Joe_Carrick

Mark, If you use a "Wall Cabinet" with a blank front and then add Moldings to it you can get the form you want and it will appear in the Cabinet Schedule and will have a label. Essentially, you're creating a Soffit but Chief's Soffits don't appear as cabinets in the schedule.

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Can't help you with that

For the record - it was created in Chief as a filled (almost white) square and a 3/16" filled (black) circle which I replicated at 1" intervals in both directions. I then snipped it to a png and pulled it into Chief as a new material. Very simple way to create a texture without needing to take a photo.

BTW, it comes in as 20"x20" but should be 12"x12". Just open it in the Library and change the size - then it'll be right whenever you use it.

Try This one PegBoard.calibz

Mark, The fact that you can add an Arch Block to the Schedule is helpful, but in the long run the only way to get everything you want is by having Custom Cabinets (stored in the User Library) with all the components you want. Using Chief's generic (aka native) cabinets is always going to result in a lot of editing to get the model and schedule complete and comprehensive. Kitchen Design at the level of detail that you need is more than most Chief Users. If you take each of your projects and systematically add those cabinets to your Library they can be used for other projects and will carry all the details with them. This is true for all sorts of objects, not just cabinets. CA gives us a starting point with their Libraries but building a comprehensive User Library and Templates is the only way I know of to eliminate (or at least minimize) the tedious work to get the consistent results. For cabinets you start with the basics - Base, Wall, Tall, Partition, Soffit - editing the details for Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings, etc. and set up a Library Folder Structure with those items. Then over time you can add and refine - anything you might use repetitively gets added to the Library with a cataloging system that you can relate to. My system looks something like this: My Cabinets ...Inset ......Design Style 1 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 2 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 3 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ...Lip Inset ......Design Style 1 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 2 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 3 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ...1/2" Overlay ......Design Style 1 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 2 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 3 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ...1-1/4" Overlay ......Design Style 1 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 2 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit ......Design Style 3 (Doors, Drawers, Hardware, Moldings) ..........Base ..........Wall ..........Tall ..........Partition ..........Soffit Whenever I create a new configuration - such as a cabinet with appliance(s) I add that to the Library. Then any time I want that or a similar configuration I can just grab it from the Library and place it in the plan. I'm refining this approach all the time. One of the things that seems to work best is having the Basic Units in each Design Style - no (D) designations so I can place one of each in the Plan and use those to set the Plan Defaults. All the special configurations are set to use the Defaults so I only need one of each special configurations - but I need one for each appliance Mfr/Model. This is what I call a Sharp Saw.

It used to be (back in v9.5 and maybe even in v10.0) that you had to export to 3DS any symbol and then import - regardless of what kind of symbol you wanted. I got CA to change that so we could define symbols directly without the export/import step - but we still have that problem for Cabinets.

Mark, In order for them to be in the Cabinet Schedule the Symbol needs to be defined as a Cabinet. You can do that by exporting the symbol to 3DS and then importing it back as a Cabinet.

Jon is correct. This is basically a two story space. The two smaller rooms have a ceiling that's contained by the second floor while the second floor is open to below in all the rest of the area. The walls surrounding the area that is the ceiling of the smaller rooms are basically 0 height railing walls.

Another way to do this would be to use a "Pass Thru Window" with an Full Arch. You might need to add a Solid as a Wall Cap, but that's pretty simple.

Draw a Half Wall about 12" away from the opening. Make it "No Room Definition" and then move it into the arched opening.

So, 7+ months after the kitchen fire last December.... Our home is finally being repaired. All the framing and, sheathing, etc has been sprayed with KILZ (tinted gray) so none of Larry's color scheme works in our home.

Lew, If each apartment is in a separate Plan File then the Schedules can be done in each Plan and sent to one common Layout File. Each appartment Plan can then be pasted into one overall Plan and that can also be sent to the common Layout File. That's what Perry is talking about.

Walls, Main Layer Only is undoubtedly the problem. That suppresses every other wall layer - which are the ones with actual materials to display.

What Layer is it on? Is the Layer turned off? BTW, have you updated to the latest version?

Ahh.... That would be Materials. You can select a series of framing members and edit their Materials. As per pic below

Larry, Check your 3D Layerset. Framing members are different layers and you may have changed the colors - but I don't know how that would happen unless you did it on purpose.

Interestingly it's working for me now. Yesterday it wasn't and today it is ....... GREMLINS

Have you tried the %page.print% macro assigned on page 0 of your layout? What does it show on other pages? Does it even show on page 0?

I believe that Polyline Solids - like slabs and primitive solids are set at "Absolute Elevation", not "Floor Relative". It's one of those things that it would be nice to have another data box for in the dbx.

Bug Report..... %page.print% doesn't work if included as a part of page 0. This is really the only reasonable way to use this macro IMO. Why should we need to place it individually on each page of the Layout? Basically, all other Layout macros dealing with page numbers, sheet numbers, titles, descriptions, etc are placed on page 0 and update to the appropriate information depending on what sheet is displayed or printed. This one should be the same.

That's really a matter of going in to the Dimension Defaults and getting it set up right so you don't get so many extraneous dimensions.

Yep, just read the Update Notes. Some good things - but pretty dissapointed with overall content of this update. There are numerous outstanding bugs in the X6 added features that have not been addressed.

So has anyone been able to figure out what's been done for this update? We don't have the release notes yet and I have no idea what to look for.