GeneDavis

HELP! I am unable to get the expected result when I try to place my doors in the cabinet. File attached, plus my doors. I believe the doors are identical in Chief, one having been created in Chief with p'line solids and the other imported from Sketchup. By identical I mean I edited the symbols to have same origins and stretch planes. Red door.calibz White door.calibz 1812463411_overlaplightrail2.plan

I can see that in a table, maybe, for somebody's idea of energy calcs, or for some other reason, but on the drawings, for building?

OOOH! Thank you! The blank area! Opening at bottom to raise deck! What a revelation.

That'll do for illustration purposes, and thanks. But it does not do what I want, so I will make a suggestion in the subforum here. My specs for wall cabinets, vertically, are, and this is frameless, a 1/8 reveal at top, and at bottom, the door overshoots the deck with a 1-1/4" overhang. That 1-1/4" is matched on the right side or left side it the cab is an end unit, and if a betweener, the sides are flush to the deck. I do a light rail molding, a piece rectangular in x-section, 3/4 x 1-1/8 high, and that screws to the decks from below and is continuous across a run of wall cabs. I want the doors at that 1-1/4 line, covering the light rail piece with an extra 1/8. This began with me when I teamed with a partner in the 00s and teens to do kitchens, and we did them all with this detail. At that time, almost all undercab lighting was halogen, at first, then xenon, and the housings or pucks were all 1" tall, thus the 1-1/8 rail. It is all changed now with the LED strips, which can be installed in a shallow plowed groove, 19mm wide, just like I saw in my friend's custom high style kitchen last night. But done that way, the lights faced down, straight down. I am now a fan of doing the undercabinet lighting with the 45-angle-mount strips (section view attached) and so my detail will now be calling for that overshoot to be 1" for the doors and ends, and a 7/8" high light rail. The scheme was all easily done back in the days when I was building kitchens, because I used eCabinets software to buy the cab packages, and in eCabs you can do anything you want. A totally custom job could do the same, but you would never get this from the big players pumping out stock and "semi-custom" cabinets.

I know this has been solved already and shown in this forum, but my search failed. To hide undercab lighting I want to raise the deck (bottom of carcase) of wall cabinets. With frameless cabs this requires a light rail across the front under the deck, and doors extend down. it also means that the carcase gable (what many cabinetmakers call the carcase side) at the end of a run needs to extend down past the raised deck. And any in-betweeners have flush decks. This is how I build. How can I replicate in Chief?

You are seeing the light. Foundations have room control the same as levels 1, 2, etc., and there is no real limit on where in the z axis a room's floor is placed.

At the User Center.

Steeper than this? Just watch the Chief video.

PBRing the view gives me what I would expect from the pendants over island and small table, but raytrace does not? Why? The pendants don't even look ON.

Look up nail-base. Goes on top.

Found it! Thanks.

In the attached plan, a front porch with roof over and railing surround is designated DECK, and terrain is not cut. A rear porch is designated DECK but has non-railing framed walls with windows and a door, and cuts terrain. I do not want the enclosed rear deck to cut terrain. I tried specifying terrain without the building cutting the hole, and did the perimeter I wanted as a terrain hole, and STILL that back room cuts terrain. What's up? DECK TRIAL TERRAIN.zip

After I closed the file for zipping, I reopened it after doing this post, and now I have room def. Thanks.

I cannot and have tried. The breezeway in this plan was changed by the client to be crawlspace instead of part of the basement, so I put a pony wall across to define it, ICF foundation wall below, 2x6 framing only above. I am unable to get room definition, and it has got to be one or more of the four intersects shown in the image here. Plan attached. Thanks. Hickey SBR final for permit.zip

Thanks but tried that.

3D Warehouse.

See the picture. A breezeway intersects the house wall, and we know it's just sheathing in that attic area. How to delete the siding?

The kind that's low voltage, two parallel wires maybe10 inches apart, the little flying saucers with gimballed spots, and more. Edit: downloaded this little beauty and it's by one of my favorite lighting outfits, Tech Lighting. I am afraid of blowing up my already-overblown plan with more surfaces.

Manual mask. Easy. Can be translucent. Can be done as transparent fill angle hatch, and with the right combination of line weight and spacing, can render the below-grade parts in dashed lines.

Is it available? A library of CAD depictions of beds, tables, chairs, sofas, and more? I place 3D furniture and then my model gets slow.

File here. Rear porch roof. Roof rafter Oct 3.zip

I have an enclosed deck with 2x8 roof rafters over, and cannot get Chief to NOT trim the rafter to the soffit condition. I have tried in the roof dialog checking and unchecking the trim to soffit box. What am I not seeing or doing? What you see is the roof trimmed to 2x6 size.

I've done it with a molding, it was wood shingled, the editing for pattern position took much more time than getting the molding positioned.

IOW, your 8" ought to grow to 15" But tell us why you want ICF there at all.

I cannot get the inner wall in a position to see and click its pass-thru for editing. In plan view, I select the inner wall, move it 12" x-direction to get it in the room, and it shows no pass-thru. What's the trick? And Eric, how did you get your result?