A few problems have surfaced:
1) Handles don't work right at all. All loop-type handles show up properly, but CB adds in an additional handle that goes through each pair of them at right angles, crossing the opening of double doors, resulting in a H-like shape of three handles on two doors. All spherical-type handles work fine, but the cut one also spans the double doors. The cup handle just spans the pair of doors.
2) Handles on drawers at the top of a vanity cabinet show at the top of the drawers, really more on the countertop or in between, regardless of the spacing for handles that I select, certainly nowhere near the placement in the drawer I would expect. There's a gap between the drawers and the countertop I can't figure out for the life of me how to eliminate.
3) I want white cabinets, and no matter which material or which of a couple of different flat or raised rectangular panel door panel types I select, CB produces the most goddawful ugly heavily grained brown wood pattern, some of which bear no relationship whatsoever to the design of the panel on the door.
4) When I set an overall width dimension, changing the number of units changes the overall dimension with apparently no consistency. I want to divide the total width into X number of separate sections, not multiply the number of sections at the overall size. I am going crazy trying to get the right number of sections.
5) The numbering of the sections once set up is crazy. With four sections, the three leftmost drawers, running across the top, are all section #1, but the fourth is section #3. Likewise, the corresponding leftmost three door-paneled sections below are all section #2, and the right hand one is #4. This is making it totally impossible to set up the cabinet arrangement I want or to experiment with variations. I want the end two sections to be drawers and the center ones to have doors, but it can't be done with one object like this. I also can't get it set up to do one drawer on one unit and two on another at the top, or just a flat single panel in front of where the sink goes.
In order to get the two sets of double doors I presently seem to be stuck with, too, I had to set up 4 sections instead of two, when the reality of how this unit needs to be built is just two sections at most.
6) There doesn't appear to be any way to set the thickness of the back and side splashes to something other than that of the countertop, and no way to change the materials of the back and sidesplashes separately, or indeed to change the materials of the sidesplashes at all. There also doesn't appear to be any way to get any sort of joining of them other than coving, which is fine for Formica and solid surfacing, but of course useless for stone and quartz kinds of materials. And sometimes you simply don't *want* them coved anyways. How do I show a butt-joined countertop and back and sidesplashes?
7) The toekick is showing up in elevation with a bunch of apparently entirely random vertical lines that in no way correspond to the cabinet units. This is obviously not a desirable situation, and I can't figure out how to make it go away.
There doesn't seem to be any way to have a cabinet without a door, as in open shelves.9) There isn't any way to automatically insert any sort of sink into the countertop without manually adjusting the height of it and utilizing SEOs to cut the opening. This is a definite step backwards from the last version which certainly wasn't always easy to place a sink, but at least you could do it as part of the whole basic operation, as you would expect from a tool of this nature.
10) And cripes, who on earth thought up using black fills for the cabinetry and sinks in plan? One would expect this to be changeable, but I can't find how to do it. It's certainly hideously ugly and a real blot on the model, not to mention a waste of ink come printing time.
Overall, even though I found the last version of this add-on more difficult to use and the operability of this one seems at least somewhat improved, at least on the surface, I'd have to say that this is not a new and improved version at all. I'm pretty disappointed in it, and I think it will just be easier to build my cabinets from scratch.
Wendy
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