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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

Micheal, I don’t understand your elation with doing away with room label? what was wrong with it? Can you share with us what you do now and why it’s better? Sounds like I’m missing the boat or late to the party.

Well now you can set any number of lights in camera view

Sounds like a bug.. it should work in standard view as well

A little late to the party.. but when boarders install drywall they go right over windows and doors and then cut out openings and throw away ... so how could ca actually calculate drywall if it doesn’t use the total wall including openings? What am I missing? same thing with counters.. I have used custom labels for counter area but if there is a sink ca doesn’t count this hole.. but we still pay for this.. is there a better way of doing this?

Mark I can’t seem to get the spot lights to come on in standard or water colour views? What luminance do you use? so you set up a strip light and then save as symbol so you just drop it in? Have you set up a few different lengths?

Rene, I think what you have set up is awesome.. I mostly do Renovation design. Like you I go into home with laptop and laser tool and build asbuilt then go back to office and move walls as needed, new cabs , light etc, I have used the mask method for plans but if you are trying to have existing walls and new walls in same plan then they are snapping together and how could you show asbuilt walls in glass and new ones in standard or vector view? great job, I need to chat with you.

So open plan.. go to 3D view.. change to glass view then add 2nd model

Well the first plan you open up can be in standard or glass option.. same with 2nd plan you add .. only I found if you opened first plan in standard view it had to stay that way. does this make sense?

Looks good.. seems like one has to decide which model is glass depending on what looks better.. my addition engulfed existing house so I had to make new glass and old standard.. with yours the addition is added on.

Let’s see what you got...

I agree.. I wish ca had the line drawing option.. and be able to add shadows like sketchup.. I started long ago with pencil and vellum.. I have come a longgggggg way.. I remember doing perspectives with vanishing points etc.. anyways I love the crossed lines on this view.. just like the old days

What I did was make current 3D design show in glass house first and turn up transparency and then add as built in standard view. if you start with standard view I couldn’t change it to glass house once I loaded as built model.

Hi Perry, i am downloading newest driver, 418.91...looks like i am out of date..hope it wont screw up things.

I loose my crosshairs and cursor quite often working on x11...anyone else seeing this? I have to quit ca and reopen to get them back.

I do a lot of additions/remodel designs, i think the new reference model will be good to show clients.

I was trying to make a shallow cove ceiling only 3/4” high, placed rope light inside and it really only worked with pbr.. tried spot and various Lumen settings, also tried spacing and slightly sloping spot lights and nothing worked but pbr.. again makes no no sense for ca to make this a hex.. should just be a rectangle to simulate LED tape lighting

Thanks Graham....that works but doesnt work in pbr...i had to turn it up to 350 luminens to get work but way too bright in pbr..so what then?