Impromptu New Years Show LIVE - Designers Show

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Rene Rabbitt accidentally goes live when the show was supposed to be canceled, so he wings a solo Designers Show with advanced Chief Architect tips.

Main demo: building a fast, repeatable parapet detail. She places molding profiles, classifies them as base/crown, tweaks offsets, and stacks moldings so the cap/flashing reads correctly in cross sections. Then she saves the whole setup as a room style palette so it can be “sprayed” onto any room with one click (including no roof/no ceiling and materials).

He briefly tests converting a 3D solid into a stretchable molding, but it doesn’t behave as expected, and he mentions a possible Chief glitch. He wraps by showing how he pins custom library tools to toolbars (board-and-batten, shiplap, belly band, etc.), touches on macros/schedules for area analysis and automated notes, and plugs Dan’s Bloomington class (Jan 12-15-26).

0:03 - Solo kickoff and context
2:36 - Multi-layout template workflow
5:52 - Alt-key menu shortcuts
7:16 - One-click parapet room setup
9:19 - Cross-section check on parapet
12:31 - Placing and editing molding profiles
14:35 - Assigning moldings in room dialog
16:47 - 2D vs 3D moldings
24:25 - Building a stacked molding
28:14 - Painting materials and trim
34:28 - Save parapet as style palette
36:04 - 3D molding stretch plane issue
47:20 - Add tools to toolbars
48:49 - More custom tool examples
51:19 - Style palettes for area math
52:33 - Room macros and schedules
55:24 - Cabinet schedule pricing example
56:54 - What the Ano tool does
1:04:00 - Updating style palette fields
1:07:09 - Bloomington class quick promo
1:07:52 - Group rebrand announcement
1:08:46 - Trouble ending the stream