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How to Design a Cabinet in AutoCAD With Blum 560F Drawers

Letting the drawer box, the slide clearance and the hardware positions come out of the cabinet dimensions.

Drawer boxes are where cabinet drawing gets tedious. The slide dictates the clearance, the clearance dictates the box width, the box width dictates the part sizes — and every one of those numbers has to be right, because a drawer that is 2 mm too wide does not go in.

The arithmetic nobody enjoys

With Blum 560F undermount slides the rules are fixed and known: a specific side clearance, a specific relationship between the cabinet opening and the drawer box, and a set position for the fixings. The rules are not hard — they are just easy to get wrong at eleven o'clock at night, and expensive when you do.

Most workshops keep a cheat sheet on the wall or a spreadsheet on the desktop for exactly this. It works, until someone uses the wrong row for a 16 mm box when the job is 18 mm.

Let the generator do the calculation

The Drawer Generator adapts the drawer to the cabinet you have drawn. You give it the cabinet dimensions; it works out the Blum 560F slide dimensions and the laminated drawer box for 16 mm or 18 mm material, and builds the parts accordingly. No manual calculation, and no cheat sheet.

A drawer cabinet generated from parameters — the box sized for Blum 560F slides. Hover to play, click to enlarge.

Doors from the same generator

The same command builds door cabinets: overlay or inset, left or right swing, with hinges, shelf pins and minifix connectors positioned automatically as the carcass is created. Because the hardware lands on the correct layers as it is placed, the hardware list works afterwards without any extra work.

A complete carcass generated from parameters, with doors, hinges and connectors in place.

What you end up with

The generated cabinet is an ordinary AutoCAD model — you can edit it like anything else you drew yourself. The generator saves the setup work; it does not lock you into anything afterwards.

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