Sections, compartments, fronts, and functions

A cabinet has three editing levels. The cabinet owns the outside size and construction. A section is a main column or row. A compartment is one selectable storage cell inside a section. Doors, drawers, shelves, and accessories belong to a compartment.

Select the correct level#

• Select the cabinet body for overall size, mounting, legs, back-panel defaults, colors, and corner treatment.
• Select a section in 3D or the Structure tree for its width or height, ready-made function, division count, and column front.
• Select a compartment for its contents, exact size, shelf shape, panel openings, interior color, and accessories.
• Select a door, drawer, shelf board, or accessory for its own detailed controls.

If a control is not visible, the most common cause is that a parent or child is selected instead of the part that owns that setting.

Divide a section#

Use + to add a compartment and − to remove one. In a vertical section, compartments are ordered from bottom to top; removing one uses the top compartment. Distribute evenly makes every compartment in that section the same size. You can then resize an individual boundary or select one compartment and divide it beside or above itself.

Deleting a selected compartment removes only that cell when siblings remain. If it is the section's only compartment, the delete action names and removes the numbered parent section instead, for example Delete Column 2; Delete/Backspace follows the same scope. A disabled action explains why a required section must remain.

At least one section and one compartment must remain. A connected corner or supported upper cabinet can lock a structural section because it is part of the cabinet connection.

Apply a ready-made function#

Function fills the selected section with a curated arrangement, such as open shelves, hanging storage, doors, drawers, or a mixed wardrobe layout. Applying it replaces the contents of that section; other sections stay unchanged. In Free Design, the equivalent area may be called Templates.

After applying a function, select its individual doors, drawers, or shelves to adjust opening direction, handle, surface, color, lock, or spacing. A disabled function does not fit the current clear width, height, depth, category, or mounting state; tap it to read the reason.

Change the front of a whole column#

Guided categories can expose a Front control for a selected column:

• Open leaves the column without a front.
• Door applies compatible solid doors.
• Glass applies compatible glass fronts.
• Drawer applies drawers where the layout and hardware allow them.

For a closed front, Full covers every compatible bay. Half is available only when the column already has at least two vertically stacked bays: it uses the existing divider closest to the column midpoint (a tie goes to the lower divider), covers the bays below it, and never creates a new divider. Changing the front does not necessarily replace the functional contents behind it.

The category decides which Front tiles appear. For example, Wardrobe omits Drawer; Desk, Pantry, Bedside, and Dresser omit Glass; and Room Divider omits Drawer. Use Function when a protected television or knee-space zone owns the column layout.

Merge and split storage#

Shelves inside one hinged door are interior zones, not separate outer compartments. Use Split door into compartments when each zone should become independently selectable and receive its own front. In the other direction, a supported stack of compartments can be merged into one door, with the dividers becoming shelves behind it.

Use doors and opening directions, drawers and Maximera, and shelves and shelf shapes for the detailed controls.