Discover how to build a kitchen island casework in AutoCAD. Learn how to draw counter tops, cabinetry lines, spacers, and create a furniture leg-style island end, among other features.
Key Insights
- The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a kitchen island casework in AutoCAD, starting with making a counter at the top using the properties tool.
- It then guides on how to draw cabinetry lines on the 'a case eleve' layer, produce an overlap for the counter using the move command, and construct an end to the island that resembles a furniture leg.
- The final stages of the process involve creating 21-inch cabinets using the copy tool, mirror tool for identical ends of the island, and a line tool for the toe kick and drawer. The article also illustrates how to use the 'a case swing' layer for door swings.
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Now let's create the casework for our kitchen island. In AutoCAD we'll move over to this little rectangle we have that represents the island and we'll take a look at it here in our pdf. We have a couple of cabinets and a dishwasher so let's dive right in.
First off we have our counter at the top so let's grab this top line and go to properties and we'll change its layer to our a case counter, a case counter, and it turns to a teal color. That looks pretty good. Now let's copy it down, c o to copy.
We'll click move our cursor down with ortho one and type in 1.5 inches and enter. There it is. Now we'll trim out the excess, tr for trim.
We don't need this line and we don't need that line. Now we just have our little counter ends and they're on the wrong layer so we will select both and move them to that counter layer. So a case counter.
There it is. We've got our counter top and now we want to come in and draw all of our cabinetry lines. So let's go ahead and go to our layer menu and we want to go to our a case eleve, the yellow layer, a case eleve, as our current layer.
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Now let's draw a line l-i-n-e and we'll go on this left corner of the counter. Click and go to the ground and click again. Hit escape.
Now it doesn't line up like that. There's a little overlap. The counter kind of sticks out half an inch beyond the cabinetry.
So to create that overlap we'll select the line we just drew and use the move command. Click one time and move it to the right 0.5 inches for half an inch. Now we want to do that again.
We'll select it and do c o to copy. We'll click and this time move it 2.5 inches and escape. Now this time we're not creating a spacer or scribe.
Instead we're creating basically kind of a nice end to our island. There's lots of ways to do that. This way is almost like a furniture leg.
Something that goes solid all the way to the ground. And why is that? That's because we don't need a space per se. We're in open air around the island.
It's not a budding up to a wall or the hearth or anything else. We just need kind of a you know something there. We'll in this case create this essentially leg or start to our island.
And now we have our 21 inch cabinet. We'll select this and we'll do c o to copy. Copy it over 21 inches and then we'll do that again.
We'll grab it and do c o to copy and go to the right 21 inches. Enter. That creates our two cabinets.
Now we'll select our beginning of our island and we want it to be the end of our island as well. We select both lines. We'll do mirror m i r o r. Enter.
Grab the exact midpoint of our counter and drag straight up or down with ortho on and click again and enter. And now we have that on both sides. Now we need to create our toe kick.
We'll draw a line. We'll start here at the ground. Click go up four inches.
Enter. Go all the way to the left and click again and hit escape. Now we'll use trim to remove the extra line here and we will select and delete our line that we use to create the four inches.
Now we want to go up to create our drawer. We'll type in line l i n e. Click one to the top. Go down six inches.
Enter. And go to the left. Click and escape.
Delete the extra line. Trim the excess. And that's looking really good.
What do we need now? We need our door swing line. So let's go back to layer and we want our a case swing. Double click to make that the current layer.
Close that down and type in line. Click right here in the middle of the two drawers. Click.
Now we need our m2p command. Click on the top. Click on the bottom.
It finds it and now go back to that first line but at the bottom and click and escape. We will use the mirror command to mirror that swing over. Click and click and enter.
And there we have our door swings. That looks really good. I just want to trim out these little extra pieces of line at the ends.
Tr to trim down on the floor. Trim that away. And trim that away.
And just like that we have our island casework completed.
