Inserting Shelving Units

All Vectorworks products include shelving units for inserting in a drawing file. In the Vectorworks Fundamentals product, the shelving units are inserted from an object library through the Resource Manager. In the Vectorworks Design Series products, the units are inserted with the Shelving Unit tool.

In addition to these common shelving units, Vectorworks offers the flexibility of Creating Custom Cabinets.

To insert a shelving unit in the Vectorworks Design Series:

1. Click the Shelving Unit tool from the Furn/Fixtures tool set.

2. From the Tool bar, click either Active Def to select an existing resource from the Resource Selector, or click Preferences and set the default parameters to create a custom object.

3. Click on the drawing to place the object, and click again to set the rotation. The properties can be edited from the Object Info palette.

►    Click to show/hide the parameters.

Parameter	Description
Style	Replace, remove, or edit the current style, or create a new plug-in object style for this object. Editing a style changes all instances in the file that use the style.
Hide Style Parameters	Hides the parameters that are set by style; these cannot be edited from the dialog box or Object Info palette
Flip	If the object is in a wall, click to flip the object orientation
Set Position	If the object is in a wall, click to activate the Move by Points tool in Reference Point mode and move the object by a specified distance from a reference point
Type	Select the unit type
Config	Select the unit configuration
Height/Width/Depth	Enter the unit’s height, width, and depth
Bottom	Enter the height of the bottom shelf
Shelves	Enter the number of shelves; the shelves are spaced evenly between the bottom shelf and the top of the unit
Thickness	Enter the thickness of the cabinet material
Back	Select to enclose the back of the unit
Back Finish/Shelf Finish/Bracket Finish	To control appearance and visibility, select a class for each component from the list of classes present in the drawing, or create a new class. Select <Shelving Unit Class> to place the component attributes in the same class as the shelving unit object.
Facing Board	For straight units, select whether to add a facing board
Board Offset	Enter the size of the facing board offset from the front of the unit

4. Optionally, after placement you can create a plug-in object style, which combines style parameters (with a fixed value established by the style) and instance parameters (which can be set independently for each instance of the styled object in the drawing). See Creating Plug-in Object Styles.

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