MarkMc

Looking to make macro that I can use for certain labels- will need to read something like RBEP.75XXXX or RBEP1.5XXXX (I can get the X's:) What I have now gives me "0.75" instead of .75. ; naturally the 1.5 is ok Is there a way to strip off the leading zero? Secondly for similar in another brand-is there a way to also strip off the both the zero AND the decimal point? Since I'm trying to learn this stuff ...a hint to the correct reference section in all the info out there would be better than a this is what you do. (Like you have to convert to a string? or whatever- teach a man to fish) Been slogging along trying to learn this stuff and boy I certainly ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. Waiting for a physical book to arrive hoping that helps or one day lightening strikes.

Exactly -molding plines, not hard-the default will be at the finished floor but the dimension reads from the sub floor (1" in my templates). You will have to watch with width of your stiles on the cabinets in relation to the molding-usually need to increase them with a full crown OR extend the top rail of the lower cabinet.

I occasionally ran into some copy paste issues but was either X7 or X8 and was windows 8 or 8.1. I did notice that the problem was more pronounced if I had been working in Open Office. So I don't think it's a Chief thing. I used a shortcut to a clear clipboard command-one listed here. http://www.techentice.com/clear-the-clipboard-in-windows-7/ and that helped out. I still use it now just out of habit when shutting down or switching programs.

Login on phone no problem. Closed desktop browser, cleared cache on phone, login no problem, open desktop, no problem am logged in already as was typical. Are there any plans to beef up the search facitlity? not great compared to what we had.

Me too

I got bumped off on the phone sometime yesterday- same issues a tiger and now logging into Chief Architect website doesn't help. Same browsers listed before-tried identify as Android, IOS, Blackeberry 10, Chrome Desktop, IE desktop.

Can convert to symbol then rotate in the symbol DBX.

Aside from what Jon suggests certain (simple) alterations can be made to a symbol by altering it and saving it in generations. New plan, place symbol, set stretch plane or zone to suit one change, change object, double check then convert to symbol. Repeat as needed to alter other areas. Entire areas can be deleted this way as well using "delete surface" in 3D view.

Glad you like it. A lot of what I've learned is from the good folks on this forum, just paying a dept

Yes, exactly. I prefer that to using the cabinet DBX. I like : the control; to have a different side overhang than front; to see them in plan view; fewer defaults to play with between brands/templates. I keep copies of molding plines with often used stacks in a warehouse plan or copy from a previous project or have a few blocked ones in the library. Just wish that they could simply be added to the library so I could use "replace from library" to switch a run.

I use molding plines for cabinet moldings, in that case you can make all the molding lines dashed in the layer linestyle.

Interior fixture-options tab: "special placement"= none, option drop down="none". Be sure there is a name on the first tab or get hard to find.

Looks better on the phone than before. I got logged off on the phone purging cached and cannot get the sign in button to work, brings me back to where it started. Evolution browser-tried as Android, Chrome desktop, and iphone. Blackberry 10 browser same thing. I managed to get logged in going to Chief Architect main site, bouncing around. Did not log into forum at first, tried closing browser and still no go-oddly it logged in briefly this morning then nada again. The other thing on the phone that I can't figure out-it used to automatically go to unread messages in a thread that I had been looking at (not tagged to follow or anything-just standard open topic and it scrolled to first message I had not read) Now it always goes to the first message. I'd take the old behavior over the nicer look in a heartbeat. Scrolling through a thread is a to find where I was is a real PIA on the phone.

I do a lot of cabinets that need a flush inside return in the opening of a fridge cabinet. I was talking with Kelly on a thread in suggestions and while working on something she was looking for I thought I might use something similar to solve this issue. So after a little smacking things around I have something that is respectable. The returns are not quite flush-set in 1/64" which is all I can get (let me know if you can do better) Attached is a plan with flush returns on an inset cabinet along with the symbols used. NOTE- For overlay cabinets the symbol origins likely have to change, I haven't messed with those yet they might be easier. Also note that for shorter openings than shown it is a good create a new symbol closer just taller than the opening with the vertical stretch plane set higher than the symbol (As I've done with these which are for an 84" opening) I tried to use these same tricks to get extended sides but have not had success yet. Will work on it.

Exactly Gene- well almost. You must use a new plan but you can copy from the first plan instead of placing in the library. IF I have to go through a few generations of resize in different directions then I naturally each new symbol goes into the library. Also you can have walls and such in the new plan BUT if you do you have to turn ALL of those layers off in the 3d view before making converting to symbol. When building symbols with solids, plines and whatever other junk I often find it easier to have a wall to reference and a floor to reference to with back clipped section views.

Putting a resized symbol in the library doesn't work-it retains all the original symbols default information. Open the symbol from the plan and look at the bounding boxes-then check one added to the library and look at those. Both are the same. The only way to change the default symbol information is to create a new symbol. The only way I know to do that is to open a new plan, place the symbol there, 3d view, convert to symbol. Here is the dbx of the new symbol. I do this all the time-need a leg for an island where the location of flats and turnings change- I may go through 4 generations of make new symbol, change stretch zone, resize, make new symbol, etc.

I had an awful time learning this. I kept prints of the pages from the reference manual on my desk. Then just kept at it. I'd make several copies of something and see what happened. The key to what Robert is telling you -he saved as a new symbol, then resized the length of the NEW symbol. If you do EXACTLY what he suggests, in the order he gives, you will get the same result. That idea, making a new symbol, was a big aha for me in learning how this works. A symbol will ALWAYS relate to it's original properties. That is if you change the size of the symbol (as you did to get the diameter you wanted) then go and change the planes or zones that will have an effect on your original change (diameter). This often creates unwanted results (as is the case for your symbol). Making changes and adding to the library does NOT help, it is still the same symbol with the same original properties. You must convert the changed object to a new symbol for it to have new default properties. The new symbol will have the new size and start with default stretch planes not selected and listed as "0", the default origin will also be at 0,0,0 for the class of symbol, AND the bounding box dimensions will also have changed. Yes, sometimes you can just resize a symbol and get what you want, I find it easier to figure it out by saving after each change.

Once you get a plan with did, text and such to your liking, save as, delete everything then save it as a template.

Anything is possible I just don't know what else. A number of better brands offer those. My hi-end brands standard for those is different but they'd do them that way without issue or extra cost. (Finish is not a problem either) For an exact match I'd look into Rutt, Signature, Plato, ...there's likely 1-2 dozen brands in that category, add in an equal amount just under that level.

Serving trays

Don't think it's any different anywhere else. Specs for every tub I know of mount to the studs. Only way to prevent water seepage. Pretty sure it just has to do with Chiefs symbols and bounding box. At least it no longer prevents you from dropping a 60" tub into a 59" space, you just have to move it (and the faucet doesn't display properly) It would be ideal if tubs cut the sheet rock when dropped in-the way material regions cut parent layers.

pline, then pline solid, solid, faces, rotate, solid subtraction, repeated transform replicate (copy rotate), p to p move. Might want to save first plines to convert to molding lines- really don't know what this needs to look like but you said onion. Have no idea how to get framing Bet someone shows you how to do it with a couple of roofs

If you're saying that the dwg is slowing things down -take a detail from view, then delete the import and use the new detail. (friend just showed me this, dwg was 20mb, detail from view dropped under 1)

What version are you using? works in X8 for me. Tested with cabinets from all three locations- core library, kitchen and bath toolbar, and standard drop down icons. Defaults did not always work with all of those, don't know when they changed it but glad to see they did.