MarkMc

here's a 3" dble shaker 3 in.calibz

what width rail and stile do you need?

No, at least very limited and not really for what you are asking. Generally what is done as best practice. It's what I have always done and has advantages over any alternative. You know you can save a camera in plan A and copy it to Plan B, then Plan C.... There are some things you can do with referenced sets in plan and/or 3D views but not sure this is easier for what it sounds like you are after. Still something worth looking into as it can be a powerful and useful feature. For just interiors some folks make extra floors or extra rooms elsewhere with variations- only if structure doesn't matter. I have one client who often has a 10 to 20 rooms with cabinetry with 3-5 different cabinet defaults. I've taken to making plans based on cabinet defaults. Make structure, save, save as A, then B, then C....Plan A uses cab defaults 1 w/ cabinets in rooms 1, 4,6,9; Plan B has cabinet defaults 2 with cabinets in some other rooms...and so on. When changes to defaults change this allows all the cabinets in that plan to change. When cabinets in a room change those cabinets are cut and pasted into the appropriate plan. Please fill in your signature- there are posts often about what ( program version and computer info), why (it helps) and how to do that.

Currently run a Noctua D15, a good PSU, in a Define 7 Compact w/4 case fans. No heat issues, never throttles, temps rarely break 50 and max briefly hits 70. Temps would likely be a tad higher if OC but haven't seen the need.

This can get part way there. You will still need to edit- I started the edit on the left exterior wall- move one plate, copy that and move down to have double, then trim studs. Some walls are a bit trickier than others but better than all from scratch. Framed main floor and ceilings, then with no auto framing on..added a blank second floor, placed open below rooms, made floor structure 0, then moved the room down by 5-1/2". Compare structure tab of upper rooms to lower floor. Higher roof.zip

Another method would be to -ctrl select the folders that you know you need and then still holding the ctrl key, right click, export. (Might even do that as a couple of groups of folders.) Then close Chief, go to your data folder, and delete User_Library.calib (Or safer yet rename User_Library.calib from dot calib to dot old) Open chief and import the exported libraries. From the sounds of it I think the hard part is figuring out what you have that you need

You can turn it off by setting the side separation to "0", you can then add the side separation back using the front configuration panel. The cabinet must be listed as Framed- if it is meant to be frameless just set : box construction, framed, separation to 3/4" If normal framed then use 1-1/2 On front panel set that side to have 0 separtion. Now on front panel select vertical layout and split vertical Select the new vertical separation and "move left" Select the new Layout Vertical and delete Done

can use a wall cabinet instead. wal cab shelves.zip

You file has 0 data- either close the file before zipping OR use Backup Entire Project, Backup Plan files Only, send to Zip Just guessing since there is no image and nothing in the file....The most likely thing you are seeing is the post at the wall? or at breaks in your railing walls. Go to Rail Style tab- if set to Auto Post Half that will happen. Change it to Full Post

For items that are not dynamic defaults I use style palettes. In this case I'd change the default molding, add one tall cab and one wall somewhere. Select the tall cab, make style palette, new, clear all selections, select molding; then click the add button and select wall from drop down, repeat selections. Then use the style palette to spray the room. I prefix them all with SP and try to reuse where possible.

With a custom schedule

@Gawdzira Welcome, also dropped backdrop intensity in render setting & ambient occlusion in camera setting.

Here's another way, gets rid of the hotspots. Note- deleted the extra attic wall in the music room, deleted invisible wall as they cause light issues. Kitchen Alt.zip

You can get around that by altering the bounding box. For these I lowered the Z origin and shortened the bounding box. I also used a molding stack for the top rail which helps a bit with material direction. I used transform replicate to get it to the edge of the rim. All of that was easy enough.... No matter what I tried there is an issue at one corner ( there might be a way to fix it but I got tired and would just add a single post if I needed it.) Gets a bit more complicated if you want newel posts

The lines for the gap won't go away using line drawing on top, they do without the lines. The only other way to get total size of mulled unit without lines is to cheat the windows by1/16 each and change the side sash by 1/32. Of course that presents issues with ML and or Schedules (could likely cheat that too though) While you can't paint the mullion directly it is controlled by the Materials, Trim (Exterior) IF you had exterior casing and painted them it would change, barring that uise the DBX '

Might start looking at manipulating the symbols themselves: origins, stretch planes/zones, bounding box. This along with recent requests in suggestions are fairly simply doable in Chief when you consider how Chief works (rather than how it doesn't act like some other program)

Um, yeah, most likely cause I'm not all that good with Ruby though might have copied it from somewhere else I needed (or thought) I need to set the variable. Thanks for the tip.

Enough to get you started. All the rest is doable too.

Make the roll out symbol you made fixture interior then select it from the library for a shelf. F1

OIP is the "Object Information Panel". the "new_label" macro reads information you place int the "Enter Label" field in the OIP. The reason that is there is that SPs do not transfer "Specify Label" So set the default label to the macro and put the information you want for your label in the "enter label" field. Then it will be transferred when using a SP. I've taken to using that on many objects even is I'm not necessarily going to make a style palette from them.

Been that way a long time, used to have to float the panel in so an improvement. Not sure what you mean. Attached a sample, else start a new thread with clear info. side gable sample.zip

Depends- if using the auto paneled or paneled side option it's in the DBX, accessories panel If using a custom face - side panel applied you have need a custom symbol- increase the width and height to what is needed, lock those in the stretch plan panel, set origin so it drops to floor and move to front. (don't remember if you need a left and a right or can use the same one for left and right)

Follows zip file with plan and one style palette. Plan has two types of macros in it. One group that returns the proper 3" increment- one each for either H, W, D. The other "evo w drawer, Copy-3" is an old one I wrote back aways for a specific cabinet brand. It has not been migrated but appears to work...unless you migrate it then it needs to be fixed. If using the H, W, D macros I would likely add to them an if or case statement so that at certain dimensions nothing is returned. Example: you want a layout to have XYZ- WH-D...unless D is a default; or if a base unless H is a default...like that. There are several other ways to get around that but this should get you started. Might be useful if you decide to go and hire a macro writer since AFAIK none of them deal with standard manufactured cabinets so this may help. cabinet label plan.zip

I wrote a pretty complicated macro back when I was a kitchen dealer, not for the faint of heart. That broke when they changed ruby. If I were to do it again I'd make 3 instead. One each base wall tall. But nowadays there is a better way. Make a custom OIP field "Enter Label" Write macro oip=custom_fields (oip["Enter Label"]) Place the macro in your default cabinet labels, each type. THEN... Whenever you configure a cabinet you will put a simple label in that Something like B3D %width% IF you have to order cabinets in 3" increments you need to replace %width% with a macro that rounds up to nearest multiple of 3. (I have one but not where I am now) THEN make a Style Palette from that cabinets, name it, select none, then check off "copy face configuration" & "Custom Fields". NOW place and size your cabinets using ONLY the ones in the Buildenu or standard icons from drop down NOT the library. (I use shortcut keys ) After placing select appropriate Style Palette (SP) and click on cabinet. That will both change you face config & the label. If you use a lot a simple cabinets, drawer and door put the nomenclature with the size macro(s) in the Enter label field in the defaults. You can have specific SPs for things like trash pullout etc. Off the top I don't remember which of those require you to select an extra option to include in the SP. Don't include sizes in most SPs, size the cabinets first (or later) in plan. For these SPs I leave them to use the default door and drawer style. You can start with any cabinets you have already configured. That should get you started. If no one tells you how to write macro for 3" increments I'll post on Monday.