Dennis_Gavin

I have not used that option yet but I have had problems in the past printing pdf's with another "printer" than Adobe. All strange characters even though it look fine on screen. Again, this has nothing to do with Chief. Just offering this information in case you want to try printing via Adobe.

David, I was hopping someone had make a door with the latch/lock/pull in SketchUp as part of the door so it could be assigned to the pocket door once installed or as a default.

Has anyone come up with a pocket door with a pull yet? I was trying to make one with a 6 panel door but can't figure out how to do a cut out for the pull/lockset. Can't convert it to a solid.

The place manually works well when you have a cabinet that has a door, drawers and a tilt out for a hamper.

Thea used to get a lot of "ink" on the forum but not so much now that Chief has improved it's own ray tracing engine. There are still some who use it and the results are great but there is of course a learning curve and a separate program to deal with. No plug ins for Chief. There is a procedure for exporting for other programs but others who do it will have to chime in on that. I have stopped using Thea.

J, Bet you could sell a ton of those cabinets if you manufactured them. Nice job.

Ken nailed it. Easier than what I was doing. Just place it outside the cabinet as a stand alone and then drag into place.

OldCKD - scared the crap out of me!

place manually. ;o(

Rolowe - you can put 3 cabinets together, take a full camera overview and delete the top and other areas in the cabinet you don't want and save the cabinet as a symbol. Bring it back in and do as I mentioned in post #3. Doesn't really take that long. YOU can them also save it for the future. Here is the single cabinet with the two sinks in place.

Scott - was just looking at your first video and you said you don't know how to put 2 sinks in one cabinet. I posted that above. (3rd post)

These threads do take no a life of their own!

Make the counter top a custom top. Insert sink. select sink and move to where you want it. Install sink from library outside the cabinet by accepting prompt. Create an ellips in the top that matches the sink or slightly smaller. convert to counter top and select hole in counter top. Make sure it is in the exact place you want it before you do the conversion. Move sink into place. Do the same for additional sinks

I also think X6 has a problem as X5 works with no problems.. I started a new plan today and went back to X5. I must say though that the other plans I have problems with were done in X5 and then additions were made in X6. Basically new projects for past customers.

J, A couple of things. 1.you can take a camera view from inside a room and then use the camera dolly to back out of the room. THe lights will stay on in the room. 2.Make invisible wall no room definition to shoot the render camera. Could be a problem with rooms with different ceiling heights.

I am not 100% sure whether it is X6 needing more resources or if it is my laptop. The thing is I cannot try the programs with the changes in X5 to see. Opening the legacy version of the plans that are giving me trouble in X5 with no problems. And the changes are not that intense to have such an effect.

I am also noticing X6 as being much slower. In one file when saving it takes about 15 seconds. IN another certain movements seemed to hang some before being performed/ The plans are both legacy from X5. Never had a problem with them there.

sounds like you will have to do it manually with polyline solids etc.

you have to change the x and y settings for the image. there are 7 boards at 5 1/2" each so the x would be 7x5.5 the y can be anything that looks good. 96, 120 etc. it will stretch to whatever length. IF it looks too stretched lower the number but that sometimes makes a repeat of the pattern more visible. IF things don't look right based on what I am telling you reverse the x and y settings as the orientation is opposite.

Randy (Allen) - Thanks for that refresher. I had forgotten how to do that. I will probably forget again before I have to use it again! ;o(

Larry - heading out now but will look when I get back. You coulod also open the texture in a paint program and adjust the contrast to wash it out some.

Larry - use a wood texture to your liking and then select blend with color and use white in material texture dbx.