Cabinet on 135° Inside Corner

[TexasCAD]

I have just always moved cabinets around until they touch on the inside corner, but is there a better way to create a corner cabinet for a 135° inside corner (see picture). I looked in the cabinet dbx, but there is no angle setting for a corner cabinet.

I just know there is a good way to do this, but no luck so for.

CA 10.08.

Thanks in advance, David

[DougM]

Place one cab close to the corner, place another cab on ajacent wall close to corner, next stretch one cab into corner, stretch other into corner, they should meld together.

[TexasCAD]

Doug,

Tried that and it does not seem to work. By stretching, you mean dragging the handles on the side to change the width? They will only go so far and then stop, but they never blend together.

Will try a few more things,

Dave

[DougM]

really? I tried it several times before replying...and it woked each time, and thats a yes to the width handles on the first cab. On streching the second cab, try it while holding down the Control key, or the handle closest to the corner see if that helps.

[TexasCAD]

Doug,

Tried it some more. I can move Cabinet 2 on top of Cabinet 1, so that the back edges meet at the apex of the angle.

This looks correct in the 3d views, and the countertops merge correctly, but the cabinets do not merge (into 1 cabinet). Maybe I misunderstood what you were doing.

This is really all I needed. It looks correct in views, but not in plan. It is still 2, 36" cabinets.

Am I missing something?

Dave

[Gene Davis]

What Doug was showing and describing, Dave, is that Chief will "extend" two base cabs whose corners are in "range" of each other, and join them.

Think of corner fillers, if you build or install cabinets. Chief does this and then fills in the dead corner space behind by covering it with countertop and backsplash.

Chief will not build you a custom corner cabinet to handle your 135 situation. If that is what you need to have on your plans, you will have to draw in some CAD lines in plan view, and handle it with appropriate notes on your construction drawings.

Here is a pic of two 24" basecabs that have been placed close enough so that Chief does the siamese twin routine and "joins" them. Open each for spec, though, and they are each just 24-wide cabs. Nothing is there describing what the filler is about, and the polygonal space behind in the corner is "dead" with no cabinet storage.

[TexasCAD]

Gene,

Thanks for the clarification. That is much clearer. I appreciate the quick reply.

Regards, David

[TexasCAD]

Gene, Doug,

FYI, My dad owned a cabinet shop for years and I have built a bunch of these when I worked for him. For this type of cabinet, we actually built them with the 22.5° angle, so that the shelving inside was contiguous, and the space was not wasted, and there was no "dead" zone for things to fall into.

I was looking for a way to make the rear dimension and the front dimension different, similar to the way that you set up an angle front cabinet.

Thanks again, David

[Curtis Johnson]

David:

You might put that in as a request for a future feature. Maybe it wouldn't be all that difficult for the programmers to make happen (????)? Others have posted questions on how to do cabinets around an exterior corner, whether it is 270 degrees or less. How would you build your custom cabinet(s) in those situations?

[DougM]

Dave, I too build my own kitchen cabs, and as you mentioned building the cabs at 22.5 deg I would also do IF the cabs were door cabs. If they are full drawer cabs it's a wast of time when the space can't be used. As far as dimensioning front and back verticies, draw cad lines and dim from them. Unless I 'm misunderstanding what your looking for.
Curt: buiding cabs for outside corners are just as easy unless they are round, which are a bit more difficult. We usually handle outside corner cabs with one side all drawers with dummy panels on ajacent side, or make both sides doors for full access, depends on what the customers wants. Some may want just open shelves.