In this video segment we're going to take a look at placing appliances and
fixtures inside of cabinets.
I have a very simple sample plan open. When you place fixtures such as the sink,
they will typically be placed inside of the cabinet. For appliances,
such as a dishwasher, they will typically be placed inside of a cabinet,
whereas other appliances such as a free standing refrigerator will be placed
external to the cabinet.
Let's begin by placing a sink fixture inside of our cabinet.
I'm going to open up the library,
which I have on the right hand side of my screen.
I'm going to come into the architectural component, down to fixtures,
scroll down you're going to find a folder for sinks,
and you're going to find kitchen sinks and undermount sinks.
The process is typically to grab the item, come over to the cabinet,
and click on the cabinet you want it to place. You can do this in a 3D view,
you can do this in a 2D view,
and the key criteria here is you need to make sure that your cabinet is wide
enough to host that particular fixture.
Let's go back over in the library and go into the appliances,
and I'm going to come down and find a dishwasher component. Click on the object,
dishwashers. Actually, we'll go into the cabinet and replace the box.
The advantage of this is you get an automatic countertop.
If you try to place a dishwasher free standing,
the bounding box will be offset and it may look like it's going into the wall.
So make sure that you place it into a 24 inch cabinet and it will replace the
box and retain your countertop.
Let's look at placing a microwave oven on the end cabinet.
Let's browse into the library, come down to the microwave ovens,
find the particular model that we're after. I have a microwave drawer.
You can click and place the microwave in the exact same manner that we clicked
and placed the dishwasher. Now to adjust that microwave in the cabinet,
I'll double click on the cabinet, come over to the face item by clicking on it,
and I'm just going to use the move up option,
move it up just below the horizontal separation.
In between the door and the appliance I'm going to add a new blank area and I'll
go ahead and set it to be one inch,
and then I'll also just change that set of double doors to a drawer that's below
the microwave.
And for the most part the cabinet looks in good shape.
One of the things that I like to do for my appliance is always make sure that
the lock from auto resize is checked because I want to make sure if I'm reading
the specifications for the appliance that it won't resize on me once I'd make a
change. It's okay probably if this drawer changes but not the appliance.
And by the way,
I typically use the finished dimensions for the appliance when sizing that
component. Go ahead and close the dialog.
Now for the full height cabinet,
let's take a look at putting a double oven in the cabinet.
I've downloaded from our bonus library,
a catalog from Jenn-Air. I'm going to browse down in,
find their wall ovens.
I'm going to select the particular model. Come over here, click on the cabinet,
and then I'll go through the same process of adjusting this as we did for the
microwave oven. I'll go ahead and click on the appliance itself,
you see where it's located. Make sure that the dimensions are accurate,
according to the specifications that should be 56 inches,
and just above it I'm going to change this horizontal separation to a blank
area. Give it one inch,
be able to see that in my preview,
and then just below it I'll do the same exact thing.
I'm going to come in here and set it to be a blank area at one inch and then
I'll go ahead and adjust the bottom component to be a drawer again.
Go ahead and set that to be a drawer and in this case I'm going to change that,
I'm going to see if I can set it to be 10 inches and make the adjustments.
Again, something that's important on your appliance so that it doesn't change.
Make sure the lock from auto resize is checked.
Let's close the dialog and take a look.
Now there may be instances where you need multiple appliances in a cabinet,
and if you're using Home Designer Pro you can easily put multiple appliances in
a cabinet.
If you're using Home Designer Suite or Home Designer Architectural,
those are limited to one appliance per cabinet.
You might have to get creative and stack two cabinets on top of one another to
get those appliances in there.
Let's go through the process of placing a warming drawer below the set of double
ovens and I'm using Home Designer Pro.
This is a Home Designer Pro only feature that I'm going to show by opening up
the cabinet, clicking on the drawer itself,
changing that drawer item to an appliance,
and now I can actually browse out to the library with this specify button.
I'm going to open up the Jenn-Air catalog, come down to their warming drawers,
select one of the models that will work for me,
and then choose okay.
Again make sure that the lock from auto resize is checked,
typically it will be when you make a change to a face item.
Close the dialog and you can see that we now have two appliances in a single
cabinet. For more information about cabinets, appliances,
and fixtures, please see our other videos.
We also have support articles and remember inside of the particular dialogs is a
contextual help function.
And this will open up the help directly into that area of the program.
And you can learn more about using the Home Designer products.