Alaskan_Son

All great advice Rab

Yes. Completely automated using a schedule and custom macros.

I'm kinda curious. Do you actually order very many cabinets with a reveal that small? We always have those built to 1/8"+. 1/16" is way too small IMO. The slightest tweaking of anything and panels are bumping into each other. Not very functional in my personal opinion and experience.

It just got switched to an invisible wall is all. Maybe you accidentally deleted it at some point.

Whether you agree with the logic and approach or not, I'm sure the reason is because they wanted to re-use the code and dialog box. I would do the same thing if it seemed logical to me. I think that's where the core of our disagreements lie (whether between you and I, you and Chief, me and Chief, etc.). Chief chose to use the baseline of the perpendicular roof plane. I see nothing wrong with this. Yes, I can see the benefit of using a different parameter such as width at wall. Go ahead and request it. That would be great. I think you're grasping at straws with this one. Sure if you measure it from that direction there's no pitch, but its easy enough to understand that its pitched and its also an upper plane. We can use at least a very small amount of deductive reasoning there. This I can certainly agree with. True, but the more we can use auto settings, the better.

You are correct. No need for the extra wall. You can just overlap a door and a pass-through in the same wall. There can be a few little quirks though when 2 openings occupy the same space in the same wall and you also get less control over where the wall lands relative to the wall.

For the record, I haven't had to use door panel take-offs from Chief myself, but quite honestly I've never needed to do probably 75% of the things that I've needed to provide to various Chief clients. In other words, I don't need it, but I figure out how to do it for others. I've found that this practice commonly brings me to these 2 realizations: A. The reason others may not be doing it isn't because they don't want to or have no use for it. It's simply because they haven't considered that it was actually a viable option. B. There are a lot of things I had never considered doing that I realize are great ideas and start to integrate into my own workflow. In this particular instance I could see this being quite handy and I would argue that 1/32" isn't going to make or break anything with almost anything we do in our normal course of business, and besides, there are steps that can pretty easily be taken to round numbers down too. Anyway, with a little custom macro work, this is totally possible albeit with a couple of minor quirks...

Yes. This^^^^^

It can be done using walls set to no room definition to hold the doors, and pass-throughs to create the openings. Quick example... Doors.plan

By the way, just to be very very clear, I think there definitely should be angular dimension defaults.

This is highly debatable. There are many many things that have no default setting and there are many things that can be controlled via several different defaults (due to our own incessant and somewhat self destructive desire for options). Not so sure Chief needs to make a point of highlighting everything that doesn't have a default setting. That's not something I've ever seen in any software. If you can't find the setting using the appropriate channels than there probably isn't one.

No. Not really. You asked what that setting was for. You question was easily answered by reading the description and clicking on Help. And you would very naturally and easily be directed there going the other direction as well...

I feel like this is a flawed question... "Which Universities offer Architecture Studies via Chief Architect Software" No universities anywhere offer architecture studies via software of any kind. Architectural degrees have nothing whatsoever to do with software. The question is kinda like asking which universities offer law degrees using Microsoft Word. Chief Architect is simply a tool some designers choose to use and is nothing more than a supporting class a person might take. An architectural or engineering degree is a huge investment and requires a butt-load of prerequisites as others have mentioned. In addition to the academic prerequisites you're looking at several more years of study and then several more years working for someone else before you'll get your so called stamping privileges. It's no small undertaking by any means and if you ask me, "which software do you teach with?" is not even a question worth asking. You can learn software anywhere.

By and to the the way, its all right there in the Name and in the Help files... I find that Chief is far more clear with things than we often give them credit for when we take the time to slow it down a notch and actually read their descriptions.

Yes. As far back as I know. It controls the displayed angle for lines...

I don't think there's much to add. There simply is no default setting for angular dimensions. It's as simple as that. Its a longstanding gripe of many users. I personally don't care all that much though because I very rarely use the tool. Totally guessing at this, but I'd say I probably only ever use it once or twice on every 3rd job. When I do, it takes about 3 second to open it up and change the angle style. The bigger deal to me is that lack of control over rounding accuracy. Even that though I put pretty far down my list. I honestly only ever need to change that on probably 1 out of 10 angular dimensions I place at most. Easy enough to overlay text in those situations.

Because it's completely unrelated.

Ah, yes. I see what you're saying. It's always round to the nearest 1/16". This isn't a problem with most cabinets I've tested and would be fine with most cabinets we use, but it could definitely be an issue with others. Good catch. Have you reported this particular issue?

Okay, so a bit more testing and I see what's happening...at least for cabinet styles I've quickly tested... Cabinet attributes aren't properly getting refreshed unless there's a total rebuild. Only way I can seem to force this is through a Cut/Paste of the cabinet(s) or an Undo/Redo. Very strange and I will report. Panel sizes seem to be reporting perfectly accurately as long as the cabinet attributes get refreshed.

Okay. So, just as a followup, I realized I lied. It is possible. As I recall, Chief wasn't reporting those panel sizes correctly last time I tried, but they seem to be reporting just fine now.

If you want to use the Material List then this definitely changes things a bit. Also, just FYI you don't need to Export. You can simply copy and paste directly. Give it a shot.

Door opening lines are a hard coded, dashed line style. The Help files actually specifically describe them as being DASHED lines.

You are correct. I was assuming it was just a standard railing....thus my "never mind". Doesn't look like those pony walls work quite the same. It would be a lot easier of people would just post plans.

Never mind. Looks like you're trying to do something a little different than I thought.

Don't screw with the bounding box size. You need to include a custom countertop cutout (Hole In Countertop) in the 2D Block.