scottytaylor8 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I am designing a engineering office and they want a row of base cabinets installed in the plan room, but instead of a standard flat countertop, they want the countertop installed at 30 to 40 degrees with a ledge at the bottom to hold the plans in place while working on them. Is it possible to place a base cabinet and then install a custom countertop that is angled like I mentioned? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeside-E Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 41 minutes ago, scottytaylor8 said: I am designing a engineering office and they want a row of base cabinets installed in the plan room, but instead of a standard flat countertop, they want the countertop installed at 30 to 40 degrees with a ledge at the bottom to hold the plans in place while working on them. Is it possible to place a base cabinet and then install a custom countertop that is angled like I mentioned? Thanks in advance. Maybe someone with more experience than I have will know how to do this, but I would use polyline solids. the only way it would sorta bite you is an outside corner situation... Draw your base cabinet and from a side elevation shape the profile of your countertop and extrude it. Second thought that came to me while typing is to create a custom molding profile then lay out a molding polyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 If you want the cab sides gabled, you're going to need even more time making p'solids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeside-E Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, GeneDavis said: If you want the cab sides gabled, you're going to need even more time making p'solids. if using x12 (maybe works as well in earlier but can't confirm) draw a polyline in 2d over the cabinets you want to affect in a straight line. convert to polyline solid and set the base height at the top of your cabinet box and the poly height to where the highest point should be. camera view. select side plane of polyline and adjust top "front" corner handle to base to establish slope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeside-E Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Using the polyline method... obviously made separate for color reasons and to be able to overhang the cabinet side at will. Using a custom molding profile for side fill and for countertop Attaching the calibz file with molding profiles... Molding line for both profiles is at the wall and these work for standard depth cabinets. Set fill molding to the finished height of your base cabinet Set countertop molding to top of base cabinet height +.625" Cabinet Fill molding.calibz Slopped Countertop (15 degree).calibz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Another variation of the above is to start with a Box and reshape it in 3D - this is a lot easier to do than it looks. No boolean operations needed. If you want more than 1 material, you can explode it, change any colors and then Make Architectural Block (or Convert Selected To Symbol) to get it back to a single unit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 39 minutes ago, glennw said: If you want more than 1 material, you can explode it, change any colors and then Make Architectural Block I suggest one slight adjustment that saves tons of time...Explode, Make Architectural Block while still selected, an then change any colors you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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