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Here is symbol 40" at top, 30 bottom, 36 high, Not sure that is correct from photos but matches your dimensions. Cup.calibz

I switch between two laptops all the time. Found it wise to bookmark to the license management site on my phone for those times I forget to switch machines before leaving and don't have WiFi access.

You may find, as I have, that the way Chief treats imported cabinet symbols doesn't allow adequate flexibility. It may be easier and more productive to import the accessories themselves and place in regular Chief cabinets which has gotten to be quite easy. It appears that Blum's E-services has sketchup models available. I'd hope they had orgaline and such.

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Pretty much the same thing. I used cad lines to determine the angle and the height if it were a complete cone (disconnect the lines or don't allow them to connect to begin with), drew a cone, copied and pasted in place, changed the diameter of the second cone and changed it's materials, subtracted small cone from large one, then added boxes to use to cut it in half and shorten it. When done flip it over in a 3D view If it's less than half a circle it's harder to figure out-draw cad in plan first to get the diameters, then in elevation.

You can place a billboard image behind the doorway. Often I take pictures on site. Of things like an exterior view or an adjacent room that I don't want to detail but needs to be seen and use that for a billboard. One image doesn't work for every point of view so use layers to control them, size and vertical locations need to be adjusted to suit.

Around X5 I started to keep a printed copy of the "What's new in ..." handy to ease transitioning (header change listed on pg 6 or 1372 in ref manual) and to be sure to test out everything new. After using a new version for a while I still end up checking the "What's new" section of the reference manual (PDF) when I can't remember exactly how a new feature works. I keep the older versions too in case it was new a while ago and I haven't used it much. Saves time, makes new features useful. Just a though.

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Welcome aboard. Please fill out your signature, it aids in getting help when the time comes. As to your request I don't think you will get a lot of play. I wouldn't know where to start; I have 786 saved files for making symbols, likely half have to do with cabinets. If you seriously wish to learn symbol creation and hacking search what is already on the forum. There is plenty in: Tips, Symbols and Q & A. Don't overlook the knowledge base, reference manual (my favorite) and help (F1) which is where to find basic instructions. There will be something in the way of instruction in the Q & A sections where someone ran into a problem, a little in Tips. In many cases I've posted symbols as kits or with limited instruction leaving it for someone to investigate "the how" by looking at the parts and DBXs (dialog boxes) to understand what is going on as a more useful learning experience. Then, as Eric suggests, give it a shot. If you get stuck post back here in the Q & A section (with screenshots and a plan file if needed) for help. Edited after I noticed this was in Tips

OOPS- noticed a mistake- open symbol and uncheck Uniform stretch zones- should be stretch planes

No tinkering-made from scratch in Chief-you can too with a tad of practice

Glad you got it to work. The insert you used is for a tall cabinet so it has too many shelves. If I were going to the trouble to show that to a client I'd want to be a bit more accurate. The only wire frame with 3 shelves for a base cabinet that I know of comes from Hafele. Rev-A-Shelf only offers a two tray that is shorter. Plenty of wood solutions, just not wire ones. I put one together and posted in the symbol section. You can also get baskets with wire bottoms but I didn't do that-if I wanted that I'd use a texture to replace the maple. Maybe read up on symbol creation (and hacking -look for some posts by Alaskan Son)

Short story-here is a 3 wire tray base pullout representing a Hafele 546.62.826 with 546.63.114 (set and a half) two cabinets and the insert. Base width is 14" but can resize that-height is set for a frameless cabinet that with 4" toe kicks but you can copy it in your library and resize for others. If you want two baskets well you will have to work on that yourself (I have wooden things made by the mfg) Long version if you care Melissa was placing a wire pullout in a base cabinet and ended up using one meant for a tall cabinet. The only wire 3 tray PO that I know of is from Hafele-a few widths are available and the height is adjustable but you can't go and (reasonably) get a custom wire P.O. Some of the Hafele catalog is available in 2020 BUT not in Chief. (get after your Hafele rep and cabinet suppliers to change that). You can export a 3d DWG from 2020 but still have to get textures onto it-ugh. Hafele now has a 3D database which is awful to rummage through and the face counts get atrocious. Anyway-. being unable to resist a rabbit hole and to escape playing with Ruby and paperwork I put this together. Just needed a break. Base PO cabinet.plan

Check ref manual pg 616

An alternative to using defaults- I keep one of each-2d, 3d 4d, 5d. Most often I design with standard then use replace from library. Alternately. Drag in from library-Resize how many of a given size-then copy- paste combined with transform replicate (reflect or point to point).

