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Save Time with Wall Ends in CABINET VISION: A Step-by-Step Guide
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If you’re flipping between plan and elevation views in CABINET VISION and wasting time scrolling past blank walls, this tip is for you.
Wall ends are a simple setting that can speed up your workflow, help you focus on what matters, and make navigating elevation views smoother than ever. Whether you’re designing a kitchen, bathroom, or laundry room, this feature can save you clicks—and minutes—every time. It is one of those small improvements that can make a noticeable difference when using your custom cabinet software every day.
Follow this easy step-by-step guide to learn how to use Wall Ends in CABINET VISION to your advantage.
What Are Wall Ends in CABINET VISION?
In CABINET VISION, Wall Ends let you hide walls that don’t contain any cabinets or relevant elements from your Elevation View. While they remain part of your Plan View layout, they won’t show up in Elevation—helping you skip unnecessary views and get to the ones you actually need, faster.
Why Use Wall Ends?
- Reduce Clutter: Hide unused walls in Elevation View.
- Save Time: Navigate between elevations with fewer clicks.
- Stay Focused: Only see the elevations that matter to your current design task.
When Should You Use Wall Ends?
Whenever you’re designing a room with more than a few walls, ask yourself:
- Does this wall contain cabinets?
- Do I need to see this wall in Elevation View?
If the answer is no, it’s a great candidate for being marked as a Wall End.
How to Use Wall Ends in CABINET VISION
Watch the video or follow the instructions below to see how to activate Wall Ends in your drawing.
Click here for video script
Hi, welcome to this Cabinet Vision tutorial. My name is Tayla, and today we’re going to be looking at wall ends, what they are, and how they can save you a lot of time in your drawing process.
Personally, I love wall ends, I use them in every single room that I draw because they save me a lot of time as I’m flicking between my plan and my elevation views, while I’m designing and drawing.
In this kitchen here, I’m going to show you how to turn them on and why they’re great. So you can see this kitchen is a pretty standard setup, but there are quite a lot of walls. I counted them up and there are nine walls in this room. But you can see, the only walls that actually have cabinets attached to them are this back wall here, where the hot plate is, the side wall here where the fridge is, and my island peninsula wall.
All these other walls are important to include in my design, but I don’t need to see them in my elevation as I’m designing the room. So, if right now, I were to go to Elevation, I have nine walls to choose from. Wall number one is completely blank. And so, say I’m looking at wall number four, which is the hot plate wall that I actually need to use. But then I want to move around to the fridge wall or to the island, I have to go through all the unused walls that I don’t need to see to be able to flick in between them.
Whereas, if we make some of those walls so that we don’t need to see wall ends, they’re not going to appear automatically on our elevation view. Which will save us a lot of time clicking in between.
So to do that, all you need to do is just click on the wall that you don’t need to see in your elevation, and over on the side here, where it says Type, you’ve got this wall end function, and instead of no, make that a yes by double clicking.
So I’m just going to go through and do that to all the walls that I don’t need to be seeing. It’s super easy to undo as well, if you ever add cabinets to that wall.
You just come back in and switch it from yes to no.
So now, if I go to my Elevation, I come up on the hot plate wall. And if I want to get to the fridge wall, it’s just one arrow click, and there is my fridge wall. And again to the island, one arrow click, and there’s my island. And back again.
So now I only have this list of three walls that are going to pop up in my elevations, which just saves me tons of time flicking in between. It’s super easy to do, and once you set it up for the room, it’s done. It saves you a lot of time.
So, yeah. Use your wall ends, and you will notice the difference that it makes to the ease of your design process.
If you have any questions about wall ends or any other things like that, please drop them below, and I hope to see you at the next one. Bye.
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1. Open Your Job in CABINET VISION
Start with your room layout in Plan View. This feature is especially helpful if your layout includes many walls, like in kitchens with islands or pantries.
2. Identify Walls Without Cabinets
Look for any walls that don’t have cabinets or key elements attached. These are the walls you likely don’t need to see in your Elevation View.
3. Select a Wall to Hide
Click on any wall you want to hide in Elevation.
4. Set It as a Wall End
- On the right-hand panel, look for the setting labeled Type.
- You’ll see an option for Wall End.
- Change the value from No to Yes by double-clicking it.
Do this for every wall you want to hide in Elevation View.
5. Check the Results in Elevation View
Switch to Elevation View. You’ll now only see the relevant walls—no more clicking past blank ones!
Need to reverse it? Just go back and change the Wall End setting from Yes to No. Easy.
What’s the Benefit?
Imagine this: you have a kitchen with 9 walls, but only 3 have cabinets. Without wall ends, you’re clicking through all 9 in Elevation. With wall ends turned on, you skip straight to the 3 that matter. That’s less time wasted—and more time designing.
Final Tip
Wall Ends are one of those small features that make a big difference once you start using them. Add them to your workflow and you’ll quickly see how much faster and easier your design process becomes.
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