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Cabinet making in 3D

Draw a real 1000 × 2100 × 600 wardrobe the way a workshop cuts it: the box, the back and plinth, shelves that fit, doors with the right gaps, and a filler scribed to a wall that isn't straight.

For carpenters, joiners, kitchen fitters and anyone who wants to plan furniture properly.

Lessons
5
Time
about 60 minutes
Points to win
750

0 of 5 lessons passed

The lessons

New boards in yellow

  1. Lesson 1, 10 minutes

    Boards, not boxes

    Draw the box: a top and a bottom, 1000 × 600, over two sides, 1964 × 600. Each one its own component. The box sits 100 off the floor: the plinth goes under it in lesson 2.

  2. Lesson 2, 10 minutes

    Back and plinth

    Fit an 18 mm back inside the box, 964 × 1964, flush with the back edges. Put a 100 mm plinth under the box, 1000 long, flush with the front.

  3. Lesson 3, 10 minutes

    Shelves that fit

    Two shelves, 960 × 580: 2 mm in from each side so they slide in, 2 mm back from the front, touching the back. Tops at 1300 and 1700 from the floor.

  4. Lesson 4, 15 minutes

    Doors with the right gaps

    Two doors, 1997 × 496, on the front of the box: 3 mm under the top, flush at the bottom, 2 mm in at each outside edge and 4 mm between them.

  5. Lesson 5, 15 minutes

    Scribe to a wall that isn't straight

    The wall on the left leans 12 mm over the wardrobe's height. Fit an 18 mm scribe filler from the wall to the box: 50 wide at the floor, 38 at the top, flush with the doors, floor to the top of the wardrobe.

Points and levels

100 points for each lesson you pass, and 50 more when it's right the first time you check.

  1. Apprenticefrom 0 points
  2. Improverfrom 200 points
  3. Fitterfrom 400 points
  4. Cabinet Makerfrom 600 points

The keys you'll use

Keys and axes

Tools

  • RRectangle
  • PPush/Pull
  • MMove
  • LLine
  • SpaceSelect
  • GMake Component (select the board first)

Axes: an arrow key locks the way you're drawing or moving

  • →red axisleft and right: the width
  • ←green axisfront and back: the depth
  • ↑blue axisup and down: the height
  • ShiftAlready moving along an axis? Hold Shift and it stays on it.
  • CtrlWith Move: makes a copy (Option on a Mac)
  • EscCancels what you're doing

Sizes: just type, they go in the Measurements box at the bottom right, then Enter. Two sizes: 1000,600 (1000;600 if your computer writes decimals with a comma).