HI,
I’m new to 2020, I’ve been using Cabinet Vision for years but I started with a new employer and this is the software they’re using. I’ve been exploring it for the last month and so far I’m not impress with it. The 3D are beautiful but that is it. Cabinet Vision is way more advance and friendly user.
Here are my suggestions to improve the software. It’s just little things to make it less time consuming.
1- Ability to calculate within the dimensions field for width, height and depth as well as the placement field.
2- Adjust the precision of the scale in the work area.
3- Cabinets adjust their size themselves when inserting between cabinets.
4- Nametags adjust themselves with the dimensions of the cabinets. We have to do it manually for every cabinet which could take a while when you have a big kitchen.
5- Do multiple rooms in within the same project. Ex: Kitchen, bathroom, etc.
6- Ability to turn on/off which wall appear on the floorplan and 3D views.
7- As another user said, the dimensions are quite messy and on top of each other which make it hard to read. This need to be simplify by choosing which dimension appear on the desire view.
8- I don’t know if this exist already but I haven’t found it yet… to be able to add, delete, modified in CAD on the plan and elevation view. I like to do my plans the architectural style with symbols, etc. Is there a way to do my own ”catalog” of symbols that I use often? and easily accessible.
9- In Cabinet Vision, when you start a project, you preselect the cabinets door style, materials and colors, etc. If there’s a way to do this in 2020 it ain’t obvious and also in Cabinet Vision, you can change those selections anytime and to every cabinet individually if you want. Very easy to use and easy to change as well. If that feature is not already available, I suggest to add it because it is very useful. All the textures and color of the materials are all integrated in the software.
10- When you want to edit the cabinet, another window open but you can really work within the cabinet itself. In Cabinet Vision, all the views including the 3D of the cabinet opens up and you can click directly on the panel, door, hinge or whatever feature you want to adjust and automatically the attributs of that particular piece show up on the left and you can adjust it right there and you see it in real time. Ex: I want to move the hinge of a door from 4” to 5”, I see it adjusting right away.
11-You can’t work in 3D, perspective are only for rendering. In Cabinet vision, you can, you see in color or partially transclucent or completely transclucent for the whole room or just a cabinet in particular. This make it very easy to adjust pieces in a cabinet.
12- In Cabinet Vision, cabinets have their own intelligence and attributs that you can add or delete, I haven’t seen any type of customable attributs in 2020 unless it is to change the dimensions of the cabinet.
12- I change my background color to black, because I love to work on a darker background like AutoCAD but when I draw a wall, my cursor is also black so I can’t see it anymore and I haven’t found a way to change it’s color, if that can be change, if not then what’s the point of allowing to change the bakground color. Working on a lighter background hurts my eyes.
I feel like 2020 is more a client presentation software than a cabinetery software. I haven’t explore the whole thing yet but this is what I got so far.
Also in Cabinet vision, you don’t need any other software, you can have the price and a report with all the cabinets and pieces in the room with specific attributs to them.
You can add notes to a specific cabinet as well. Ex: Upper cabinets with finish bottom, hinge at 4”, etc.
Hopefully, the software will improve.
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