Cabinet Standards
Cabinet Standards
Sometimes there are individual cabinets or rooms full of cabinets that you want to build differently than the rest of the job. For example, if you are putting backs in your base cabinets, but get to a sink base that has so much plumbing in it that you would have to tear the back out to install the cabinet. In this case, you may want to change the standards for one individual cabinet. Cabinet Solutions allows you to make these changes through Cabinet Standards. They are standards that you can set, that affect only that one individual cabinet.
While Job Standards are typically set before you start laying out a job, Cabinet Standards must be changed after the cabinets have been placed. You could theoretically make each individual cabinet in a job with different standards, though you will probably find this feature most helpful when making one-of-a-kind pieces such as an entertainment center or bookcases within a particular job. A cabinet will have its own standards if and only if you change its Cabinet Standards.
Note: Once you have changed a cabinet's individual Cabinet Standards, any changes to your Job Standards will not affect that one cabinet. Resetting a cabinet to your Job Standards is possible in the Place Cabinet Screen.
There are two places that you can access and change a cabinet's individual Cabinet Standards. The first one you will encounter is in the Place Cabinets screen. When in this screen, the tool box at the right will have a button near the bottom labeled Assign Standards. This button puts you in a special mode in which you can select one or more cabinets and Assign them a new set of standards that will be different than the Job Standards. If at any time you forget which cabinets you have changed Cabinet Standards on, go into this Assign mode and touch each cabinet with your mouse (no clicking is necessary); the tool box will tell you which standards have been used for each cabinet.
The second place that you can give an individual cabinet a unique standards file is in the Edit Elevations screen. While in the Edit Elevations screen, you can select single cabinets and do a variety of customizing processes to them, including changing their Cabinet Standards.