Easel Cabinetmaker Updates - Week of 7/14/2023

[NatalieSturdy]

Hi Matthew!

Thanks for your support! There’s not currently a direct way in Easel Cabinetmaker to only make cabinet doors or drawers. That said, we’ve got some clever users who have come up with some work-arounds to this limitation. I’d advise you to check out the posts below for more info!

Doors only option

I work in a custom cabinet shop and often we make doors and drawer faces batched separately from the cabinet boxes themselves. We also often have jobs that come through as reface kitchens where we are supplying doors and drawer faces to update existing kitchens. It would be very useful to have a doors/drawer face option to make these apart from the cabinet boxes.

Cabinet without Doors or Drawers - Just a Cabinet Box

Sometimes you just need a cabinet box without any doors or drawers. Just a good old cabinet box with a couple of adjustable shelves. Currently all cabinets have one or both, and you can’t just delete the doors from the nested worksheet without having to do additional work on the worksheet to re-nest the remaining parts.

Turn Off Cabinet Backs/Drawer Construction

Turn off cabinet backs: What about adding the ability to turn off cabinet backs? Sometimes there isn’t a need for a cabinet back. Let’s say you have drawer banks or a sink cabinet that you don’t want to cut around the pipes. Toggling the cabinet back off and on would give the ability to eliminate it from the cut list. Currently I am just changing the material thickness or material and deleting it from the cutout screen. Edit: On this subject is the cabinet back a necessary component of fr…

As for face frames, I’m very excited to let you know that we are in the early stages of investigating this functionality - with the plan of developing an intitial implementation of face frames over the next month or so. From there, we plan to continue iterating on improvements to face frames to meet the needs of our users. You can keep an eye on our progress with face frame construction each through the updates we share each weekend!

Thanks again for sharing your feedback! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have additional questions or comments about the software!

-Natalie