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Joe, This is what I am after! It looks like Chief isn't to this point just yet with combining the individual views. I like to double click the call out view and the elevation comes up in a new window for navigation. I believe your solution is on the right track but lacking the interactive ability. This still makes it partially manual, but from what I have seen, I don't think there's an interactive call out that can be combined, just yet at least.

Is there a way to combine the individual elevation tag views into 1 marker? I know Chief has a tag located in the CAD Blocks under Designer Blocks, but that's merely manual and I like things to be propagated based off of 1 input and changes throughout. I added 2 photos showing the 3 individuals view tags and then the designer block.

This fixed it! Since the font I was using (Maven Pro) only has 2 variants (Regular and Black aka BOLD), I had a few items in italics. I changed those back to regular and all of the font changed back to how it was. Was not aware of this at all. Thank you for getting this solved!

The font does not have an italic version. So you're saying, if in my layout or throughout my whole project, if I have an italic version or I made my font (maven pro) italic, then it would show issues when exporting it to a PDF?

I am using X15, but having an issue with layout. See the photo for reference. In my layout file, my font looks like I want it (the lower set of font). When I 'Export to PDF' or even when I print to PDF (may be the same function), I use the Chief to PDF setup and makes most of my font in italics. All of my dimensions are changed as well as some text on my layout. I use mostly Rich text, but even basic text as well as tables and dimensions are not being produced properly. I noticed this when I switched from X14 to X15. Any suggestions?

By the way, this is the results. Worked like a charm and will now be making this a default for my millwork. The photo shows an island with front and back base cabinets.

Worked perfectly! I was confused, but I had my settings as a frameless cabinet instead of a framed cabinet and that's where you can adjust the stiles for the overlapping features. Well done and this fixes the issue without jeopardizing anything. It also populates in the material list which can be modified for more parts list.

Can you attach a file? I'm having troubles with the back. This may be the best option, honestly. Thank you greatly for this!

Yes the video helped as that was my first instinct, but as you mentioned, it's for the final design rather than being dynamic. I want to keep it to where it's easy to change if the client wants it to be rather than doing this every time. Also, once you make it a symbol, there is no reversal way of getting back to the cabinet features, unfortunately. Yes, easy solution, but not adaptive like the rest of Chief Architect is. I love Chief Architect in every sense, but I do believe, since they already have the ability to extract the box construction, why not make that a dynamic aspect in the cabinet features.

These have all been helpful and I am coming to the conclusion, chief hasn't had enough inquires about this issue to make it an option or better yet, make the cabinet box structure different thicknesses. Regardless, I have been on other client's platforms where this is standard view. For what reason? I have no idea. If I were the cabinet maker (Which I have been for approximately 3 years)I don't need to see the individual cabinet box construction. I would much rather have the outside dimensions of the box and let me worry about how I put it together. The "show closed doors/drawers" is helpful allowing less manual efforts into showing this feature. My solution will be to change to module lines from dashed lines to solid lines and overlay a simple cad rectangle where it's suppose to go. It's 4 panels per box essentially and I created a block for it. I will simply place the block with the 4 rectangles, explode it, move the box into position and modify the width of the front and rear panel keeping the thickness of the rectangles the same. A little time consuming and stagnate, but it works for the most part.

The ability of Chief Architect is phenomenal and the flexibility makes rework so seamless and easy to modify. With this idea, I am asking the question to whether or not the cabinet boxes can be shown for the construction portion of this in one form or fashion without being a huge manual labor intensive process? See the photo I grabbed from a quick google search. I am after the box with the side, back and front panels showing their thickness rather than only having the default outside box that Chief Architect has? One solution I would have is to create a symbol or possibly a generic cad block that's resizeable I can overlay on top of the cabinets when I am in the plan view? My client is taking these drawings to a cabinet shop and they like seeing the boxes as shown. Not sure why, but can only do so much.