Adam_Gibson

Does anyone know the best way to get a cable rail's top rail to display correctly? It's always bothered me!

I'm sorry I missed it. Once I realized it was delayed I went to a meeting. Any chance a synopsis can be posted?

Thanks for the responses!

I'd like to get in on the conversation! I'll email you, Scott. 

I thought I'd share this discovery. Since I design a lot of kitchens and often use soffits, floating or otherwise, to compress spaces, I've always had issues placing recessed lights in custom soffits, e.g.: polyline solids that I've designated as soffits. The recessed cans always conform to the pitch of the roof in a vaulted (cathedral) ceiling, which looks terrible in a rendering, and bizarre in elevation. Chief is smart enough to place cans properly when using cabinet soffits, but not in polyline solids for good reason. 

If you add a custom ceiling plane at the same height as the bottom of the soffit with zero pitch, the recessed cans conform to that pitch. You can then turn off the ceiling plane layers in any views since you won't need to see them. 

I think you're right!

That's bizarre. I swear I tried that a half dozen times. Now I've done it and it works. I'm losing my mind. Thanks so much!

Here's the plan. I agree, one shouldn't rotate a plan and I rarely, if ever, do. But because of the weird callouts I tried, but it doesn't rotate. 

Wessel kitchen 04.plan

I thought so too but it makes no difference when I attempt to rotate it. 

I suspect it's user error, but I can't find it. Any ideas as to why my callout numbering is upside down? I thought perhaps I'd rotated the plan, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. In fact, when I attempt to rotate the plan it doesn't rotate. 

Here's what I ended up with. The front elevation didn't convert the white-out, but I whited out the top-hinge opening indicators on the the upper door sections and drew in my own showing a center hinge. And showed a side view.  Thanks for all the suggestions. 

Thanks all for the great advice. It sounds like Chief could use more tweaking in the cabinet department. 100% of my projects require a light rail. It should be easy to do. I'll put in a feature request. 

The purpose is to create a 1.25" light rail that looks correct in cross section. 

Can you describe how you'd do that in X8? I'm confused!

Thanks so much!

Opening indicators for bi-fold doors.

How would one even draw them?

That makes sense but Chief doesn't put opening indicators on bifolds. Never thought of that!

Thanks Michael. That would work, but there must be a standard for front elevation for this type of cabinet. I can't find anything on manufacturers' sites. 

It's nice that we no longer have to manually draw opening indicators for top-hinged doors. But I'm having a hard time with the attached. How would something like this be displayed in elevation, both front and side? Also, how to specify that the cabinet hits the ceiling so the door must stop before hitting? Any help would be appreciated!

Interesting. Thanks Mark.

Well, X8 is here and so is the problem! PITA!

Thanks for all the replies. I wish Tommy lived in Indy!

That's it, thanks!

I got it. It has an appliance in it. Chief no likey.