In the last installment of this ERP Cabinetmaking Tutorial we were working on the Rail Options sketch, and left off with some rail profiles attached to some geometry that was projected onto the sketch from the Side Elevation sketch. The reason for the separate sketches is pretty simple, if you start piling optional geometry atop of your base feature’s geometry, pretty soon you have a pile of unmanageable gobbledygook that is sure to explode the first time it is configured via iLogic. It’s not pretty, trust me.
As-is, the Rail Options sketch is shy 8 dimensions of a fully constrained state. All of our profiles are dimensioned for thickness with the Face_Frame_Thickness parameter, and the top and bottom rails have their widths accounted for temporarily, and all profiles are attached to the line that represents the face of the face frame via a collinear constraint…
In the last installment of this Cabinet Configurator Tutorial, we left off with the Plan sketch nearly complete –but the side panels geometry was left only partially constrained due to the length of the post. As with the Shaker Table blogtorial, we need to create a setback in the sketch that is driven by iLogic, which will be driven to zero at some configurations. Doing so will almost always result in a portion of your model flipping inside-out when driven back to a non-zero configuration. So what we will do to stop this from happening is create an outrigger. Please use the outrigger link if you would like more info. Otherwise, let’s get to it…
In the last installment of this Cabinet Configurator Tutorial for Inventor 2013, we completed the Side Elevation sketch which described pretty much everything there is to see when slicing through the cabinet vertically through its center (whether or not the element is actually sliced through). This next sketch will show the elements that are possible horizontally.
In the last installment of this Automated Cabinetry Inventor Tutorial, we got all the way around the cabinet with our sketch, but there are still a few things to add. We need to get the applied toe kick in place, add a locator for the adjustable leg, and add the rail representations in the top nailer frame. If time allows, we will start on the variable sketches that will begin to describe the variation available to the base design.
In the last installment of this Inventor Tutorial for automated Cabinet Design, we damn near finished working our way around the side elevation sketch, but still have the bottom to go. From there, we need to define the rails for this, the main version of the face frame.
In the last installment of this Cabinetmaking Inventor Tutorial, we created a couple parameters, sketched in the face frame profile, and dimensioned the new face frame using the new parameters. Today we will continue sketching. The features we will need to portray in this elevation slice are a top nailer frame, a back nailer, the back, the deck, the kick, and the face frame’s rails.
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