MarkMc

Agreed

Just to sing the praises of annosets, Scott, his videos, and this forum. Back a little Scott and a few others convinced me of the value of annosets, I knew I seriously needed detail from view, that project browser would help and a few other niggling things. About a month ago I converted one of my interiors licenses to premier. Been fiddling with sets for just over a week while still working. Watched Scotts videos which made it a cinch. (The ability to export and import the sets from plan to plan as I work on them is a real plus.) In that short time I have experienced a huge increase in productivity. Even more now that it is combined with detail from view (no more exporting to TurboCad to dimension cabinet parts that chief won't or playing "add line, copy and move line dimension; why is it snapping to that?!@#@". I know standard practice is to avoid using detail to view but for me it is a godsend, project browser is a big help too. I use Scott's method mostly but since I do kitchens and baths my sets are completely different. The real plus for me is being able to quickly change dimension defaults- I need different things located in different circumstances. Also need allows me to work on something easily without haveing to continually tab to select what I want, say wall cabinets without dealing with bases getting selected. I also have a number of CAD layers some of which never get printed. Sets I have so far (besides most of the defaults which I left until I get all settled) Two that use feet and inches and locate dimension layer, and rough openings. Arch and demo arch- both of which are used when tracing the pdfs one of you guys send me. For the rest the dimensions use inches, locate wall surface, and casings. Demo; As Built; Cab plan; wall cab; base cab; counters; detail, Export (so I can send the architect dwgs after field measure). Most have their own default dimensions and layerset but as Joe said there are some variations to the layerset use.Will be duplicating some of those and renaming to include the CAD guide layer so I can watch clearances. Need to incorporate other scales into the mix. I'm printing 11 x 17 most often but letter size for fax so can be printed at the other end- I've had to add other scales 3/8's for letter and larger jobs, many of my details are done at 1; 1 1/2; and 3" . Still working on it my sets, wish I'd had this sooner. Now if I could only get rid of some of those useless layers you folks need and find a way to get a decent correctly labeled cabinet list and map (I use Bluebeam for that and still for some notations )

Lew, first 30 days. I think it was an extra $100 unless during a sale (at least that was what I was told when trying to convert during a sale and complaining that conversions were not on sale despite promo saying they were) Don't really know what I paid for the conversion I just got since I put it on my secondary x5 license which was no longer on support so had to pay upgrade to x6.. I'd add that the OP or anyone is better off evaluating their needs themselves. If you call in for kitchen the line they offer is that "if you don't go inside the walls you don't need premier" I heartily disagree with that statement, more so now that I have premier.

If you need much in the way of working drawings go with premier. Most notably missing from the interiors version: detail to view which allows you to convert a view to a cad drawing- needed to fix lines created from workarounds and to dimension things that chief won't snap to (most parts of cabinets or cabinet doors), premier also let's you fix lines in layout interiors does not. When I only had interiors something had to be exported to cad to edit on every job. Project browser, aids production Anno sets - I need completely different sets than what is being talked about right now but the usefulness can't be underestimated. Some I need to have dimensions snap to "locate" certain items, others different ones. Watch Scott's videos and play with a trial. Of you get interiors and upgrade within a month there is no extra cost, other times a slight upcharge which is waved when they run a sale. Still cheaper to go all in during a sale than to upgrade, at least that's how it seemed to me. There are other little things but not as important. The downside to using premier for me is it nows has a lot of extra layers that I will never use but can't remove since the program wants them. An annoyance but for me well worth the time gained elsewhere.

Glad it helped. I often have to override the full overlay or the frameless settings since the four brands I handle (and most of the other 2 dozen I've worked with) that does those has one reveal for the tops of cabinets and another for the bottom. Creates other problems when dealing with that though- I can get the elevations and the perspectives to look correct but have to make secondary cabinets to show section through a cabinet or any that I also have to show openings for ordering. Haven't found a solution and don't expect one.

I'd go to the chief data folders and find a layout to open from explorer- if it doesn't crash then change your preferences to that file.

Make the area you want to lower into a room using the room divider tool-then break the walls at the end of the divider, Go into the room dbx set height.

In cabinet DBX- front tab- use "framed" traditional overlay- if you doing frameless cabinet set your separation to say 20mm; then set your vertical overlap to 40mm, change your top seperation to something like 25mm (i used inches in the example-you can convert)

Don't think the brothers do that anymore- checked mine and it's 11 x 17. Epson workforce does up to 13 x 19. I have a simple Workforce printer-no wireless but does network if I remember. Moved it to home for emergencies after I got a Brother all in one. Was a nice printer but I didn't use it often enough and it has those chips that tell me it is out of ink based on time so it sits there unused. Your welcome to it gratis if you like, anywhere near NY? might not be worth the shipping

I do a lot with pdf's, started using Bluebeam Standard several years ago, very happy though I haven't upgraded in a few.

