HELP

[Anonymous]

I am a novice using AutoCad 2016.  I am making drawings of kitchen cabinets. The problem that I have is that I have a cabinet drawing and I want to add a door that flips up.  I cannot seem to do this.  The x and y axis works for the cabinet but I need the z axis for the angle of door.  Please help me.

[Charles_Shade]

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[Patchy]

You can attach your drawing plus a photo of what needs to be done.

Without them it's difficult to understand what you want.

[Kent1Cooper]

Assuming you're drawing in 3D, that the face of the cabinet is in [or parallel to] the current XY plane, and that the door is a 3D shape [rectangular prism at the simplest, or more complex solid] built appropriately "on top of" [or maybe in the plane of] the face of the cabinet, with the top of the cabinet upward in the Y direction:

UCS command;

ZAxis option;

pick the hinge point [or a top corner of the door in the plane of the face of the cabinet] as the new base point;

pull the cursor off to the right or left, with Ortho on, for the new Z axis direction, or type in @1,0,0 [right] or @-1,0,0 [left];

ROTATE the door, with the new 0,0,0 as the base point, I'll assume at a rotation angle of -45 or 45 degrees [depending on which direction you aimed the Z axis] to "open" the door upward [or -90 or 90 degrees, if that's how you want to show it, or whatever angle].

UCS Previous if you want to go back to the face-of-cabinet plane.

If you have the UCSFOLLOW System Variable set to 0, the view of things won't change as you do this, but you can use a PLAN command to look at things down the new Z axis so you can more easily see which direction the door will open as you ROTATE it..  If UCSFOLLOW is set to 1, the view direction will automatically change that way for you when you change the UCS.

You can do the same with the new Z axis upward or downward to "open" typical cabinet doors hinged on the sides.