X1 2008

[Allen42acj]

It has been out for awhile now.
What are things you like about it?Or hate?

[Allen42acj]

I like the new dimension tools.
3D editing.
Layers
Snaps
Double walls
Copy/paste from outside Chief.
And others..

[Tim Schrock]

I LOVE....
3D editing
copy/paste in position
keyboard entering while drawing walls/lines, etc.
screen capture tool!
Double walls.

Can't say that I hate anything yet - it's just my learning curve, but that's going fast

[jmur]

zoom & pan with mouse wheel

[ebdesign]

If you do CD's in Chief, I think the biggest improvement is the layer sets & layout pages. Now the layer set on the view on the layout page is actually relevent to the layer sets listed in the plan. Change a display setting of a layer on your "floor plan" layer set, for example, (from anywhere in the plan/layout) & the change is done to ALL views in layout that are using that layer set. This alone is worth the cost of the upgrade. IMHO
A couple more favorites would be the copy/paste/hold position feature & toolbars options, 3D editing.

Jim

[Allen42acj]

No more cad mode/plan mode

[HARRYBSTANFIELDJR]

allen, they must have put you on payroll. haha

[Allen42acj]

Harry
I wish they would.
Housing market is not doing so good around here..

Might have to learn="Would you like fries with that Ma'am"

[HARRYBSTANFIELDJR]

it looks that way here too, and a coke with that / haha

[sean83]

3ds export for me

[HumbleChief]

ALL of the features mentioned are winners to me, but the layout, layer set improvements are the biggest time saver.

The old system was so hard to figure out (for my feeble little brain) that I resorted to a new plan for each view to layout. I know it wasn't that hard but I just never got the double click the plan in layout and there was a magical new layer set opened. The two of us working on the machine were completely flumoxed by the way Chief handled it.

Now you get back to the plan within the same layer set you left layout in - AWESOME.

Paste and hold position has saved me hours by being able to do manual roofs except for a complex area that I can now do automatically, cut just those auto roof planes from a copy of one plan, paste and hold position into the original plan and those auto roofs land perfectly on the original plan.

[eblcody]

Its making me a little money and sometimes it makes me look good.

Rather be windsurfing ...... Mistral?

[BREEZE WOOD]

The many improvements from the first day were obvious such as the CAD block all edges responsive without having to click each separately being alone a 5 star improvement over v.10, layer sets etc....

The timing of the release would have been "OK" had it been only a learning curve to overcome which with all the innovations took only a very short time w/the help of the whats new video, and the cost of upgrade was not an issue for such a great program - the fault I find is with the callous management of CA who released a program supposedly previewed by Beta Testers who can only be described as delinquents on steroids (as so many of the problems were so obvious) and expected the actual users/developers earning a living with the program to work around the many problems that any one of the them would have recognized immediately and would not have allowed the programs release without first fixing them, at least if that was the role of the testers they failed miserably. - I guess callous in that for up-graders they could manage but for first time users paying the "full price" I have to wonder.

[Dragon3463]

There are alot of improvements from 10, like the copy/hold position, the 3d editing, amongst a few others. The learning curve is deeper than 10 for alot of new users, like me, when I bought 10 and then upgraded to X1 the past few months. But overall X1 has my seal of approval and am anxiously waiting for the new patch to come out, to see what they have fixed, which is alot from what I hear. Ihate the dimensioning in X1, drives me nuts, which isn't too far...LOL...

[edie]

Roofs in render. You now can adjust roof planes simply by clicking on them and moving them like any other ployline. I like it. You can also rebuild roofs and add/remove dormers.

You can move walls in render...as well as delete walls in render.

I like being able to do things in render so i can experiment and see right away if I'm going in the right direction.

What i'm not as happy as i could be is when moving the render camera...sometimes the "lag" is awful. But is easily remedied by simply deleting that view and making another and it moves smoothly again.
This sometimes happens when I change materials or move a roof, wall -etc..
This had never happened in earlier versions of CA. This happens with both vista and xp

I'm running winXp and vista with 2 gigs ram
amd64 at 2.7
2 vid cards in SLI -8800gts
all with latest drvs.