Kitchen Elevation Pro

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Everything you need to use the tool, in one place — a quick start, a full feature reference, and fixes for the things that most often trip people up. Search below, or browse by section.

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Quick start

The five things you need to know to go from blank sheet to a printed set.
  1. Pick a wall to work on Click any cabinet or empty space on an elevation to make it the active wall — the toolbar's "Editing wall" label follows along. New palette items land on whichever wall you clicked into last.
  2. Add and shape cabinets Use the Palette (Base, Tall, Upper, Panel, Bench, Filler) to drop in cabinets, then drag to move, drag the top/right edge to resize, or click a cabinet and type exact numbers in the Selection panel on the right.
  3. Label anything that needs it "+ Label" adds a callout that points at a cabinet. "+ Note" (on any page's caption) drops a freeform red note for site instructions — both are draggable.
  4. Build out the rest of the kitchen "+ Add wall" adds another elevation; use ↑/↓ on a wall's caption to reorder it (this also controls the order walls join corner-to-corner in the Top-Down Floor Plan), or Duplicate to copy one you've already built.
  5. Save and print "Save…" keeps a named copy you can reopen from "My Saved Sets"; "Print / Save PDF" opens a clean, print-ready copy in its own tab. Both are Pro features — your in-progress work is auto-protected against a crash or refresh either way.

Troubleshooting

The most common things people get stuck on, in plain "what's going wrong" language.

Clicking "Print / Save PDF" doesn't seem to do anything

This usually means your browser silently blocked the new tab the tool tries to open. Check for a popup-blocked notice in your address bar — or, if instead a box titled "Copy your print-ready sheet" appeared, that's the built-in fallback: click Copy, paste into a plain text editor (Notepad, TextEdit), save the file with a .html ending, then open that file and print or save as PDF from there. That copy has no branding and is fully self-contained.

Also double check you're on Pro — Print / Save PDF is gated on Free, and the button won't do anything until you upgrade (or switch the demo toggle to Pro if you're testing).

Printing with Ctrl+P gives a messy layout, or several elevations on one page

Always use the tool's own Print / Save PDF button rather than your browser's Ctrl+P shortcut. The button opens the drawing in its own clean tab where the print layout is guaranteed correct (one elevation per page); Ctrl+P prints whatever the browser currently considers "the page," which can include surrounding chrome if the tool is embedded in another view.

My logo won't change, or an old logo keeps coming back

The logo is saved as part of your local draft, so a very old saved session can override a freshly uploaded one. Click Reset logo (the small link under the logo in the title block) to force it back to the current default, then re-upload if needed. Custom logo upload is a Pro feature — on Free, clicking the logo box always opens the upgrade prompt instead of a file picker.

I can't see the Top-Down Floor Plan (or the per-wall schematic)

Both are Pro features. On Free you'll see a note explaining that with an "Upgrade to Pro" button in place of the drawing — this is expected, not a bug. Switch to Pro (or the demo toggle, if you're evaluating) to see them.

I upgraded (or switched the demo to Pro) but a feature still looks locked

Check the tier badge in the toolbar actually reads PRO — the button that toggles it is the same one, it just changes label ("Upgrade to Pro" / "Switch to Free (demo)") depending on your current tier. If it does say PRO and something still looks wrong, try clicking elsewhere on the page once to force it to refresh, or reload the tab.

The dimensions on screen don't match what I typed

Check the mm / ft / in toggle in the toolbar — it's a read-only display conversion only. Every number you type, every save, and every printed PDF always stays in millimetres regardless of which button is highlighted. If you're seeing feet-and-inches on screen, that's just the display; nothing about your actual drawing has changed.

Cabinets look like they overlap at a corner in the Top-Down Floor Plan

They shouldn't — corners are kept clean automatically so cabinet runs never overlap where two walls meet. If a corner still looks wrong, use ↑/↓ on a wall's caption to change the order your walls are listed in — the corners re-adjust to match. Note that this is purely a drawing fix for the floor plan — if a base run is genuinely too wide to reach the corner without its door colliding with the return wall's cabinets in real life, that's a design issue the floor-plan trim doesn't solve. See Blind Corner cabinets below for the proper fix on the elevation itself.

The island bench isn't positioned where I expected in the floor plan

The island automatically stays clear of every wall's cabinets and settles as close to the centre of the room as it can. In a tight layout, dead-centre may not leave enough clearance, so it settles nearby instead — still fully clear of every wall. If that happens, it's usually a sign the room is tight for that island's depth, worth double-checking on site rather than a drawing error.

"+ Add wall" isn't letting me add another wall

Free includes the starter kitchen (3 walls + island) plus exactly one extra wall. Once you've used that, adding more requires Pro — clicking the button will open the upgrade prompt instead of adding a wall. This is based on your current total wall count, so removing a wall and adding a different one won't reset the allowance; it's a straightforward cap on how many walls Free can hold at once.

