Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Stuart Douglas
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Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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I'm having trouble creating a cabinet in which the back of the cabinet is at a 45 degree angle to the sides. I an make standard corner cabs with ease in ECabS, but they all have backs square to the sides. The cabinet I'm in need of is a triangle shape in plan, but the back edge of the "right" side meets the back edge of the left side to make the triangle. Left side is square to the front, right side returns to the opposite edge of the back, instead of the right side. Any gurus out there have an idea of how to accomplish this? TIA
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Something like this?
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Almost. The back corner is acute, not square. The left gable of this cabinet is normal, but the back comes to the front corner of what would normally be a right gable. This is supposed to be an open euro-style box, nothing fancy except the angle. I can make what you've shown, but can't figure out how to make the back corner anything but 90.
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Hi Stuart
I haven't looked specifically at your cabinet, and Kerry or someone else may have a simpler system. But I'm pretty sure if you have to do it, this method would work.
https://www.thermwood.com/forums/viewto ... =3&t=18124
Takes a bit of CAD drawing or calculating, but doable
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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More like this?
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Like that Kerry, but with the front face square to the side, not the back. I think we are on the right track, I might have to build this cabinet backwards it seems.
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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One more time.
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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That's it, Kerry!

Now how did you get there? :) Did you trick yourself by making the back into the front?
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

Post by Kerry Fullington »

The back on this cabinet is a stretcher. You have to go back to the stretcher editor and play with it every time you re-size width.
I still have the back as a phantom part to get the adjustable shelf hole pattern to use on the stretcher.
I think a better way to do this might be to forget the stretcher and just take the angled top into the line drawing editor and measure the length you need for the back and simply use back left right insets to size it. It just won't display as an angled cabinet.
I have attached the cabinet if you want to look at it.
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

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Thanks Kerry, I'll dink around with it later today. This looks like it will save me considerable time, even so. Thank You!
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Re: Corner cabinet with acute angled back

Post by Kerry Fullington »

If I can help, let me know.
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