CM-Cabinets Library User Guide
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Watch the video on an introduction to Version 12.
DoorMaster LT
- Separate Pane profiles removed and Panes included in their parent profile
RDL Reports
- Quantities Reports options for Accuracy and Units
- Accuracy option for Imperial reports
For imperial, the Length Units must be set in the Options [F10]
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- Picture on/off option for Board Reports
- New Board Reports using different groupings
Universal Hardware
- Dimension reported (e.g. length of hanging rail)
Cabinets
- Drawer Dust Panel : When ‘As Rail’ - positioned at either the front or back of the cabinet
Miscellaneous
- Opening Older Drawings : Warning message introduced
RDL Reports
- Reports > Board page : "Report True Cut Size (Include Tongue)" option
Runner Editor
- ‘Hardware Pack’ settings added to ‘Commercial’ overrides
- Improved handling of ‘Help’ pages
Universals and Robes and Multi
- Back Rails now include an offset from the rear
Example
Cabinets
- Poly Shape : Label position adjustment options added
- Wall Rangehood Canopy : Improvements in functionality
Drawing Properties
- Main page - Beta Questionnaire link added to a button
- Runner Editor - Minor improvements
Library
- CM-Design-2 : A new distributed models library
- includes the image of the model in Plan and Elevation views to show exactly what the model is
Example
- CM-Cabinets : New Wall Rangehood Canopy cabinet added - See Insert Unused BasedOns
- Profiles available on all Front Panels
- The Mid(Main) Front Panel can have up to 3 profiles which can be cut as 1 or 3 parts
- The Lower Front Panel and Lower Front Trim can have an arch applied
- Upper and Lower Front Panels - can be made of either Carcass or Panel/Door material
- Custom tables available for all parts
- Ends behind front option available, if not mitred
- Separate cutout settings for Bottom and Shelf
- Machining - construction holes available
- Anti shimmer applied for Photoview renders, when part is mitred
Cabinets
- 6th Face Machining : Ability to append to layer name if the cabinet override is different from the drawing
- Appliance cabinets : distributed models updated with elevations and plan views
- Corner Filler : Panel overlaps allowed
Example
This allows easier installation and assembly.
- Floor Rail : Ability to apply custom machining tables
- Floor Servery : Ability to adjust sizing of both Panels
- Floor UBO 2 : End panel height options
- includes full height, flush with front panels, below shadow rail or gap from top
- Panels, Fillers and Bar Backs : Local 6th Face Machining override option
- Shadow Rail : The Lip part can be machined
- Shelf Standard : Machined face option
Example
- Tall Corner : Mid Shelf options enhanced
Example
Tables
- Links to the StoreMaster web page to access downloadable CabMaster tables
- Drawer Banks : System Machining tables made available
- Labour / Pricing : Additional 'AreaMax' rows can be added to Area Rate tables
- Labour / Pricing : By Part form shows user defined Descriptions
Hardware
- Handles : Ability to specify that a handle is drilled from the back face and drilling depth - see Handles Editor.
Runner Options
- Inbuilt Drawer Front Markers
- "Runner Editor" instead of direct table editing (to manage overrides of runner properties)
- Specify additional Drawer mechanism gaps i.e. Additional Runner Gap options
- Ability to customise certain aspects of the report output
- Board and Door options (that affect reports) found on other drawing property, repeated on Reports pages
- Cabinet Dimensions - Option to include 'Off Floor' in Cabinet Height (Hgt Incl Kick check box - see Doors/Drws and Board Report)
- Hardware Pack data is now a delimited string instead of an array (for ease of report manipulation)
- Hardware Reports - include Hardware Packs
- Poly Reports - include Kickboard cabinets
- Poly Reports - include Material and Sort options
- Two and Three Column Board Reports - include Job and optional Contact details
- Additional Glass Options
- All Series - Arched Doors
- All Series - Multiple Paned Doors
- 'No machining to view on this face' warning message suppressed
- Series 5 Style 8 - Border Profiles now have separate Layer Names
- Series 6 Style 1 (the X Door)
- Machining donating to opposite face
- Opposite face DXF options enhanced
- Option for multiple Kickboard fixing points
