Workaround for pantry drawers

[Gene Davis]

Newbie here, and experiencing difficulty with this.

I want to place a group of equal-height (3\") pull-out trays inside a hinged-door pantry cabinet.

I selected and saved as the default a drawer type. I built all my drawer settings into the drawerbox dialog, with unequal side reveals due to my use of a spacer block (Blum T59.3570, 25mm) on the hinge side of this cab, which is one-door wide.

My settings call for a 76mm drawer height, and a bottom inset of 29mm.

I highlight my entire cab opening of about 51 inches height, select the quantity of four (4) to try for four such drawers at equal spacing, and the program bombs out.

Trying to place just one such drawer, I get a message that says \"Drawerbox depth set to zero. The drawerbox will now be romoved from the cabinet.\"

What is going on?

[Justin Melhiser]

Gene

Do you have this cabinet saved where you can email it to me? My email is cabinets@thermwood.com

Thank You
Justin

[Gene Davis]

Jason, the error was mine. I had my rear inset mistakenly large, thus the \"removal\" of drawer.

As for placing an array of equal-height drawers as 3\" tall pullout trays, I figured out how things work.

Unless I am missing something, you have to have your scratch pad and calculator handy, and work your way up from the bottom tray, starting with total opening height, then subtracting your desired drawer height and space-between drawers (or bottom inset for the bottom drawer), to arrive at the top inset.

It is sort of backing into it, but it works. As you can see in the image, I varied spacing, making sure to leave room for the center hinge. This is the bottom box of a two-box stack, the top one being less tall.

[Michael Yeargain]

Justin,

This is where I would like to see an insert feature of how many drawers to add into an openning and min and max height, width and depth for the box.

[Kerry Fullington]

Gene,
Here is how I do it.
Open your pantry cab in the Cabinet Editor.
Go to the Drawer Box Editor.
Choose a default drawer box.
Highlight the opening.
If you want 3 drawers then enter 6 as the drawer box quantity.
eCabinets will fill the opening with six drawer boxes.
Select and delete every other drawer box leaving you with three.
Use the CTR Key and click to highlight all three drawer boxes while still in the drawer box editor.
Open construction settings and enter 3\" as the minimum height increment.
Click OK and let the cab regenerate and when you exit to the main screen you will have three 3\" high boxes equally spaced.

The only problem I have found is that if your opening is large enough the 3\" minimum height will allow three 6\" drawers instead of just 3\".
Maybe this will get you headed in the right direction though.

Kerry