Learn about creating detailed and realistic floor plans using AutoCAD. This article discusses the process of designing kitchen elements, particularly casework, with attention to detail such as dimensions, layers and line settings.
Key Insights
- Creating accurate kitchen floor plans in AutoCAD involves detailed steps like defining specific casework layers for elements like countertops, and using correct dimensions based on standard measurements such as the two feet depth for kitchen counters.
- Creating lines at precise locations using commands like 'line' and setting the exact dimensions is crucial for accurate representation of kitchen elements. The 'trim' and 'extend' commands are used to adjust these lines for a clean and correct plan.
- The 'copy' command in AutoCAD is beneficial in replicating dimensions for similar elements like a kitchen island, thus saving time and maintaining consistency within the plan.
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Our floor plans are looking really good. We've got walls, doors, and even our new window. Another big part of this remodel is the kitchen.
And let's go ahead and add in the elements of the kitchen and get going on our casework. Casework is the fancy interior design name for cabinets and counters. So let's zoom in in our AutoCAD floor plan right to the kitchen area.
And we'll bring up the kitchen area in our PDF as well. Now let's go ahead and type in layer. And we're looking for our casework layers.
They start with A-case. And there's one that might be a little confusing. It's CNTR.
It could be center, but it's actually for counter. Let's double-click that layer. And it's turned now to the current layer.
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So current layer, A-case, counter. Close our layer window there. And we'll use the dimensions provided to create the countertops.
We also need to know that the standard kitchen counter depth is about two feet. We'll use that as we go along here. So let's type in the word line, L-I-N-E, enter.
And let's start on the back wall here on the right. So here to the back wall, we'll start just somewhere on the right, clicking and snapping to this interior face of the outside wall. We'll click one time, move our cursor to the left, and we'll type in exactly 24 inches, enter.
And now we'll go straight up towards that back wall. We don't need to quite touch it, but go almost to it and click and hit escape. Now we'll do the same for this back counter.
We'll type in line. And we'll click on the inside face of that exterior back wall. Click one time, pull our cursor down, type 24 inches, enter, and then go to the right.
Again, going not all the way to the wall and clicking again. All right, pretty straightforward. We've got our counter lined.
Now we need to clean them up. We'll use T-R for trim. And we'll trim, first of all, these back two lines.
Then we'll do E-X for extend, and we'll extend our counter all the way to this wall. And we'll extend this counter all the way to the far wall there. So both get extended, and now we can delete the two extra lines that were just there to help us, guide us.
All right, so now we'll zoom into this fireplace here. The cool feature of the home, there's a fireplace here in the kitchen. And we'll type in line again.
We want to come straight out from that fireplace element on the left. And we'll do it again on the right. And we'll use trim, T-R, to trim these lines up.
That looks pretty good. We're making progress. Now for this left wall here, let's zoom in and repeat that process.
We'll do line. And I'm not quite getting what I want. I'm gonna add to my snaps.
We keep messing with these settings for our O snaps or object snap down at the bottom. I want to turn on nearest. And feel free to turn these on and off as you work to get the right snap you want.
Now with that, I'll click right there, nearest, move my cursor to the right. I'll go to 24 inches, enter, and go straight down. Not quite to that door.
Now that gets my counter depth. Now the length is provided here in the PDF. It's four foot, 10 inches.
So I'll use my line command again. I'll start at the face of this back counter, click, and go straight down. And I'll type in the dimension four foot, 10 inches, enter.
And then go to the left. This time I will go to the wall using that perpendicular snap. Okay, now I've got many extra lines I don't need.
So I'll use T-R for trim. I'll trim away the extra lines on this corner and the extra lines on this back inside corner. With that, I can delete these extra lines.
They were just there to help me find the dimension I needed. So that's it. We've got all of the back and side counters done.
Now we need to create this cool island that didn't exist in the home before. So let's go ahead and add that now. I'll start the line command and I'll start with this dimension, three foot, six.
It starts from the face of the back counter. I'll go down three foot, six inches, enter, and go to the left, click. Okay, then my next dimension is six foot.
So I will select this line. I'll do copy. Copy, click once, go down, type in six foot, and enter.
And there it is. Those are the depth dimensions essentially going this direction. Now we need left and right.
So let's start on the left side. I'll do a line and I'll click right on the corner of this new wall. Click, go to the right.
I'll type in this dimension here. Five foot, four, five foot, four inches, go up. The next dimension is three foot, 10.
