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Alright, it's time to start drawing. So here's a look at the cabinet that you are going to
draw. And you are going to hand in something just like this, except your colors may be
different. Your fonts may be different. But the information, the dimensions the title
the scale, all those things. Will be essentially the same as mine. What I'm going to do is,
I'm going to leave this open, I have two monitors here. If you have the luxury of having two
monitors, it's really a great way to take this class. You can leave instructions, you
can leave pictures you are going to draw, things that you're going to draw. You can
leave them open on one monitor and then work on the other one in Vectorworks. So I'm going
to move this off to the side. Now, probably what I should do here is go ahead and save
this as a file. Notice we opened up the template and up here at the top it says Untitled 5.
I've been a busy boy, I've been doing a lot so untitled 1,2 3, 4 had preceded this. So,
yours may be different. If you just opened it up it may be untitled 1. Alright, let's
go ahead and save this as a file. And let's "save as", not as a template, just save as
a Vectorworks file. With a .vwx extension at the end. Let's call it cabinet drawing
1. I'm going to put a underscore on there. And I am going to save it on my desk top.
Ok, so now the drawing has a name. One think we haven't been doing while we were drawing
our templates, was doing a lot of saving. You may have gotten screen hints. You may
have notice that I got screen hints, "Do you want to save?" I probably should have but
had I just saved it. It would have saved it as a file, not as a template, first of all.
I would have had to go back in and say I want to save it as a template. I didn't do any
saving. But now, that we are doing the file, we're actually going to actually start drawing
the cabinet, you really don't want to loose any of this stuff. Save often, Command S on
a Mac. Control S on a Windows machine. Do it often. And you can set up one of your Vectorworks
preferences, do you want to set it up so that it does it every 5 minutes, every 15 minutes,
whatever. I tend to just like to do it myself. I think I have mine set for every 15 minutes.
OK, it's time to start drawing. Let's take a look at the cabinet. I'm going to pull it
back over, I'm going to do this in a very specific way so I can show you some tools
that you're going to want to use along the way. This is not the way you have to do things,
but just the way I'm going to do it. Let's take a look, I'm going to start with the toe
kick. And I'm going to draw a toe kick that is 24" by 4" high. I'm just going to note
here so I don't have to go back to this drawing that the cabinet itself, at the top of the
toe kick is 30 1/2' to the bottom of the counter top. So it's 30 1/2 and it's 27 1/2 wide.
I want to make sure that I'm on the right layer, and class. I am on design layer one and I
am cabinet carcass, that's perfect. I'm going to double click on the rectangle tool, and
I am going to put in 24 for a width. And 4 inches for a height. And the insertion point,
on this one, is not that important. So I will click OK, then I'm going to come down here
and click. So, there is my toe kick. Now, rather than draw another rectangle, since
I already have a rectangle here, I'm going to duplicate it. Command D. Or Control D on
a windows machine. It doesn't look like anything happened, but there is another rectangle sitting
right there. And there it is. I want to go back and I want to show you something that
we did when we set up our Vectorworks preferences. Tools, options, Vectorworks preferences. We
deselected offset duplication. If I had selected "Offset Duplication", let's do this one more
time. I'm going to duplicate it, now watch what happens. It offsets it. Now, that's fine,
but if you want to create a duplicate and then move it a certain distance in the X axis
and a certain distance in the Y axis, it's nice to have it overlay just right on top
and now I can say Command M or Control M for move. And now I can say OK, I want this guy
to go up 4 inches in the Y axis. I don't want it to move at all on the X axis, I just want
to move it up. OK, so now I have essentially what can be our carcass. And all I have to
do now is re-size it in the object info pallet. So if you don't have your object info pallet,
get it open. Window > Pallet and that is object info, right there. Now, let's change it. Let's
think about this. If we change the dimensions on this, we know that it is wider, it is 27
1/2 inches wide, and it is taller that the toe kick, it is 30 1/2 inches in height. If
I leave this dot in the center here, what is going to happen is, that the 30, it's going
to change from being 4 inches high to 30 1/2 inches. And it going to go both up and down.
I don't want it to do that. I want it to anchor itself right here at the top of the toe kick.
