Complete design and production software for custom furniture

On one of my visits I met a custom furniture manufacturer who had recently purchased design software. He told me that if someone had told him a year ago that he would pay almost as much for a program as he would for a machine, he would have thought he was crazy. Now he can't imagine his daily work without that software. It has made his work much easier and diversified at the same time. For anyone who now makes custom furniture, design software is no longer a fad but a necessity. Because it's not only about the realization of the design and the renderings presented to the client, but also other benefits such as optimizing material consumption or saving time, ease of changing initial dimensions, virtual decomposition of the furniture into component parts, making work files for the machines, production cost and price quotation.

Of course, not all programs do the same thing. On the one hand, it is a question of its complexity and, on the other hand, of the real needs of the customer. It is preferable for the program to have different configurations so that the producer buys the module that suits him best and has the possibility to move to the next level when he is ready. Such a program is Cabinet Vision, distributed in Romania by Nika Machinery.

Cabinet Vision, the complete design and production solution for the furniture industry

Cabinet Vision is a brand of the Hexagon Group in Sweden. Hexagon is a world leader in CAD/CAM software solutions for different materials and industries. It offers solutions in a wide variety of fields, from furniture to tooling, from wood and wood-based materials to metal, plastic and stone processing. The common denominator of all these solutions is increased production efficiency.

The Cabinet Vicion program is complete and comprehensive and is used by more than 35,000 users in over 50 countries, making it the market leader in solutions for custom furniture manufacturers. It is the best-selling furniture design software worldwide. With it you can custom design your entire home, from kitchen and bathroom furniture to dressing rooms, bedrooms or living rooms. The software is modular, with solutions for workshops with simple machines as well as complex, fully automated factories.

Design, presentation, production

What you can do with it Cabinet Vision?

• designing furniture throughout the home as a whole;
• furniture design;
• photorealistic renderings and perspectives;
• price offers for the customer;
• customized drawings and reports;
• optimized cutting lists and material lists;
• barcode labels;
• files G-Code (the common name for the most widely used CNC programming language) ready to work for CNC Nesting or point-to-point for other types of computer-aided machines (circular, drilling and inserting machines).

In addition to highly realistic design and rendering, Cabinet Vision can fully automate and integrate the design into the production process, no matter what level the manufacturer is at - beginner or very advanced. To automatically transfer files to production you need Screen to Machine Center (S2M), software that takes the machining information visible on the screen and transmits it to the CNC or other computer-aided machines, avoiding human error.

Cabinet Vision has dedicated functions for working with solid wood, as well as for chipboard or MDF. For solid wood, the most popular decorative profiles are included directly from the furniture design area of the program: skirting boards, crowns, crowns, 5 piece doors, etc.

The program can resize fixtures automatically and in real time. Once a command is given to the program to change a furniture body size, it will automatically change all the details, from resizing the part, to CNC ordering and quoting.

The modules that can be purchased are:

• Solid Drafter - designed for design, rendering and quotation. It was designed for the showroom, as an economical solution for architects only, to design in front of clients and give a quote.
• Solid Essential - is an economical option for integrating design into production. It allows you to make production drawings, renderings, material lists, cut lists and generate price quotations.
•  Solid Standard - for small residential and commercial furniture manufacturers. It is the next level of integration, adding new functions to existing ones, e.g. machining drawings (drilling/milling), complex customer offer.
• Solid Advanced - New functions are added to the previous module. The most important/used are:
  • Possibility to create customized scripts to automate the design of furniture fixtures and create new functions;
  • Cabinet Shaping (body change & automation);
  • 2D & 3D DXF export.
• Solid Ultimate - is the level that allows any manufacturer of furniture, solid wood or derived panels, to fully integrate design into production. This streamlines production by optimizing material consumption, reducing working time and increasing productivity:
  • Contains all optional modules for smaller modules;
  • Optimization with pattern continuation from one board to another of the machined part;
  • MDF Door Maker;
  • Creating countertop construction methods;
  • Add additional operations on parts directly from the design area, which are graphically visible;
  • Possibility to edit reports;
  • Personalized hardware.

Nika Utilaje provides you with full technical support so that you can use the program to its maximum capacity and choose the most suitable option for your level of activity.

Additional features you can benefit from depending on the module you choose

Cabinet Vision is a complex software that allows the choice of additional functions depending on the nature of the production and the manufacturer's wishes. Labels can be added to facilitate secondary machining, customized reports can be created with information specific to a certain type of production, table tops can be machined or different MDF door designs can be made for furniture. There are cutting optimization options for solid, chipboard or nesting.

The program also allows you to enter specific settings such as, for example, the dovetailing of the drawer fronts with the sides. The new settings are then sent to the CNC for machining.

We discussed Cabinet Vision with Nika representatives

Cabinet Vision is an intuitive, simple to use program. We were convinced of this when NIKA Utilaje visited us the other day for a presentation. We "played" with the patterns, colors and lights, we furnished a kitchen to which we kept changing the doors according to our inspiration and we came to the conclusion that if we stop writing, we start designing 😉

I let you watch the movie of the meeting!