CabMasterPro User Guide
A preload of useful palettes are provided in the distribution 'BasedOn' library (.qil).
You can, however, save your favourite palettes for quick use in the Cabinet Gallery, and customise using a tree. This is useful when creating personalised cabinets e.g. universals etc. When you save a custom palette as an end user, it saves in the catalog (.qim).
Watch the Video tutorial on customising the Palette for quick and easy cabinet placement.
The gallery content is controlled by the Change Palette command button, used to drill down images into displaying by Type, as shown below (dependant on the library selected).
The idea here is that you will be able to set up unlimited custom palettes, and while you are working on some area of the design, you can quickly select the palette preconfigured to contain your favourite cabinets for that area. You will also be able to add, delete, edit existing, and save as new for all of your custom palettes and these palettes will be saved in your catalog (.qim)
Customise and add your preference by type, as per the example below. You will interact with a tree view to edit each palette, making it easy to choose which cabinets are in that palette.
Here we have added/created a 'Sample Type'. When we 'Change Palette' to 'Sample Type' the Current Palette displays only the cabinets in our newly created Type.
Allows you to change your Customise Palette selections and show, or not show, selected cabinets/items.
In the first example there are four cabinet parts in the library which are all turned on and are all displayed in the gallery palette.
In the second example 'BACK+mach' has been turned off and only three of the four cabinets parts in the library are displayed in the gallery palette.
An image of the selected Cabinet/item will be displayed.
You can add captions, as shown in the image above, to describe these images by enabling Show Captions in File>Options [F10].
If you have made new cabinets in your library you might find that the cabinets are not visually appearing in the Palette when you have selected them (and checked that they are turned on, as discussed above) or are not appearing correctly.
To fix, simply hit F10 to open File > Options > Images page. Then click the Regenerate Images button. (You also may like to enable Show Captions.)
![File > Options [F10] - Click to Expand](property-sheets/cabinet-properties/[images]/cabinet-gallery5_thumb.png)
File > Options [F10] - Click to Expand
Be aware that this process can take a little bit of time depending on how many cabinets are in your library, as all the images will be re-drawn in your library with the Gallery Style selected (click on image). It therefore maybe better to use the Generate Missing Images button to generate only the missing images for your palette, especially when adding new cabinets to your catalog.
Allows you to delete selected Palette.
This video will walk you through the process of quickly customising the Palette to suit your designing needs. [4:04 mins]
