@andrewmo said:

Also, I think I've either found a bug or just don't know how to do it but I can't seem to figure out how to get fronts to display on pullout shelves. The controls are on the form and the documentation seems to indicate that faces are supported, but nothing I do shows these extra panels on the front of a pullout.

For reference, I figured out that adding finished fronts to pullout shelves is part of the "drawer system" feature defined on the Drawers tab. If you enable "Use Drawer System" on the project tab, then the options on the bottom of the Drawers tab are in effect. The downside of this is that it, seems to, disable the Drawer Boxes and Pullouts options on the Rules 2 tab. It could still be my lack of knowledge of the software, but it seems like you can't get both finished fronts and dado'd drawer bottoms at the same time.

I'm new to using undermount drawer slides and I was trying to get this to model the setup and dimensions necessary for this configuration. It seems like the Drawer System would be a good fit for this because they come in standard sizes and with all the setbacks and adjustments within CabMaker, it seems like this might be possible, but I haven't yet been able to figure this out

I'm still playing with this but I also haven't figured out how to show (and get the correct dimensions) for something like half blind dove tails or locking rabbit. This may just be too much detail for the drawer boxes but it was something I was playing with to try to get the drawing to exactly match the build in the shop as a reference.

@andrewmo said:

... I would like to be able to use this with the Open Cut List extension but OCL uses components and CabMaker uses groups. The release notes seem to indicate that if you change a group to a component that CabMaker will keep the components, but this doesn't seem to be happening. Instead, each time I edit a cabinet, CabMaker seems to recreate the cabinet from scratch and any "manual" changes I've made are lost.

I mostly got this to work. I ended up writing a small plugin to loop through the cabinets and convert the "leaf" groups to components. I'm still fussing with the naming of the parts and materials so that when they are consumed by OCL, the material and cut lists come out nice but overall it works well enough that I'll be purchasing CabMaker and donating to OCL.

As for the fractional inches, this was my error, I had changed the Sketchup document but not the version I was working on.

I've downloaded the trial version of CabMaker 7. It's taken quite a few hours to get my head around how this all works but I think I now have a pretty good handle on it. It looks like it will be very helpful as I design some cabinets for a hallway and maybe a new kitchen. One big thing that took forever for me to figure out was that any time I edit one of the "red" fields on the form (the global rules), it only updates the current cabinet and none of the other cabinets are updated until it is edited some other way later. Many times, I thought I had everything like I wanted it but I'd make a "small change" and unrelated things seemed to jump all over the place (due to a previous change that hadn't yet updated). Once I figured this out, my frustration level got much lower.

One issue I'm having is that I would like to be able to use this with the Open Cut List extension but OCL uses components and CabMaker uses groups. The release notes seem to indicate that if you change a group to a component that CabMaker will keep the components, but this doesn't seem to be happening. Instead, each time I edit a cabinet, CabMaker seems to recreate the cabinet from scratch and any "manual" changes I've made are lost. This makes sense from a software development perspective since the software doesn't know how to incorporate the manual changes but it would be really nice if components were supported and OCL could be used to create the cut lists and panel layouts (which is an awesome feature of OCL). The only way I've figured out how to do this is to have two files - one with the CabMaker model and another with these cabinets converted to components that OCL works with but this is a HUGE hassle to support two models. I'd love to be able to take advantage of the dynamic nature of CabMaker with the shop output from OCL and it seems like just not converting the components back to groups would solve this.

Am I doing something wrong or are components no longer supported with CabMaker? If I could figure out an easy integration with OCL, this would be a definite purchase since I could use it for way more projects.

Also, I think I've either found a bug or just don't know how to do it but I can't seem to figure out how to get fronts to display on pullout shelves. The controls are on the form and the documentation seems to indicate that faces are supported, but nothing I do shows these extra panels on the front of a pullout.

Lastly, I don't know if I'm just missing something or if it isn't possible, but is there a way to show the dimensions in just inches rather than feet/inches? I have the model set up for inches but the CabMaker reports all seem to be ft/inches and it's confusing and hard to quality check the parts when I have to do mental gymnastics to do all the conversions. I should switch to metric, but all my tools and tape measures are imperial .

@starbattle08 said:

Hi Garry, What's the newest feature of version 7 ? for my consideration to upgrade from version 6 to version 7

Here are the version notes for V7 as of Nov 2022 for reference.
Version 7.0.168 – Nov 10, 2022

1. Fixed handless handles
2. Removable backs - send info to cutmaster - saves on material
3. Added Show Door Swing to PROJECT tab
4. Drawer front not sitting on bottom – fixed.
5. Drawer front and pullouts for Drawer Systems not sitting on bottom – fixed.
6. Better numbering of cabinets - 2 new shortcuts N and Alt-N.
7. The three Shelf Width Adjustments now have per cabinet overrides.
8. Added Force Units Off in edit config.
9. The Storage check box in PROJECT tab now defaults to false.
   10.Omit Kicks and BackOffset now being sent over to cutmaster.
10. Cleanup CabMaker web form.
    12.43 additional text boxes now work with math functions.
    Version 7.0.167 – Oct 10, 2022
11. Cabmaker menu showed editor CabMaker 6 - now shows CabMaker 7.
12. Hinge locations were not disabling for Tall cabinets for oven.
13. Closet rods now works similar to fixed shelves except rod positions are from the top
    down. There are up to 4 rod positions. This is a build feature. Got rid of Full closet, Left
    closet and Right closet for Build version.
14. Standard Cabinets now able to use omit top drawer.
    Version 7.0.166 – Oct 3, 2022
15. No longer using Mac Address for security
16. Locks off is now the default
17. Now showing number of days until next web check
18. Added cabinet door swings
19. Ruby Console was automatically turned on at startup. Stopped
    Version 7.0.163 – Jul 24, 2022
20. Handless C was ignored if J is turned off. Fixed
21. Commercial use of shelf support standards now works.