GeneDavis

Thanks, Eric. You're the Solver!

We once had this but now I can see no way. I posted on Seeking Services and of course only get replies from users that come onto the forum. A whole lot of Chief users don't come here. The earlier forum website allowed a user search. Is there one still? We need someone with an IL license.

Thanks, all!

Any cautions? Just arrived at the camp, there's no WiFi, but I want to work on a couple files. i can access WiFi down at the library 6 miles away.

Should be in Chicago metroplex. I've drawn a plan plus extensive layout for con docs, but need a licensed IL pro to take my work, revise as necessary to satisfy AHJ (Village of Lakewood, McHenry County) and bring package to ready-for-permitting-and-build. Email me if interested. genedavis3 "at" me.com

I am just guessing but would say the OP probably needs a little info on editing the cutout.

I did steel shop drawings for $100 a sheet using paper and pencil but it was a very long time ago. Brand new Volkswagens were under two grand. Mine were for structural. Back then stair work was called miscellaneous steel. Unless it is your livelihood, I would not touch it with Chief CAD.

I have built kitchens with planked doors like that. Tongue and groove v-joint boards and battened rear sides. I have also bought fronts from doormakers that mill the grooves into solid-stave glue-ups. I prefer the jointed boards look. Depending on door width, the panel either gets a board at centerline or a joint at centerline. This means the stretch is at the edge planks. Looks as if one could do any job nicely making just six or eight doors, half of them center-plank, half groove at center. Cabinet width would determine which door to use.

I did not look at your file but presume you have a cabinet door panel that is made to look planked. See the image attached. Mark has identified a solution, and I am curious to hear whether you think it is worth the effort to go about doing this. I'm also curious to know about other software (2020, Revit, . . . ) that addresses this more cleanly.

Go back and change your roof structures so that SURFACE is two layers, shingles and sheathing, then your STRUCTURE is one layer only, material defined as fir framing, and thickness whatever your rafters should be. Where does all the insulation air gap come from? Why are you using that in roof structure?

By "tons of pieces," Michael, are you meaning psolids? Being a Sketchup user, I might just build it there and import it as a cabinet symbol. Easy to texture all the surfaces with correct graining, etc.

Did you upgrade, X? We're here to help, but if you're not using Chief, you're on the wrong forum. if you can use the beam tool, you certainly can create a signature line so we know what you operate, and your system environment.

You're a Home Designer user, right?

Is this the inset faceframed job with the 1" stiles? I wouldn't take this job a single step further without a consultation with the people that will build this.

A config like this would be built as Michael has described. One wide cabinet, face frame elements all 1" width. Think about two boxes joined. The sides of the carcases meeting would have to be something like 3/8" plywood. Never done like that.

I'm away and cannot access Chief, but recall there being multiple materials in library called glass but with different behaviors in vector view.

Look at the glass material in each, and I'll bet they are different.

I think you should go to your profile in the setup here, and compose a signature line that tells us a little about you and the software you are using, and also the system on which you run it. Imported CAD is just that. CAD lines, arcs, etc. Bringing it in makes it Chief CAD, which has no floor information per se. If you imported it in while operating on floor 1, that is where your CAD resides.

Thanks, Robert. Took to quick a look at the OP's detail.

It's gonna take some manual work to get that dropped slope bottom slab edge, right? P-line solids, get everything on right levels, white-out joint line in section view, yadda yadda yadda. Unless there's a trick I don't know.

I'm late to this party and too lazy this morning to try it out. Does the symbol get cut by a sink if sink installed?

If I want a custom schedule with rows, columns, and headers, I just draw CAD lines for the grid, and write my text using regular text (not rich) and then use point to point moves to place my cell contents. The text alignment tools work nicely for me. Nothing's automatic, but it seems quick and easy.

I just annotate it. I would not trust a contractor to know what a symbol ID meant, other than maybe GFCI, and DM. When specific types or brands are involved, I prefer a fixture schedule.

Have you tried setting the camera to a 35 degree f.o.v.? Might look more normal to you and less "fish-eye." Except that all the pro photographers doing interior shots for magazine and real estate are shooting using wide angle lenses. Seeing all those photos causes one's eye to "normalize" a wide angle view. We don't see things in wide angle. Our eyes give us a "normal" view close to what a 35 deg. FOV lens renders. But our eyes scan, and our brain links the scanning to give us panoramic views.

Zip the 3DS file including all the texture files. Upload the zipped package to Sketchfab. Seems to work for me.