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Extending Toe Kick with Scribe/Filler

The Toe Kicks on all Base and Tall cabinets are stuck in the early 90s. I've made a few changes here to have them actually use the filler to extend. 
Our shop generally has the kick captured between the sides. When we have a wall scribe or cabinet filler, the kick should extend that same amount (or further for corner conditions) and the cabinet side kick notch machine token has to go deeper to accommodate the kick thickness.

Here's the relevant info:
  1. open Library designer (make sure you've opened/refreshed the library if you just updated) and expand to "Base 1 Door"
  2. expand that to find Parts > Base Left Side > Machine Tokens > CORNERNOTCH5 1[Toe Kick Notch]
  3. change Parameter 2 to:
  1. =Inset_Toe_Kick+IF(AND(Amount_To_Extend_Left_Toe_Kick=0,Is_Toe_Kick_Captured_Left_Side),0,Thickness_Toe_Kick)
  1. do the same to Base Right Side --- change Parameter 2 to:
  1. =Inset_Toe_Kick+IF(AND(Amount_To_Extend_Right_Toe_Kick=0,Is_Toe_Kick_Captured_Right_Side),0,Thickness_Toe_Kick)
  1. Next we edit the Notched Toe Kick subassembly under Subassemblies > Universal > Universal Non Insert > Notched Toe Kick
  2. Expand the Parts and select Front Toe Kick. Edit the Length formula to be:
  1. =Width-IF(AND(Amount_To_Extend_Left_Toe_Kick=0,Is_Captured_Left_Side),Left_Side_Capture_Deduction,-Amount_To_Extend_Left_Toe_Kick)-IF(AND(Amount_To_Extend_Right_Toe_Kick=0,Is_Captured_Right_Side),Right_Side_Capture_Deduction,-Amount_To_Extend_Right_Toe_Kick)
  1. and edit the X Origin to:
  1. =IF(AND(Amount_To_Extend_Left_Toe_Kick=0,Is_Captured_Left_Side),Left_Side_Capture_Deduction,-Amount_To_Extend_Left_Toe_Kick)
I'm not going to get into the 2d drawings' changes, but this should help folks with the part sizes, positions and notches. Enjoy.. and hopefully it will get enough traction to be in a future library update.

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