Woodworking CNC machining centre manufacturer has introduced cabinet component machining software, which is designed to speed up and simplify cabinet design and production.

Masterwood is rare amongst CNC machining centre manufactures in developing its own software for wood processing rather than relying on third-party packages.

Its software designers work closely with the company’s development engineers to deliver the innovative Windows-compatible, icon-led programs which are simple to learn and easy to use.

Its new Master Cabinet software is designed to speed up and simplify cabinet design and production for kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and offices.

It comes in three levels for users with varying requirements, each priced well below others on the market.

Level 1, with features usually found in more expensive packages, creates straight cabinets in a few minutes using simple commands to produce a cutting list.

Its library contains 10 models of doors and drawers, in both classic and modern design, plus various types of handles, legs, hinges, drawer guides and shelf supports.

Once the components have been selected Master Cabinet creates the required machining programs.

This includes grooving, drilling and dowelling plus any other processes needed.

By incorporating a nesting facility users save on space and money as there is no need for a separate panel saw.

Finally, it produces a list of the required components and creates their labels.

The Level 2 module incorporates all these features.

In addition it has a built-in library of 10,000 components and 50 door models.

This allows around 500,000 different design combinations.

Designs can be changed by inserting or substituting different doors, handles, legs, hinges, drawer fronts and drawer guides.

It also creates cabinet tops, shelves, skirting boards and frames, moulds the edges of panel tops and shelves and gives them a smooth finish.

With Level 2 the shape of a room - for example, a kitchen - can be drawn, complete with all the walls, and the cabinets placed in the exact spots they are to go.

You can then obtain a 3D view of the room, which is useful for face-to-face meetings with customers.

There is also a built-in budgetary system so as to keep abreast of a project’s production costs.

Level 3 incorporates all of the features in the first two modules but can also deal with straight or curved furniture or curved rooms.

It can also develop complex cabinet designs, such as curved cabinets and those incorporating mosaics or marquetry.

It provides high quality rendering, showing all of the items that make up the room in virtual reality like a good coloured photograph.

Said Masterwood UK managing director, Russell Corlett: “We have made Master Cabinet a modular system so users need only buy what they actually need.

The time savings are enormous as there is no setting or marking out needed and no template making, plus there is total accuracy in the product being produced.” Masterwood’s standard package, MasterWork is a Windows-based program with CAD/CAM interface.

Customers can have it updated on a regular basis so that they benefit from the very latest developments.

Among its other purpose-designed woodworking packages are: * MasterStair - this is designed to speed up the production of straight and conventional winder flights.

It was developed following extensive trials at leading UK stair makers.

* MasterDoorSet - using MasterDoorSet software it takes just two minutes to design a complete door and door frame and produce a complete set of machining programs.

It is for use with slab, or solid core, door blanks, including assembled fire, internal and fibreglass versions.

* MasterTraditionalDoor - this is a similar easy-to-use program like MasterDoorSet, but is for use with stile and rail doors incorporating fielded panels.

* MasterWindow - like all the other software packages, users are taken step-by-step through the design and setting-up stages prior to the machining of all the window frame, sash and facia components.

It lets you design and produce windows in a wide variety of sizes and shapes.

* MasterNest - this optimises the number of components per sheet of material and automatically creates the machining program.

This gives an advantage to manufacturers who wish to save on material costs and substantially reduce wastage.

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