Explore the process of adding visual depth and detail to your digital kitchen designs with the use of Autocad commands. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to add elements such as window trims and backsplashes to your kitchen elevation designs.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of adding window trims to kitchen designs using Autocad's rectangle and offset commands. It guides users on how to copy and apply the window trims across all windows in the design.
- Users can create new layers for adding different elements, such as backsplashes, to the design. The article details the steps to create a new layer, rename it, change its color, and set it as the current layer.
- The line command in Autocad is utilized to create the outline for the backsplash. The article demonstrates how to use the line command, specify measurements, and apply the extend command to create a continuous backsplash across counters.
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Now let's dress up our kitchen with some backsplash and some trim around the windows. To begin, let's type in the command layer and let's look in our eye category. We want eye mill lf for our millwork elevations.
We'll double click to make that the current layer, close this down, and we'll close our properties for now. And let's zoom into one of our windows here on the hearth elevation to the left. We'll use this window to start with.
Let's type in the command or rectangle, r-e-c-t, enter, and we'll go to the top left corner to the bottom right corner, and that's the window outline. Now we will use our offset command. We want our offset distance to be two inches, enter, and we'll click that rectangle and then click outside and enter.
All right, that looks pretty good. Let's grab those rectangles, both of them, and do co to copy, and let's grab the upper left corner of the window. So click and then click on the same point on every window.
We have a second window to the right of the hearth, and our third window is right here near the range. Click and we're done. We've got some trim millwork around each window.
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Now we want some backsplash. Let's go to layer, and let's go ahead and create a layer. Let's go ahead and go to the new layer button, and we will click that one time, and it defaults as layer one.
Let's go ahead and give it a name. We're going to call this a wall for architectural wall, and then dash, and then fins for finishes, and enter locks that in. Now we don't want it to be blue.
We will go across here and change the blue color, and what we're looking for is color number nine. It's a lighter gray color. So index color nine, and click okay.
Now we created the layer, but we also have to make it the current layer. So let's double click, and now our current layer is set to a dash wall dash fins. Close that down, and now let's type in the line command.
L-I-N-E. We'll start down here with a range wall. I want to simply click on the countertop one time.
Click and go up. How high? Let's do an 18 inch backsplash. We'll type in 18 inches, enter, and then go to the left, and I didn't mean to hit the midpoint, but it did.
Sometimes that works out. I just zoom in to make sure it truly is the midpoint versus perpendicular, and if I'm not sure, I can click tab until I do get perpendicular, because that's what I'm really looking for, and click okay. Now I can delete the spacing line and go E-X for extend.
Click on it and extend it over. That looks good. We'll repeat the process on the right side.
I'll do my 18 inch line. Click on the top of the counter, type in 18 inches, enter, perpendicular to the side wall, and delete my spacing line, and E-X for extend, and now I've got my backsplash area. Okay, let's do that on the hearth wall as well.
Line L-I-N-E. Click on the top of my counter, click, go up 18 inches, enter, go to the right, perpendicular, escape, delete my spacing line, B-X for extend, and there it is. Let's do it again.
Line, top of the counter, go straight up 18 inches, enter, go perpendicular to the right, escape, delete my spacing line, and E-X for extend, and escape. Now I'll select these lines and type in mirror, and right in the midpoint of our ceiling, I'll click one time and go straight down. With ortho turned on, click again and just mirror those lines across.
I'll click enter, and last but not least, this door elevation. I'll type in the line command. This one's easy.
The backsplash fills in all of this area and I just want it to stop at the end of the cabinet and hit escape. All right, that's my backsplash area. Now we want to give it a pattern so it looks like backsplash.
Let's go back to layer and we want to look for our A-PAT-LF. A-PAT-LF, double click to make that the current layer, and we'll type in hatch, H-A-T-C-H, and for pattern, let's open up our pattern options, and we want to go to the A-R, and then A-R-B-R-S-T-D. It stands for architectural brick standard, and that'll be a nice pattern for our backsplash.
We'll click that, and then we want our scale to just be one, enter, and then hover over, make sure it looks okay. We want to make sure we're still in that half inch equals a foot scale, and click everywhere that we have backsplash one time. Now one trick is to make sure you kind of hover over it first, make sure it looks okay before clicking.
Hover over, click, and another little secret is we can't be zoomed in too far, otherwise AutoCAD can't find our overall boundary. We have to kind of zoom out enough to see the boundary, hover over it, get that preview, and click, and it looks good. Go ahead and hit escape, and these elevations are looking really good.