So I'm going to go right here and click on that. So now it is anchored to the toe kick
and now I can change the height. I should also say it is anchored at the center, I could
have anchored it here or here but then when I change the width, that wouldn't have happened
the way I wanted it to. Let's change this to 27 1/2 and I'm going to change the height
to 20 1/2. Now I have my cabinet. Alright, why don't we go ahead and do the counter top.
Now, we created a class for counter top, let's go in and select it, make it the active class.
Notice up here it says it's the active class. Now I am going to draw a rectangle that is
29 1/2 and the height should be 1 1/2. Now I ask myself, where do I want anchor this
counter top? Where do I want it to land so it is sitting perfectly and I don't have to
move it again. Well, this bottom, middle dot here would probably be best, right? That will
center it right on the center of this cabinet. I'm going to leave it there. Position it next
mouse click, I'm going to come here, top center. Click, there's my counter top. Alright. I
like that. Now we're going to draw some doors and a drawer front. So let's go up to our
classes and change this now to doors. And because we selected no line, we selected a
different color, it should show up pretty well. I'm going to zoom in so that I can take
a little closer look at this. And, let's take a look at what size the door is. The door
is 13 inches wide and it is 23 inches in height. Also notice that is up half an inch off of
the bottom of the cabinet. And it is in a half an inch from the edge of the cabinet.
I'm going to show you a really quick, easy way to move things around. OK, now I'm going
to, again, double click on the rectangle tool. I'm going to start and put my first door over
here on the left side. So I'm going to click on the edge, bottom edge. And I'm going to
make it 13 inches wide by 27 inches in height. And position it next mouse click. Click OK,
come down here and put the door on. Height is 23, I think I said 27. I think I screwed
up there, yah, 23. It didn't look right. OK, that's easy to fix. All I have to do is open
the object info pallet, make sure that the door is selected, make sure it is anchored
at the bottom so that when I change this from 27 to 23 it is going to move down, in terms
of it's height. I want to show you something here that you can also do. Rather that wiping
this out and writing 23 in it, what we could do is just say minus 4 inches. And watch what
happens, there it is . Now it's right. It's the right size but it is not sitting in the
right place. We want to move it over 1/2 inch and up 1/2 inch from the bottom. Let's go
Command M, for move. And the X axis we want to go 1/2 inch, .5, and then the Y axis we
want to go .5. Alright, now the door is sitting in the right position. Now what we need to
draw is another door. And this is something new that you are going to do that I don't
believe we have done before. You are going to use the Mirror duplicate tool. Let me zoom
back in here. Alright, I'll get object info out of the way. I can get rid of the grid
and turn that off and get a little bit more organized. OK, great. Let's go back, notice
that when we select the cabinet door, the class changes. Because that is the class it
is on. That's a good thing. How can we duplicate this door and put it right in place, all in
one click? We duplicate tool. In fact we want to use the mirror duplicate tool. Right up
here in this Mode bar, is what I call this, the Mode bar. You see two icons, Standard
mode or Duplicate mode. If you just want to move it or just want to mirror it to one side
and not create a new door. Or do you want a new door that is mirrored. And that's what
I want so I'm going to click mirror duplicate. Now, for some of us, this is a tough concept
to get. But I think a good way to think about it is when you mirror something, it's like
turning the page on a book. The question is, where is the binding on a book? Now if we
If highlight this guy, If we just mirror this door over, using the right edge of the door
as the place where the two doors would be bound together, watch what will happen. Alright,
there duplicate, I'm going to make this my hinge point, I'll call it. Well that's not
right. I need a space in the middle there. Let's go back and look at the drawing. See,
I need a half inch space in the middle. So, another way I could do this is, to use the
center of the cabinet at the hinge point. Rather than the edge of the door. Because
if you think about this, we know we have a 1/2 inch space between the doors. If I were
to draw a line right from the center down. The left door is 1/4 of an inch from the center
line. And if I use that center line as my hinge point, then the door on the right will
be 1/4 of an inch over to the right. Making 1/2 inch space between the doors. Now, some
of you will get this right away, some of you will just need to play with this a little
bit. Open up a blank Vectorworks object and just start mirroring it. Until you get the
hang of it. Let me go ahead and do this now. I'm going to select the mirror tool. I am
going to go up on top and make sure I have Mirror Duplicate selected. In addition it
is very important to select the object that you want to mirror. Because if you don't,
Vecotrworks is going to say, I's be happy to mirror that for you but you have to tell
me what you want me to mirror. So, select the object that you want mirrored. Select
the mirror and duplicate mirror tool. And then you can go either from the bottom, you
could start here at the bottom center. You could start up here, any where that the center
line is. And then click and draw a line, you don't have to draw a line all the way down.
