Discover the intricacies of constructing a 3D kitchen sink using a VDCI Fundamentals template. The tutorial sheds light on the construction process, from drawing a rectangle to creating a two-basin sink with precise measurements.
Key Insights
- In the creation of a kitchen sink using a VDCI Fundamentals template, the process begins with drawing a rectangle with specific dimensions. Subsequently, the rectangle is moved to a specific position within the design space.
- The sink design features two basins of equal size. Construction of the basins utilizes the stretch feature to achieve precise dimensions, with construction geometry aiding in the accurate placement of the basins.
- The design process doesn’t end with the basins. The tutorial also covers how to add a drain to each basin using tracking for accurate placement and dimensioning.
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In this video, we will begin the kitchen sink. Let's go File, New.
This will be using the VDCI Fundamentals template. And File, Save. And this will be kitchen-sink.
Let's go Layer Properties, New Layer, A-SYMS. Our color will be 120. I'll make that the current layer.
And close Layer Properties. Once again, we will draw a rectangle and move it relative to 0,0, which will be the bottom midpoint at 0,1. This rectangle is 2 feet 9 inches wide and 1 foot 10 inches tall. Let's go Rectangle, picking anywhere on the screen.
D, Enter. 2 feet 9 inches, Enter. And 1 foot and 10 inches, Enter.
I'll pick to choose my quadrant. And Zoom Extents. Let's move this rectangle.
Move. I'll pick my rectangle. Enter to lock it in.
From the bottom midpoint here, to 0,1, Enter. Zoom Extents. And CTRL+S to save.
To begin this kitchen sink, we will start in a very similar manner to how we drew the bathroom sink. We can see that there is a 1 and 1⁄2-inch offset at the top of the sink and at the left and right sides. But there is a 4-inch offset at the bottom of the sink.
So let's get started. Offset. A distance of 1.5, Enter.
Our rectangle to the inside and click. Enter to say that we're done. Now we use Stretch in the same exact way in our last project.
And this time we need to stretch this bottom line up 2.5 because our outside offset was only 1.5 in this example. So let's do this together. Let's go Stretch.
And again, I'll go C, Enter to lock in my crossing window just so that I get my crosshairs back. This helps me see where I need to draw my crossing window a little bit more clearly. I'll come right in here, draw my crossing window across and down.
Click. Enter to lock it in. Once again, I want to turn Ortho on and I can click anywhere on the screen because this is a distance and direction of 2.5 and make sure that you're showing perfectly straight up using Ortho.
Enter and CTRL+S to save. Now, you'll notice that this sink has two basins, not one basin, and both of the basins are the same size. We can stretch this rectangle to be a much smaller size and then we can make a copy.
Although in this case, we will use Mirror. We see that there is a 1 foot 2-inch dimension from the left side of the basin to the right side of the basin. However, I do not know the total size of this rectangle right now and I do not want to do any mental math to figure it out.
Instead, I want to draw some construction geometry and then we can snap directly to that object. So I'm going to go to Draw and I'm going to choose our X line or construction line. Now, in this case, I can see that I have five options and I want to draw a vertical construction line.
So without picking any geometry, I can go V, Enter, and now all I need to do is choose a midpoint. I'll choose this one here and hit ENTER to say that I am done. Now, I have a piece of construction geometry that is perfectly at the midpoint and is guaranteed to be a perfectly vertical line.
I could have used Ortho to draw a vertical line, but the X line or construction line guarantees it by using the vertical option. Now, there is a 2-inch gap between our basins, which means that the edge of the basin on the left is actually 1 inch away from this X line or construction line. I can go to Offset.
My distance can be 1, Enter, and I'll choose this line. Make sure that you show to the left and click. Enter to say that I'm done.
Now, to make sure that I choose the right line, make sure that when you move this edge with Stretch, you choose this line on the left. Okay, let's stretch this geometry to the line on the left. Stretch, C for crossing, Enter.
I'll choose this point here and I'll cross across these two endpoints on the right side of my rectangle and click. Enter to lock in that selection. Now, I can pick either the endpoints, the midpoints, or the endpoints.
Any of them will work. For this example, I'll choose the midpoint. I am stretching with Ortho, but when I come over here, notice that the midpoint at the top is my only object snap that is snapping.
If I click, my line will automatically snap from here to here, and that is because Ortho was not showing us the appropriate preview. I will undo and stretch one more time. This time, I'll turn off Ortho and I will set a new object snap.
Let's go Stretch, C, Enter for crossing, here to here. Enter to lock in my selection. I'll go from the midpoint and now we can see why it would have snapped up to the midpoint.
The stretch was actually stretching at an angle, even though Ortho was on. I need to come over to this point right here, and I can get there by using the Shift + Right-Click + Perpendicular object snap. Because our construction line was perfectly vertical and our rectangle has a perfectly vertical edge, I know that this snap works.
So I will click the perpendicular snap here and CTRL+S to save. My last step will be to add the drain here, which we can see is 10 inches from the bottom corner and 8 1⁄2 inches, and we know we can use tracking. So let's go Circle.
Specify center point for Circle. This will be T-R-A, Enter. I'll choose this bottom corner.
I'll track to the right, 8.5, Enter, and up, 10, Enter. That is where I want to start my circle, so I will hit ENTER to lock in the location, and we can see the diameter value is 2 1⁄2 inches. D, Enter for diameter, 2.5, Enter.
We are now done with these two construction geometry lines, so I can pick them both and hit the Delete key. Zoom Extents, CTRL+S to save.
