Cabinet PIO

[CharlesJ]

Does anyone know if it is posible to use the PIO to create different height drawers - instead of 3, 4 or 5 equal ones? Are there other PIO available for sale that people have tried and liked?

[CipesDesign]

http://www.interiorcad.com/

[CharlesJ]

Yes, interiorCAD looks like a good program, but it costs more than VW 12.5! Is there something out there that costs hundreds, not thousands of dollars? Like WinDoor, but for cabinetry?

[Robert Anderson]

Charles, send me an email about the capabilities you'd like cabinets to have. randerson@nemetschek.net

[CharlesJ]

What prompted this post was a desire to be able to draw any number of drawers of any depth. E.g., a bank of cabinets 53.75 "high with seven drawers ranging from 15.5" to 4.25"

That is the first road block I came across on a project where a client wants to see, even without much detail, the proposed layout, in 3D.

Do you have any advice?

[Robert Anderson]

Well, the short answer would be to ungroup the cabinet PIO in a 3D view and make a symbol out of it. Use standard 3D editing techniques to customize the cabinet.

[CharlesJ]

I'll give that try. Thanks. It sure would be nice to be able to do that from a palette menu, though!

[lee jubas]

My solution may not be as sophisticated as the others, but I' currently designing a long bank of contemporary kitchen cabinets. I created what is essentially the 1/16" gap between doors and drawers. I extruded a 1/16" x 1" x X" bar. I place the 1st one on the cabinet face while viewing as orthoganol 'front view" I play with it, in elevation until happy. Then those 'lines' are true demarcations of cabinetry

separations, in 3D. Past attempts at 3D cabinet boxes, door faces, etc..were too time consuming. I extrude the basic overall box, then a countertop slab, then add the lines to the boxes as described above. What does everyone think?