It's a little while since I last fought with the kitchen cabinet tools.
This time round, I was pleased to notice that the VW library seems to offer "Howdens Universal base cabinet style" as an option.
Howdens is a popular kitchen supplier in the UK. Their cabinets mostly follow standard sizes that most UK suppliers follow. So in initial planning stages, it makes sense to use their cabinets at least as "placeholders" in setting out a basic layout.
Well, I thought, great, I don't have to go through the usual process of tweaking the VW cabinet settings to get to something close to a standard UK cabinet. All the Howdens ones are there ready for me.
But it didn't take long to discover that they have incorrect dimensions. For example there seems to be a confusion between cabinet depth including or not including the door thickness. And the corner cabinets seem simply not to make any sense. I can make a guess at what's happened with those - someone has input some overall dimensions correct for an L shaped unit but not correct for the straight type unit offered. In other words, these items have been prepared without care and proper understanding. So it turns out to be just another method of wasting my time.
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It's a little while since I last fought with the kitchen cabinet tools.
This time round, I was pleased to notice that the VW library seems to offer "Howdens Universal base cabinet style" as an option.
Howdens is a popular kitchen supplier in the UK. Their cabinets mostly follow standard sizes that most UK suppliers follow. So in initial planning stages, it makes sense to use their cabinets at least as "placeholders" in setting out a basic layout.
Well, I thought, great, I don't have to go through the usual process of tweaking the VW cabinet settings to get to something close to a standard UK cabinet. All the Howdens ones are there ready for me.
But it didn't take long to discover that they have incorrect dimensions. For example there seems to be a confusion between cabinet depth including or not including the door thickness. And the corner cabinets seem simply not to make any sense. I can make a guess at what's happened with those - someone has input some overall dimensions correct for an L shaped unit but not correct for the straight type unit offered. In other words, these items have been prepared without care and proper understanding. So it turns out to be just another method of wasting my time.
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