Designer1 Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 In X12 you can overlay in 3d the original house and have the new section show as the ghost image to show the remodel changes. Is this possible to do for the Wall Framing Detail? Can you superimpose the cabinets along the wall and have them be semi transparent when looking at the framing? Ive been trying different methods for this but dont know if Chief can do this? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Something like this? What sort of view do you want - elevation?....3D? Vector, standard......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 HI Glenn, Thanks for the reply! I think its the orthographic camera.... I watched a video on chiefs website and it showed how you can click on a wall and select frame the wall and create a camera view of the framed wall. I thought that might be really handy to be able to use that view with the cabinets transparent on the walls. This was the chief video I was watching... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10123/wall-blocking-for-cabinets.html?playlist=145 Curious, how did you get your framing and cabinets to look that way? Did you just make a special layer set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 I just wanted to reply again as I didnt get any clarity on this. Glenn are you still out there in chief universe? I just wondered if you took a look at the chief video I posted and knew if transparent cabinets could be put in a view like the ones shown in that video example? If its not possible in that wall detail view, how did you achieve the framing with transparent cabinets in the 3d camera did you make a custom layer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Designer1 said: If its not possible in that wall detail view, how did you achieve the framing with transparent cabinets in the 3d camera did you make a custom layer? Take a look at this video and see if that helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5435/using-the-reference-display.html?playlist=100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 For the purpose of the picture, I gave all the cupboards a glass material and then used layers to control the display of the framed wall and the cupboards. Chopsaws way looks OK, or you could use Style Palettes to change the cupboard materials from normal to glass and back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Nice, thank you both for the suggestions, your time and the great video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Sounds to me like you’re talking about overlaying cabinet elevations onto actual Wall Framing Details. I would suggest either overlapping layout views or taking cabinet information from a CAD Detail From View and pasting into your Wall Detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 Thanks Michael for the additional ideas. Chief has so many different ways of doing things you can really accomplish a lot using different techniques. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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