You mentioned that in the thread discussing "help" slow to load where it was suggested to run as admin to fix that . I checked after the last update and help still takes forever to load unless using run as admin...what are the likely problems? is the help issue going to be addressed?

OK, just making sure I wasn't nuts- I do that on every single job, several elevations. I usually had been putting lines in place to snap to what I need, cabinet openings, appliance cutouts, cabinet heights (including base cabinets), molding profile parts, drawerheads etc ...gets to be a lot of lines and if things are in flux during design they all have to move...OR exporting to CAD when using interiors version. I hadn't done that on this thinking that with the upgrade to premier figuring I could take care of some of that (like moldings and openings), with detail from view- didn't realize that it wasn't snapping to base cabinets until now. As Michael says results are unpredictable.

Are you able to get it to snap to the top of a base cabinet in elevation? and then to a counter? I'm not getting that.

And then NKBA auto elevation dimensions snap all over the place (excep base cabinet height) but they are just a mess.

Just checked an X5 plan, just as bad, must be my imagination. Recently changed system display setting maybe made it worse? don't know. I can understand it being difficult to allow snaps to cabinet openings, door stiles and rails but cabinet height and counter ought to be accessible for a program that you can use to take the NKBA test??- and they couldn't understand why detail from view is needed in interiors. Stopped wasting my breath and managed a few bucks so upgraded one license to premier so I at least don't have to constantly export to cad and import into layout or play "move/copy" lines to snap to. Detail from view helps for final layout, but design work is still a PIA in elevation. Oh well

I often need to dimension cross sections of cabinets. I only want the snaps to go to the cabinets but often get an info box-"you have dimensioned to cross section lines. Point markers will be used..." So I have to undo and try again until it snaps where I want. This seams to have gotten worse in X6 but may just be me. Is there a setting to prevent dimensions snapping to and creating these point markers? The only solution I'd found is to convert to cad or drop in a bunch of lines where I want things to snap.

I use Bluebeam Revu, no issues. Priced closer to Foxit than Adobe. Dropped Phantom several years ago.

Bluebeam has layers but only created within the program itself, markups, overlays...

Others may have better answer- I just tried- export current view to dwg- opened in TurboCad. Layers are there and work. I tried my pdf printer- bluebeam standard and get no layers. But then checking documentation BlueBeam does layers but does not appear to support importing layers them. So what's going on with your pdf creation I can't say. One thing is Cheif exports black lines. If I open an exported file in Intellicad I don't see anything- until I "select all" and change line colors. A possibility.

email continues to bounce. I understand that x5 files are forward compatible, ...question was will I be able to use premier features in x5 on that machine? If not- I have a secondary license for x5 that is off support hence did not get upgraded. What would it cost to convert that to premier and then upgrade to x6? Would I be able to use premier features on x5 on that machine?

Good luck with that.

generate custom countertop- then will snap- only way to get counter to counter dimensions without going nuts.

Your a prince Scott- thanks that's what I needed. I hear you (I pay attention here) and know going to CAD is not ideal- I often use cad lines to snap to as you suggest. While in design it can be helpful so I know I have doors and drawers in the right place with that #$%^& dbx but gets very time consuming if I have 6 or so in a kitchen that are not all the same. But it is not always needed while in desing but... I have to do this for final drawings sent to the factory often, so no more changes happening sometimes half a dozen of these. Sometimes -like today to clarify something with a tech by email- being able to grab a cabinet- throw it in another room, elevaation, make a few changes and pull a number or two- you get the idea. grabbed one example in edit... If I was close I'd bake you a pie.

Scott your so generous-(we are not worthy:) I only need an answer no need for you to go to all the trouble- If I use "CAD detail from view" can I snap dimensions to the edges of cabinet doors, drawers, or openings on a cabinet? Can I snap to the edge of a molding profile in a backclipped section? Cheif will not do that now so I have to "export" to CAD and go dimenion there, print that to pdf, assemble and/or cut into a PDF of layout drawings from CA with Bluebeam. I'd like to avoid all the runaround. Anything else I want it to do is just gravy- that alone ...I end up doing on 75% of my projects. Anyway- will that work? Or are there some other dumb snap restrictions even when converted to CAD?

disabled in all views -can click on it in plan, elevation, section -which is where I need it but get a dbx says to go to the store... I remember this now- I'd first started to consider CA at old job (with 6 seats needed) prior to the x series- 8,9? tried it out a few times- inability to try this feature and or get solid answers from sales kept me away till x3, was on my own, and totally fed up with 2020/Envisioneer- still got it wrong when I pulled the trigger. I'll go pester someobody when I can find time, will work it out.