Craftsman Engineering Blog

Here’s a quiz to determine your “Cabinet Vision Quotient”.  My intent is to test a cabinet design engineer’s knowledge of the most widely accepted cabinet manufacturing software, Cabinet Vision. However, scoring high doesn’t mean you’re the next shining star engineer, and scoring low doesn’t mean you can't tell the difference between a straight line and a circle. Some answers are debatable, so there will be many comments. Where do you fit?

As I talk with cabinet manufacturers all over the country, I get mixed up in a lot of discussions about this feature of Cabinet Vision or that feature of Cabinet Vision.  In just the last two weeks, I've had quite a few inquiries about xBidding.  I'm not sure why. But from my perspective, there seems to be a sudden surge in interest in using the Bid Center.  

Back in the day, and I'm not quite certain how long ago that was, the state of the art measuring tool for laying out a room full of cabinets was the "storey pole" or some called them layout rods or storey rods.  Whatever the proper name for them really was, they were essentially two long sticks of softwood which the cabinet maker made pencil marks on.  With four sides of a square set of rods, a cabinet maker could layout a whole house full of cabinets...one room on each side of the rod...uppers on one edge of a side and bases on the opposite edge of the rod.