GeneDavis

Thanks to you both. All done!

I asked earlier for a link to Rene Rabbit's vid on how to do vertical rope lights. Thanks to JKE and RR I have made and set the lights, but they are not working. They seem to work if placed outside the cabinet, but I cannot get the result RR got in his video. Plan attached. Pic shows the mullion-door wall cabs in which you can find the rope lights. Angel kitchen.plan

Did not the estimable M. Rabbit do a vid? I can recall seeing something like that, or was it the rye whiskey? Anyhow, I'd like to light some mullion-door wall boxes, and need a way.

Got it. Sorry for the use of bandwidth. It is the little number style icon in bottom R of dialog. I came to open this new plan after working a survey plan that I had changed the units to survey bearing angles and decimal feet. Apparently Chief carries that setting into a new plan. Is this how it should work, this carry forward of unit types?

I opened a new plan file to do a kitchen, and used the X15 OOB Kitchen and Bath Imperial template. Or at least I think it is OOB. Did a one room house plan with exterior walls and then laid in some CAD rectangles to plan a layout. The plan wants to do everything in decimal feet, the decimals to five places. Trying to edit a CAD polyline, simple rectangle, the temp dimensions come up in fractional inches as expected with K&B, but Chief takes my input as decimal feet. I want inches. Where is this controlled?

@JennaJenris Hi, I wonder if you can explain how you are using the size info you say you need tabbed out, to order or make cabinets. My customers that are builders and remodelers, all buy the cabinet packages unbundled and site-build or shop-build the cabinets themselves. This means the carcases come from one source, and the fronts, d'boxes, finished trim and moldings come from another. Hardware is purchased separately. These customers are the de facto cabinetmakers. Shipments of the various sub-packages arrive at the location at which cabinets are built. For those customers, a cabinet door order includes much more detail than just the height and width and count of doors. Doors are specified by style code, edge treatment, panel raise (if stile and rail type), wood species, and finish, plus hinge machining, this by bore spec, bore backset, depth, and type fixing (Blum Inserta, etc.), plus bore positions. I've done work for clients who are the property owners and they hire the contractors that do the jobs, and my work product for them, cabinet-scope-wise, is the kind of plan views, elevations, details, and schedules one sees on a typical set of construction documents. Those packages get quoted ordered and built the typical way: cabinet shops or dealers that represent the brand names such as Wellborn, Crystal, or whatever work from the plans and the clients to tailor and supply a package as needed.

I'm not seeing drawerbox sizes or drawerslides, or a CNC file for the carcase build

Hi @Joe_Carrick how does the macro figure drawer box sizes? Their width depends on the slides used, and height is typically done in scheduled increments and not figured as a simple formula from the opening height. And does it specify thickness for sides, fronts, backs, and bottoms, plus bottom insets? Further, Chief does not model a door to door center gap margin for paired doors. Does your macro size double doors based on user input for gap?

I don't think so. I use the freeware eCabinets alongside Chief and from a Chief cab schedule, enter all the cabs into a job batch, then produce the buy list, which lists out every door, drawerfront, drawerbox, drawerslide, and hinge in the job. Another output from the job batch is the CNC file that gets emailed to the cutting shop, from which we source all the carcase parts that are all labeled, shipped flat all banded and shrinkwrapped to pallets, for assembly usually at the sites but sometimes at the shops. I then take the eCabs buy list and enter it all into Walzcraft's interactive online ordering system, and it spits out the orders. I am not concerned with s.f. per door or d'front, but that is an output element from the Walzcraft system.

How are they going to switch between two? Do they have the license and software? You show two. Tell us how you got two roofs on the same model. Maybe you have the solution. i'd make an exterior flyaround video of each and join the two in a single edited video, and give them the link.

Put the info in your sig so we can always see it, in this or any new posts you do. If you figured out how to do an asbuilt in x15 you can certainly figure out how to do a sig. Hint: it is called "Signature" and it is in your account settings. Then, do a better job telling us what problem you need to solve in making your asbuilt model. And close the file, zip it, and attach it here.

