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I know this is probably a dumb question, i cant seem to figure out how to adjust the window sizes in a bow window...i tried looking in help it didnt help.\

here is the hood, making the cabinet door on spice rack any wider than 6" makes it too fat...

i will have to check with support...doesnt make sense

I am saving cabinets with predetermined drawers, materials and drawer opening % but ca does not save these items. cabinet on right is what was saved as default and cab on left is what ca inserts as what i saved? could this be a bug or am i missing something?

Thanks, it doesnt make sense for ca not to show drawer below 6" cab width, it it woks it works... A 4.5" cabinet with 5/8" sides will give you a clear 3.25" opening, then you could use top and bottom mount slides and a 3" wide drawer. I thought i was doing something wrong but it looks like ca has chosen not to show drawers in cabinets less than 6" wide when open.

Hi Marc, not sure what you did but i turned off grid snaps on plan and in cabs...ca wont show drawer if cabinet is less than 6"...

This is a cabinet my company made i am trying to replicate. we use 5/8" birch plywood for cabinet boxes

Thanks Marc, so you turned off giid snaps in cabinets( i changed it to .5" increments) and turned off grid snaps in plan, but once that is done what did you do? i made door over size so it hangs over cabinet on either side by 3/4" so the drawer hides gables and doesn't look like a drawer, so if i make cabinet 4.5" wide, drawer face will be 6" wide and i will have a drawer that is about 3" wide fit into 4.5" wide cabinet... Did you resave my custom spice drawer with grid snaps in plan and cabinets off?

i used a revit shelf spice drawer and same thing happened when i went too narrow

here is the plan corbel drawer face art2.zip

I changed min cabinet size to 2” it didn’t help.

i have built a spice drawer but when i make cabinet 6" wide my 4.5" spice drawer disappears, any reason why?

mark it says no data in file?

Thanks Mark...cheers.

HI Mark, i didn't think i could do edge tape(but that is our standard), sounds like i would have to adjust vertical for different heights? but top and bottom would stay with cabinet? Its typical cabinet construction as you know, even with a melamine particle board core you need to add edge tape, i am surprised chief doesnt take this into consideration. I know there are lots of cheap cabinets out there in just white...but what about all the others? could you show me in more detail what you did for legs and top and bottom?

Thanks Mark, is that drawer box/pullout specification option new? Finally i can show and save what our cabinets actually look like, birch interior cabinets and drawer boxes with finished panels and drawers/doors. I saved the drawer box as a 10" high drawer and it auto adjusts for height. I have fooled around with the bounding box to get drawer box closer to side of cabinet, we use undermount drawer slides which brings drawer side to about 1/8" from cabinet and ca seems to want to make this always larger?

Hi we make all our drawers and cabinet boxes with prefinished birch plywood and install drawer faces and gables in other materials. how would i do this?

Thanks Mark for your reply, I work for a custom cabinetry shop and renovation company, I do the Reno design , sales presentation, budget and project manage. Because we are custom and everything we do is cut on a cnc machine we don’t have a standard price list... when we load everything into cabinet vision it will spit out a price per job.. but it is not done unless we build the cabs and does not present half as well as chief.. so having a price come out of ca that is based off of ca I’d useful, I just need to learn some programming..

Marc.. being the cab ninja .. is there a way to have rollouts or drawers narrower than inside of cabinet carcass? or is this just hard wired into chief? we build all our cabs with refinished birtch plywood.. it would be nice to show the drawer box in birtch with drawer face attached. also since we manufacture carcass with plywood we don’t have integrated side panels.. we use adjustable feet attached to base and attach plant on gables to cab sides where required and kicks are just pinned to front legs.

Wow that is a lot of info.. my brain hurts.. but I wanted to utilize the attributes of say cabinets to automatically price them in the material list. Mark have you managed to do this? i was thinking that for say a base cabinet wxhxd one could calculate plywood for carcass and wxh would give me edge tape on front. Once you have this you could assign labour to assemble carcass and labour to install.. also maybe total number of cabinets in job one could assign a delivery charge per cabinet. Then each drawer wxhxl one could determine plywood for drawer.. wxd would give you edge tape for top of drawer.. then one could again assign labour to build drawer and labour to install on site to add drawer front and align.. drawer front wxh would give one area for material and then cost to finish and cost to paint could be determined.. once all this is saved once any size cabinet would produce a fairly accurate cost. i mostly do renovations and cabinetry is such a large part of cost. We use cabinet vision to manufacture cabs but it doesn’t have the presentation or speed that ca has along with all the other architectural materials. we also use Buildertrend ( cloud based project management software) that can import ca material right into the proposal for pricing.. it would be so automated once design in ca was done all the budgets would be 90% done.

Thanks for reply Micheal, if you have time to show a screen shot on how to do this it would be more helpful to me and others than just do this. I added it as a library item, I don't have a clue how to just add drawer glides to its components? Going into the object and looking at the components it is not obvious or intuitive on how to add things? It automatically adjusts width to the inside of cabinet....not sure how to fix this? And is it possible to show the side glides on shelf when open?

I see all kind of fancy roll outs in revit shelf but not just a rollout for a pantry? Also tried using a refuse fixture in revit...it doesnt insert into cabinet..it wont open when you open drawer...am i missing something? I checked off rollout shelf option in cabinets specification but it doesnt show it as a rollout drawer and it doesnt include glides in material list...how do i make this happen.

Thanks I will try that..

HI all, i dont see where the rollout shelves are in the components tab of a full cabinet, is there a way to show these or the shelves?

I have tried spots at 100 and up to 1000/light still does not work in standard view.. but works in pbr