Joe_Carrick

Does using the millwork symbol not work for you in the accessory tab of the cabinet dbx?

OK, anyway it seems that a cabinet less than 6" wide can't have any drawers or doors. I can however place a freestanding door and size it independently. Not what you're looking for

Mark, There's nothing in your zipped file.

Just thinking outside the box

I just have my Dimension Strings set further out. That's in defaults also.

"Label Offset" can be set in the defaults. Normally, the "Y" offset is -12. Change it to +12

Mark, Have you considered converting a pilaster to a "Cabinet Door" symbol? Then you can use just a plain cabinet with a drawer and assign the "Cabinet Door" from the Library. That will allow full use of all the Cabinet adjustments but still give you the filler you want.

Mark, I took a Millwork Pilaster from the Library, set a Stretch Plane at y = -1/4", modified the depth to 24", exported to 3DS and imported back in as a Cabinet. This is the result. Is this what you are looking for? It acts just like a base cabinet but the width, height and depth are fixed. If you want different sizes you would have to do the above for each size.

Mark, I need to do a bit of searching in the Library. It seems to me there are a lot of them. Can you explain a bit more what you are looking for? Some of the millwork symbols could probably be used to define fillers as "Cabinets". The process is a bit convoluted though because you have to export to 3DS and then import back into Chief in order to define it as a "Cabinet".

Greg, No, I'm just trying to think of better ways to make all the info available. ie: easier to find and/or understand.

Greg, Here's a pic showing how to do this. I've included an inverted triangle shaped molding (attached library item) 12" tall, 1" wide There are 3 Molding Polylines (drawn in Plan): The two on the outside have a just one molding profile set at 96" tall and 8" deep The center one has 3 moldings: Triangle 36" tall, 3" deep Square 12" tall, 7" deep, vertical offset 84" Triangle 12" tall, 1" deep, vertical offset 84", horizontal offset 7" Using this method, you can customize your sloped walls. There are other ways to do this using custom symbols made with solids but that's a fairly advanced technique. I've also attached the Plan that I used to do this so you can study it. It's not your plan but it should give you a real good idea of how to do it. Sloped Wall Molding.zip Molding - Inverted Triangle.calibz

Scott, Rotating the Symbol won't do any good. That ADA Toilet would now be facing the wrong direction. The front of the toilet (instead of the back) would be up against the wall. BTW, Jim and I were in total agreement about the Symbol Origin being related to the Plan View orientation when created. Jim's nugget was the position of the Rotate Handle being at the "Front" of the Symbol.

Ahhhh... You meant "REVIEW"

It's a good explanation - but I don't think there's any rebutal of what was said in our workshop.

Ben, I think you misunderstood the question I was posing. I didn't mean we should prevent this type of questions. What I'm asking is how can we make it easier to get the answers. In most cases I assume the user has tried to get the answer from the help file or from Chief's videos. Often that doesn't get them where they need to be. What can be done to make it easier to get the answers from such other sources?

Probably

Annik, I will do it tonight. I am tied up with a lot of other projects today.

Select the Wall you want to copy - save it to the Library. Now select that wall in the Library and simply draw the garage with that wall definition. This is a great way to build a library of wall types - just be sure to create sub-folder(s) to put your custom wall types in. It's much better than just using the "Default Exterior and Interior Walls".

Sherry, Country is COOL and we welcome your presence. and the opportunity to help.

So basically Rich did what I said in my second option of post #17 of this thread. Not a bad guess. Putting Windows in before creating the first symbol would work but they wouldn't be in the Window Schedule. Doors would essentially be impossible

Hmmmm...... It would be great if some of those "off topic" posts could be deleted (by the OP or a moderator). It would also be nice if the OP could go back and rename the thread and add Tags - but I'm not sure how the Tags are used.

There are so many questions (in some cases - Why can't I......) posted here. Many (and I really think most) of these questions result in an answer of "You Can". There are several reasons for all these questions: 1. It's easier to just ask than to go searching the help files or searching the Forums for previous answers. 2. Most of the time someone will answer the query so the person asking the question is not encouraged to search. 3. This software is very complex - with many different ways of doing something, but not necessarily the same way as other software such as AutoCAD. 4. Few new users take the time to view the training videos, study the help docs, etc. 5. There are several "Hidden Handshakes" that even experienced users may be unaware of - things that get you into an edit mode that you didn't know about. There are probably a lot more reasons, but I believe the 5 above are the main culprits. What do we do about it? What can we? Should we?

No argument from me! The Doorway Category is missing from the materials list. Why it's not treated like a Door I don't know.

If the macro could be inserted in the the Callout as the beginning "Letter" or a part of that. ie D%door.floor% then the numbering of doors would be: D101,D102,... for the Doors on Floor 1 D201,D202,... for the Doors on Floor 2 D301,D302,... for the Doors on Floor 3 etc. This would be true even if there was only a single schedule that encompassed all floors. ps: This is a feature request that I've made previously but in a much more general form (give us Ruby access to all the data of objects - which of course includes floor.)

Dennis, I just used a Box, made a Box to subtract, copied it to each panel location and used the Boolean (Subtraction) to cut the holes. Then I put a big panel 1/2" thick to fill in all the holes and converted it to a symbol. It would be appropriate to set a stretch plane at x=3 and x=-3 so that the vertical rails would remain constant.