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Cabinet Design Software

Most of the products listed here are essentially specialized CAD applications used for designing and manufacturing cabinets. Capabilities include 2D layout, 3D rendering, panel optimization, generation of cut lists, label printing, cost estimation, and various reporting features such as customer quotes and invoices. Some of the higher end products also enable interfacing to CNC machinery.

Cabnetware
A custom room and casework design program for high-end residential cabinetry and commercial casework manufacturers. Generates architectural drawings and manufacturing information. Also provides detailed floor plans, elevations, cross sections, shop drawings, perspectives, true-to-life renderings, material lists, and many other custom manufacturing reports. Planit.  Windows.

Cabinet Builder
An entry-level Screen-to-Machine™ cabinet manufacturing program. Provides floor plan, elevation, and full color 3-D perspective views, creates dimensioned shop drawings, cutting lists, and cost proposals. Outputs machine ready code for NC saws, CNC routers and point-to-point machining centers. Planit.  Windows.

Cabinet Creator
Generates cut lists for face frame and frameless cabinets. Numerous options for door types, drawer construction, cabinet orientation, and more. Cab-Tech Software.  Windows.

CabinetCRUNCHER
Creates cutlists for bookcases, hutches, entertainment centers, built-in furniture and a wide variety of custom cabinets. Over 40 different configurations of free-standing base cabinets, wall cabinets and bookcases. Based on MS-Excel. CabinetCRUNCHER.com.  Windows/Macintosh.

Cabinet Explorer
Design, production, and management software solutions for any furniture related business. It provides 3D design, cut lists, assembly drawings, shop drawings, CNC files, labels, loading lists and  production / commercial / management reports. Reportedly easy to learn, even for users without prior CAD experience. MTD Software Ltd.  Windows.

Cabinet Planner
A low cost custom cabinet design program that can be used to create kitchen cabinets, bath room vanities, dressers, bookcases, entertainment centers, desks, curio cabinets, and much more. Includes proposal and contracts generator, cabinet box and door material calculators, cut lists, floor plan and elevation views, and a location assist tool. Robert McAllister.  Windows.

Cabinets Plus!
A full-featured cabinet design software package that is designed for the small to medium sized cabinet shop and woodworking enthusiast. Includes a cabinet design wizard with 2-D and simulated 3-D viewing capabilities, a lumber/panel optimizer, cutlist generation, material databases and take offs, and cost summary reports. KoeSoft Construction Software.  Windows.

Cabinet Pro
Produces shop & finished drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D perspectives with lighting and shading effects, job costing, inventory, cut lists, financial reports, and panel optimization for cabinets, doors, entertainment centers, windows, and desks. Siskiyou Products.  Windows.

Cabinet Solutions
A user friendly package for laying out, drawing and costing kitchens or wall systems. Features panel optimization, elevation drawings, cut lists, 3-D color views, and lots more. Cabinet Solutions.  Windows.

Cabinet Top/Bottom
Creates a materials list for a cabinet top/bottom given the cabinet's depth, width, height, no. of  shelves, and offset of drawer hardware. The Router Workshop.  Online utility.

Cabinet Vision
Cabinet design software for woodworking professionals since 1983. Design and detail all your jobs using solid modeling technology. Solid automatically generates your shop drawings, 3D customer renderings, cutting lists, material requirements and estimating. You can also graphically layout your job or use the built-in Order Entry function to quickly create your cutting list. Planit.  Windows.

DecoTech
Cabinet, furniture, kitchen and interior design software with an extensive collection of pre-built objects (including 1000+ cabinets). Features include handling of metric or imperial units, creation of cabinets with radius doors, a cabinet itemizer, solid model rendering, an "Animator" capability, editing tools, and a price manager. Pulsar Software Inc..  Windows.

DesignersMate
Kitchen, bathroom, and closet design software with 3D presentation capabilities and over 800 cabinet styles. DesignersMate Pro has a "cabinet manager" feature to simplify building and managing your own library of cabinets. Quisine Software.  Windows.

Designer Plus
Low cost CAD-based kitchen design software.  Used in conjunction with DesignCAD 3D to draw floor plans, elevations and true 3D views. Includes a spreadsheet method of pricing cabinets. Kitchen Consultants.  Windows.

Easycab Presentator
Full featured 3D design tool for kitchen cabinets, including drawers and doors. Includes wood grain texture editor, cut list viewer/editor, multiple views, template library, price and labor calculations, and much more. Exports to EasyReport and Cutlist Plus. Easycab.  Windows.

eCabinet Systems
Cabinet design and kitchen layout package that allows you to select and order doors, drawers, hardware, knobs, pulls and other cabinet materials. You can view the finished kitchen in virtual 3D and change finishes, door designs and hardware. Also includes shop drawings, nest diagrams, cut lists, and CNC program generation. Similar capabilities as CabinetVision and CabnetWare but software is free (they make their money from affiliated product sales). Thermwood Corp.  Windows.

Extreme CAD Pro
CAD program with special tools specifically for cabinet makers, MDF Door makers, and countertop manufacturers. Supports View/Edit of AutoCAD compatible layered 2D or 3D DXF files from many sources. Extreme Software.  Windows.

