skinner Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Does anyone know of an easy way to create a built-up molding. ie..reversed base and then crown? In an effort to create a new variation on a existing molding, I tried copying moldings using B/C. cross section... cad detail from view... and then copy the molding profile. But I can't get the molding profile to convert to a polyline. And so I'm forced to CAD the crown profile. Not the end of the world, but not easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I brought a chief base into a section view, copied over it with cad lines, rotated 180 degrees and added it to the library. Hope this works for you. base inverted.calibz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 What Denis said... but the way I do it which is much faster because you eliminate all that copying over, I go into the library pick moulding profile, right click on it and select Place Moulding Profile... Bring all the profiles I need into a section view and stack them any which way you can, you can break them up and modify any which way you can, etc when got the look you need, block them and add to your library. Here is an image to give you an ides 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Greg - Oh that is sooo much better! Gotta remember to right click more often!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Denis, I use to do the same, but I do this for almost every job, so I finally got a handle on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Greg - OK I am having trouble getting it to work. What camera views do you do this in? I have tried plan but it does not show up when trying to add it to a molding polyline. In section view it does not seem to place. Obviously I am doing something wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I often do what greg does. But if there need to be a lot of changes and I have the actual dimensions of the molding I convert a pdf to png, bring that in, size it, lock the layer. Then start with a pline box. That allows me to set the points to the dimensions then change what need be to curves and angles. I always stack individual moldings on a molding pline and offset there, easier to deal with client changes. So I started to keep a plan file with an assortment of straight molding plines set to different heights. Copy from that into a plan,paste and edit to fit cabinets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 OK - got it working. Watched the video. What a novel idea. ;o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Been doing it that way for years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 @Dennis , could you link that Vid. please, I'm only finding one on Cabinet moldings, but maybe wrong search term? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinner Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 Sweet!!! Thanks Greg. I guess I should read the manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJSpud Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Here's a list of videos from CA that might be useful: http://video.chiefarchitect.com/?search=moldings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Thanks Curt , funny how something as simple as US and International Spelling of a word or even the addition of a "s" effects the results of the search.... Int. US US w/ S ie : moulding vs molding vs moldings 2 14 26 results.... think this is the one no#397 http://video.chiefarchitect.com/player/player.php?id=890&th=1&autoplay= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Dennis, I'm glad you got it... Sorry I just got back and saw your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 The video I saw on this was on youtube I found it long time ago and saved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 The video linked above is old ,it was done in X1, not sure if it's the same one on YT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Old, new... everything is being done the same way if you think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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