In the meantime, ChatGPT will be the engine that runs inside of StoryChopped.com, and eventually in BackPorchPress.com.

Have fun with your floorplan.  I did the same kind of thing before moving back into my house this last December.

Sorry...trying to help you, Karen, but copy/paste is suddenly giving me fits.  Anyway....load up a hand-drawn floorplan to AI, and then ask it what it needs.

Hi Lon, thanks for the suggestion. I've not got into the AI stuff as yet. There was a talk I went to on using it for genealogy research but even then, they were saying that you have to be fairly precise in your query, and you still have to check the results to validate, so it seems almost as much hard work as just getting on with it. I'll probably get around to it one day, but only when I have lots of free time to spare, which isn't the case right now.

My current plan seems to be most viable - printed out enlarged copies made in CA2 of the house plans (recognising that their scale is only approximate), and as I already have the measurements for the various items, I'm just popping those in prospective spots with arrows each way. Just really need an idea of what could go where.

I gave Copilot this hand-drawn sketch, and asked it what was needed to help turn it into a homeowner-use reasonable floorplan.

For a homeowner-useable floorplan—something clean, clear, and practical for room planning, furniture layout, or renovation notes—you’re already well on your way, Lon. This sketch gives a fantastic head start with room labels and layout logic. To evolve it into a fully usable floorplan, here’s what would make it sing:

I gave Copilot this hand-drawn sketch, and asked it what was needed to help turn it into a homeowner-use reasonable floorplan.

For a homeowner-useable floorplan—something clean, clear, and practical for room planning, furniture layout, or renovation notes—you’re already well on your way, Lon. This sketch gives a fantastic head start with room labels and layout logic. To evolve it into a fully usable floorplan, here’s what would make it sing:

I gave Copilot this hand-drawn sketch, and asked it what was needed to help turn it into a homeowner-use reasonable floorplan.

For a homeowner-useable floorplan—something clean, clear, and practical for room planning, furniture layout, or renovation notes—you’re already well on your way, Lon. This sketch gives a fantastic head start with room labels and layout logic. To evolve it into a fully usable floorplan, here’s what would make it sing:

KarenPL wrote:

I'm in two minds whether to use CA2 or DrawPlus to make up a floor plan for our future house move. I want to have our many bookcases parked directly in the right spot to make things easier for us, so this is a way of figuring things out beforehand.

Given the relative stability of DrawPlus, I’d love to hear a solid argument in favour of using CA2 instead! After all, DSA (predecessor of CA) was based on DrawPlus. I can’t imagine that you’d need CA features such as stencils or ‘intelligent’ frames for a floor plan.

Fair comments, Alfred. It is just that I am far more familiar with the workings of CA2 as it's been some time since I regularly played with DrawPlus.

In any case, I've given up on the task. I just can't get my head around numbers and trying to work to a scale. I just don't have that kind of brain.

So I've taken a scan of the estate agents floorplan, brought it into CA2 to clip into a downstairs and upstairs page, enlarge that and print out. Then I can work out the measurements in pencil.

I'm in two minds whether to use CA2 or DrawPlus to make up a floor plan for our future house move. I want to have our many bookcases parked directly in the right spot to make things easier for us, so this is a way of figuring things out beforehand.

Given the relative stability of DrawPlus, I’d love to hear a solid argument in favour of using CA2 instead! After all, DSA (predecessor of CA) was based on DrawPlus. I can’t imagine that you’d need CA features such as stencils or ‘intelligent’ frames for a floor plan.

Like most here, CA2 will run for a while, but then crashes to the desktop.  Fortunately, I have the earlier version of CA and have been using that without a problem so far.  Sure would like to have CA2 running, but I'm able to get most things...well, enough things done in CA1 that it's not been an issue so far.  I do find that CA gets just a bit slow at times, but mostly OK.

Hiya, KarenPL

Hiya, Lon.

I'm not using CraftArtist very much at all now, as I went back to hands-on crafting quite a while ago. But I do use it to make labels for the Hubby's honey jars, and when the buzzies have enough excess for him to extract we just need to update the Lot. No. and Best Before date details. On the whole, it seems OK, but can be prone to occasional sudden crashes. So I have become very adept at remembering to save far more frequently than I used to do.

I did try opening up a fairly recent project, also a very simple label, and for some reason, that one does keep crashing where others don't, so there must be something about that particular one that causes this.

I'm in two minds whether to use CA2 or DrawPlus to make up a floor plan for our future house move. I want to have our many bookcases parked directly in the right spot to make things easier for us, so this is a way of figuring things out beforehand. Normally I'd use CA2 but am a bit wary of the crashing possibility, and you can guarantee I'll get so caught up in the process I will forget to save, and perchance get very frustrated...

Hiya, KarenPL

The registry fix works and the CA2 launches fine. However ~5 minutes of working it crashes. I have even tried just leaving the application alone and do nothing, it eventually crashes around the same time. Although I havent time'd it to see if its the same amount of time.

So I decided to disable my wifi and it works fine without crashing! Although its usable, sometimes it a pain when i need the internet.

Is there another fix or update that may help?

Not sure if this helps
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    CraftArtist.exe
  Application Version:    2.1.0.37
  Application Timestamp:    573b58ce
  Fault Module Name:    SerifCommon.dll
  Fault Module Version:    2.1.0.37
  Fault Module Timestamp:    573b545f
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    0000000000053d31
  OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:    2057
  Additional Information 1:    6093
  Additional Information 2:    6093fab938747f72bbe3763d3f96ed30
  Additional Information 3:    5320
  Additional Information 4:    53206d4684056b60d8bedfbd17e348da

Thanks for the advice.    The CraftArtist2 StartFix.txt   did get my working again  - Thank Goodness.   Then all I had to do was transfer the downloads across.   I had a few.         I am getting the script run message which was  also mentioned however it seems to clear and not cause many problems so far!     See how I go when I do a new project.      Just relieved to have all my old work back and be able to use all the lovely digital downloads once more.      TY

That’s excellent news. I hope all goes well with your projects.