Cabinet Software Mastery from Masterwood

Masterwood has introduced the innovative Master Cabinet software program, designed to speed up and simplify cabinet design and production for kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and offices.

For use with its CNC machining centres, it comes in three levels for users with varying requirements, each priced well below others on the market.

Using Master Cabinet, a 3D view of a room can be drawn complete with all the walls and the cabinets placed in the exact spots they are to go.

Level 1, with features usually found in more expensive packages, creates straight cabinets in a few minutes using simple commands to produce a cutting list. Its library contains 10 models of doors and drawers, in both classic and modern design, plus various types of handles, legs, hinges, drawer guides and shelf supports.

Once the components have been selected Master Cabinet creates the required machining programs. This includes grooving, drilling and dowelling plus any other processes needed.

By incorporating a nesting facility users save on space and money as there's no need for a separate panel saw. Finally, it produces a list of the required components and creates their labels.

The Level 2 module incorporates all these features. In addition it has a built-in library of 10,000 components and 50,000 door models. This allows around 500,000 different design combinations.

Designs can be changed by inserting or substituting different doors, handles, legs, hinges, drawer fronts and drawer guides.

It also creates cabinet tops, shelves, skirting boards and frames, moulds the edges of panel tops and shelves and gives them a smooth finish.

Masterwood's latest Master Cabinet software, for the design and processing of cabinet components, is available in three modules.

With Level 2 the shape of a room - for example, a kitchen - can be drawn, complete with all the walls, and the cabinets placed in the exact spots they are to go. You can then obtain a 3D view of the room, which is useful for face-to-face meetings with customers.

There's also a built-in budgetary system so as to keep abreast of a project's production costs.

Level 3 incorporates all of the features in the first two modules but can also deal with straight or curved furniture or curved rooms. It can also develop complex cabinet designs, such as curved cabinets and those incorporating mosaics or marquetry.

It provides high quality rendering, showing all of the items that make up the room in virtual reality like a good coloured photograph.

Said Masterwood UK managing director, Russell Corlett: "We have made Master Cabinet a modular system so users need only buy what they actually need. The time savings are enormous as there's no setting or marking out needed and no template making, plus there's total accuracy in the product being produced."

"We are now well into double figures of sales of CNC machining centres featuring Level 1. In particular, it's proving a big success with kitchen companies who recognise its tremendous potential."

Masterwood is rare amongst CNC machining centre manufactures in developing its own software rather than relying on third-party packages. Its software designers work closely with the company's development engineers to deliver the innovative Windows-compatible, icon-led programs which are simple to learn and easy to use.

All enquiries to Masterwood (UK) Ltd, Telephone 01436 675000, Fax 01436 678999, Email masterwooduk@aol.com.

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Tel: 020 8341 6660. email: stephenbarry@clara.co.uk

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