Extreme DecoTech 30/30
A kitchen dealer software package. It is a cabinet design program specifically for designing and pricing jobs using electronic catalogs of ready made cabinets (i.e. Kraftmaid, Aristokraft, etc.) Extreme Software.  Windows.

Extreme DecoTech Pro
Mid-Range cabinet and interior design software for cabinets, furniture, and interior design. Enables one to design simple to mildly complex jobs and generate 3D renderings. Extreme Software.  Windows.

Extreme Pro100
High-end interior and cabinet design software for cabinets, furniture, and interior design. Features: import real-world textures and appliances; apply custom shape-editing to any individual component of an object; create your own custom catalog; produce 3D perspectives. Extreme Software.  Windows.

Face-Frame Cabinet Cut List Calculator  Free
Excel spreadsheet. Just enter finished cabinet dimensions and this utility generates cut lists and cost information for the various cabinet components. Courtesy of Jay C. Heil.

Home Shop
Downsized version of Cabinet Pro for part-time cabinetmakers. Produces shop drawings, material requirements and cut lists. Siskiyou Products.  Windows.

IMOS-Design
A 3-D solid modeler developed expressly for the woodworking industry. It is driven by material libraries, connector libraries, and construction principles that reside in a relational database. The user works with a 3-D, parametric engineering model that defines the product attributes specific to each product ‘family’. Virtual Systems Int.  Windows.

interior CAD
An end-to-end CAD-system for the woodworking and interior-construction industry based on VectorWorks. The "Shop+" module provides advanced features like materials database, costing, quotes, and detailed cutting lists - within the familiar VectorWorks environment. interiorCAD.com  Windows/Macintosh.

Kitchen Designer by Bob Vila 
An online tool for designing a custom kitchen that walks you through the process of creating a floor plan, adding cabinets, counters, doors, windows and appliances-in various styles and colors. BobVila.com.

KCDw Cabinet Software
Professional grade CAD/CAM software for cabinet design, cut list generation, and price estimation.  Handles frame/frameless construction, floor plan, elevation, shop drawings, 3D renderings, and much more. KCDw.  Windows.

Microvellum Toolbox
Completely embedded within AutoCAD, the Microvellum Toolbox allows you to generate all of the manufacturing information necessary for your production process. Shop drawings can be generated using your predefined library that holds all of the product information, including materials, parts, hardware, machining, and much more.  Microvellum Corp.  Windows.

OfficeCAD
Design a cabinet online just by entering dimensions. Generated design is displayed in your web browser. It can also create AutoCAD DWG CAD drawing files and JPEG image files. OfficeCAD.com.

PolyBoard
Interactive cabinet design and manufacturing software that supports arborescent cabinet structures, dynamic material styles, manufacturing methods lists, cutlists, and 2D/3D rendering of cabinets in real time. Boole & Partners.  Windows.

PRO100
Interior and furniture design software with 3-D visualization, an easy-to-use interface, custom library creation, and a multitude of tools and modules. Automatically updates pieces reports, project pricing, and layouts.  ECRU Software.  Windows.

Solid Design
Designs kitchen and bathroom cabinets with the capability of mixing multiple stock lines as well as custom cabinets within the same job. Stock cabinets, closets, custom frame and frameless cabinets, and other products may be used/created to generate realistic designs. Planit.  Windows.

20-20 CAD
Powerful 3D software for furniture and wood products. Features an AutoCAD-based interface and a dynamic browser that shows all functions available for every part, including cutting, drilling, machining and joining. Also has intelligent libraries tailored to your specific manufacturing needs. 20-20 Technologies.  Windows.

20-20 Design
Generates full color, 3D photo-like renderings of kitchen plans with extensive capabilities for setting shadowing, lighting, and view perspective. Interfaces with most major U.S. cabinet and appliance manufacturers for rapid order updating and processing. Also generates quotes, contracts, sales tracking, and follow-up reports. 20-20 Technologies.  Windows.

SlingShot Free
Cabinet detailer spreadsheet. Generates cutlists for frameless cabinet cases that can be exported in CSV format to the Sheet Layout optimization package. Door and drawer calculations are performed with companion spreadsheets. By Bill Buck.

SlingShot ToeKicker Free
Spreadsheet that calculates toe kick schedules for cabinets. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot. By Bill Buck.

SlingShot DoorMaker Free
Spreadsheet that calculates dimensions and cutlists for cabinet door parts. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot. By Bill Buck.

SlingShot DrawerBoxer Free
Spreadsheet that calculates dimensions and cutlists for drawer components. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot. By Bill Buck.

Spreadsheet Max
Developed by a cabinetmaker, Spreadsheet Max is a series of easy to use spreadsheets to produce accurate cut lists for just about any cabinet design. The result of over 10 years of real-world, in shop testing.  Spreadsheet Max.  Windows.

Wincalc
Cabinetmaker's application featuring a carcase editor, piece lists, cutting lists, order lists, panel optimizer, customer and supplier management, price list manager, part label printing, global material change, and total cost reports. Peter Havel.  Windows.