Allen43 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 I have been trying to reduce the time I spend on a design, and I realized that there are a few groups of cabinets and panels that I use a lot. I would like to save these cabinets as a group and place them all at once. However, I still need them to be individual cabinets for schedule and modularity purposes. It seems like this is out of Chief's current reach. I just wanted to make sure this wasn't possible before adding it to the suggestions forum. Oh before I forget an example of when I would want this. Almost every kitchen I design has a cabinet above a fridge supported by two full length panels on either side. I would like to place both panels and the cabinet at the same time. And even the fridge if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Architectural block will do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution SusanC Posted February 10, 2023 Solution Share Posted February 10, 2023 Just what Mark said - make an architectural block of the cabinets you want to combine and you will be able to place them as one unit. Select the cabinets with labels turned on. Block the cabinets by using the "architectural block" tool. Add the architectural block to the User Library using the "add to library" tool. Schedule will report the cabinets as individual. If you need to move the cabinets individually in the future, just "unblock" them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen43 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Perfect! Thank you both! I guess this was a good old case of using the wrong term when searching for a solution, but this is exactly what I was looking for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Just to add to what Susan said... You can actually make an architectural block act like a single object by checking "treat as one object" in the arch block dialog. You can then choose how you want it to go into the schedule either as a block, or as a cabinet, or even as something else. If you want to make changes to one cabinet in the block, when you first click you will select the block but then you can use the tab key to select the individual cabinet. You can then open the dialog to make changes to that cabinet. If you need to rearrange them, then exploding the block is the thing to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanC Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 As DB mentioned... "Treat as on object" will allow you to place the block into the schedule as one unit. This is helpful when you are doing a custom cabinet order of inset cabinetry and you've combined several cabinets and want that combination to show up in your schedule as one object with one label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen43 Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 Thank you both! I ended up using this last week and it worked perfectly. Now I am having different problems with toolbars, but I will make a new thread for that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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