MarkMc

Have Chief running on the laptop, object and temp dim selected, measure with the Disto, send, object moves-repeat as needed. I cheat on things like mulled or bay windows and use only one window to get overall dimension. A few things I haven't worked out directly yet such as pitch, and terrain I make some notes. Process is very fast and allows checking before leaving which is a real bonus. Only need minor clean up later. I should mention that it was Al Frey, Chief trainer and I believe the first user, who told me about this some years ago at the show. I finally listened to him last year at the Academy. App is free from Leica (Windows only). There is something for phones but I know nada about it since phones don't run Chief (only Room Planner). Disto Transfer For the OP- the Spectre has 2 USB- type C, one USB type A (for mouse dongle so Bluetooth is limited to the Disto), and a micro SD slot (bump up storage on the cheap) worth keeping ports in mind when shopping.

NO, I use an app from Disto that just reads into Chief directly so I can do entire structure instead of room at a time.

I use the Spectre 2in1 in my signature paired with a Disto 7500i for direct field measures into Chief. Wish I tried that years ago. Cobbled together a little table out of an old tripod and some sintra. It's just fine for general work as long as I don't mess too much with PBR. It will do PBR, there's just a lag getting it opening to start. Graham (KitchenAdobe) has run tests on his which is slightly older. When he told me he could run Grandview on it that settled it for me. Runs Chief best on High Perfomance settings which cuts back on battery life but still more than adequate for my needs and keeps the fans going nicely. I likely should have gotten the 16GB version I think since the graphics card uses the RAM but at the time I didn't expect to be running Chief on it as much as I do. I've seen it compare favorably to the XPS machines. When got mine the price was much better than the Dells or the Surface (black Friday-$1k). I usually pair it with a trackball and only occasionally as a tablet so I don't use the pen or the touch pad much but don't find any issues with them. I gather the Dell and Surface are better in that department. I also use a little free app called Radial Menu that's handy in tablet mode, as it setting up toolbar config for the field. I don't keep a full library on it so don't know if my big user library would slog it down or not. Nice little machine all in all. I have the 1920 resolution, at that size I don't want 4k.

Register at rev-a-shelf website then you can download 3D dwg of the entire line from them.

Easiest way to generate the frame is with a window. From that the sane thing is a CAD detail from view and make some psolids into the door But if you really want to go beyond that... Here's one way, used pass through to create the frame, matching window with a shutter to generate door. Converted window with door to fixture symbol which is placed in a plan, deleted surfaces, converted shutter to a cabinet door. Lock the height of the door so it doesn't resize. Funny walls, niche and pass though and cabinet. If you really want to deal with it open everything and inspect all the DBX and all the symbol tabs. A better fit with the cabinet door would require working from a CAD detail and building a symbol. All in all a bit of work. arch top cabinet.plan

Example of what I meant avoids placing hardware multiple times, moving it or blocking. Place drawerhead in plan, then hardware, convert to cabinet door/drawer symbol, set stretch. In library -copy it, paste, rotate 180. Now have a left and right to work on any cabinet every time. Think I'd want a second set for larger drawers. Did this before finishing coffee :) vert drawer.plan

Had a better idea. Make a drawerhead symbol with the handle on it. Then you only need a left and a right. Set the stretch planes to fall short of the handle so it doesn't resize in width and keeps alignment.

Copy pull symbol -open symbol, change origin. You will need different setting for different size cabinets. Read up on symbols in the reference manual Free PDF is here

If you simply place a recessed light too close to a cabinet you get a sconce on the cabinet. It's behavior I find annoying but will help with what you want. You can either change the default sconce ahead of time OR once it's placed use replace from library. They're easy enough to move around or up and down. Of course it won't adress what you need to do with wiring but some notes should take care of that.

X11 reference manual pg 962 and what you need specifically is pg 270, 271

The easy (sane) way is to just use p solids for 3D and/or a CAD detail (from view) for 2D. I don't know of another program that can trim a cabinet symbol, maybe Sketch up if exploded?

