Cabinet editor basics

Opening the Cabinet editor from the menu or icon view:

Here we can create new cabinet or modify existing ones.

In this section, we can only edit the geometric structure of the furniture; all other information, such as starting size, starting position, attachments, prices, etc., must be specified on the Cabinet database page.

The cabinet is assembled from base elements.

• The base elements are dynamically defined elements that derive their size and position from the current size of the furniture. Editing these elements can be found on the Base elements page.
  
  
• The database that comes with the program includes many predefined base elements (e.g., left side of a base cabinet, connectors, shelves, etc.).
  
  
• In the furniture designer, the necessary base elements must be selected from the already existing ones. Where the element will be placed in the furniture and in what size was set during its definition, which can be overridden here if necessary.
  
  
• In the lower right corner, you can set the bounding size of the furniture, but this is only for testing purposes, meaning it only serves a verification role. The actual size of the furniture when placed in a room will depend on the starting size set on the Cabinet database page. When creating a new element, this starting size automatically takes the current bounding size values, but when modifying, it does not overwrite. Later, it can only be changed on the furniture database page.
  
  

The drawing of the inserted element appears in stylized colors.

Views

With the icons on the top right icon bar, you can decide how and to what extent the different elements appear in the drawing.

• You can choose to show the furniture completely covered or only the selected base element as solid, with the others faintly transparent so that the internal parts (e.g., shelves) are visible.
  
  
• By default, edge bands appear in stylized colors. The primary edge band is marked in reddish color, the secondary in greenish color. This can be turned off with the corresponding icon.
  
  
• With the following icons, you can sequentially turn on and off the bounding form, base elements, alignment and division planes, dimension lines, and all parts if there are more, like in drawers.
  
  
•   This element draws fixed patterns, displaying the contents of base elements' front files where fixed patterns have been set.
  
  
•   Clicking here allows saving the furniture in DXF format.
  
  

Selecting, moving, deleting base elements

• Base elements cannot be selected directly by clicking but only in the list visible on the right side of the drawing area.
  
  
• When an element is selected here, the drawing mode automatically switches to transparent.
  
  
• With the icons below the list, the selected element can be moved up or down or to the bottom of the list or deleted.
  
  
• Above the list, the group of the selected base element is displayed.
  
  
•   The topmost icon can turn off the list.

Saving, loading cabinet, etc.

With the top left icons, you can:

• go back to the main page
  
  
• load
  
  
• save, save as
  
  
• undo or redo
  
  

Saving new cabinet

• When saving new furniture or using Save As, a new database entry is automatically created.
  
  
• For new furniture, the current bounding size will be the starting size, and all other database values (starting positions, prices, attachments, etc.) must be specified on the Cabinet database page.
  
  
•   Clicking the size system icon will display the Switch groups. These allow testing how the furniture responds to the switches.

Warning! The switches changed here retain their values when returning to the arrangement!

• The AUTOMATA button opens an Automated cabinet editor page.
  
  
• The elements of the horizontal icon bar on the right side allow editing the base elements of the furniture.

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