Joining shelf and rod in walk in closet

[Ringos]

Using the shelf and rod in Chief. It does not wrap like walls. Each side is separate but do not 45? How to achieve a u shaped closet shelf and rod?

[DBCooper]

Those are symbols so they can't miter.  What I sometimes do is place partitions and have the shelf and rod butt up to them.  Another thing you could do is just use the shelf tool and then build the rod yourself using either a molding polyline or a polyline solid which would give you more control over the shape.  It might depend on how you are actually going to build it in the real world.

 

 

 

[glennw]

You can use a Molding Polyline with 2 moldings specified with appropriate offsets - one for the shelf and one for the rail.

[rlackore]

You can assign a Molding to a Shelf; however, the Molding will "wrap" at a free end, as shown in the picture, so unless the shelf butts against a wall, it will look weird in 3D, unless you add an invisible wall to make the "wrap" disappear.

 

Assign a molding:

 

Molding "wraps" at free end:

 

Unless you place an Invisible Wall:

[rgardner]

1 hour ago, rlackore said:

You can assign a Molding to a Shelf; however, the Molding will "wrap" at a free end, as shown in the picture, so unless the shelf butts against a wall, it will look weird in 3D, unless you add an invisible wall to make the "wrap" disappear.

 

Assign a molding:

 

Molding "wraps" at free end:

 

Unless you place an Invisible Wall:

Pretty sure you can bury a partition in the ceiling or floor at that point as well and it will stop.

[rlackore]

1 hour ago, rgardner said:

Pretty sure you can bury a partition in the ceiling or floor at that point as well and it will stop.

 

Just curious. What is the advantage to this strategy? What problem does it solve that an invisible wall does not?

[rgardner]

35 minutes ago, rlackore said:

 

Just curious. What is the advantage to this strategy? What problem does it solve that an invisible wall does not?

Most of the time it would be fine.  However sometimes an invisible wall can cause issues with other items and or wall transitions, for example if on the other side of that wall there is a close perpendicular wall it can sometimes cause issues.  Or if you have a cabinet close to it that you don't want to turn off auto fillers on the plan the invisible wall can cause auto fillers to be added.   Many reasons.