You posted this in the wrong place. Move it over to Q&A. Then start by telling us what software you are using. This forum is for Chief Premiere users. Home Designer has its own forum elsewhere. So figure out how to do your signature (see mine for ideas) and do it, then if your software is Chief Premiere (X15 or X14 or whichever), close the file, zip it to compress, and attach it to your next post in this thread you have begun. Those buried dormers always have roof planes at their downhill sides. Maybe only pitched at 1/4" in 12", but nonetheless a roof. So the "pocket" is not a floor or deck, but a roof.

New layout. File>Print>DrawingSheetSetup. Select Arch E size. Edit to create the border and all the blocks needed for title, project, date, sheet number, etc. Save as template file.

Seems to me like a layout file can only have a single sheet size.

Happens to me, too, but I ignore it. Why not file a ticket with Chief and report back their response?

These flat-roofed projects don't have parapets but do have structural metal decking bearing on wood framing. The tower project has rigid tapered insulation, making the roof surface like a hipped roof pitched 1/4" in 12" all four ways. https://salaarc.com/project-types/featured/box-camp/ https://salaarc.com/project-types/featured/metal-lark/ Lotsa good info here about tapered roof insulation https://www.insulfoam.com/tapered-insulation/

Does the front dormer wall align with the wall below?

I think of a framing list in three parts. Walls and roof and floor structures. And Chief gives those breakouts. Since I work hard to make the floor structures and roofs framed as they should, those results are pretty good. It's walls that are messy in the Chief reporting. I have watched the framing and the delivered materials for walls have only two lengths. Stud lengths and 16 footers. Stud lengths like 92 5/8" or 104 5/8". So run two material lists, one as the buy list to get your stud length counts (ignoring all that are not studs), and run a list that gives total length. Subtract your studs from that total, divide the remainder by 16 feet, and now you have your 16s for walls. Add 20 percent to the 16s and 15 for the studs. Rake walls, gable walls, anything with a canted top, gets figured as 16s. If you have some big tall ones you probably had to engineer in some LSL studs in 18 to 24 foot lengths, and those get tallied, with extras added. Like 10 percent. Analyze carefully what Chief counted for headers, and table out according, editing as needed, and adding a couple of 16s to each size lumber header. Not the LVLs or PSLs. Use what Chief reports for that, but you have examined it carefully and edited as required. Floors report with accuracy because I have built them accurately. Same for roofs. I table everything out like blocking, subfascia, truss fills, at 16 foot lengths, and add 20 percent. The reason your lists seem so wrong is that the guy at the yard is trying his best to figure, is likely ignoring every single opening, doors and windows, to get his stud and shoe and plate numbers, and then adding maybe even as much as 25 percent. Whatever doesn't get used gets picked up and credited back.

How many passes has it run. Did you try overnight?

Did you generate a material list?

These are stretchers being discussed here. Everybody in the biz calls them that. Base cabinets are built this way, one front and one rear. But not a sink base, which has a stretcher across its top front, and none on top. It is done as material savings and countertops conceal it all. I don't understand the point of having Chief do these for us. We use eCabinets software to get our cabinets, sourcing the carcases from the CNC cutter, the fronts from one of the door and drawerbox houses, and hardware from the usual sources. So cabinets get built on site, typically by the end of the first day. Then the hanging and installing begins. I did a job for a guy that hadn't done site assembly before, and attached here is just one sequence of about a half dozen, to show him how to assemble. What makes it tricky is the captured backs of the cabinets. It seems counterintuitive to fit the back to the top and deck as the first step. Once you have done one, the other fifteen go fast.

Close file and zip it.

This is from a Chief Architect Premier model? How would we know? Do a signature please. Sort of like mine. Software being used, hardware on which it runs, other relevant info.

Thanks!

I cannot find where to do this. Gimme a hint, please. I'd like to do it in defaults so as not to have to go wall by wall already built. I can change the material to OSB vertical in the default for exterior wall sheathing, but where is the key for the size?