RobUSMC

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  1. I was wondering how others order cabinets. I’m a dealer for several companies but my main is Custom Wood Products. There is a CWP catalog in CA but it’s not great.  I spend soooo much time going thru each cabinet and specifying every detail which takes time. See attached. Once that is done, I print the elevations out and head over the the CWP online ordering system. Using my printed elevations I enter each cabinet and check off each custom detail until done.  I would say, if I’m not interrupted throughout the day (LOL) a large kitchen will take me 3+ days.  A current kitchen order I’m working on has $117K just in cabinets so making an error is not an option.  I would like to hear what others do or any suggestions.

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  2. Has anyone else had the issue when a cabinets crown will not return back on the sides.  I see this on diagonal wall cabinets where it will only return back on one side but not the other or wont return on either side.  I've tried to move the sided cabinets away and bump them back together will no help. I have ensured the corner wall cabinet has a depth deep enough to accept the crown.  Not in this plan, but sometimes when a standard depth wall cabinet bumps into the side of a taller deeper pantry, oven or frig cabinet the crown across the front disappears. As soon as I pull it away from the tall cabinet it reappears.

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  3. Can someone give me some guidance or point me in the right direct to a CA video.  I would like to know how to add custom inserts into cabinet that will change as the cabinet width or height changes.  I have done a few (see pic) but by only adding 3D solids as dividers then making a block but it has to be edited each time the cabinet size changes.  Thanks1671568729_TrayDividers.thumb.jpg.28af74fb29155ca70191c9218216696a.jpg

  4. I was trying to drop them on top of one another while they were already in one of the tollbar rows.  I figured out you have to drop them together down in an open plan area then drag the entire group up top.   Thanks for all the help guys

  5. I think what Im trying to do is to create a new toolbar and place all my custom symbols in it such as kitchen items, bath items, cabinets and so on.  I guess a parent toolbar with child tools in it.

  6. For whatever reason I cant get it to work. When I add a custom symbol icon using the Place Library Object tool onto the plan screen, then assign a symbol to it then drag it up onto a toolbar row, when I try to drop it on top of another custom icon it doesn't create a grouped toolbar. It just inserts it right next to the other icon.  I must be doing something wrong.

  7. I added shortcuts to frequently used symbols to my toolbar on my laptop. I wanted to copy those to my desktop. I copied the toolbar folder in the X14 data folder from my laptop and them imported the toolbars to my desktop.  When I open a new plan the shortcut icons are there but they are no longer associated with the symbol I assigned to them on my laptop.  Am I doing something wrong?  I have the same exact library on both

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  8. Just a random question... Curious how many set there default finished ceiling height at 96" or 108" and so on versus 96-5/8" or 108-5/8" from floor to ceiling 1/2" drywall?  I've seen several plans from others that have set their finished ceiling heights at 96" or 108", so on.  Old school framers would cut 96" 2 x 4 to 91-1/2" and with a double top plate and single bottom would give a rough height of 96-1/2" and a true 96" with 1/2" drywall but with todays pre-cut studs at 92-5/8 versus the site cut 91-1/2" leaves a 5/8" difference from the slab to the drywall. In some older homes, I have in fact used my laser measurer from a slab or from very thin vinyl flooring to the ceiling drywall and get a height of 96" so in fact the rough framing height was 96-1/2".  Again I was just curious what others do.

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