Custom Cabinets/Countertops

[cwailes]

It would be nice to be able to create angled cabinets and countertops. It would also be nice to be able to have the current tools allow for you to cut a hole in the top of the counter to add a sink.

[CipesDesign]

All of that would be quite nice. There are work-around ways of doing it now, but it would be better to have an easier method as these are common items (especially sinks!!!).

FYI, if you ungroup a cabinet plug-in you can then perform any cuts, holes, shape changes, etc. But of course it will no longer be a plug-in...It'll just be a bunch of 3d parts.

[Peter Eichel]

You can draw cabinets with the countertops turned off in the OIP. Instead use the countertop tool to add a countertop to one or more base cabinets. This tool also has the ability to cutout a sink and locate it.

[Jonathan Pickup]

it can?t turn a corner..

I use a floor object for a quick counter without a splashback

or I use an extrusion. The extrusion allows you to chamfer or radius the edges...

[Peter Eichel]

Jonathan:

Thanks, you got me thinking. I ungrouped a countertop which becomes either a solid addition/substraction entity, depending if it has a sink hole or not. Now you can radius any edges and still change it's length or depth. For a corner countertop, make two and rotate one 90 degrees. Do an add solids operation and you have it. WOW!!! VW's and it's workarounds!

[Jonathan Pickup]

good trick. I?m just writing my user group manual for March 2008. The subject is kitchen design for architects, so I will use this method...

[Peter Eichel]

Jonathan:

Ungrouping a single top in plan view explodes it into 2D entities, you need to be in an isometric view for the ungrouping operation to turn it into a solid, however, if there are two tops in plan view, the add solids operation will join them both into a single solid. Go figure! Step 1-Duplicate your single top Step 2- Move it a few inches along it's length

Step 3-Pick both and

[Jonathan Pickup]

any 3D view will do... but you?re right. From a plan view duplicate the 2 tops, explode one version, change to 3D view, explode the other...