September 2026
From drawing package to quote package.
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Older decors now show as a solid colour
We have trimmed the built-in collection back to our own decors. If one of your projects uses a decor that is no longer in the list, nothing is lost: the choice, the dimensions, the article code and the prices all stay exactly as they were — the panel simply renders in a flat colour instead of showing a wood grain. Want the texture back? Add that decor as your own decor with a photo and the same article code, and it returns in your existing projects without converting anything.
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Photos on your own decors
Your own decors can now carry a real image. One photo of the board is enough — a scan, or a shot from your phone. And if your supplier publishes a material set for 3D work, select those files together: the app picks out the colour, structure and gloss layers by their file names and skips the ones a live 3D view cannot use. Structure and gloss are what make a grain catch the light instead of looking printed. You set how many millimetres the photo covers in reality, so the grain runs at true size across the panel — a full board image is usually 2070 × 2800 mm. Everything is resized in your browser before it is stored, and your decors stay private to your account. How to add your own decors.
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Your own decors
Work with a supplier whose decors are not in the list? You can now build your own decor library: a name, your supplier’s article code, the colour, and a structure — plain, or one of seven wood grains from the KWAL collection rendered in your own colour. Your decors appear at the top of every decor picker and behave like any other: they carry their own price key for sheet prices and sizes, they respect grain direction in the nesting, and the article code shows up in the ordering list of your project dossier. Free with an account, up to a hundred decors, and they travel with your projects — open a project on another computer and the decors come along. Photo uploads are the next step. While we were there, every swatch in the pickers got its name underneath, in an even grid, and long collections now scroll inside the picker.
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The KWAL decor collection
Forty new decors, made in-house: twenty wood tones from white oak to black oak, fifteen solid colours and five concrete and stone looks. The wood decors render on photographic, board-sized textures (800 × 2800 mm) — so the grain runs continuously up a tall cabinet without visible repeats, with real cathedral figures and pore detail. Every decor carries its own price key, so sheet prices, sizes and offcuts work per decor just like before. Find them in three new groups at the top of every decor picker, alongside the existing collection.
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The worktop follows your build
The continuous worktop now extends automatically over side finishing panels — flush with the panel face, just like it already ran over end fillers to the wall. And new in the project settings: a free overhang per end, left and right independently, entered in your own units. The overhang knows where to stop: at a wall, at the corner joint of an L-shaped top, and at a neighbouring cabinet — it will never run through a tall unit standing next to the run. Everything flows through to the 3D view, the cut list and the PDF dossier.
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A guided start for first-time visitors
New to the studio? A short seven-step tour now walks you through your first visit: pick your unit system, start from a preset, set your dimensions, and find your way to the front view, cutting list, room and export — including the panel-collapse strips that give the 3D view all the space on smaller screens. It shows once, stays out of your way, and can be restarted anytime from the new ? menu in the top bar, which also links to the ten-minute walkthrough. The preset list now shows proper names too, and the cabinet-zoom button frames your cabinet the way it should.
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Your preferences follow your account
Your language and unit system are now stored with your account: sign in on a second computer or another browser and KWAL Cabinet Studio opens in your own language and units right away. And a small fix with a big first impression: the default names of a new cabinet and project now follow the app language — an English-speaking user starts with "Cabinet 1" and "New project" instead of their Dutch counterparts.
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Work in inches or millimetres
KWAL Cabinet Studio now speaks imperial. Pick your unit system in the top bar — millimetres, decimal inches or fractional inches (35-7/16") — and the whole app follows: every dimension field, the 2D dimension chains, the nesting labels, warnings and the cost estimate (rates per sq ft and per ft). On your first visit the app detects it from your browser language. The documents follow too: the PDF dossier, assembly sheets, quote and cut list render in your system and your language, with the CSV in decimal inches so machines can parse it. Only the DXF files and drilling coordinates deliberately stay in millimetres — CNC convention.
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Offcuts and custom sheet sizes
Reuse the offcuts from previous projects: add them to your price list — decor, size, quantity, a note — and the cutting plan fills them first, smallest usable piece first, before touching new sheets. Offcut sheets are clearly marked in the nesting view, the PDF dossier and the DXF files. Your cost estimate still prices new sheets, so the purchase you save is pure margin — shown on its own line. Standard sheet sizes are now adjustable too: project-wide, and per decor in the price list.
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Design in a real room
The room is no longer just a drawing aid. Give the floor a finish from the new room library — parquet, laminate, tiles or a poured floor, drawn at true scale — paint the walls and ceiling from a colour card or any custom colour, and place windows and doors in the walls with real openings, width, height and sill height. They appear on the 2D floor plan (door swing and all) and in the wall elevations of the PDF dossier, and the app warns you when a cabinet would block a door or a window — you decide, nothing moves by itself. Free for everyone, including guests.
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Price list in your own currency
Your price list now carries a currency setting — euro, pound, US dollar, Swiss franc and more. The prices you enter are simply in that currency (nothing is converted), and both the cost estimate and the customer quote PDF format every amount with the right symbol. Existing price lists stay in euro unless you change it.
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Built-in cost estimating
The nesting view now prices your whole project from your own cloud-synced price list: sheet material per decor and thickness, edge banding, Blum hardware, order items such as the worktop (per linear metre) and glass (per m²), plus a configurable labour model. Available with credits or a subscription.
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Customer quote PDF
The export package gained a third document: a customer-ready quote with one line per cabinet, your company details, a quote number and a 3D appendix. Totals match the cost estimate to the cent — your margin is built into the amounts and never shown. A document credit covers it, and the free export preview includes the quote pages.
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House style & per-project quote settings
Upload your logo once and it appears on every quote. Per project you can set your own quote number, the VAT rate per client (renovation vs new build) and a manual labour-hours total that overrides the model — the draughtsman decides.
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Brand & model per appliance
Note the brand and model on each appliance card; the appliance order list groups by them and the quote line shows type and model.
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Hardened credit security
Following an internal security audit, all credit and export operations are now locked server-side to the signed-in account. Nothing changes for normal use — it simply cannot be misused.
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Smarter corner cabinets
Corner detection in L-shaped kitchen layouts now works on any floor-standing cabinet run — the vertical corner profile appears automatically, marked with a badge and a checkbox to opt out. The continuous worktop closes the L-corner over the profile, so the corner joint is correct in 3D, on the cut list and in the DXF files.
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Reversible fridge door
Choose the hinge side on the fridge column — left or right — and the door handles mirror to the opposite side automatically. Useful when the fridge sits against a wall and the door would otherwise open the wrong way.