- Split - machining in the additional split shelf placed in the opposite face to that of other shelves
- Tall Panels, Fillers and Universal cabinets not showing profile door mid rails
- Imperial report conversion and rounding issues
- Capping Tool : Updated QTD for v12
- CM-Custom-Models : Various elements tidied up and made consistent
- Face Frame : Friendly part names and reporting issues
- Library : Syntax error in formula file
DoorMaster LT
- Error message concerning pricing
- Local Properties Reset Error
- Series 4 Style 5 and Series 5 Style 6 partly transposed and incorrect
- Tall Cabinets with a Lower door inherited the Upper door’s Mid Rail
RDL Reports
- Capping Tool Components on Quantities and their own Report
- CM-Custom-Models : Various elements tidied up and made consistent
- Door Parts (5 piece doors) not reporting
- Units on/off option not working on Imperial reports
- Kickboard option repeated on Board page
- Edging content option repeated on Board page
Universals and Robes
- Drawer import contains unwanted MachShaker properties
- Shadow Rail Support Rail cutout in Area Divisions
- Tall Universal : Ends of Panel Material not working
Cabinets
- Drawer Dust Panel : At Back radio buttons show selection
- Floor Angled Display : Shadow Rail options included
- Floor and Vanity Angled Cabinets : Shadow Rail length adjusted
- Floor and Vanity Angled Cabinets : Shadow Rail cutouts enlarged
- Wardrobe Combo : Drawer Dust panel settings included
Cabinets
- Cabinet Parts Lists : Carcass (and Kick) as Panel now reporting consistently
- Cabinet Parts Lists : Corner cabinets corrected
- Floor Drw Bank : DrawerBank Drawer Handle machining no longer doubling up
- Floor Drw Door : DrawerBank machining size corrected
- Universals, Robes and Multi : Shelf Slots missing from back of shelf
DoorMaster LT
- Local Profile On/Off in Tall Cabinets corrected
- Profiles positioned correctly for oversizing (scribing) panels
Library
- CM-Cabinet: Door Swing (Plan) : Colour and Style now as selected in Drawing Properties
- CM-Parts : Door : Error concerning DoorPriceCode corrected
DoorMaster LT
- Legacy Door Conversion - sometimes stalled on older (unused) data found in tables
- Series 3 Style 6 - did not show all property pages
Runner Editor
- Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
Cabinets
- Floor Sink Undermount & Dual - Not behaving correctly when using 'Make Even' feature
- Wall Rangehood Canopy - Bug Fixes
Drawing Properties
- Door page - Warning message "Not a valid PNG file" being shown
- Mach.Tongue page - Universals and Drawers sections mentioned "Length" instead of "Width"
- Changing edging material using "All as 1" leaving the materials for sides 2, 3 and 4 as <Select>
DoorMaster LT
- Series 3 Style 6 Door Image not showing
- Series Style 5 8,7 and 6 Border Profile tool images incorrect
- 6th Face - Drawer handles machined on both faces
- 6th Face - Lift hinge machining missing
RDL Reports
- Hardware Reports : Incorrect quantities of Hinge Plates in Corner Cabinets
- Board Reports : Kick Face material not included
- Legacy Door Conversion - sometimes stalled on older (unused) Data found in tables
- Metric vs Imperial length detection improved
- Polyshape when of Panel or Carcass as Panel not on Poly reports
Universals and Robes
- Edging displayed incorrectly in 3D Solid and Textured
- Angled shelf holes not aligning
- AutoLabel positions wrong in Drawer Spacers
- Cell Door Hinges were not reporting
- Doors hinged from the Top could have incorrectly positioned hinges
- Drawer Front Bottom Gap moving the drawers vertically
- Drawer Import : Shadow page spelling corrected
- Edging displayed incorrectly in 3D Solid and Textured
- Elevation View not always showing Adjustable Shelves
- Fixed shelf/Horizontal Division auto label position override ignored
- Hinge offset for Cell Doors when End thickness adjusted
- Kickboard position when Fascia added and Ends to floor
- Premium Sink Drawers were altering runner position
- Shadow rail AutoLabel positioned incorrectly
- Shadow Rail thickness not changing when material changed locally in the cabinet
- Shelf width discrepancies
- Sloped Cell doors for areas 1 and 2 available - otherwise squared off
- hen using Face Frame Cell Doors were incorrectly sized
- When using Face Frame the Left Division Door offset incorrectly
CM-Parts
- CM-Parts | Shelf Corner : Not always donating machining as required
- CM-Parts (and Universal shelves) : Custom machining using filleted corners not always correct
