GeneDavis

OK I figured out what's up with this. The appliance from Chief's library is placed in the cabinet's center, in plan view. Most call this "dropping it in." Done that way, there is no issue with placing it in a 24" wide base. Here is what Chief does to the 3D appliance, so be aware. The product has a total height of its front equal to 15 7/8", so if your opening height is that number, the oven will be put into the cab with its correct height. But Chief will put it into a 13" high opening, and also a 17" high opening, shrinking it on its Z axis or stretching it to fit the hole.

Hey @steve_stuart, to paraphrase the Bee Gee's song, "How deep is your cab?" Actually, give us ALL your cab specs. Framed or frameless, separation, width of cab, height of cab, depth, run from top to bottom of front to give us the top separation, the opening height, the separation under the MW, and the reveals for each of those two separations. I cannot get it into and opening if I make the opening the size of a garage.

The appliance-insert method within the cabinet spec dialog won't give me the 3D result I want. I'm doing a frameless base, 3/4" sides, 3/4" "separation" and am looking at Sharp's installation instructions that call out an opening of 22 1/8" opening in a 24" wide cabinet. I have installed these and it's always been in a 24-wide box, with a 22.5" opening width. I tried it and Chief says no, need larger cabinet. The image here shows what I get when I manually insert the appliance into my 24-wide box. Exactly the look I want. It is the KB6524PSY from Chief's Sharp manufacturer catalog. But why doesn't it work as appliance insert in the cab spec dialog?

I solved it! Import the object and check it in as an interior fixture, and checking advanced options. It's not intuitive, but just as you do for the Rev A Shelf pullout, you go into the drawer spec checking the appliance thing, and you can then in the next spec page that opens, ID the pullout object as a pullout. In the pic shown here, the one on the L is for spices, the Hafele one on the R is for oils, vinegars, and any other cooking pourables that come in tall slim bottles. The flank the range.

Study the photos and you'll see the ridge jump on the main left wing. It's that jump that raises the front roof plane so its eave is above the porch roof. That rise is not in back, where the porch roof's ridge matches the high roof's eave, where they join. That roof feature, front plane eave raised above a porch roof, is seen on so many "modern farmhouse" plans, it's become an architectural tic.

Take screencap pics of your problem, post the pics along with the plan file. You know what to do with the plan file. Make a copy of it, strip out every thing in it that is not wall and roof and floor structure, to make file size, when compressed, 12 megs or under. Close Chief , zip file, attach here along with the pics. Also, if what you are trying to do is replicate that plan, link us to the plan seller's website, to the exact page of the plan, or attach screencaps of the floor plans.

From Hafele's site, I downloaded a .dae format model of the base pullout I want in a cabinet. In importing the symbol, I specified it as a door/drawer. Maybe that's the mistake. Anyhow, it can be placed in a Chief model. In this pic, shown L to R, are the Hafele pullout, a Rev A Shelf pullout, a cab into which I placed in 3D space, the Hafele pullout, and a cab with single drawer, the drawer pullout (in the cab spec dialog) specified as the Rev A Shelf. I want the Hafele to behave as the RAS item does, that is, it replaces the drawerbox (being itself a pullout) and can show nicely in a 3D view when show-drawer-open is checked for display. That cab in the pic that contains it, is specified as a single-drawer in front, and in the pic you can see the drawerbox. Note there's no d'box in the other cab, the one with the RAS organizer. How should I do the import the right way, to make this work?

It's Z-position. Open that 3D panel. Fool around with it, you'll figure it out.

I am drawing a CAD detail on a CAD detail page (CAD > Cad Detail Management > New) and have used the line tool, rectangle tool, spline tool, and made a few point to point moves of rectangles as I blocked everything in. Look at this. See the point markers? I have deleted the five points once, did a screen move, they came on again, and I deleted them again. Now they have re-appeared. Why this behavior?

Note the "room" under has a slab floor. Invisible walls define the porch "room," and the attic walls above have roof directives, the front gabled, the sides not. It's a no-brainer.

It's not doable in Chief, so I uncheck label in the beam's DB and write a label manually. For me there aren't that many beams in a floor plan, and I like to add "FLUSH" or "DROPPED" in the label.

Give us a screencap of what you see, because I just opened the file, took a 3D perspective overview, and see no transoms anywhere.

Hey, @robdyck, I tried it and it doesn't work. It may only work when you change both eave and gable subfascia to 7 inches, but in my particular case, I want the 5.5 on gable and 7 on eave, and when I do a rebuild with those set thus, I get the same glitch. And the glitch is only in 3D, as reported before. A backclipped section shows the sub-f at 7 inches depth. I'm good to go for con docs. Nobody but me is gonna see the 3D view with its glitchy result. Got the same glitch on a brand new quick test plan. I am going to send it in with a ticket and see what Chief says.

Thanks, @robdyck! Looks as if the only "built" that matters is Chief autobuild, in this case. I'll do this on a copy-file first, to make sure the rebuild leaves all the trusses alone. I spent time editing those trusses to be what I want. The gable sub-f stays at 5.5 and only the eaves go to 7.

Taken from same plan. Open and see. 1300 sf Shoebox House.zip

Take a look at the section. I specified 7" height for the subfacia, and it measures correctly. But look at it in 3D. It is only 6 1/16" high when the dialog box shows it spec'd at 7".

That the diff! Thanks, Robert.

I'm dimensioning wall frame elevations for a job that will be panelized. Take a look at this segment of the plan. The two walls I'll discuss here are the 2x6 ones that are on both sides of bedroom 2. Here is the left one. All walls have a "front" side, even interior walls like these, and the framing view that comes up when selected, is the view from the front. For this one, I can use the end to end dimensioning tool. Here is the right one. Again, this wall is viewed from its "outside." End to end dimensioning won't work on this one, so I used point to point. So, why this behavior, end to end only working on some elevations, but not others?

Hey, @Renerabbitt! Show us how that texture is created and used. Thanks.

I am going through a job wall by wall after generating framing, to edit and annotate, so the job can be sent out to the panelizer plant. When opening some of the walls, I see points all around, that somehow got generated, by the program, not me. See the screencap. Look around and you'll see four points down below the bottom dimnsion line. When these occur, they are in locations that have nothing to do with any dimensioning or anno work I've done. Sometimes in window or door openings, sometimes up above top plates. What's causing this?

If you're not going to post the plan, screencap all the fdn settings and show us.

I've a 4:12 ceiling plane defining the scissors truss envelope. I draw the ceiling plane baseline right at the wall framing line, not at the drywall face 1/2" inboard, and set the height of the baseline at 109 1/8" to match plate height. But it does not place the plane correctly. It is lowered just about exactly one-third of a sixteenth inch. See the pics. What is this behavior all about? I tried raising the ceiling plane using the move tool, inputting +1/48" in the z axis for the move. It did not move. I deleted the planes and redrew them, specifying wall height at 109.125, and still got the error in placement. I drew a new test plan and did not get this error. The CAD boxes you see in the closeup are rectangles to measure height. The large rectangle is 1/16" high. The three small ones, are each as high as the error, and it seems weird that they are exactly one third of a sixteenth. I stacked three to see. If you want to download the plan, look for the thread I titled how to delete these ceiling lines in my elevation view, in this forum.

I made it in Sketchup Make 2017 but it imports right in as a symbol. Therma Tru Modern Door.skp

@robdyck here you are. 1300 sf Shoebox House - Copy.zip

Hi @robdyck! I am lost in X17 and its file setup. How does one do a zipped plan file coming out of Chief project system?