Doors on angled cabinets?

[Wally Schneeberger]

Ok guys .. I'm having a blonde moment and can't remember how to put a door on an angled cabinet. I built the cabinet in the editor but can't seem to add a door. I can't remember coming across this before and did a search but it wouldn't return anything. It's the empty cab on the right. Help please.

[Justin Melhiser]

Wally

You will have to use a second cabinet, place the doors on it and then delete everythign from it but the doors. This will leave you with just the doors where you can associate the doors to the cabinet.

[Gene Davis]

I have not done this, but I'll bet it can be done. It is an alternative to what Justin is suggesting.

A door of the correct size can be brought into a cabinet and an assembly thus made. The door can then be rotated appropriately, and then moved into the correct position.

Either way, you will need to work with paper, pencil, and calculator (or a CAD package or Google Sketchup), to arrive at the correct door width.

When doing this, I always open my Blum hinge specs to choose the appropriate angled hinge and plate combination, then let the Blum specs guide me to arrive at the right reveal on the hinge side.

[Michael S Murray]

Hi Wally,
I develop the cabinet, then take it to the line drawing editor and measure the opening from the top view and add whatever according to your hinge detail.Then just manually add the door and assosciate it to the cabinet.

[Dennis Englert]

Justin is correct if you want to place an angled door on a face frame cabinet.

On a frameless cabinet you can use the meauring tool to measure across the angle, then determine your reveals to determine the final door width. If you double-click on the cabinet, you would then load or select your door from the \"door/drawer\" option, which is listed under the \"Load Item\" dialog well under your cabinet selection. In the next dialog you must choose a door from the menu and type in the size. The door will be placed at the position of the target (the blue ball that looks like a WWII mine with spikes). By selecting the cabinet first, the door was automatically associated with the cabinet meaning that it will be saved with the cabinet. After the door is inserted, unselect the cabinet, reposition and rotate the door to its location. The \"Move Increment\" methods and \"Align Items\" feature can help you get this in place fairly quickly. The only piece of info that is missing is the angle of the cabinet front, so if you don't know it, you'll just have to rotate the door until it looks right. I'd guess that the math geniuses out there could determine the angle with an equation.

[Doug Gilford]

Wally
I'm not sure if your answer has been adequately answered yet. I interpreted your question a little differently than other people, so here's my answer.

Use a Base corner (diagonal) cabinet to achieve this. Simply reduce the right and left leg depths down to the size that you want and then add a door to the cabinet in the same way as any other cabinet, via the door / drawer interface.

The seen front and end panels are addied in as display parts (make sure you associate them with the cabinet)

Hope this helps

[Wally Schneeberger]

Justin is correct if you want to place an angled door on a face frame cabinet.

On a frameless cabinet you can use the meauring tool to measure across the angle, then determine your reveals to determine the final door width. If you double-click on the cabinet, you would then load or select your door from the "door/drawer" option, which is listed under the "Load Item" dialog well under your cabinet selection. In the next dialog you must choose a door from the menu and type in the size. The door will be placed at the position of the target (the blue ball that looks like a WWII mine with spikes). By selecting the cabinet first, the door was automatically associated with the cabinet meaning that it will be saved with the cabinet. After the door is inserted, unselect the cabinet, reposition and rotate the door to its location. The "Move Increment" methods and "Align Items" feature can help you get this in place fairly quickly. The only piece of info that is missing is the angle of the cabinet front, so if you don't know it, you'll just have to rotate the door until it looks right. I'd guess that the math geniuses out there could determine the angle with an equation.

Thanks for all the replies but I went with Dennis as his sounded the easiest and was. It worked like a charm with no snags. I rotated the door until it lined up with the cabinet and it came out at 70.25* and was very accurate.