Duplicate, Notes, or the logo box don't seem to do anything

All three are Pro features. On Free, clicking them opens the upgrade prompt rather than performing the action — that's expected. You'll still see the single default note on the first elevation even on Free, but it's read-only (no drag handle, no delete button, can't be typed into).

My work disappeared, or I'm back to the starter kitchen

Your in-progress session auto-saves to this browser (not tied to an account), so a crash or accidental refresh should restore it automatically — check you're opening the tool in the same browser, on the same device you were working in, since this data doesn't sync anywhere else. If you deliberately used Reset example, that intentionally clears back to the starter kitchen; there's no undo for that specific action once confirmed.

Named projects saved via Save… are separate from the auto-recovery draft and are listed in My Saved Sets — also per-browser, and Pro-gated.

I can't find my saved elevation sets

Check you're on Pro — "My Saved Sets" is gated on Free. If you are on Pro and a project is still missing, it may have been saved from a different browser or device; saved sets are stored locally in the browser you saved them from, not in the cloud.

I can't type into or move a note

If you're on Free, the default note is intentionally read-only — no editing, dragging, or deleting, and adding new notes isn't available. On Pro, make sure you're clicking directly into the note's text area to type (not the thin coloured strip at the top, which is the drag handle) — and drag from that strip, not the text, to move it.

Undo isn't undoing what I expect

Undo works in whole "actions" rather than individual keystrokes — a full drag, or all the typing in one field-editing session, is one undo step. If you type in a field, click elsewhere, then come back and type more, that's counted as two separate steps. Keep clicking Undo to step back further; it's disabled (greyed out) once there's nothing left to undo.

I can't see all the options in the Selection panel on my laptop

On a shorter screen, the Selection panel on the right scrolls independently of the page — if a cabinet's full set of options (including the Delete button at the bottom) doesn't fit, scroll inside that panel rather than the page. It's a normal scrollable box once the page itself has been scrolled down a little.

Feature reference

Everything the tool does, organised by area.

Working with cabinets

Drag a cabinet to move it. Drag its top edge to change height, or its right edge to change width. Click any cabinet to select it and type exact numbers in the Selection panel on the right — width, height, position, outline style, split doors, and more.

The Palette

Base, Tall, and Upper add standard cabinets at those heights. Panel adds a thin end panel. Bench adds a benchtop cap. Filler adds a horizontal filler strip (kickboards, topboards). Corner adds a blind corner base cabinet — see below. New items land on whichever wall you clicked into last, and line up next to items of the same height band automatically so you can build a row left-to-right without manual nudging. Every button also works as a drag — pick one up and drop it exactly where you want it on the drawing instead of letting it auto-place.

Blind Corner cabinets

Where two walls' base runs meet at an internal 90° corner, a full-width door on both runs would collide with each other in real life. A Blind Corner cabinet is the standard fix: part of its carcass is "blind" — hatched on the drawing, tucked behind the return wall's cabinets, no door — and only the rest gets a usable door front.

Add one from the palette (Corner) at the end of whichever base run sits nearest the corner. In the Selection panel, set Blind side to whichever side of the cabinet actually faces into the corner, and Door width to the real usable opening you're speccing — the remaining width becomes the blind zone automatically. Defaults to 900mm total / 600mm door. It carries a 120mm kicker like any other base cabinet, and drags, copies, and deletes the same way too.

This is purely an elevation fix — it doesn't change how the Top-Down Floor Plan trims corners (that's automatic and unrelated, see Troubleshooting above). Its job is to make the elevation correctly document what's actually being built at that corner, not to change the floor plan's geometry.

Appliance icons

Set a cabinet's outline to Dashed in the Selection panel to reveal an appliance dropdown — oven, microwave, rangehood, fridge, dishwasher, sink, cooktop, or washer/dryer. The icon scales to fit the cabinet automatically. For an integrated appliance (behind a full cabinetry front, no visible icon), leave the outline Solid instead and style it as a normal door.

Drawers & handles

Choose the drawers pattern to auto-fill a cabinet with standard-height drawers and handles, sized to fit however tall the cabinet is. Leave Drawer count blank to keep that automatic fill, or set it to a specific number for an even stack of exactly that many — 2 for a double "pot drawer," 3 or 4 for a standard drawer stack. Tick Two doors (split) for a centre-split cabinet with two handles, or No handle for filler and panel pieces that shouldn't show one. There's no separate finger-pull style yet — for now, tick No handle and note it's finger-pull in the label or a builder's note if that distinction matters on the job.

Callouts (+ Label)

"+ Label" adds a text callout with a leader line pointing at a cabinet. Click it to retype the text or change what it points to in the Selection panel; double-click the label directly on the drawing to rename it in place.

