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Hello I'm a kitchen designer, I use Chief Architect to design kitchens and bathrooms, so the final client can see a render of the final work that I design, also I use blum's fittings on all my cabinets, Blum has a proprietary design software for incorporate that fittings on each cabinet, that software is named Dynalog.

 

 

What I wish to accomplish is to export each cabinet from the Dynalog's software for importing them into chief architect for make renders of the drawers and doors open using blum’s fitting.

 

 

like the next video, the author uses Pro100 but I want to use Chief Architect instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In dynalog I've the options to export the cabinet in two different formats: BXF and DAE

 

when I import a DAE cabinet file previously exported from Dynalog I get the next error message:

 

"An unexpected error occurred while the file was being loaded. The symbol will not be loaded."

 

1.      How I can solve that error?

 

2.      How I can import bxf file into chief architect?

 

 

 

Hope some one can help me with this!

 

 

 

 

Hello I'm a kitchen designer, I use Chief Architect to design kitchens and bathrooms, so the final client can see a render of the final work that I design, also I use blum's fittings on all my cabinets, Blum has a proprietary design software for incorporate that fittings on each cabinet, that software is named Dynalog.

 

What I wish to accomplish is to export each cabinet from the Dynalog's software for importing them into chief architect for make renders of the drawers and doors open using blum’s fitting.

 

like the next video, the author uses Pro100 but I want to use Chief Architect instead.

 

 

In dynalog I've the options to export the cabinet in two different formats: BXF and DAE

 

when I import a DAE cabinet file previously exported from Dynalog I get the next error message:

 

"An unexpected error occurred while the file was being loaded. The symbol will not be loaded."

 

 

1.      How I can solve that error?

2.      How I can import bxf file into chief architect?

 

Hope some one can help me with this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

42 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

In the last panel, check the "x" stretch plane box.  The stretch Plane specs tell Chief where to limit stretching.  In this case

• width stretching will be limited to the center of the symbol
• height stretching will occur above the bottom frame and below the top frame
• depth can not be stretched since it would occur outside of the door thickness.

Since you didn't check the "x" stretch plane box, the width is stretched uniformly instead of just at the center of width.

 

Note that the origin of symbols in Chief (0,0,0) is (center,back,bottom).  Stretch Plane positions are relative to the symbol origin.

 

Thanks a lot! after I did what you suggested to configure in the strech planes , I was still  having problems with the heigth proportions, so I tried some configurations but I get lost with all of them and I cant remember what I did but it worked!, last question... how I can get what configuration on the stretch planes I used?   thansk a lot!

 

7 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

Assuming that the screen shot you posted is of a door that is wider and shorter than the symbol you created you will need to set up  vertical and horizontal stretch zones.  Place a similar door from the Core Catalog into your plan and take a look at the Symbol Sizing setup and you will see how it is done.

 

 thanks how I do that, sorry, I'm just learning this software.

6 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Placing "Stretch Planes" at

• x = 0
• y = 1"
• z = 6"

or whatever the metric equivalents are should do the trick.

 

thanks, but i think I'm still doing something wrong. I've still the same no proportional results.  Hope you can let me know what to do, i'm uploading the pictures of the convert to symbol steps. THANKs!

 

Hello I want to create a custom cabinet door/drawer using an aluminum frame and crystal like in the pictures I'm updloading. I created it already using polyline and convert it to a symbol. however when I use it on the cabinet's doors or drawers the symbol dont mantain the proportions of the aluminum frame. How I cand accomplish this? hope some one helps!  thanks 

 

 

This is the symbol imported to the user catalog , note that the aluminum frame proportions are not equal.

 

 

 

This is the frame I want to create using polylines.