Hi Jack,

It’s possible that you can’t load my model because your Polyboard is not up to date.

To correct this, just go to the download page and reinstall.

For you design the easiest way to add a base would be to create a plinth and extend the sides. I wanted to suggest you add a base like this but forgot to mention it in my last post.

I’ve set up some hardware that applies the dowel slider stop to a sliding shelf. Here’s a screen capture of a simple cabinet with the hardware applied:

I’ve also added it to your model and the side and sliding shelf look like this now:

I’ve made the following adjustments to your design:

– made the facade elements to be flush

– made all joints blind dodos which make for a much cleaner design.

– extended the top over the front 

– added a base

This design should work fine and you can tweak the file I’m sending.

The only problem is the sliding shelf pulls.

To keep the clean design, I would put a “push to open” latch  to the back of the shelf so that a push on the front will release the spring and push the shelf out. Pushing the shelf back in will click the ratchet and the shelf will then stay in place.

You might also consider using a push to open drawer sliders that would then also replace the dowel stops.

To finalise the design we also need to do now is to set up the correct materials.

You have designed using Quick Design  materials and for some reason you are using the French version of the libraries.

Can you post the real thicknesses of the different panels you’ll be using?

All the best,

Ness

Hi Jack,

To answer your questions:

1. I plan to build this cabinet in oak or maple. : 

You are actually using Quick Design materials you’ll have to set these to the real thickness of your boards . 

2. I have put the mobile shelves 1,2,3 to be pullouts & don’t know if this is the correct method. I wanted guidance to put stops in to limit the forward motion and notch a handle underneath.

How do you want to make the stops? on way would be to glue a dowel to the edge that slides in a groove. this can be set up as hardware in Polyboard. Can you post a drawing of how you were thinking of setting this up?

3. I usually build my drawers with built-in wood runners but in this design I extended the sides to act as runner slides. I would like your suggestions and I am open to your ideas.

In your design you can just make the drawers slide on the bottom shelves and against the sides and vertical divisions. In this case set the lateral slack or the drawer inners to 2mm

4. I wanted to build-in front and side bracket braces with screw blocks and corner blocks but could not find a method to accomplish.

I’m not sure what you mean here, if built properly this cabinet shouldn’t need brackets nor screwed blocks. ut maybe I don’t understand exactly what you have in mind.

5. Mobile 4 is intended to be removable if desired.

Do you mean the sliding shelves ?

 
6. Vertical divides are to be unglued groove partitions that can be removed.

To be removable the grooves have to be extended to the front, which in general is not considered very esthetique. Why do you want the verticals to be mobile?

 
7. I wanted to chamfer the outside edges, route some design into the drawer faces, etc but did not see the option.

You can’t chamfer edges in Polyboard . It’s possible to add this for presentation purposes by exporting the DXF into another CAD program. For manufacturing with CN it requires adding a line or extra tol path. If building by hand  this is not really important. To route designs you must first draw the design in CAD and import the DXF file as an inner tooling.

8. Needed to know how to show piano hinges on the bottom of the drawers.

You can set up a specific hardware groove or inner tooling for hinges that can then be applied to the doors.

This is only useful if using CNC

9. You mentioned I could optionally add a 3D model of the actual hardware for display purposes. Please let me know to do this.

to add the hardware representation you must first have the 3D DXF files of the hardware. These must be exclusively 3D face entities. then go to Libraries>Accessories and import the DXF into the Accessories library.

Now when you set up hardware you can choose Accessory in the Type and import the file that will be applied with all the other tooling patterns.

This is a very new and powerful feature and I’ll be exploring it more in depth in future videos and tutorials.

I attach your model that I’ve modified a bit.

I’ve changed the drawers and made the carcass using stopped grooves.

I’ve also set the back into a groove.

Have a look and tell me what you think.

All the best,

Ness

Hi Jack,

I don’t understand some of your questions, could I suggest that you post drawings, sketches or photos when possible?

In all cases please post you Polyboard files, this often quickly makes explanations clearer. 

A picture is worth a thousand words…

1 & 2 – I’m not sure what you mean by stops and door grooves can you post a drawing, photo or sketch?

3- piano and hinges can be set up in hardware  as grooves or inner tooling (pockets)

4- not sure what you mean as base as plinth? can you post a drawing?

5- in general hardware only displays the machining. In the latest release 6.03c you can optionally add a 3D model of the actual hardware. This makes the files much bigger so I strongly recommend you only add the 3D hardware when necessary for presentation purposes.

Can you post your Polyboard project so that I can look at it.

All the best,

Ness