How it works
One workflow, three steps.
Each step hands its work to the next, so you never re-type a dimension. Follow the path, or open any tool on its own.
Design
Lay out your cabinets with a live elevation, and watch the cut list build itself as you size them.
Open the Designer →Materials
Set your sheets, edge banding and hardwoods once, and every tool sizes its parts to exactly what you stock.
Open the Materials Library →Cut
Nest every part onto your sheets and offcuts, with grain matching, saw kerf and banding already taken out.
Open the Cut List Optimizer →Good to know: the Designer and the Materials Library work with no account, right in your browser. The Cut List Optimizer, the Systainer Bank Planner, and Shop Standards keep your work in the cloud, so they ask you to sign in first. Sign-in is free.
Every other tool lives in the Tools button at the top of this page: the hinge and Gola calculators, the Systainer bank planner, the cost calculator, the photo-to-parts tool and the hardware library. The build and install guides are here.
Guides and help
Built in · early preview
New here? Let the AI Designer guide you.
CabDesign is growing into a platform where you can plan a whole kitchen just by describing it. The first piece is live now: a built-in AI Designer that knows every tool in the studio and, once you sign in, reads your saved design.
Ask it what a part should measure, how to set something up, or what to do next, in plain English.
This is release one. It grows with every update.
Meet the AI Designer →Pricing
Free to start. Built to grow with the shop.
Most of the studio runs free in your browser with no account at all. A free account adds the project tools, with your work saved to the cloud. Paid plans (more projects, more power, team seats) are coming soon.
Free
For any shop, any bench.
free account, no credit card
- Sign in with Google in about 30 seconds
- Save your Designer, Cut List Optimizer and Systainer Bank Planner projects to the cloud
- The AI Designer assistant, in early preview
- Your materials catalog synced across devices (it works with no account too, on one device)
Paid plans
More projects, more power, team seats.
- Larger project limits
- Automatic cloud backup and history
- Shared workspace for the whole team
- Seats, roles, and priority support
Most calculators, both libraries and all the guides need no account at all (see the FAQ below). Paid plan details and pricing are coming soon.
Questions
The short answers.
Do I need an account to use it? +
Mostly no. The Designer and the Materials Library work with no account: start designing on this device right away, and sign in later to save your work to the cloud. Two tools keep every project in the cloud, so they ask you to sign in first: the Cut List Optimizer and the Systainer Bank Planner. The AI Designer also needs a sign-in, so it can read your saved design. Sign-in is free, with Google or email, in about 30 seconds. Everything else, the Hardware Library, the calculators, the Gola and hinge tools, the photo tool and all the guides, works right away with no account.
What is the AI Designer? +
An assistant built into the Designer page. It knows every tool in CabDesign, and once you sign in it can read your saved design, so you can ask it questions in plain English: what a part should measure, how to set something up, or what to do next. It is an early preview today, and it grows with every release toward planning the whole job with you.
Where does my work live? +
Projects from the signed-in tools are saved to your account in the cloud: sign in on any device and your work is there. The free calculators keep their settings in your browser, on the machine you used them on. Paid plans (coming soon) will add larger project limits, automatic backup history, and shared team workspaces.
Does it handle saw kerf and edge banding? +
Yes. The optimizer deducts the saw kerf between parts and the edge-banding thickness from each banded edge, so the size on the cutting diagram is the size you actually cut.
What is grain matching? +
When a row of doors should read as one continuous piece of timber, you group them and the optimizer keeps them on one board, in the order they sit on the cabinet face. You set the columns and stacking order, or drag them to match.
Is it for frameless or face-frame? +
It is built around European frameless (32mm) and Gola handleless cabinets, the way the studio builds. The cut list and optimizer work for any panel parts you give them.
Design a cabinet. Choose your materials. Cut it.
Free account. No install. It runs in your browser.