Exploring Different Edge Banding Options in CABINET VISION [VIDEO]

G’day, it’s Clayton from Planit Canada here, and today I’m stoked to chat with you about a really cool feature found in CABINET VISION. Often, when we’re drawing up projects or jobs for our customers or clients, they might ask that we incorporate a design or a colour scheme with multiple different materials. Often it will depend on the exposed materials as opposed to the interior materials. In CABINET VISION, that is a really easy feature to control.

If I was to, for example, open up my Job Properties just now, and go to the Material Schedule that I’m using, you would see that I have the ability to manually change the material associated with my exposed or interior pieces in these cabinets. And that would just be as simple as me searching for the material I would like to have assigned to what right part. But today, we are going to focus on something specific: the banding and how we can toggle between the different options of our banding, but also change the default settings and add more categories if we would like.

So, you can see at the moment, my system has access to two different kinds: exterior banding and interior banding. Let’s say, for example, I wanted to modify just a single part in my cabinet, just so that it has a different banding option compared to the rest of the cabinet, the rest of the parts, maybe the rest of the job. I could click twice on my Cabinet Properties, click on, let’s say, the finished left-end. And if I clicked on the edge banding options after I right-clicked on the part, you could see that now I could change this manually to be the other option, the interior banding, perhaps. Or I could keep it as the exterior banding. I could change the other edges to incorporate the exterior banding or the interior banding, too. This gives me the option to manually change this part. And I could do this with any other parts I find in CABINET VISION.

But I don’t really want to do that for every single part or every single cabinet in my job; that would just take too long. Well, I can also modify the standards, the defaults for each and every single one of my parts, every single time a cabinet is attached to a wall. And that is also a really easy feature. Let’s say, for example, I went to my Job Properties and looked at my Construction Method Properties that I’m using. If I modified this job, I could open up, let’s say, the exterior case and the finished end, and if I double-click on these options, you will see I can choose which edge banding material is the default, or which category is the default rather. At the moment, the face of my finished end is going to use the exterior banding. I could just as easily change that to be interior banding. And now every single time I bring in this cabinet, every time I bring a cabinet into the job, I will see the interior banding attached automatically to the face.

Well, that’s fantastic. I can toggle between interior and exterior banding very easily. And I can also make these modifications in my job and just this job so that each project can have the special requirements met. But maybe you would like to have more than these two options. Maybe you would like to have three, four, or five, etc. You could also organize them according to maybe a different system than interior as opposed to exterior. Well, that is a really easy feature to do too.

What we will do is close the program, and then we will click on the Part icon in the Part Material Manager. And then we will click on the Part Manager, and here we have a list of every single piece which exists in our cabinets and in our projects everywhere. So, for example, if I clicked on the case and you would see I’ve got the finished left-end, the unfinished left-end, the finished right-end. All of these are categories in my Material Schedule that I could associate with a specific material. You’ll also see the name here. This is just a specific code that the program uses that we could even reference later on in, say, a UCS or in the more advanced aspects of the program. But often, you will probably just be concerned with the description as that’s the name you will easily recognize as a designer or engineer using the program.

If I was to click now on the banding option of my assembly, you’ll see that I’ve got my exterior banding and my interior banding. I could rename them if I wanted them to be separate. But if I wanted to keep them and add in other options, too, it’s a super simple process of clicking on New, where I must attach a name according to one of these new options.

So let’s just say we did the G option there, you’ll see that there is “from A to Z.” So we’ve got 26 options available to us, 26 different edge banding options we could incorporate. Here, maybe I want to add a white banding, 2mm option available to me. So now that I’ve got that set up (the white banding, 2mm), if I just hit return and go to my material schedules, you’ll see that every single one of my assembly material schedules now has this white banding, 2mm option ready. If I wanted to, I could associate a white banding material, and here’s one I’ve prepared earlier. I could associate that here to the white banding, 2mm option. So now, every time I use this schedule in a project, if the white banding, 2mm option is associated with an end, it will be using this white banding, 2mm option. And, of course, the category options could go on and on. I could continue with various thicknesses. I could just continue with different finishes. Maybe I’m more interested in having a white banding, black banding, colour banding, or mismatch-colour banding option available to me. But that’s up to you, and you can customize it however you like. But once this is set up, it’s as simple as me now going into a job and making sure that option is ticked where necessary.

Maybe, if I wanted: all of my parts, when I use the construction method, to automatically reference that category. I could just go into my assembly or construction properties. I could find the piece that I might like to associate it with. So let’s go to the finished end. And now, instead of None being the default for the back, I could associate the white banding, 2mm. And now, every single time I bring in a cabinet that uses a finished end in my project, it will use this white banding, 2mm colour. I could add it like so…and click Yes…and then when I visit the properties for my job…so if I opened up a new job like so… and then from the job properties, I could toggle to the…that’s the construction method we’re using…the material, now I could modify it, just for this project that it uses, maybe a different material as opposed to the white banding, 2mm. But if I clicked on OK, now I can go to my objects, and I can bring in a new part, and now, if I wanted to, I could do the exact same thing we did at the start of the video and modify my edge banding… but here, I could switch him to be white banding, 2mm.

And there you go. It’s as easy as that for us to switch between the different edge banding options or even create new categories in CABINET VISION. Once this is set up, drawing those very custom, very detailed jobs becomes so much quicker and more efficient. Thank you.

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