designing kitchens

[jmedgar]

We use Chief (now X3) for all kitchen, bath and closet designs. It is not as effective as applications dedicated to kitchens, and closets (as for example, KCD Software -- by the way, is anyone else using KCD?). But it is, as the originator says, a lot more flexible in designing a whole room or multiple rooms rather than just cabinets.

Pricing from the materials list is, however, a lost cause. We tried it, and tried all sorts of workarounds. It flat does not work. The Chief materials list is primitive and basically useless. If it has been updated since Ver 9.5, I did not notice. What we ended up doing is writing our own software to take the cabinet dimensions from Chief andd translate them into shop specifications, including a cut list. Not by any means the most satisfactory solution, but it works for now.

I wonder, and I simply don't know since we have not used 20/20 for 10 years, can't you turn off everything except cabinets and export a Chief plan to 20/20 as a .dxf file?