Steve_Matlaga

Thank you for the potential solution. The down side to your option is, you have to use the same panel style left and right. So, right back the start. This particular job requires Walnut interiors, 5 pcs door left, slab panel right. A very common application. The easiest work around is those I mention in my OP. You could also add vertical partitions, which would be what I'll try next. If it was only one job, one time, I'd just apply the panels loose and call it a day. However, it is very common to have different color finished interiors from exterior. It's been an issue I've avoided and just worked around it until today I was so frustrated that this was an issue still... I figured, IT HAD TO BE ME. LOL. Yes, needs to be reported for sure! Thank you for trying Great idea! It is the solution for end panels that are the same style. Step in the right direction!

Good Day Friends, In Chief x17, If you are changing your cabinet sides to anything other than standard finished sides, you will lose the ability to select a material finish on the inside/side of the box. Example, Change left side wall cabinet to Custom, Door panel. Right side, changed to applied panel. (just to prove the point. Chief deletes the panel inside, leaves the edge banding though. You end up seeing the back side of the door. One solution, would be to create a new door symbol and assign a different material to all the backs of your door from the front. (That's a major pita and should be required) The other option, which slows down design time, is to manually go back, and apply loose door panels instead of using cabinet wizard to add them. In all cases, SHAME on CHIEF, or SHAME ON ME for missing something obvious. I looked around, and can't find anyone reporting this issue prior!? This is not cool! Any help appreciated. (Oh, I tried, framed vs. frameless. Same issue). It seems like a hard coding issue. I think the applied, or custom side as a panel need an offset to avoid this. Chief has some sort of auto hide face function when the door or panel is intersecting with the side of the box. That is believed on count how chief treats toe kicks with certain PITA behavior. You need work arounds, like 1/16" end panel on a base, just so your closed framed toe kick shows properly! Things Devs just don't care about I guess.

It was said by some, Chief doesn't let you rotate certain objects, like cabinets in the Z axis. Well, yes, true, but also.... What this? A Toy Box(Bench Seat) made from a wall cabinet? Look, I rotated a cabinet on it's back, in the Z axis! CHIEF CANNOT Rotate a cabinet wizard symbol in the Z axis. So, the answer is right there. Turn the cabinet into just about anything else, and you now have all rotation axis on hand. Turn your cabinet into a symbol once you have the perfect configuration. (just about any type of symbol) NOW, once you do that, you have you full Rotation controls. You can re-orient the wall cabinet into a toy box! (usually just one rotation of the X axis will get you to this) That's it! No, you can't really edit the new item as a true CABINET using the Wizard tools. However, you do have the ability to create custom furniture from cabinets like a toy box, in just minutes. OTHER THOUGHTS: If you rather have the flexibility of your cabinet wizard Cabinet box, but still show a door on top of your cabinet box; than look at this option: Place a Door Symbol as an object into your plan. Open the object and use Rotation tools to now orient the door as you like: Move the door into place on top of your cabinet wizard symbol to mimic an open 'lid' (stretch planes won't work properly at this point though). Size the door BEFORE you 'open' it via rotation plane. via If you want more details on how I made the toy box, I'll be happy to share. Stay tuned for more tips. Next will be STRETCH PLANES FOR NEWBIES (and in my case, long time users). Only recently took time to utilize the third row of stretch dimensions. Enjoy!

A while back, many where saying you can't control column heights in schedules. That's not true. (or at least not for a while). TIP: Schedule column height can be adjusted not just via what Font you use, but via Margins around those fonts. To fix this, Just increase your top and bot FYI: I don't get on the forums much, but I would like to start sharing some of the very frustrating things that took me a long time to figure out. What should be easy, is sometimes made way to complex. Enjoy!

Long time, no talk. I recently talked a friend into buying Chief. He is loving it. I am going through some tough personal stuff, so away from the 'hobby' for a while. I'm curious. Is there an advantage to using a side inset, vs. a door panel? I know you love the side inset asset best, but wondering how it would differ or have an advantage. Great job by the way! What a simple, clever solution to making a proper WC panel. I really appreciate this. Silly me was about to use an interior door and turn it into a WC panel. Thanks Marc.

Hi Yes, and I see that you CAN do it, and you are doing it, but the issue is "" It is taking EVERYTHING. Shelves, (Roll outs)< Any height to the fronts, sides, everything under one TAG. It should be broken out into Shelves, Accessories, Sides, Panels. As you said also, you'd have a heck of time creating an insane number of style palettes, instead of just being able to simply have an option for the exact parts you need and want! Am I still missing something? I

Hi Friends, In the latest round of mess around, I thought someone might be interest in my current door style beta testing. In the spirit of this group of wonderful sharing folk, I wanted to let others see just how amazing Chief really can be! This is a Chief Architect standard base cabinet. I've made the door have the ability to apply four five different textures, the beaded inset also has two additional textures. This was created in Sketchup (which is 100x easier for making doors imho), imported to chief, and a set of custom textures were made for the specific client's selection. Both the door in chief is included as well as the sketchup file. Maybe, it will give you inspiration to make your own and share on the forum! No doubt, there are great tricks on beaded inset found on the forum, but for me, when it comes to ease of use, have the beaded detail as part of the door style is a big time saver. I'll be creating some other beaded details that are applied as 'doors' 'drawers' in the near future. NOTE: This is just a test door! I have to fix a small detail in Sketchup on the bead. (follow me tool doesn't always cooperate, if you use sketchup you'll know what i mean). Enjoy. (or don't, LOL). Beaded_Shaker.skp Beaded Shaker.calibz

Hi Friends. First, Thank you Mark! Mucho appreciated. Agreed on the sides and backs! Especially, that your beaded inset trick would be a simple click to an existing cabinet. How cool would that be? Also, two other great Chief folks were kind enough to share some info with me. Here's a video from our friend at Design Build Solutions, LLC 'The white font' is to honor his cool white glasses, lol. and Rabbit Design, who has been instrumental in learning how to manipulate the software to be more efficient to my needs via his tool sets. (not to mention, just a nice guy in general!).

