GeneDavis

I tried that and no work-y.

Did you examine the plan with all layers on in the view that was exported?

I can bring into Chief anything that has a Collada (.dae) format, which is a lot, but I cannot edit the model like I can if I can bring it into my SU app. So for example, one of the Weber grilles I brought into Chief has a 2D image of a man in it and I don't know how to edit him out.

A year ago or more, Google changed the 3D Warehouse access to be subscription only. Before that, my Sketchup Make 2017 Free could download anything up at the Warehouse. It is greatly limited now. They disabled the Warehouse access that is in the SU 2017. A subscription is quite a bit more annually than SSA. So until they figure out how to disable my on-board SU 2017, I'm not going there just to be able to access the warehouse. From the Components panel, I can browse it, but is not a rich a search as going to the main site. And while a very few items can import, most cannot. Why some very few models can import, and not others, is a mystery.

I use Sketchup 2017, the free one, and have no access to most all of the 3D Warehouse. If you've access and are willing, will you please get and post these three Weber grilles? Weber Summit Gas Grille BBQ Grille Weber Genesis Simple Charcoal Grille I used the exact title of each so search should bring them up. Thanks.

That's a very pretty skirt!

What's an Azek post skirt? Is it something continuous along the deck fascia? Chief won't generate that with a newel. I played with Chief symbol-making for newels and balusters, about 5 or 6 releases ago. Maybe more. Took a Sketchup model of a Winchester model 94 30-30 carbine, imported it in as a millwork item, and made some fancy balustrades. Did it also with a Donald Duck model. Blew out my poly counts, but it was cool.

Do a SaveAs, strip the SaveAs of everything not walls windows doors and roofs. Zip the SaveAs and post it here. And fill our your signature. Just looks like a shed roof modern to me. Stripped, can't be that big.

Think about what kind of objects can log to schedules in Chief. They are all 3D objects. So consider using cabinets as piles.

Nice presentation and discussion, Eric. I think the OP has a situation where the new structure is going to be built atop the asbuilt slab, and its wall lines will be inside those slab edges. Like maybe a foot. So he may just want to make his slab, the one Chief builds for him under his porch, invisible material, and let the asbuilt slab show. Or put it on its own layer, and turn off the layer display.

That's thinking inside the box, innit? You can place one out in the yard and do the same thing.

Nice, @rlacklore !! The steel stairs structure, was that all done in solids? And are those stringers single-plate 1/4" steel or are they something like 8 x 2 x .188 tubing?

Straight runs of stairs, no landings, no U turns, just straight, are the way to do it if you want to maximize living space. Your image looks fine.

I did a search and found some posts from pre-X14. There seemed to be no tools for drag and drop a CAD detail from plan A to plan B, other than to create a new one in B, open the one in A, marquee-select all or whatever you want, then paste it into the new one opened in B. Is this still the deal, or did we get something new? I want to create some new better template files and want a rich set of CAD detail in each.

Thanks, Robert. Where did I miss that bonus library that has the shelf and the base? I looked and looked.

OK, I took the Herman Miller 3D and imported into Chief using the SKP and DWG downloads. Here is a Chief 14 file with just the rolling racks, and it is close to 17 megs in size. The problem is you cannot explode them and isolate out just a shelf unit, or maybe I don't know enough about working with symbols. Rolliing baker racks ACAD and SKP.zip

If you have Revit (I don't) or Sketchup v. 19 (mine is v. 17) here is a free download of pretty much exactly what your image shows. Gonna be a lotta surfaces. Look at those file sizes. https://www.hermanmiller.com/resources/3d-models-and-planning-tools/product-models/individual/open-wire-shelving/ If anyone has the full card of SU versions, I'd like this in something my v. 17 can open.

In 3D if rendered to really look like the shelf with all its wire (the wire-truss sides and ends) and its top (not sure what I am seeing), you are gonna have a monstrous surface count. Hope you are getting paid for the 3D work. If there were good straight-on pics of the sides, and a straight-down view of the top, I would make a 3D slab, remove its bottom surface, and texture the tops and side with the wire-shelf images. But that does not do the roller feet, nor the pillars and rack fittings.

So you want those wire shelves to render in 3D and look just like the ones in the image? Or is the image a rendering of the 3D symbol you have?

Here is the cabinet. I changed the top pullout to be a 3" height version of the RAS from the Manufacturer Library. That one does not show the line in vector view. The bottom one is done with a symbol I made using the RAS (I think that is how I did it) that produces side offsets. With a Blum Tandem slide and 5/8" drawerbox slides, a regular drawerbox has 3/16" side insets. In the case of pullouts behind hinged doors, one either uses zero protrusion hinges, or one of the spacer block options to set the slide-mount off the carcase wall. This, so the rollouts clear doors when pulling out. I prefer the 3/4" spacers, thus my side setback for rollouts is 15/16". You can get a sense of that setback looking at the screencap from my eCabs app. The cabinet here, if you closely examine the rollouts, has a 1/16" side setback for the top one (the RAS box from the Chief library), and something like 1-plus inches for the one I made. Pullouts.plan

These are something like 5" high and in the shelf dialog I specified 3". The line shows in vector view and anything with line overlays.

I'm there on the drawer not door part. Thanks to you both.

Now do the hidden drawer.

Show me how to do it with the 5349-18DM trashbin pullout, and show it pulling out like a drawer, which is what it does. A door panel fixes to the front of the RAS unit. Here is my cabinet. And when you succeed at that, show us how to take out the top drawer, make the whole height of the cabinet an empty carcase, then do the RAS trash at the bottom, attached to the full height door panel, and a roll out tray above it. Show the trash 100 percent pulled out, the upper rollout drawer 50 percent. trash.plan

I'm showing the client what the cab insides look like, just the ones with rollout trays, shelf divider panels, and trash and spice pullouts. This, so there are no surprises. Pics are much better than descriptions. Chief does shelves behind hinged doors, but not behind drawers. I got what I was after changing the cab front to "opening" where the door was, and using loose parts and manually positioning them for the staged shot shown below. After that I changed the cab back to one with a fixed panel door, and specified the RevAShelf kit in the comments.