Casework door will not flex

Casework door will not flex

Sahay_R
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Casework door will not flex

Sahay_R
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Hi,

 

I am trying to create a casework family for an upper corner cabinet with a diagonal door. I had brought in a door from an existing family. When I create different types with different heights, the door will not flex along with the case. I have tried to nest the door family, copy and paste the door, and nothing helped. Any ideas?

 

Rina


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RDAOU
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True 🙂 and you are always welcome but looking at the new family you uploaded! With whatever solutions you accepted, family hasn't been fixed and that's a pity cuz it is going off track

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The casework is flexing just fine here.  Of course, it just needs to be constrained properly and the door needs to be fixed per @PijPiwo suggestion.

 

This is not the one @Sahay_R uploaded today, but the one I worked on last time.

 

 

 

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Sahay_R
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That looks great. What constraints were wrong? Is this the existing door or did you put together a new door? Because the current door works well with my family of 24" deep casework of 4 different heights.


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I had to re-constrained almost everything because I didn't have time to track down specific ones.

 

- Draw the ref plane to guide the skeleton first, parametrize them, flex, if everything works only then move on to modeling

- Elements need to constrained to ref planes, not geometry, unless for very rare occasion

- Nested family needs to have parameters and associated with host family parameter, e.g. door width, door height.  I fixed the door family as well, re-constrained everything.  It was a mess.

- Nested family needs to located properly. I aligned centerline to centerline of the casework, associated width and height, lock its back to the diagonal plane of the casework extrusion (here is the one rare case when element is constrained to another element)

- There are several ways to deal with constraining an angle in space (the diagonal plane).  Formula is only one of them and I found it is simple enough to this particular case.

 

Please have the file.  It was simplified but hopefully you will get the points.

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Sahay_R
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Perfect! Thank you!


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