Cabinets
- Angled Cabinets : missing machining in Back/Top
- Benchtop and Benchtop Corner : Component information incomplete
- Benchtop Cabinets : Default "Insertion Point" inconsistent with other Cabinets
- Cabinet Door : 'Machview' error when DoorMaster LT used
- Corner Cabinets : Groove in the End Left used for Tongue and Groove Shelves too long
- Corner Cabinets : Kick and Kick Face now visible in plan view when Carcass Outline is disabled
- Corner Cabinets : Potential for Tongue and Groove machining to be misaligned
- Corner Fillers : Main section showing as zero thickness when Main Depth greater than Extn Depth
- Divisions : Not always showing correctly in 3D
- Drawer Boxes : When Cammed the Cam holes could have an incorrect depth
- Drawer Cabinets : Drawer Spacers not on Cutlist
- DrawerBanks : Missing 'Order' Components
- End Panels : The Grain Angle options in 'Cabinet Machining' not always correct
- Floor Corner : Back Chamfer drilling misaligned
- Floor Corner : Sink Option for Shelves with Tongue & Groove True Cut causing error
- Floor Corner Fillers : When reversed an error re. 'DoorGapLeft' displayed
- Floor Division Cabinet : Carcass as Panel override problems
- Floor Drawer Cabinets : Always included 'Labour 10' with zero time
- Floor DrwDoor : Sizing of DrawerBank Doors with Shadow Rails incorrect
- Floor End Panel : Benchtop Radius not showing in 3D
- Floor Micro : Door Gap options not shown
- Floor Rail : Door Material error
- Floor UBO : Error occurred when a Shadow Rail with a Fixing Rail used
- Floor UBO Cabinets : Shadow rail extrusions incorrectly sized
- Floor UBO Drawer and UBO 3 : Issues with door gaps
- Lift Doors : WIth a bottom VEdge where missing a machining layer
- Metal and Premium Sink Drawers : The Part Labels in the Inner Ends were misaligned
- Polyshape : Edging details not being passed through when machined
- Return Cabinets : POssible Construction hole issues in the Bottom and Rail
- Shelf Standard : Reported as a 'Bottom'
- Shelf Standard : Using Fillets in Custom machining tables was not working
- Shelves : Not always showing cutouts in 3D
- Sink Cabinets : Missing Component details for Left and Right Splashback
- Standard Drawers : "Edge Top and Bottom of Inner Drawer Fronts" edging option misbehaving
- Tall Angled : Hanging Rails always in front of Back
- Tall Cabinets : Fixed Shelf Height Inconsistent between Cabinets
- Tall Oven, Micro Pantry and Beverage Cabinets : Full Height Ends : Bottom of Upper Carcass : Tongue & Groove incorrect when default is Ends Above Bottom
- Tall Oven, Micro Pantry and Beverage Cabinets : Lift hinges doubled
- Tall Oven, Micro Pantry and Beverage Cabinets : Orientation of the Top Door Handle (for Lift doors) incorrect
- Tall Oven, Micro Pantry and Beverage Cabinets : Upper Carcass Bottom machining for the Back in the incorrect face
- Vanity cabinets : Shelf heights inconsistent
- Vanity Cabinets : Special Cutouts not working
- Vanity Door and Drawer : Cabinet information not showing a complete cutlist for some combinations
- Vanity Drawer and Door : Error re a missing property 'HingeHereDoor[F10][1]'
- Vanity Fillers : Resetting to floor cabinet depth
- Wall Filler: Edging not being applied to Bottom
- Wall Rangehood : Duct Chase material not updating correctly
- Wall Rangehood : Grooves for the Bottom of the Undermount carcass Ends could be misaligned
- Wall Wine Display : Ability to have continuous shelf holes automatically calculated for lower shelves lieu of Tongue machining
- Wardrobe Combo : Potential errors due to missing properties
Runner Editor
- Miscellaneous Bug fixes
Other
- Benchtop Extras : Full or Extra Costs for Benchtops missing
- Door Price Group : The Cabinet level Price Group Reset not working correctly
- Door Price Group : When adjusted at Cabinet level the wrong price could be used
- Kickboard Sleepers : AutoLabel position erroring and therefore missing
- Knobs : All knobs displayed as 25mm deep instead of value specified in Pulls table
- Legs : Information not consistently imported from hardware tables
- Legs : Part Number reported as "Labour"
- Shadow Rail Fixing Rails : Machining issues when using Tongue and Groove
- Special Cutout : When saved as a Custom machining table the Enable formula could error if it was originally blank
- Splashback : Thickness issues
This webinar provides a first look at Version 12 of CabMaster Software. [35:00 mins]
