Drawing Drawer Fronts

[will.dameron]

Brand new user to 360 here, but I am hoping to use it quite a bit in the future, and have been immersing myself in it the last day or two. Currently, I'm trying to design a bedframe with drawers under it. I would like to be able to cut out the drawer openings with an 1/8" end mill, and then use the piece which is cut out as the actual drawer front. I tried creating two rectangles, offset by 1/8", but I can't get the inner rectangle to disappear/extrude away/what have you. I think I could probably just make a toolpath which worked correctly, but I'd rather be able to see the whole thing in my drawing - any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?

A few more details: I have a body that is 23/32 thick, have sketched an outter rectangle on it, and an inner rectangle, and I want the space in between to disappear, and after I'm done drafting, want to create a toolpath that will get rid of the area betweeen the two rectangles, and then save the piece which is cut out to use as a drawer front. Make sense?

Will

[Phil.E]

Hi,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 Forum.

The outer and inner rectangle need to be in the same sketch. Are they? If so, you should get a result like this when you extrude the offset gap.

[will.dameron]

Thanks for the quick reply:)

I sort of got it to work... I had both rectangles in the same drawing, but I wasn't changing the 'extrude' into a 'cut' mode, and I was trying to use the 'extrude to' feature, to the back of the panel I wanted it to cut through, which apparently doesn't work. When I just pushed/pulled manually, purposely going to far, it snapped back to the inner plane of the body, and it worked.

Now I'm having a heckuva time mirroring that geometry to the other side of the drawing. There's no way to 'mirror' the cut away space between the rectangles is there? I have already mirrored the body, earlier, without the drawers cut out. Now, if I delete the body to try to mirror the updated version, it causes quite a few issues, including deleting the very body I want to mirror over. Grr... Any thoughts?

Will

[Phil.E]

There is an option to mirror "feature" in the mirror dialog.

Thanks,