Resizing a standard cabinet

[Gary Puckett]

I have a question on resizing a standard cabinet, I want to take a standard cabinet and resize it for a desk pencil drawer to go in between two cabinets. The problem is when I do this the hight dim. on the left side in the cabinet editor stays at 30" but when I point the cruser at the side panels it says 5 1/2". Why won"t the dim. on the dim scale in cabinet editor read 5 1/2?

Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

How are you re-sizing the height? If you enter a Cabinet height of 5 1/2" it will show 5 1/2". If you are insetting the deck and sides then it will show the original cabinet height in the Cabinet Edit box but your sides will be 5 1/2".

I have found the best way to create a pencil drawer cabinet is to use a detached toe at a height that creates your desk cabinet. This way it places at the proper height when you place it in a room.


Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

Yes I had to do it by insetting the deck,back,and sides because if I tried to resize the cab to 5 1/2" it would not do it.

Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

In construction settings Toe Kick tab, set a toe height of 0 and a depth of 0 and un-check Has toe. Your cabinet should re-size now.

Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

I don't know what happen last night, but I just took a standard wall cab. and it resized just fine.

Thanks Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

A wall cabinet will re-size fine but will place on the wall at wall cabinet height when you place it in a room.

With a base cabinet you must deal with the toe kick.

Kerry

[Dennis Englert]

Take a base cabinet, make it a detached toe with 0 inset. Resize the cabinet. At this point, you can delete the deck, top, ends and back. Set up your construction parameters for the drawer box and drawer front. Insert the drawer. If you need the ends, etc., then don't delete them.

Dennis

[Michael S Murray]

Hey Dennis,
You need any assistant trainers for the California training seminar? By assistant I mean some one to come in and pull the projector screen down and then go to the beach...........I would cover my own lunch obviously

[Dennis Englert]

Well, I needed the "humor". Thanks, Mike

Dennis

Another person wanted to make sure that I checked "steak" on the catering menu!

[Michael S Murray]

steak in California? Would that be a rice and soybean cake formed around a Faux t-bone made out of Bamboo(recycled chop sticks of course)

[Dennis Englert]

Probably, tofu. Yuck!