Create open End of Island shelf with legs/pilaster

[justnelson6]

Hello,

 

Im in Chief X 16. I'm trying to recreate this end of island open shelving unit with drawers and 4 legs that my clients wants. Any tips? 

 

When I remove the sides, the full side panel is removed, leaving the drawer box exposed. My pilaster/legs are not aligning and I don't know how to get 4 legs vs the 2 front legs only. Also why are the pilasters not replacing the cabinet? Should I be using cabinet feet?

 

Any tips are much appreciated!

[kellyh]

Here's a quick and dirty example of what I could come up with based on the images you provided.

 

 

The big thing that I did is instead of setting the left and right sides to "None", I set them to be custom faces that were blank areas that matched the size of the front.

 

 

I also used feet for the bottom, set the box construction to Framed, and the Door/Drawer overlay to inset.

 

I hope that helps to point you in the right direction!

[MarkMc]

11 hours ago, justnelson6 said:

I'm trying to recreate this end of island open shelving unit with drawers and 4 legs that my clients wants. 

While I almost always try to do these sorts of things with a single cabinet in this case I found that was really annoying to make look correct in all types of views. So it's better to make it in parts. 

Sides are made with a cabinet section and two legs, then convert that to a symbol. The main cabinet works better if the bottom shelf is a cabinet door symbol.

Set the upper layout of the cabinet front to avoid showing extra lines in vector when the sides are forced over.

Getting it to look correct in vector was a PIA when it is changed to a symbol so that it can go into a schedule. Attached a plan (only because too much to explain)

This has 3" legs set 1/2" proud of face frames. Changing that requires changing leg sizes, then a new symbol. And reset the sizing of the top front layout.

open leg cabinet.zip

[justnelson6]

thank you both.