Kitchen - step by step

Furniture design software Design Sintez

Kitchen furniture - step by step

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Basic rules:

А / The cabinets must be inserted from left to right direction , on a clockwise direction. Each next cabinet picks up to the previous one.

B/ If you will generate the price offer on a basis of the created job or will use an automatic cutting, the option Create element nomenclature in the forms must be marked.

C/ When you put a worktop it is necessary to have in view that the sink cabinets, angurlar cabinets and angular stands can be generated together with a worktop. In this case you must not add to them additional one.

Succession of operations:

1. Open new project. In the dialogue form Create new Drawing choose a template Sintez36.dwt

2. Save project with user name. From Horizontal menu choose Save new drawing - form.

3. Generate the room - Horizontal menu --> Operations --> Room generating

4.Enter a value for Units position from all room walls in the dialogue window Insert units-->Parameters by default ( Press the button which is taking place above icons for a choice of room model). You can add a personal distance for each wall, too.

5. Generate the base cabinets. Add cabinets from left - > to right direction.
Start operation Insert units from Vertical menu. Open the dialog Cabinet from section Generating of multielement unit.

Generate Cabinet 1 - At its generating choose to generate it without top (in the preview of the joint type,press the button Top). Activate the button Rails and set the generating of a rails,in this case- Vertical rails.Enter the shelves's number into the field Number of shelves (section Shelves,Drawers and Rods).

Cabinet 2- Creates in module Cabinet too. Despite, here there are 4 drawers. Turn off the generating of the cabinet top and choose the creation of horizontal rails toward the cabinet. Into the field Number of shelves (section Shelves,Drawers and Rods) enter the value 4 and press the button Parameters. Let's create a combination of drawers with fronts to them (one-36cm. and three-12cm) as an example. Consecutively enter: for the first shelf mark the option Drawer and set it parameters - Distance below=0, Box's height =30 and Front's height=36.

The drawer's depth will sets to the next closer smaller standart slider's length depending on the free internal volume of the unit. For the second one mark again the option Drawers. The distance below automatically will be recaculated toward the height of the previous entered fronts, Box's height =9 and Front's height=12cm. In analogous way are given the parameters of the rest two drawers.

Cabinet 3 and Cabinet 4 - They are generating in the same way like Cabinet 1.

Cabinet 5 generates such as Cabinet 2 ( the difference is that Cabinet 5 has a drawer and a shelf). In section Shelves without partitions enter Number of shelves=2. Sellect the option Edgeband and press the button Parameters. In the opened dialog uncheck the option Proportional division and enter the shelf's position and front distance. For the second element mark the option Drawer. For it enter Distance below, Box's height and Front's height.

6.Insert the horizontal worktop and sink to it -Open module Sink cabinet. Enter sink cabinet sizes as follows: Length (equal to the whole length of base cabinets,over which there will be the worktop); height (equal to the height of the cabinets + worktop's thickness); Depth,equal to the depht of the cabinets. Choose the sink model and set it as left position.The option Generate cabinet case must be inactive. Press the button Create and specify the back left point of the first cabinet by left mouse button.

7. Baseboard

There are 2 ways for baseboard insertion:

Each cabinet generates with a own baseboard. In such case you already have put it. See next step In this case each baseboard generates its own element nomenclature.
The baseboard addes as one element for all cabinets. In this case creates common element nomenclature for its length.

You can make this as generate cabinet with length,equal to the general length of all cabinets.Turn off all cabinet elements ,excepting the baseboard. Press button Create and in the job point with left mouse button the back left point of the first cabinet.When you use this method,you have to raise all units in the job with the baseboard height in advance.

8. Wall panel - In this case the width of worktop will be its height.

Use automatic addition, because this worktop is linear (from 2 points). Mark options Automatic and Wall panel. Press the button Cabinet and specify Cabinet 1 in the project. Then press the button Cabinet again and choose Cabinet 5.

Press the button Generate for end of operation.

9. Cabinet 6 – Case for oven

From Vertical menu open the module Insert units. In section Generating of multielement unit choose the module Cabinet . Set a position of case " On Z ". Otherwise the cabinet will be generated on a room floor.

You can generate Cabinet 7 by similar way.

Insert oven - Open the module Insert units. Mark a unit in the library with ready units (look the left side of the form). Enter value into the field " On Z ". If it is necessary change some of the unit sizes. Press Add. Specify a insertion point (press the left mouse button to specify). All other units from library can be added by same way - rangehood, interior elements, etc.

10. Create the lighting panel. Use Insert units - > Additional elements - > Rectangular element. Do not forget to set to it a layer for rendering.

