Angle

These three boxes determine the angle of the cabinet on the drawing page.

• If the cabinet is not a corner cabinet then only the top box Main will appear, otherwise all three boxes are available.
• The Internal angle is the angle between the Main and Extension halves of a corner cabinet. For example, a right-angled cabinet would have and internal angle of 90°.
• The Extn box controls the angle of the other cabinet half. Since the values of these boxes are dependant on each other, when you change one of them, another will update automatically. For example if you change the extension angle and the main angle stays the same, then the internal angle will have to update to stay consistent.

Insert Point

The insertion point of a cabinet affects where a cabinet will appear in relation to the mouse pointer when placed on the page. It is usually used to make placing corner cabinets easier, and has no real effect once the cabinet has been placed. A left-hand insertion point (LHS) means the cabinet will appear so that its left rear corner handle is under the mouse, and vice-versa for the right-hand side (RHS).

Fixed Face

The fixed face option selects which width of a corner cabinet you wish to control. Since the front face and back face of a corner cabinet half are usually different widths, you can only control the width of one of them and the other gets automatically determined based on the angle of the cabinet. To see the difference, take a corner cabinet with the preview pane visible and change between the two options. The fixed face is typically set to Back as you want to know how big a gap you need to fit it in against the wall.

Report Pic

Normally all items will display a 3D picture that can be used for reporting and in the cabinet picker and galleries. If you uncheck this checkbox, however, you are saying that the application should not try to generate a report picture ever for this item.

Explosion Percentage

This option allows you to create an exploded view of a cabinet, showing all the individual sections expanded outwards. It is only really effective for viewing the construction of a single cabinet or for the visual effect. Values from 20 to 50 usually work best.

Special

This is a flag which you can use to mark a special or unusual cabinet. The actual meaning is up to you - CabMasterPro does not use the value at all but passes it straight through for reporting. It can be formula controlled to indicate "non-standard sizes" for example, and you can read the value using the IsSpecial property.

Make Corner

This button changes the current cabinet into a corner cabinet, by adding the second extension half. On a corner cabinet, this button appears as Make Straight, which deletes the second half and converts it into a normal cabinet. See Corner Cabinets tutorial.

Nominal Sizes

The nominal sizes of a particular cabinet are the base dimensions of the cabinet container. Any sections inside this carcass will start out with these same dimensions before recesses, overhangs, gaps, etc are added.

Standard Sizes

The standard sizes are the typical or default dimensions of a type of cabinet. If a particular cabinet is not cutback or otherwise modified then its nominal dimensions will be equal to the standard dimensions. Conversely, if the nominal and standard dimensions are different then the cabinet is considered to be cutback.

Overall Sizes

The overall sizes of a cabinet is its maximum dimensions including any overhanging sections (e.g. benchtops). They are the extents of a cabinet or its "bounding box".

Cutbacks

The cutback controls allow you to determine how a cabinet's nominal dimensions relate to its standard dimensions. The standard dimensions are the "normal" or "default" sizes of a particular type of cabinet, which may be different to the actual sizes of a particular cabinet. This is because the cabinet may be a one-off to fit in a slightly wider or narrower gap than its normal size, i.e. cutback.

The three buttons that appear when the cabinet is not cutback are Allow Cutbacks, Free Size and Fixed Size.

• Clicking the Allow Cutbacks button clears any formulas behind the nominal and standard dimensions, which means they can both take any values which may be different to each other.
• Clicking Fixed Size formula-controls the nominal sizes to be equal to the standard sizes, which means you cannot change them and this cabinet cannot be cutback.
• The Free Size button does the opposite and adds formulas to the standard sizes to make them the same as the nominal sizes. This means, if you alter the size of this particular cabinet, then that becomes the new standard size for any future cabinets of this type.
  • Note that none of these buttons lock you in to a particular method. You can always add, edit or delete the formulas as required.

When the Nominal dimensions and Standard dimensions become different (usually when Allow Cutbacks has been clicked), then the cabinet becomes cutback (or "non-standard"). This causes two more buttons and a "Non Std" label to appear.

• The Make Std button can be used to reset the nominal dimensions back to the standard ones.
• The Set Std button sets the new standard dimensions to be the same as the nominal sizes of this cabinet.
  
  Both result in the dimensions being the same and so the cabinet is no longer non-standard.

Legend

This diagram indicates where each of the Nominal, Standard and Overall size boxes refers to on a cabinet.

Basically it is saying that the five sizes down each column correspond to the top, height, depth, height off floor and width of a cabinet respectively.

Flip

Mirrors the cabinet left-to-right, but this will have an effect only if it supports being flipped.

See Kitchen Flipping tutorial for details on flipping cabinets and even entire designs.

Can Be Flipped

Indicates that this cabinet is able to be flipped. You cannot just check this box to make a cabinet flippable, it must be constructed in the correct manner using the IsFlipped flag. If a cabinet is meant to be identical when it is mirrored, this box can also be checked because the flipping will have no effect anyway.

Decorative Only

This checkbox is normally ticked for objects which are not really cabinets, but just decorative items like taps or toasters or chairs, etc.

Marking the Decorative Only box causes CabMasterPro to ignore these objects when calculating dimension lines and when producing reports. They are also not passed through to external programs (e.g. CabMasterPro Schedule Master).