What is the secret to making a dishwasher cabinet? One with only the appliance under the counter.

[GeneDavis]

@MarkMc posted a plan in another thread about this topic, but there was no explanation about how things get done.  Here is the plan he posted, but with the addition of a dishwasher symbol I made by importing a Sketchup model of a GE Monogram one at 18" width.

 

In Mark's plan, he has a cabinet in which is a DW, one from the Chief manufacturer bonus library.  The cabinet has no sides, no back, no fronts, no toekick, no nothing.  It is just blank space with a countertop over.  If I try to make such a cabinet, I fail.  Going to the fronts section of the cab spec, I delete everything.  Separations, door, drawerfront.  I specify the cab as framed just as Mark has it.  I specify the stiles as 0".  I cannot get the cab to build blank, but always end up with a back and sides.

 

I want a "cabinet" that is blank like Mark's but has the 18" width needed for this Monogram DW.  What do I do?

dishwasher hidden cabinet.zip

[DeLayDesign]

5 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

@MarkMc posted a plan in another thread about this topic, but there was no explanation about how things get done.  Here is the plan he posted, but with the addition of a dishwasher symbol I made by importing a Sketchup model of a GE Monogram one at 18" width.

 

In Mark's plan, he has a cabinet in which is a DW, one from the Chief manufacturer bonus library.  The cabinet has no sides, no back, no fronts, no toekick, no nothing.  It is just blank space with a countertop over.  If I try to make such a cabinet, I fail.  Going to the fronts section of the cab spec, I delete everything.  Separations, door, drawerfront.  I specify the cab as framed just as Mark has it.  I specify the stiles as 0".  I cannot get the cab to build blank, but always end up with a back and sides.

 

I want a "cabinet" that is blank like Mark's but has the 18" width needed for this Monogram DW.  What do I do?

dishwasher hidden cabinet.zip 4.01 MB · 0 downloads

I haven't opened the zip file, but have you tried selecting 'filler' in the general options of the cabinet.



This should turn off everything except the front

[GeneDavis]

I did not try that but it is not checked filler in Mark's.

[SHCanada2]

 

I compared the object properties of his vs me dropping the CA chef series dishwasher into a cabinet

 

these are where his differ...that look like it might be what he did. The first one below is "side type" from the screenshot I put above (which is the chef series wiht right side set to none, and you can see the right side missing.

right_side ---------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------------------------------- NVPublisher
    actual_type ---------------------------------------------------------- "None" -------------------------------------- String
 

left_side ----------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------------------------------- NVPublisher
    actual_type ---------------------------------------------------------- "None" -------------------------------------- String
back_side ----------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------------------------------- NVPublisher
    actual_type ---------------------------------------------------------- "None" -------------------------------------- String

has_toekick -------------------------------------------------------------- false --------------------------------------- FalseClass
 

 

chef series with the above set like Mark's