Replicate drawers and resize

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

I’m trying to design a set of wooden drawers. There are five drawers all of the same with and depth and wall thickness. The height of the drawers varies. I’ve drawn the first drawer with a sketch and parametrics so that I can alter the dimensions as necessary afterwards. How can I copy the drawer such that I can then resize the height of the next drawer? I think I’ll have to copy the 4 sketches for the four sides, but not sure if this is right or how to do it. I’ve searched here and google, but can’t find what I want (not looking in the right place?). 

[artemSIV]

you need to use a parametric connection with the main body of your furniture, then with different heights of the openings for the drawers the height of the drawers themselves will also change

[g-andresen]

Hi,

please share your design for easier and better explanations.

günther

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

OK, I’ll post a picture later when I’m front of my Mac rather than on my phone. 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning wrote:

OK, I’ll post a picture later when I’m front of my Mac rather than on my phone. 

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picture doesn´t help.

Share the f3d file.

günther

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

I'm not really sure how to share the file, never done it before. I'll try the share menu in Fusion (link below). This is a picture from Sketchup which I'm trying to re-draw from scratch in Fusion360. I want to be able to model one of the drawers and then copy and parametrically re-size if possible.

 Link is here https://a360.co/2XzUxFj

[g-andresen]

Hi, 

here's a model I've made last year.

I designed it for 5 drawers, the height of the 5th represents the difference ( ∑ d1/ d 4) to the inner height of the cabinet.
Go through the timeline and play with the parameters.

Good luck

günther

drawer assembly

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

Günther,

Many thanks. I'll sit down with a glass of wine tomorrow and go through your model. That's really helpful.

Neil

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

Günther,

I looked before I started on the wine!

I think I have only one question - when you created each drawer, you created a new component, then did a sketch of the front panel and extruded that. Did you start again for each sketch, or did you copy the previous drawer sketch? If so, how do you do that? 

Also, the rigid joint with an offset is great for me to set the spacing between the drawers.

[chrisplyler]

Here is one idea...

Make one drawer component in an otherwise blank file. Adjust the drawer height, and save-as with a name that reflects the height. Adjust the height again, and save-as with another name. Repeat for however many drawer heights you have.

Start a new file and model the cabinet. Insert however many drawers of whatever height you want. Joint them into position on the cabinet.

[chrisplyler]

Another idea...

Just make the cabinet and the five drawers each as a separate component, but all from one common sketch which allows you to control the height of each drawer. Change one of these five dimensions, and the appropriate drawer AND the cabinet opening changes to match.

I didn't "replicate" anything. Just made each drawer from scratch. If there were a hundred, I would fret over it, but with only five, and with them taking about thirty seconds each, it's no big deal.

Also, they're in the correct position always, with no Joints required. You could add a slider Joint for each one if you want them to pull out correctly.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. I have created 1st drawer and Via Copy & Paste NEW the others (changed the heights > h1, h2 ...)

2. In this case there are certainly more ways here than roads to Rome.

günther

[Neil_Relph-Olivewoodturning]

@chrisplyler This is a great tip. I'm still learning Fusion and want to model the drawers in more detail than I really need to be able to complete the actual woodwork. However, your tip about modelling the whole lot in one sketch will be great in the future for some of my jobs. 

Thanks

[chrisplyler · Accepted solution]

Sure. You will want to model each cut board as a Component. Where my picture just has a single, solid mass representing Drawer(1), you will instead want to nest more components into the Drawer(1) component. In essence, you want to turn Drawer(1) into an Assembly with other parts inside of it. And those parts will have mitered edges, maybe complex joints, one of them might be a pull.

Organizationally...do you want the ball bearing slides to be nested in the cabinet, or nested with the other drawer parts? Or, instead, do you want to make a third category for all the hardware to be nested in? Doesn't matter, but decide whatever organizational hierarchy you think makes sense, and follow it.