Range Hood Cabinet

[joestilwell95]

I have been working on creating a custom range hood cabinet. I created it all from 3D Solids. I have several options on how I can create a symbol with it.

1. Is it better to select all of the components and create the symbol or block with them and then create the symbol.

2. I was hoping I could create the symbol as a cabinet but it looks like all I can do is specify what layer it will appear on and where it will appear on the schedule.

3. My options are to create it as a fixture or as millwork. I have tried both and the functionality seems the same with each option. Is one better to use than the other?

4. I was really hoping there was a way to create an actual cabinet so I could insert a range hood into it as I would a dishwasher in a base cabinet.

 

It's all about the learning curve so all suggestions and experience are appreciated.

 

Joe

Molding.plan

[Renerabbitt]

1 hour ago, joestilwell95 said:

I was really hoping there was a way to create an actual cabinet so I could insert a range hood into it as I would a dishwasher in a base cabinet.

You would need to convert this to a Cabinet Door/Drawer Symbol Category and then apply it to a cabinet set with no top bottoms or sides with a 0" framed box and then you would still need to modify a hood liner to be a millwork symbol category to apply it as a shelf. Millwork shelves are not replacement mode accessible to you would always have to open the dialog box to replace the hood liner and you would have to convert a bunch of liners to millwork symbols. Pretty tedious.
You could convert your hood liners to cabinet doors but this would take very advanced symbol bounding box and offset modifications

[joestilwell95]

On 4/18/2025 at 2:51 PM, Renerabbitt said:

 

 

Thank you ReneRabbitt. Does sound a tad tedious but definitely worth some investigation. 

Joe

[Renerabbitt]

3 hours ago, joestilwell95 said:

Thank you ReneRabbitt. Does sound a tad tedious but definitely worth some investigation. 

considering a rendering of a liner would be pretty obscure and not a common rendering by any means, it would be a lot easier to just replace your fixtures label with a macro or by typing it in for your fixture schedule material lists etc.