[James Culpepper]

I am needing to add drawers to project and I am not sure the best way to draw these. I have a hand sketch of what I need to draw and I can’t figure out how to do this without just drawing each drawer with the insert drawer function.. can anyone help me on this when I need multiple drawers in one box or maybe something like a whole wall of drawers…. how would you draw this? Thanks

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[cabwriter]

Hi James,
At first glance, what I might do is draw two 4 drawer banks next to each other for all the drawers, then use a standard upper or divided upper with no doors on top of that. Then, a divided base to the right of that for the cabinet with the upper and lower hanging rods. From your notes, it sounds like 1 1/2″ stiles separating things? If so, you just have to align the story stick to put the side by side cabinets in the right places. Seems like some variation of that process should work. Let us know how it turns out…

Thanks,
Greg

[James Culpepper]

I was really wanting to have the drawer banks share a partition like the top drawers of a drawer bank combo base.

[cabwriter]

Hi James,

Hmmm. I do understand that, but as I’ve gotten further into this kind of thing, I’ve realized that I can relieve a lot of headache, save a lot of time, and make more money by simplifying things in terms of design, so long as it doesn’t impact the customer. In this case, if there were two boxes next to each other with a double partition, but the drawer fronts overlayed the partitions, the average person, and likely the customer, wouldn’t know or care whether there was one or two partitions there. From the outside, it would look the same and my job would be a lot easier both in terms of drawing it and building it.

On the other hand, I do realize we all have our preferred way of building. Unfortunately, in this case, I can’t think of an easy way to have CabWriter do what you want. Maybe you could draw two cabinets side by side and sort of merge them. Delete one cabinet side, and pull the tops across? You’d probably have to modify the drawer boxes a bit too and maybe punch some holes for slides and such. But, that would take a lot of work, and like I mentioned above, it would look the same from the outside with a double partition.

Just my two cents!
Greg

[James Culpepper]

Thanks Greg and yes I have done this a few times and no worries I can always double that side up and figure it out… I have started getting into this situation more and more and just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a simple way to do this that I was missing.

[chiefwoodworker]

Hi James,
I am with Greg on this one, especially the approach he spelled out in the first paragraph of the previous reply. Also, using this approach but with a divided base instead of a four drawer bank you can get up to 15 drawers.
Joe….

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