By similar way you can generate the vertical element under it (pos. 9) and shelf (pos. 10)

11. Door and fronts insertion
Use module Group addition and deleting of units in the project. to add doors to cabinets. From the Vertical menu choose Add-delete. Here are used doors model D7.

Cabinet 1-Mark an option Insert doors. Press button 1 Door.The fields for sizes and position of doors fill in automatically. Press Add units button. Opens the form Doors to choose model. Press the mouse left button on its image and then press Generate door.
Cabinet 2 – Here doors are added on two stages.

In this case we will add two type of doors: : first is 30cm. (wood), second and third - 14cm. (blue) and fourth with height 14 cm (wood).
Let's begin with blue doors - 2 and 3.

Choose an option Insert doors. Enter the doors' sizes. To sellect a value into fields for editing, set the mouse index before number. The index becomes an pointer. Press the left button to mark the value in this field. The position and distances of doors are set in relation to a cabinet base point - bottom left. In this case you must enter:

for 2- nd door - Length equal on cabinet length; height 14 cm. and Position on Z=30 cm.
for 3-rd door - Length equal on cabinet length; height 14 cm. and Position on Z= 44 cm.
Press the button Adds units, choose door model and press Generate door button.

Add wood doors - Press the button Cabinet again. Choose an option Insert door and enter:

for 1- st door - Length equal on cabinet length; height 30 cm. and Position on Z=0 cm.
For 4 th door- Length equal on cabinet length; height 14 cm and Position on Z=58 cm ( 2*14+30=58).

Press Adds units and choose door model. Change the layer names of layers for colouring. Thus you can connect these doors with other colour (texture) in comparison with doors 2 and 3. Then press the button Generate door.

Cabinet 3 and Cabinet 4 – The doors can be added by a similar way as Cabinet 1. Before pressing the button Generate door check up the names of layers because the doors have various colour (layers).

Cabinet 5 – The doors are added by a similar way as Cabinet 2.

Cabinet 7 – The doors are added by a similar way as Cabinet 1,3 and 4. The most suitable model is DE.

12. . Handles addition - Vertical menu - > Add - delete - > Handles Add/Change

Choose from the list those doors, by which you want to add the horizontal handle, choose model of the handle from the menu and press Adds units. Use the button CTRL for a choice of some doors simultaneously. Hold the button pressed and mark the doors, necessary to you. If it is necessary, correct manually their position. It is recommendatory the button ORTHO to be active.

The vertical handles add by similar way.

13. Rendering-

Choose textures and connect them with chosen layers in the project. (Manager of operations and commands ---> Texture libraries)
Add light sources in the drawing. From the Manager of operations and commands open dialog form Colouring the project - > Light sources - user's system

Create and save a view for drawing rendering - Set a view front and activate a mode Camera. Create a view and save it (Manager of operations and commands - > Views). You can use operation User view too. Do not forget to set a mode "perspective" (Projection - > perspective).
After colouring of the drawing, save it as graphic image. Press the mouse right button on the working screen. Loads Manager of operations and commands. Press the button Save project in a graphic file FORM.

To view the saved file, open again module Open drawing FORM. Mark an option jpg/bmp into a field Preview and press the right button on it to see its full-screen image. The repeated pressing of the button minimizes it

Basic methods for positioning of objects in the drawing
Cabinet positioning - active OSNAP.

Start with first left (corner) cabinet and intercept to it all next cabinets (in view top) left --- > to right for horizontal and from above -> downwards for vertical at Ḷ-figurative or ṇ-figurative kitchen design of the kitchen. For exact positioning of first base and wall cabinet in the drawing you can use operation Opreations with units - > Change position from the vertical menu or in the form Insert units - > Parameters for control of capacity of units in room include an option The automatic control for capacity of units in main room At positioning of units (if use points of intercepting ) you will keep a position everyone previous in coordinate system, by which you pick up. So it will be not necessary to change a view for changing of position of unit. This succession of operations for creating of the project is unrequired. It is only recommendatory

At addition of the first wall cabinet must be changed its position on X, Y and on Z (distance from a floor level). It is necessary to have in view base, which change position of wall cabinets from a level of a floor too.Certainly, you can set its position On Z when you generate it. In a consequence you can change a position of everyone individually, changing a view, to delete and to add units. The method of the dragging for change of a position saves a position of unit On Z in coordinate system, creating deviations It can become the reason for inexact positioning. Therefore at its initial addition in the drawing pick up it to closest unit and then use a method of the dragging. For intercepting of units, the button OSNAP in the status bar of the AutoCAD must be active.

Doors generating - Manual positioning at active button OSNAP. Examples for methods of intercepting of doors in different views and for different kinds of objects.

View Top Door to a cabinet	View southwest Door to a cabinet	View top Door to a door	View southwest front to front (door)

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