Discover the smartest way to add dimensions to your cabinet designs using this article. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to properly measure and mark dimensions for kitchen cabinets while ensuring these annotations do not interfere with the final product layout.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of working from the final product layout sheet. This allows you to add information directly to the sheet and gauge where everything is located, ensuring the annotations do not interfere with the final product layout.
- When dimensioning, make sure to target the right points. For instance, when dimensioning the wall, you need to make sure you're getting the edge of the wall. The same goes for the cabinets and other elements. This ensures accurate measurements and clear visual representation.
- While dimensioning, it’s crucial to maintain a tidy and organized workspace on your sheet. This is beneficial as it saves time adjusting dimensions later and leaves room for additional annotations such as material tags.
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One thing I want you to notice too as we go through and do this, I'm really doing a lot of work from the sheet and that's intentionalbecause this is our final product here and so I'm able to go in and add the information to the sheet whereas if I went in to do the let's say I just quickly went in and added the dimensions for my cabinet here and I'm going to turn my thin lines off but if I were to use my dimensions here and kind of measure out my different elements and then let's say I put my dimension string like this and then did the same thing across the bottom I really don't have a gauge on where everything is going right so if I put everything in sort of like this which I will acknowledge is a bit extreme but I do not know how this is going to look on my sheet and then if I pop back over to my sheet I can see that it's no good and I'd have to go back in and redo these things anyway and so what I'll do is I'm going to delete those but I want to just double click on the view and then now I can see like if I were to dimension these base cabinets and kind of the opening for where the refrigerator and the stove is going to be I'm able to do that from this view with no problem and so I can see that the wall that's part of this here I'm going to go ahead and move this over a little bit so I can see the edge but that's the edge of the wall at that point and I can use my dimension tool and I did that in purpose to move that over so I could make sure 100% that I was getting the edge of that wall but then I can dimension to my cabinets here and grab that space as well and I could see where I want it to go and for me that's a huge benefit because I'm not fussing around with where these dimensions need to be and able to just place them drop it in and now I know that's in a good spot because I still have room to put like a tag here if I want to call out the different materials of these things and it's not all over my view title here so I'll go ahead and do the same thing across the top and I'm just using the annotate and then the align dimension tool which is keyboard shortcut DI which is if you're not even a fan of keyboard shortcuts that's the one that you really need to know so I'll go ahead and just dimension across here again doing the same thing and I'm maintaining one string of dimensions for the top here take it all the way across and then I want to go to the wall as well to kind of show where that filler panel would be and then just bring it up to the top here and now I've got my dimensions for the horizontal of the cabinet and we'll go ahead and do the same thing to do the vertical and you can see here I'm making sure that I'm hitting tab to make sure I get to the right point here and you can see it's set to the eight inch wall generic and so I just want to move it over until I can get to the right point here and that will be if I'm on the eight inch generic that means I'm on the bottom of the wall and this is another one of those cases where I'll just go ahead and drop that down a little bit so that I can make sure I'm dimensioning to the right piece which is going to be the bottom of our floor there and so I'll dimension just across to the cabinets there on this side and then I'll do the same thing to the other side which will designate our opening for the fridge and then of course to the height of our of our other cabinet and now that I've made a couple of changes to my crop region I want to go ahead and make sure I put those back before we move on to the next view jumping to that edit profile tab and then clicking X and so what happened here where did my dimensions go so they're still there but when I made this modification to this guy I moved the crop region so that that bottom dimension was actually no longer in the view and so I need to make sure that when I do that that I've got everything dimensioned correctly and to the right point and so if I turn thin lines back on I can check my line weights everything looks good and lined up I'm gonna pull this one in a little bit closer and that looks pretty good and so I'll go to my other kitchen elevation and do the same thing so for this one I'm just gonna dimension them horizontally here and I'll hit TAB until I get to my cabinet or countertop either one's gonna work and then just dimension across here doing the same thing and then I can dimension the height and this one kind of cuts through the middle there which is the cabinet above for the microwave and so I've got my horizontal dimensions and my vertical dimensions set and I'll deactivate the view and so now we've got the dimensions for our kitchen cabinets all set up
