SusanC

If all you want to do is a quick door change you can simply go to the library, select the door you want and then click on the cabinet door (in elevation or camera view) to change it. No need to open the cabinet dialog box or mess with the defaults. Just select the new door, click and apply to each cabinet and work your way around the kitchen. Sometimes I think this simpleton way of getting the job done is the most time efficient .

Glad to hear you successfully upgraded to Monterey and are having no issues!

Thank you for all of the info and suggestions Greg. Update: Today I met with a tech at the Genius Bar at Apple. 1. First thing she did was connect my MacBook Pro to her HDMI monitor using an Apple brand connector. Successful. No Apple Cinema display like mine in store to test with. 2. I purchased an Apple brand connector for the MacBook Pro to Apple Cinema display thinking the Apple brand would guarantee a good connection. Came home and discovered it was useless. Large display could not even connect. 3. Went back to my old connector with the MacBook Pro and the Apple Cinema display and tried mirroring the screens. Success! This is the work around. 4. Also purchased an Apple brand connector for HDMI to MacBook Pro so I can connect to our HDMI monitor with no mirroring required.

I also tried uninstalling X13 and re-installing. Same problem. A trip down to the Apple Genius bar is next.

Thank you for the suggestions. I have always had the power source opposite the connection to the monitor. I tried changing sides as you suggested, but no luck. I do not have the Apple brand thunderbolt to usbc, but the connector I've been using is one I've had connected successfully for several years now and the monitor works just fine for everything but the save button in X13.

Mark, Good luck! Tech support suggested I reset my preferences and gave me detailed instructions on how to do that through .ini files. Unfortunately, I still have the same problem. Susan

I get the same black, disjointed elevations you show as they are sent to layout. I do not get the black "flash" you show when saving a view though. I reported my black, disjointed elevations to tech support yesterday.

I am using an Apple LED Cinema display 27" with my MacBook Pro 16". I've had the monitor for years (since 2011) and after Apple changed the connectors, I began using an adapter to connect it to my laptop (see attached). No issues - until I upgraded to Monterey and now when I'm ready to "Save As" or "Save to PDF" or create a zip file - I'm not able to. If I disconnect from the monitor and work using my laptop screen I have no issues - everything works normally. I've tried plugging into an HP monitor that I've used successfully in the past and the same thing happens - it is as though the "save" button is disabled. I am working with tech support, but so far, no solution. I think I'm the only one with this issue though. As you can see, no one else has commented on this thread.

You should be fine. My issue has to do with my external monitor and I'm working on a solution with tech support. I have no issues with X13 and Monterey - so long as I do not use my monitor.

And found just one of my preferences was unchecked for X13 in my System Preferences.

I have isolated my problem down to my Mac external monitor, which is old. When I work on my laptop without the monitor plugged in, everything is fine.

I am unable to "Print to PDF" or "Save As" or even create a Zip file for any of my files and I am assuming this is due to the new version of Mac's operating system? I have reported this to the help desk, I was just hoping to find out if anyone else has run into this.

Have any of the Mac users out there upgraded to Mac OS Monterey yet? Any issues with X13 compatibility? Thanks, Susan

Hi Mark, I had a feeling you would know the history of this one! For now I've set all of my cabinet defaults to have "Unfinished Left", "Unfinished Right", and "Unfinished Back" and we manually go in and change the side that needs to be finished to "Finished". At least this way it populates in the schedule so we see it when we are checking our schedule against the acknowledgement from the cabinet company. I was just hoping to save a manual labor step and have it work automatically. Thank you for your sharing your work arounds. Susan

Thanks Dermot, I appreciate your response. I'll put in a request to have the "auto finish" changed to detect tall cabinets as well. Chief's schedules are really helpful to everyone who works on our projects. I'm just trying to take advantage of populating columns automatically wherever possible. Susan

Thanks.

Schedules question: I am setting up my Schedules template and would like the "Side Finish" column to populate automatically. I read through the "Help section for the dbx" and it appears I need to make sure that each cabinet has "Auto Finish" turned on for the Left side and the Right side. I've done all of that, but the schedule doesn't seem to reflect that the tall cabinet should be finished on L & R and the wall cabinet should be finished only on the L. I wonder if I am missing a step? Any suggestions? Thanks, Susan

You are correct, it would be complicated to try and total up the hardware when I have multiple sizes of pulls combined with the knobs. I'm simply using these columns in the cabinet schedule to help with the ordering of the hardware, not submitting this schedule to the cabinet company. It is a huge help to have hardware listed in a column and a 3d view of the cabinet right there to double check against. Maybe as I get further along using schedules I will adjust, but for now this is very helpful.

Mark, I just re-read your suggestions this morning and if I'm understanding correctly in your second post, you've written a macro to get the quantity, but you've still had to enter the hardware name into the macro itself? No matter what I do, I will be doing something manually, it is just a matter of selecting which option I think is most efficient. When I said originally I was entering the hardware name by hand, I was doing it as you mentioned, into a custom field in the OIP in the cabinet defaults, but since we use multiple hardware pieces in a kitchen, for example, I was still doing a lot of manual entering which is what led me to just creating my own hardware library, thus allowing me to select a piece and have the schedule populate automatically. Thanks again for your thoughts on this. Susan

Hi Mark, Thanks for having a go at this! I need the hardware brand and model I'm using and the quantity in the columns. I used to manually enter the name of the hardware and the quantity for each cabinet until I realized that was more time consuming than creating my own hardware for the room. I drop a piece of Chief hardware from their catalog into the plan, adjust the size to what I need, rename it with the manufacturer's code and then save the piece into my custom library (and delete the piece I altered in plan). This way, when I place the hardware on the cabinet, my schedule populates automatically with the correct name for the hardware and figures out the quantity. I will live with (PULL) in the column for now and hope that Chief has time to remove it for the next release. Susan

Thanks. I have sent this request to tech support and several other contacts I have at Chief so perhaps (PULL) will be gone in the next version of Chief. In the meantime they suggested a work around of changing the schedule to text and editing out the (PULL), but I don't see a way to go back from text to schedule again and I really need the 3d elevations so I will live with (PULL) for now.

Done! I posted in the Suggestions forum to have (PULL) removed.

Thanks for the responses. I was afraid that it might be the case that it is hard coded and not something I can change.

The automatic hardware column in X13 for Schedules is great! I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of the word "(PULL)" that automatically populates in the description box? I can't seem to locate where that was embedded. Please see attached screen shot. Thanks!

Happy to help. Don't hesitate to ask more questions. Very grateful to be up and running again!