Cabinet material list

[JDCH603]

Does Chief have any way to calculate a materials list for shop made cabinets and built ins? 

[Alaskan_Son]

Not without a MASSIVE amount of custom macro work and even then you would have all sorts of quirkiness and would be investing in the certainty of perpetual problems to deal with. 

 

If you really want that capability, I would suggest you just purchase some cabinet manufacturing software (right tool for the job).

Edited May 6 by Alaskan_Son

[GeneDavis]

I use the freeware eCabinets software, which has as steep a learning curve as Chief, but worth the time if you are doing whole-house packages at the rate of two or three a year.  In my case the job files are exported for CNC cutting, but the application has "saw shop" features that produce cutting lists, nested part diagrams, buy lists, and more.

 

Chief is used for designing the cabinetry and for producing the photoreal renders.  It takes about 2 hours to take a cab schedule from Chief and produce a job file in eCabs.  

 

But starting from zero, it'll take you all of a week 40 to 80 hours learning eCabs and building your seeds, longer if you need to learn part editing.  Every cab config is built as a "seed" cab.  An example is a 3-drawer stack base cab, like the two that you can see in the pic here.  My seed is a 24" width version, and to load each of these in the pic into a job batch, all I enter is the width variable.