You just need to give Vectorworks a clue which way you want the hinge point to be. Now watch,
I'm going to click now and there is my door. Alright, now let's create our door front.
Now this time I'm going to do it a little differently. Before, when we created rectangles
we double clicked on the rectangle tool and we input the dimension. This time I'm going
to do it a little differently. I'm going to select the rectangle tool. Click on the left
corner, hover over the right corner until I get that little circle telling me I now
have a dadum point. I'm going to move up until is says 6 inches. Because that's, we know
that's how tall the drawer front it. Now, I'm not able to get it to move exactly the
6 inches. So what I am going to do is input data now. You will notice we have a little
box right next to where my cursor is. That little box gives us a Delta X and a Delta
Y, meaning change in X and change in Y. It's saying since you started at this point you
went 26 1/2 inches in the X axis. And you went up 5.906 in the Y axis. Now I want to
change the 5.906 to 6. So what I'm going to do is hit the tab key once, that would allow
me to change the X axis. I don't want to change that. Tab again, put in 6 inches, and then
hit return or enter. You get the marker there. And now you can click. Now, notice that the
drawer looks different than the doors. This won't happen with yours, it shouldn't. I had
gone ahead and worked on the hardware on this drawing and I deleted it but I started on
the hardware class. And I had purposefully did this, left it there to show you how easy
it is to, if you do put something on the wrong class, you can very easily change it back
and put it on the right class. Notice that is says that my class is cabinet hardware.
And we know that's not the case, we want it to be on the door class. So let's just go
into class, go to cabinet door. And since we used "use at creation", as soon as we put
something on that class, it's going to do exactly what we told it to do. OK, now, the
only other thing we have to do is move this drawer front up 1/2 inch. And we know how
to do that, Control M or Command M, we don't want to move it side to side on the X axis.
We want to move it up 1/2 inch in the Y axis. Alright, now the drawer front is properly
positioned. Now it's time to go to the hardware class, so if you guys would all go up to your
classes, go to cabinet and hardware. Now we're going to use the circle tool to create our
door knobs. And you click on the circle tool, you get a whole bunch of stuff up here in
the mode bar. A lot of options. Do you want to draw by radius? Do you want to draw by
diameter? Do you want to draw by three points? Here's another, circle from three point line
mode. Point and center mode and then in-tangent center mode. They give you a lot of different
options. We'll just stick with radius mode, at this point. And I'm just going to create
my circle at the center of this drawer front. I'm going to click and I'm going to move my
cursor to make it as big as I want. And I'm going to put in for L, which means length,
from the center of the circle to the outside of the circle, the length should be .5 because
I want the circle to have a diameter of 1 inch or radius of .5 inch. Click and click.
And there is our cabinet hardware on the drawer front. Now we can simply duplicate this guy,
Command D, pick it up and let's just move it right over here. We'll put it right on
that top corner. Now, if you look at your drawing, the knobs on the doors are down 3
inches and over an inch and 3/4. So, let's take a look at what we can do. With that ***
selected, let's go Command M for move. And the X axis we want to go 1 3/4, and the Y
axis we want to go negative 3. OK, there it is. Now we have out know in the proper position.
Now, we could copy this *** and put it up here, sort of in reverse over here. Or we
could just use the mirror took, couldn't we? We can select this ***, select the mirror
tool. Come to the center of the cabinet. and mirror it over. Pretty slick, huh? So now
we have our basic cabinet finished. Let's go ahead and save this. And, again, we are
saving this as cabinet drawing one. And we will move on to drawing the side elevation.