GeneDavis

Cabinet is filler. Mark says "place filler manually," but in cabinets there is no filler, so you make a cabinet into a filler as he so well instructs. I've learned something and will forevermore quit fiddling with partitions when doing fillers. Thanks, Mark. You are the cab guru.

Knowing that the Pella mull joint piece is 1/2", whether side-mulled or stacked, I am careful to space my units 1/2" before ganging the cluster, and when that is done, my mulled unit sizes are right, and so are the rough openings.

A wall-mount light fixture symbol has two things preordained by Chief when placing it, that being its height above floor and that it snaps to the wall surface, at its x-y-z origin. You can adjust its height above floor in the dialog seen when opening its object specification, but to move it away from the wall (or into the wall if you wish) you open the SYMBOL dialog and reposition the origin along the y-axis. Try it out and see.

But won't the Joe Carrick idea of using an invisible wall and a pocket door for doing the barn slider work? That, and a few p'line solids to model up the track and wheels, and it's a wrap. Oh, and on the schedule, too.

My lumber yard does not stock 2 x 10 9/16" material for studs. They said they could special order them, but I would have to buy five carloads. My framing sub has asked that I stop specifying them, because his guys only have quarters and eighths on their tapes. They said those little six-teeny things all wore off.

Yeah, the way one can update a Sketchup model that's been uploaded to the 3D Warehouse. I'm in the same mode now, deleting models from my storage at Chief, uploading new ones.

IOW, can, for example, an owner forward one to someone else, and the someone else be able to view the model. Or does each person need to receive an email from me. Haven't tried, just wondering.

What is the benefit of one versus the other, for you. Or no color at all? I have always liked color to layout, then print to .pdf in color, and have the printer go to paper using grayscale. But then there's live versus plot lines and if plot lines one can add color. So many choices! I'm worn out.

Didn't open your plan, but did you mull the two?

If this is for the benefit of the building contractor and/or his framing contractor, why don't you want to show the whole frame, including the outside walls? I just tried this. Detail-frame your exterior walls, but use glass as the material, of the framing. Your perspective framing overview will give you the effect I think you want.

I need to reverse a job for which all is done including the layout (construction documents.) Reversing the plan is straightforward. All on, edit all areas, reverse. Done. Save as original name, REVERSED. Or something. But what is best done in getting the new layout all done right? I know, for example, that all the doors are reversed and the schedules need to be regenerated. What do you do?

Thanks. Had not even tried it with the framing overview. All is well. For doing similar with Sketchup, I use Sketchfab.

Is this possible?

Try editing the truss envelope.

It's a Mascord plan and they use AutoCad. Watch out using their work, as they are protective of their copyright.

More savvy folks than I might be able to auto-build this, but I would do it manually.

Anybody had a problem with the file Mark attached? I cannot unzip, and the preview shows nothing in it but a single .jpg file.

Interestingly, base cabs do not behave that way, only corners.

Did you frame the wall?

Use roof tool, place and trim two small roof planes, define pitch to be whatever, but there needs to be some.

I've tried the reset and no luck. I'm dead in the water and need to contact technical support. Edit: fiddled some more and got them back. This all began with me opening up a plan file, got a message saying the file cannot open and is corrupted, try opening one from the backup archives, which I did, and in doing so got no toolbars.

Zero. Nada. What happened? How can I get back to just what out-of-box has for tools?

I dipped my toe in this when I first saw the video about it by Dan Baumann of ChiefExperts. Another member here (ACAD_user?) showed it in a thread I started about CAD details. Here is the link to Dan's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdMimpRWck&t=197s With a little practice using a mouse with wheel or similar device, one can go anywhere one wants in a model. Into and out of rooms, all around outside, under the terrain to view the foundation, inside the kichen cabinets, simply anywhere. And it is all under the user's control. Up the stairs, along the galleries, look down from second floor into family room, it is simply limitless. The free version give one up to five annotated views, and the first level up that costs $ gives one up to I think 30 views. An annotated view is a camera you set and assign text to, such as, "Kitchen view showing sink centered under window," or "guest bedroom, queen sized bed shown with two 36" wide nightstands." While the user can freely move the camera anywhere in the model space, the annotated view feature fixes the camera at locations you assign, so you can control what is seen that is linked to your annotation. Isn't this as good or better than whatever other 3D viewer we have for Chief?

Here is a new thread for users to chime in and describe their methods for creating, storing, and retrieving CAD details. And please, Scott Hall, tell us which of your YouTube videos address this. I like your technique of having a single plan file in which you keep all details, organizing the details using floors zero, 1, 2, 3 way up as high as needed. Is that what you still do? Does that file have a CAD detail for every CAD detail shown on the floors? How do you address scaling?

Mark, thanks for the remarks. My con docs are a little different in that some are for a couple builders (and me) that do not buy branded cabinets. We've integrated cabinet building into our program and use eCabinets software for aiding the building and all the buying. Cabs come to the jobsites as a batch of ready-to-assemble parts, and the accessories such as pullouts, susans, and more all come in their manufacturer cartons. We use a lot of Rev-A-Shelf and Hafele stuff. Thus the drawings, the 1/2" scale plans and elevation views, are an important guide for the placement of the accessory parts. I still think that if Chief can give us the susan option for corner cabs, and show the susan in planview and a code in the callout, that Chief should do the same for a trashbin-slide base.