Hello, Is there a way to save interior accessories/shelf configurations in a cabinet style Palettes? If it's not in there, It seems that this would be a great future addition to the tool set! Many times, you will want to simply add your favorite roll out set up to a base cabinet. It would be lovely to have that option as part of the style palette tools. I'm hoping I just overlooked it though. Fingers crossed Thanks.

This is VERY helpful. I remotely remember this being mentioned some time back. However, at that time, I would have no idea what anyone was talking about! I won't question the HOW, I'll just appreciate the results! AND YES< I very much would like to see the cabinet face frame rails and stiles shown. So, this is great. Off to create some new tool bar buttons I think the biggest issue I face with missing lines would be appliance panels next to face frame cabinets. I hate when the Dishwasher Panel is just blended with the adjacent cabinets. So, the take away seems to be, same material equal blending of separate cabinets. Alternating material, will equal visible separations between cabinets/parts. A click of a button to turn on cabinet module lines will turn face frame lines off or on. Thank you so much!

All valid. However, when I'm thinking of proper elevations and shop drawings, I want to render and have line drawings that reflect my intent of construction. I find it rather frustrating that Chief seems to ignore certain cabinet lines in elevations and leaves them when they should in fact NOT be there. (moldings are fine example on elevations, they end up a mess sometimes). Drives me nuts when I have to cheat and make one cabinet 1/16" shallower just so the elevation lines will show properly between two cabinets on the same plane(I do a lot of flush inset cabinets. Then of course that messes up the counter top lines on the elevation. Even after using this software for a couple years off and on, I'm always learning new tricks and finding new road blocks. I couldn't live without it now. The more I use it, the more I want to learn the smartest and most efficient methodologies! Rabbit has been a great inspiration when it comes to designing special styles, custom toolbar buttons and such to save time. Still have a lot to learn though! Some of you are decade(s) into Chief. Very much appreciate hearing from the masters!

So others may understand better, you need to split vertical HERE: TOP OF THE LIST/PARENT VERTICAL Then I was able to make the proper adjustments. Thanks to you both! Hang banging section over! You think I would have figured that out. Appreciate you folks!

This is what I'm after. I need an elevation detail show this as one cabinet. (which, honestly, I can just do it like I did. Cheat, put two cabinets together) The end result is the same. I want to know how to do it the right way though> Thanks guys. I'm trying out the suggestions now.

Hello, Having a senior moment I guess. I need to change the right side bottom door heights. I can't seem to adjust just that section. Is it just me, or an X15 issue? I guess I'll go back to X14 and see if it works. Regardless, Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I can only change the height for the entire horizontal section despite this pair of doors being a separate 'entity' Thanks. I've done so many projects with Chief. I'm so frustrated with myself for know I'm missing something obvious. UHG!

So, I had to dig a bit to find an answer to a very basic question. I'm not taking any credit for the answer, but I am thinking other newer or even old users may not know the answer. IF you see the CAD Detail from Drawing option greyed out in the menu, it's only on count that your current view IS NOT set to VECTOR. Set the elevation/cross section/back section view to the VECTOR style. THEN you will regain your ability to create a CAD DETAIL! Don't worry, once the cad detail has been created, you can go back and switch your style back to whatever you want in the original camera view. Me thinking aloud: Why not just make that 'switch' of styles behind the scene, or make a note write on the menu bar that indicates why it's greyed out? Frustrating when the problem is an enigma with no reasoning. X15 I was hoping this was fixed or addressed.

Hi Chief Friends. I've been an on and off chief user over the years, but now I'm all in! Being so appreciative of those who take time to share their knowledge and insight into Chief, I want to give back as I move along in my exploration.. D5 or other third party render engines don't seem to read the UV mapping of Chief doors. The doors export as one color/material layer, and you can't assign the rails separate from the stiles. I'm working on a new door symbol set that has separate colors already assigned to make prepping a job for third party render a little easier. For a start, here is a custom shaker door set that has separate material colors assigned for the stile and rails, as well as center panel. In addition, there are two sets of each so you can mix things up. Your render quality will greatly improve when your cabinet doors have accurate grain direction. The original symbol block is included as well, if you wish to tinker. I've actually found this useful in CA renders as well. If you really want to get an even more realistic door set, edit the original symbol block to use separate colors for the top vs bottom rail, and separate color for left vs. right rail! Let me know if there is an interest in symbols like this. I'll keep sharing. D5 Shaker.calibz

Need to get Hafele onboard! Moving over from 2020 into Chief, it's certainly a missed catalog used by so many cabinet manufacturers.

Good idea. I'll put it on the list It's pretty picky of a thing to request. Guess we'll see if others chime in. Once you get your menu structure organized, it's not 'as bad'.