How do I create working cabinet drawings?

[adamjedgar]

i understand your question adam. as an design and technology teacher by training, and since i thought this forum section was for education purposes, i appreciate your need to produce accurate cabinet drawings. as a teacher i would expect my student, wanting to design and make a cabinet for a school or college project, to be able to produce a detail set of drawings. my answer to you...don't use an architectural drawing program to create details drawings for furniture, cabinets and the like. like david has said above, chief is meant for concept drawings when inserting such objects into a plan and not detailed engineering drawings of items inside buildings. this in no way suggests that the blocks inserted into chief drawings aren't accurate, quite the opposite is the case. however, to create the blocks accurately, you really need a CAD program like vectorworks, turbocad, or autocad (to name a couple of well known ones here in Australian secondary schools).

having said that, i note that vectorworks architect is also a full blown CAD and architectural drawing program in the one. that makes it an incredibly powerful option to chief...i wonder when chief programmers will consider going down that pathway as it is a big failling of an otherwise awesome program? i cant fail chiefs way of thinking and doing. it really does tend to allow the operator to create in the same way he thinks...that really does save time.

kind regards
adam