A corner is the one place in a kitchen where a standard cabinet library stops helping you. Pro100 treats an angled cabinet as a shape you draw rather than a box you try to modify, so the carcass, the doors, the cut list and the client render all come from the same model — and all of them change together when the corner turns out not to be square. If you want the method and the angle calculators, start with What is an Angled Cabinet?; this page is what the software actually gives you.
Draw the carcass, do not fight a template
The Shape Editor is the feature that makes the rest of this possible. You draw the plan of the cabinet — the two runs along the walls and the angled face between them — and Pro100 builds the carcass from it. Any angle, not just 45°. The panels come out with the right mitres, the joinery follows the shape, and the cabinet stays editable afterwards: change the angle later and the box rebuilds rather than breaking.
That matters because on a remodel the corner is rarely the angle the plan assumed. A library of preset corner units gives you 45° and nothing else. A shape you drew gives you 134° when that is what the room measures. The step-by-step for the Shape Editor covers the drawing itself.
The short version: if your current software makes you build an angled cabinet by taking a standard box and deleting parts of it, you are doing the geometry twice — once on screen and once in your head at the saw.
Back cut-outs, clearances and the things that stop a cabinet fitting
Rotating a face pushes the back of the carcass deeper into the corner, straight towards the wall return, the pipework and the services. Pro100 lets you cut the back support out as part of the shape, so the clearance is in the model and on the parts list rather than being discovered on site with a jigsaw.
The same applies above and below: an angled toe kick returns at a mitre, and crown molding has to turn the corner at the same angle the cabinet does. Both are modelled, both appear in the output.
Doors, hinges and face frames on an angled face
A door on an angled face swings through a wider arc than the same door on a flat run, and whether it clears the cabinet beside it is not something you can judge from a plan view. Pro100 shows the swing in 3D. Door styles come from your catalog, custom doors can be built to match, and Blum hardware is modelled rather than assumed, so the hinge you specify is the hinge the clearance is checked against.
Face frames behave the same way. Build the cabinet, rotate it so the angled face runs square to you, attach the frame and the doors, then rotate it back — the cabinet stays easy to modify afterwards.
One model, every document
This is the part that decides whether angled work is profitable or just slow.
- Cut list — angled parts are listed with their real dimensions and their mitres, not as the rectangle they would fit inside. Nobody at the saw has to recover the angle. The cut list walkthrough shows the output.
- Panel optimizer — nests those parts, angled ones included, so the sheet yield accounts for the real shapes.
- Shop drawing — dimensions the same geometry for the bench, with the angles called out.
- Job costing — prices the job off the same parts, so an angled corner is quoted on what it actually costs to build.
- 3D rendering and photorealistic presentation — the picture the client approves comes from the file the shop builds from, so what they signed off is what arrives.
- CNC output — the same parts, mitres intact, for shops cutting on a router or beam saw.
Change the corner angle and every one of those updates. That is the whole argument for modelling the cabinet properly rather than drawing it twice.
Rooms that are not square either
Angled cabinets usually turn up in rooms that have their own problems. Pro100 draws angled walls as readily as angled cabinets, so a run against a wall at 100° is modelled as it is rather than forced to 90° and scribed later. The angled walls guide covers the measuring side, and the same calculators on What is an Angled Cabinet? apply — a 135° corner behaves identically whether it is a carcass or a room.
Where this gets used
| Trade | Where the angle shows up |
|---|---|
| Kitchen design | Corner base and wall units, angled end runs, islands with a cut corner. |
| Closet design | Corner returns and angled shelving — the single most common place a closet install goes wrong. See also closet layouts. |
| Commercial shops | Reception desks and counters, which are angled far more often than kitchens are. |
| Cabinet refacing | Existing corners that turn out not to be square once the doors come off. |
| Kitchen remodeling | Framing that has moved, plaster build-up, and corners that measure a degree or two off. |
| Custom cabinetry | One-off angled pieces where there is no preset to start from. |
There are angled kitchens, closets and shop drawings in the design gallery, all drawn in Pro100 and all rendered from the same files that produced their cut lists.
Details that save arguments later
- Work in inches or millimetres and switch without rebuilding the job.
- Mix standard and custom cabinetry in one project — the angled unit sits in a run of stock boxes without special handling.
- Import 3D objects for appliances and fittings, so the clearance round an angled corner is checked against the real thing.
- Panoramic views and high resolution images for the client, from the same model.
Start here
If you are new to Pro100, the beginner's guide comes first and the tutorial videos show the Shape Editor in use. If you already know the software and just need the numbers for a corner in front of you, What is an Angled Cabinet? has nine angle calculators — setback, angled face width, mitres and clipped corners — and the method for building from them. The rest of what Pro100 does is on the features pages, and the FAQ covers the questions we are asked most.
Build a corner cabinet and see
Draw the shape, check the door swing against the run beside it, pull the cut list with the mitres on it. The corner is the honest test of any cabinet software.
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