MarkMc

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.

Here's mine. For each action I reset HWmonitor then took a screen shot after so the table represents that action ONLY. I had resource monitor open, and later when back and redid them with just the disk showing so I could pay more attention. Interesting that Chief did not always show up at all in that, also interesting was that with nothing but the resource monitor open system disk usage spiked quite a it while Chief,when it did show up, did not equal the spikes in system disk usage. Also I don't trust Chiefs built in timer which may skew the results you are getting. In some cases it was just too fast to read before it went away. In most others it simply did not come close to matching real world results on a stop watch, I mean silly off. Open Camera-17 sec first time, repeats were 9 Zoom-instant Drag up-21 heavy disk undo 12 build roof-36 Heavy disk zoom out -instant All operations that took significant time hit the CPU -all cores at or near 100%, all clocks at max turbo. GPU-never fully used. Had fans on full to make sure there was no throttle, though I almost never get any.

Got it to open in a browser and converted it. Those plans were done in ProKitchen software. That can do 3D renderings, why would you need something different?

File won't open. Could be that you had it open when you posted it, I know that Chief files are that way

What Chopsaw notes controls the individual dimension defaults. Added to that - the current active dimension default controls which default the temp dimensions uses. Example here- only thing that was changed was the active dimension default, no change made to the temporary dimensions default. Pretty handy.

Couldn't get DavidJames thing to work with image I tried but found this in the reference manual which answers your original questions. "Using Paste Image You can also import an image by first copying it to the system clipboard, then navigating to a Chief Architect window and selecting Edit> Paste> Paste from the menu, or by using the Screen Capture tools. See “Paste Special” on page 185 and “Creating Screen Captures” on page 1174. so this was screen capture copy and paste special into layout.

Gonna have to go a bit around for that I think. Psolid in elevation using Standard View , sized as needed, apply your image. Control layers as needed, send to layout- scale.

AFAIK the new image wants a file path in which case simpler if you save the image first instead of just paste it at least to get it into the library. Unless you others know how to full the DBX when pasting.

Technique options-for PBR adjust exposure and/or brightness; for standard render adjust ambient.

Edit camera- turn off bloom. Do the same for camera defaults.

Some pdfs are better than others. Convert to png as Chop suggests. Download a trial of Bluebeam PDF revu and try "reduce file size". Often that helps. It will also convert all pages to png with one click while you're at it. (last I knew it didn't watermark) Sometimes I insert the PDF in BB instead, either printing dummy blank pages from Chief (easiest) or having a page template in BB (fast but requires set up). There are pdf to dwg converters but that also depends on -the PDF, needs, how much text. The one I use (Print2CAD) does OCR but that can get tedious to configure and get right.