Power points

The Power palette button marks a power point (GPO) with the same red-dot symbol builders use on a hand-marked sketch. Click it to drop one at a default spot on the active wall, or drag it straight onto the drawing to drop it exactly where you want, the same as any other palette item.

Click a power point to select it, then set its exact position in the Selection panel — From wall start and From floor, both in mm — or drag it to nudge it (snaps to the same 10mm grid as cabinets). Tick Double power point to switch it to the two-dot symbol for a double GPO. Delete it from the Selection panel or with the Delete key, same as a cabinet or label.

Builder / designer notes

"+ Note" (on any elevation's caption, or the Floor Plan / Schematic headings) drops a freeform red note anywhere on that page — it grows to fit whatever you type. Drag it by the thin strip at its top; delete it with the × in that same strip. A default note ships on the first elevation for reference. PRO to add, edit, move, or delete — Free sees the default note read-only.

Managing walls

"+ Add wall" adds a new elevation (one extra is included on Free; unlimited on Pro PRO). "Duplicate" PRO copies a wall's entire cabinet layout under a new name. ↑/↓ on a wall's caption reorders it — this also sets the order walls join corner-to-corner in the Top-Down Floor Plan. "Remove wall" deletes it (you can't remove the last remaining wall).

Standalone: tick this on a wall's caption when it isn't physically connected to the others — e.g. it's across a walkway or opening, not sharing a corner. It still draws with its own cabinets and dimensions, just set apart from the connected run in the Top-Down Floor Plan by default (west/left, running vertically), instead of joined corner-to-corner. Same drag-to-reposition and double-click-to-rotate control as the island — see below — since once it's not joined to anything, where it sits and which way it runs is yours to set.

The Island Bench

Shown as two views on one sheet since it's freestanding: front and rear. "+ Add Island" on the toolbar creates a fresh one — an empty front/rear pair you build up from the palette, same as "+ Add wall" but freestanding in the Top-Down Floor Plan instead of corner-joined (counts toward the same Free-tier wall limit). The starter kitchen's own island (front with waterfall stone ends, rear with drawers) still only comes from Reset example.

Its depth doesn't get drawn on either elevation — set it in the Bench depth field that appears on the toolbar whenever an island view is active (front or rear, either updates it). Width and height typed into Wall width / Wall height stay in sync between the front and rear views automatically, since they're the same physical benchtop.

Orientation and position, in the Top-Down Floor Plan itself: drag the island's dashed rectangle to put it wherever it actually sits relative to the other walls — it stops auto-placing itself once moved. Double-click it to rotate 90° between running horizontal and vertical. No separate fields for either; it's the same drag/double-click language as everything else on the drawing.

Top-Down Floor Plan

PRO A true corner-joined plan view, built from the order your walls are listed in above, with each wall's real cabinet depths shown inset and corners kept clean automatically. The island is freestanding and automatically placed clear of every wall. Wall thickness isn't modelled; each wall is a single accurate-length line.

Top-Down Plan Summary (Schematic)

PRO A quick per-wall reference strip showing each wall's cabinet footprint and depth independently — not joined into a room outline like the Floor Plan, so it's best for checking one wall's depths and clearances at a glance.

Units display (mm / ft-in)

A read-only display toggle only. Metric is always the default and the only thing that's ever edited, saved, or printed — switching to feet-and-inches just changes what the numbers on screen look like.

Dimension display (selected / all)

Controls whether width/height dimensions show only on the cabinet you've clicked, or on every cabinet at once. Unlike the unit toggle, this one does carry through to Print / Save PDF.

Title block & your logo

Edit the project address, drawing name, and revision table directly in the title block. Click the logo to upload your own PRO, or use the small "Reset logo" link to go back to the default mark at any time (free to use, even on Free tier).

Saving your work

Two separate systems: an automatic draft that protects your current in-progress session against a crash or accidental refresh (works on both tiers, per-browser only), and named saves PRO — "Save…" keeps a permanent, named copy you can reopen any time from "My Saved Sets," optionally marked as a reusable template.

Printing & exporting a PDF

PRO Opens the drawing in its own clean tab, ready to print or save as a PDF — one elevation per page, plus the Floor Plan and Schematic on their own pages. If your browser blocks the popup, a fallback lets you copy the print-ready HTML instead — see Troubleshooting above.

Free vs Pro

Free is the full starter kitchen with complete cabinet editing, capped at one extra wall, no saving or printing. Pro ($39/month) unlocks unlimited walls, duplicate, notes, the Floor Plan, your own logo, saving, and printing. Full comparison on the Plans & Pricing page.

Am I covered if a measurement or drawing is wrong?

No — the tool is for coordination and communication, not a substitute for a licensed site measure. Every printed set carries a disclaimer stating dimensions must be verified on site before fabrication or installation, and that no liability is accepted for errors, omissions, or design faults. See Plans & Pricing for the full wording.