It can be done with a good bit of work (this took about an hour with some fiddling involved). You need to use custom door symbols for the front (just a polyline solid converted) and another for the back (used psolids converted to solids, then solid subtraction). In boht cases the size needs to be locked (look at the stretch planes in the samples) and the back needs the origin adjusted and the symbol rotated. For every size you will need a symbol for each that has it's size locked by setting the stretch plains. To make new symbols you can reuse the first symbols by placing in a plan and changing the stretch planes for height. IF you need different widths you will have to start from scratch though or the angle will be off. Sample plan with parts used and sample symbols. Cabinet included to see how it's configured is used. NOTE had to use a base cabinet to make this work, a full height doesn't. You may want to read up on symbols in the reference manual if you're not familiar with them. I should add that the solids include might be backwards and that when making a solid for the front door it should be the reverse of what you want. Symbol always seam dyslexic to me which adds time as I never remember exactly which way for go. Angle cabinet.plan

Yes, convert it to a symbol-furnishings interior and check include in schedule; can even make it "cased furniture"

Good and hopefully you're on your way. When I saw Joe's suggestion decided to have at this. Really would not want to float doors for inset cabinets (actually not since X6 or 7) Attached plan with some of the steps to get there. Finished off cabinet with the washer dryer in a couple of minutes. The hamper section was a little tricky but with the new convert to symbol tool was easier than it used to was. Look at the parts used for that-wall cabinet on floor. OPEN all the objects DBX AND open each symbol, look at all settings. Then go to the cabinet DBX-you'll be an expert in no time Joe-I really wouldn't want to float doors on inset cabinets (actually at all if it can be helped) laundry cabinet.plan

Shelves, manual, change quantity, per shelf use "library". Select a symbol that is a fixture. If what you want is not a fixture convert it. If you need to keep the size of the object set the stretch plane outside it-as in a Z stretch plane set at 30" will keep a 24" high object from resizing. That also allows you to make the shelf dimension anything you want but still have the symbol look correct.

It also works just moving the window with the DBX and not changing the mulling distance.

set window default minimum mull distance to 0", check hgt off floor of door (92" here), open window dbx- adjust height of window and height off floor. I did not mull them. You could but that brings in other issues. Ainsworth plan N.plan

Might look into Studio which is included with BB

works here too

Yeah, someone else does it for you :) Plan attached with stages and one final to convert to a symbol- or get the one that is in the wall and add to library garage door.plan

Great, we have a Ryzen 7 -3.7-4.3 GHz (Ridge Runner) and a 9900k 3.6-5 GHz (parkwest) both with 2080 Ti to compare. Different RAM and possibly SSDs but that shouldn't matter with the tests so far. Leaves me wondering what AMDs 3000 series will do when it comes.

There are freeware programs such as PDF split and merge, PDFtools-etc. You have to search for them. I used to have a half dozen different free programs to allow me to do most of what I needed to get done with PDFs. Eventually got Adobe included when I was taking some classes and got a copy of Framemaker. At some point I needed an update, tried a few, bought Foxit Phantom. Eventually I found Bluebeam. Back then it was $150, think my second license was $250 and I upgraded the first license a few years later (not since). It's now $350. My take is that I work with a lot of PDF files for a lot of things so the ROI is darn good, a lot better than mucking around with free programs. I made these quickly this morning in Bluebeam (PDF-XChange does most of the same and is cheaper but the license is not perpetual). Page began as a PDF print of a blank Chief layout page set as a template in BB. Opened that with two of your PDFs, tiled, took "snapshots" in the program (G key, drag), pasted, scaled a few by percentage, then I also made a quick sequencing stamp for page numbers (likely need a few but just save them). I do something like this often; for what it sounds like you need I'd do this extensively. Note that the snapshots are all highlighted. That means the document is not flattened so allowing any or all to be moved, copied or deleted. I think the process would be-flatten, keep a copy of all pages made, likely in a single file with bookmarks (really easy). Then if changes to placement need to be made on a page OR items deleted OR you just want to place snapshots on pages of a Chief PDF then-open go to page, un-flatten make changes. Re: bookmarks. Individual bookmarks are a pretty common feature in real PDF editors. I make bookmarks for every Chief PDF layout now first selecting the area of the page number, then selecting the page title. Bluebeam will then make bookmarks for every page showing the number and title. If setting up a system as described I'd allow page numbers to show and add a text box (select "apply to every page") to name the sheets. Using that to create the bookmarks takes a minute or two. IF document is changed delete them all and redo.

Uncheck use default Reference manual pg 909, got to via index F, floor defaults, then link to molding defaults.

Not concerned, just a fact to consider. Absolutely impossible that the monitoring is writing 800,000 kbs for 10-20 seconds. Writing to the Undo file OTOH makes sense, since it's system usage.

No I have not changed settings. Thing is that Chief doesn't show a spike but system goes up first at 125,000 per second, as much as 800,000 per second. I have next to nothing running in the background ever. In this case was Resource monitor and HWmontior. Nothing using net, nothing else could write to disc. For the BBQ I only tried once, think I got 36 seconds and disk kicked up. Similar results for CPU/GPU as before except temp went up this time on the CPU- rarely see it that high.