Yes.
How many RAM does have the Graphic card?
- 256MB of DDR memory
And as I wrote I use Windows XP Pro.

On my laptop, I can start OpenGL with the same project, but this is also an NVidia GeForse Go 7600 grapfic card, and Windows Vista.

Hello.

On my desktop computer I get a problem with OpenGl. It is probably when the project reach a certain size. But I need to be able to do these big projects. When I open openGL in wall design or D-Cam I get a black screen.

A little about my computer:
Windows XP Pro sp2
Pentium 4, 3,2 GHz
2 GB Ram
Graphic card is Radeon 9550

So what could improve my work on this computer? Is it a new graphic card? More ram?

What about "reflex silver"... ???