Industry Reference

Real-world cabinetmaking standards and sizes, for typing accurate numbers into the fields above — not enforced by the tool, just what a professional build typically calls for.

Benchtops

Stone: 20mm, 40mm, or 60mm. Laminate: 32mm. Standard depth is 600mm, and can go up to 700mm. Island benchtops can go up to 1200mm wide. Enter the real depth in each cabinet's Depth field so the Top-Down Floor Plan reflects it accurately.

Base cabinets

  • Kicker: 120mm, the industry-standard toe-kick height — already automatic on every base cabinet, tall unit, and the island's servery-side units. Exception: fridges, dishwashers, and washer/dryers stand on their own adjustable feet, so the tool never adds a kicker under those — see Appliances below.
  • Drawer stacks: set Drawer count to 2 for a double "pot drawer," 3 for an even 3-stack, or leave it blank for the standard auto-filled 4-stack (see Drawers & handles above).
  • Finished height: 900mm off the floor is standard, with your benchtop's own thickness coming out of that for the carcass — the tool's default (860mm carcass + a 40mm benchtop cap) already matches this.
  • End panels: 16mm for laminate, 18mm for 2pac, thermoform, or vinyl wrap. Set the real thickness in the panel's Width field (that's what reads as thickness in elevation) — panels go down to 10mm.
  • Scribe / filler panels: 20–60mm, same idea — set the real thickness in Width.
  • Handles show by default. There's no distinct finger-pull style yet — tick No handle and flag it in the label or a note if that distinction matters for the job.
  • No hard height ceiling in the tool — type any height you need (2700mm and beyond) into a tall cabinet's Height field.
  • Blind corner cabinets: see Blind Corner cabinets above.

Overhead cabinets

  • Clearance above the bench: 620mm to the underside for an induction cooktop, 720mm for gas. New Upper cabinets default to 620mm (induction) — for a gas cooktop, add 100mm to the cabinet's From floor value.
  • End panels and fillers are the same thicknesses as base cabinets, above.
  • A range hood built into a cabinet is just that cabinet's Appliance icon set to Rangehood, same as any other appliance.
  • Depth: 360–460mm, 380mm is a typical standard. The tool's Upper default is 360mm — type the real depth into the Depth field either way.
  • LED strip lighting: no dedicated symbol yet — a builder's note (the red freeform note, not a callout) is the way to flag it on a drawing for now.

Appliances

  • Ovens: 600mm or 900mm wide.
  • Dishwashers: 600mm wide, sometimes integrated behind a full cabinetry front.
  • Rangehoods: mostly built into a cabinet, 600mm or 900mm wide; occasionally a canopy style.
  • Cooktops: induction or gas, 600mm or 900mm wide.
  • Fridges: mostly 1740mm high × 700mm deep, but varies by kitchen — can also be integrated.
  • Sinks: 600–800mm wide, top-mount or undermount.
  • Washer/Dryer: laundry appliances, same floor-standing treatment as a fridge or dishwasher below.

All of the above are on the Appliance icon dropdown (set the cabinet's outline to Dashed first). For an integrated appliance, leave the outline Solid and style it as a normal door instead — no icon needed.

No kicker on floor-standing appliances: setting the icon to Fridge, Dishwasher, or Washer/Dryer automatically removes that cabinet's kicker and drops it to the floor — these appliances sit on their own adjustable feet, not a kickboard. Switch the icon to anything else (or back to None) and the kicker comes back. This applies everywhere a cabinet is created, not just the starter examples.

Odds & ends

None of these have a dedicated symbol yet — the workarounds below cover them for now:

  • Splashback material (tiled, stone, glass): put it straight in the cabinet's Label, e.g. "Splashback (stone)" — that's how the starter example already does it.
  • Finish/materials legend (cabinetry finish, stone finish, splashback details): there's no dedicated legend block — for now, list it in a builder's note on the relevant page, or in the Project field in the title block.

Glossary

Drafting shorthand used on the drawings themselves.
FCL
Finished Ceiling Level — the ceiling height marked at the top of each elevation.
FFL
Finished Floor Level — the floor line every elevation is measured up from, always 0.00.
LAM1 / LAM2
Generic laminate/finish reference tags on the drawing — rename them (double-click) to match your actual material codes.
Elevation
A straight-on view of one wall of cabinetry, as if standing directly in front of it.
Plan / floor plan
A view looking straight down from above — shows how walls and cabinets relate to each other in the room, which an elevation can't.
Callout
A text label with a leader line pointing at a specific part of the drawing.
Corner-joined
Walls connected edge-to-edge at accurate 90° angles in the Floor Plan, tracing the real shape of the room.
Redline / site note
A freeform annotation (shown in red here) calling out something for the builder to check or confirm on site — distinct from a callout, which always points at a specific cabinet.