Major Components

The preview pane consists of three major areas:

1. Preview area: Displays the cabinet in a 3d orthographic or openGL view. It can also display a preview of the machining for the current component in 2d as it would look going out to machine.
2. Slider / Status Bar*: When in Ortho or openGL view, the slider can be used to rotate the cabinet. A status bar is only shown when in Machining View (see note)
3. Menu

Status Bar*

In Machining Preview, the slider is replaced by the status bar, which displays information about the currently selected machine step.

This Status Bar is divided into 3 areas....

• The 1st area displays the position of any mouse click or the Position, Diameter and Depth of the last machine step selected.

   

• The 2nd area displays the Layer (e.g. Border) and name of the selected machining (e.g. BorderCut_1).
  • See above image, highlighted in yellow. (Large green dot indicates click point).
• The 3rd area displays the distance and angle between the two most recent clicks.
  • The image below shows that the distance between Point 1 and Point 2 is 85.8mm at an angle of 323.5 degrees.

Machining options are only available with CabMaster Machining.

See FAQ - Measuring in Machine View using the status bar and Machine Part Editing.

 

Machining View and Grain Direction

All cabinets have the ability to show the grain direction in Machine view, if the option 'Add Grain Direction Indicators' is enabled in the Catalog/Drawing Properties (click on image) and a grained material has been selected. Arrows in the preview show the direction of the grain.

 

Other View Options

The Preview Menu options allows you to select other view types for the selected cabinet.

 

Machining Options

Machining options are only available with CabMaster Machining.

• Highlight entire group: Highlight all machine steps in the same group as the selected machine step.
• View donor face shadows: View the shadow of the donor section. When previewing donor machine steps, it is useful to a view a shadow of the face itself that the machine steps are defined relative to. When previewing these machine steps as they arrive on an accepting face, using this feature also allows us to see where the donor face meets the accepting face. Note that the machine steps themselves may exist outside this shadow. For example, adjustable shelf holes may be above and below the shelf shadow.
• Filters: Displays the Machining Options Page.
• View Machining in 3D: Displays machining in 3D OpenGL view.

 

Rotate

Rotate and Spin options are only made available when in Ortho View.

• Rotate to front: Rotate to view the front of the cabinet, regardless of the orientation of the cabinet on the page
• Rotate to page view: Rotate to view the cabinet as it is oriented on the page.
• Angle relative to cabinet: Changes the slider angle to one relative to the front of the cabinet.
• Angle relative to page: Changes the slider angle to one relative to the current orientation of the cabinet on the page.
  
• View whole corner cabinet: Display both the main and extension parts of the corner cabinet.

  

Spin

Spin options are only made available when in Ortho View.

• Spin Options: There are 3 speeds - slow, medium, fast. Can spin clockwise or anti-clockwise.

  

• Spin: Automatically rotate the cabinet at the selected speed.