Setting up your BathCAD design

Before starting your design there are certain options you may wish to change. These are found under 'This Design' - 'Room Settings':

‘Tall Base Units’ refers to the height of tall units in your design.

As a general rule, the distance between the top of your tall/wall units and the ceiling of the plan should be consistent. For example, if you choose ‘small’ under ‘Tall Base Units’, you would also select ‘small’ for ‘Wall Units’.

Details on changing the pre-defined heights can be found in ‘Changing Defaults’.

Before starting you need to specify the default tiling height. Turn tiling on by ticking the ‘Tiled’ box and choose your heights to tile from and to.

The tiling specified here will be applied to all the wall components used when drawing your room. Set it to whatever the majority of the design should have. You can alter the tiling for the rest of the walls later by editing the wall components.

The ‘Doors Have Frames’ option controls whether cabinets are drawn with ‘plant-on’ or ‘in-frame’ style doors. See ‘Door Frame Type’ on the ‘Utilities Window’.

With the exception of the tiling option, you can change any of the properties found under ‘Room Settings’ as you are doing your design and it will update the design to the new settings.

Door Type

To change this, go to ‘This Design’ - ‘Door type…’ or lick on the ‘Doors’ icon:

This will bring up options to select a door:

To change the manufacturer, click ‘Change Manufacturer’:

This brings up any door graphics you’ve downloaded from the ‘Members Area’ and installed on your machine. They will appear below the ‘Standard Doors’ already provided in the system. Click on the one you wish to use and click ‘OK’.

Once you have selected a manufacturer you can now select the range by clicking ‘Change Range’:

To select a different range, click the button with the range name on.

Once you have selected a range, you can now click ‘Customise Door’ to pick the handles.

Each range has a default handle. To change the handle, first select the door type from the ‘Door type’ drop down box.

To select manufacturer feature frame doors, click on ‘frame…’ and you can change the options:

The location of the handle will change depending on the door type. Select ‘Handle Location…’ to change this:

Repeat for the other door types. 

Click on ‘Handle…’ to change to another option:

Under ‘Apply Current Handle…’, you can apply the selected handle to all doors or drawers in the design. 

NOTE - You can return to the ‘Door Type’ section any time. You do not need to change the range or all the handles etc. before starting the design, as any changes made will update your current design.

Client Details

Details of the client:

You can fill in any or all of the details here. The details are stored with the design and can be automatically placed onto your print outs - see ‘ Creating Page Layouts’.

Attachments

‘Attachments…’ allows you specify the profile of your worktop edging, cornice, pelmet, plinth, etc.

Select the attachment you wish to change and a thumbnail of the current profile will appear on the right of the window. Select ‘Change...’ to see the other available profiles.

Click on the new profile button you want to change your selected attachment to.

NOTE – ‘Cornice’, ‘Pelmet’ and ‘Plinth’ have a special hidden option. This removes these attachments from all of the units in your design.

You can change the attachments at any time while you are designing and it will update your design.

Now your design has been set up, you can move on to drawing your room.

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