Plumbing Fixture Clearances

[Joe_Carrick]

There's only one Plumbing Fixture Catalog that I know of in Chief - Kohler.  Within that catalog are many Toilets, Urinals and wall mounted Sinks.

For proper clearances (particularly for ADA, but also in general) there are standards for back, side and front clearances to walls, partitions & cabinets.

• back - 1" for floor mounted (Tank should be clear of the finished wall)
• each side - ((30"-width)/2) ---- 15" from centerline of fixture
• front to any wall, cabinet or door
  • 24" for toilets
  • 48" for urinals
  • 21" for sinks 

In order for any/all of these fixtures to be properly placed with those clearances it's necessary to have the Bounding Box Offsets set to those values. 

OOB, all such fixtures are set to zero which means they can be placed right up a wall, cabinet, partition, door, etc.  Chief's policy is:

•  that it will not be distributing objects with bounding boxes that account for non-functional placement clearances.

IMO, these clearances aren't "non-functional" and since we can't modify things in any library except the "User Library" we would have to copy:

• to our User Library 
• make the adjustments there. 
• unfortunately, there's no group modification of library objects so it would need to be done individually which could take may hours.

If Chief adds any additional Plumbing Fixtures Catalogs

• American Standard
• Glacier Bay
• TOTO
• Gerber
• Bemis
• etc

in the future we will probably be faced with the same problem.

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Joe_Carrick

[SHCanada2]

8 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

There's only one Plumbing Fixture Catalog that I know of in Chief - Kohler

there are a few in the core and bonus catalog, but I just checked and they have the same issue

[johnny]

+1 I fully agree with the suggestion...but i'm curious Joe, are you using the specific client selection of fixtures inside your ConDocs?  What you're saying makes sense regardless of your answer, but i was just a bit curious.  

 

FYI i think this was meant to be in Suggestions.

[Joe_Carrick]

2 hours ago, johnny said:

are you using the specific client selection of fixtures inside your ConDocs? 

I consult with my clients and use what they want.  Most of my projects are custom homes, not remodels.

It's not in suggestions because I sent it to Chief via email.  The respose I received is in red in the 1st post.