This generates the color code correctly based on text entry in the code field. I'd think you want to concatinate it with the rest elsewhere? (biggest problem was you had elseif instead of elsif) OR use a case as Eric suggests-easier color = owner.component_code sku=' ' if color == 'Burgundy' then 'J1' elsif color == 'Black' then 'D1' elsif color == 'Blue' then 'F1' elsif color == 'Burnished Slate' then 'BS1' elsif color == 'Brown' then 'B1' elsif color == 'Bright White' then 'U1' elsif color == 'White' then 'M1' else '???' end

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Really useful, can see where improvements in Ruby could help (and as you know I'm not all that good at it

Just found the time to watch both videos, very useful. Have time scheduled this week to finish off the cabinet pricing stuff and think I can use some of this there. I also see a use for this with drafting clients but even more for the construction notes. May try to blend with the plant note thing which gets a little out of hand in the library with multiple clients each with different needs.

I've been using "Legal Billing" from Chaos Software It's $50, trial available. I've been using their PIM and email software forever so it was an easy choice. I find it easier to cope with than Chief's timer and simpler to use than the other things I tried.

When I was learning symbols I printed out the pages for Editing Custom Symbols from the reference manual to refer to. I keep a copy of the reference manual on my machine with a shortcut on my desktop and in my working directory, another copy on my phone and tablet. I refer to them regularly and just read sections every now and then. It can get really frustrating fast trying to learn the software by just clicking, and wastes time unnecessarily. Short of going through all the tutorials another thing you can do is hit the help button or press F1 when you have a tool in use that you aren't familiar with yet (I love F1:) it opens help in a second window so you can refer to it when adjusting whatever you're adjusting.

Think Joe transposed y and z there.

I don't think that is the issue I'm seeing. I'm not changing plan views, what I am seeing is that "eventually" I can select layers that are hidden and a couple of time hidden AND locked. I'm using the ALDO to change the layers. It doesn't happen immediately and until last night it had not happened at all when I ended up back a release. For the first time it happened in the prior release last night. Opened plan and two more plan views from the browser. It was selecting rooms in an area of a plan where all everything was hidden -in an already saved plan view and annoset- had not changed any layer settings. That's also the first time it happened that quickly. I've been unable to document it. It almost never happens immediately, always waits till some time into a plan, one to three hours depending on what I'm doing. Using undo to go back to see what caused it fixes it and then it does not happen when you redo!! The more active I need to be with changing layers, new plan views, etc-the faster it happens but never in anything like "10 minutes we can reproduce it" The only way I can think of is to run a screen recorder constantly. Maybe next week but too busy to deal with it (cost a lot of time) so won't re-install the latest update until things quiet down, it becomes persistent with this release, or gets fixed. I've also tried to isolate it by eliminating any other programs without success. The door selection issue Dermot mentions was from plan noted above and sent in a few weeks ago (earlier thread on here). I was surprised they could reproduce that only and not any of the rest. I had it selecting all sorts of things in saved plan views.

I have a support ticket in on this (with NIgel). Was happening really bad on latest update. Had to do a restore for a printer issue and prior version has been much better. Since I'm slammed right now I dropped trying to document it all for now and staying with that version. Though I just had it select unseen rooms last night. These are all from X10 templates. One thing I found when trying to document it is that it tends to go away after an undo? it also takes a while to show up in a plan. Send it in to tech support please.

I do some training but don't promote it. For myself and the employees that I've trained, we all took initial classes from Chief. I can do a train the system that I've used as a KB dealer for some years now. That is 3 days (maybe could work it into 2) with a couple of on line follow ups AND requires that you have a solid foundation in the program first. IT also requires that you implement it immediately. You might consider sending them to the upcoming Chief Academy in Idaho. Cost would likely be comparable to what I would end up charging (if careful about accommodations), could be a little more though. I'd heartily recommend it. I'll be out there taking the advanced class and can arrange to look me up and pick my brain for free. If you think you might want me then go to my website, grab the phone number and give me a call. I'm in the Hudson Valley and can travel, if I can piggy back it with one of my drafting clients in Mass might save some money. She was after me to offer a group training up in Salem at the building where her office is; but I've not decided to do that as yet.