Cabinet Vision alternatives: a wardrobe configurator, not CNC CAD
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Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting tool for fitted-wardrobe makers. Cabinet Vision is design-for-manufacturing software from Hexagon for cabinet shops that run CNC machinery. We make Closetforge, so this comparison is written by an interested party; every Cabinet Vision fact below is taken from Hexagon's own product page, linked and dated.
People who search for a Cabinet Vision alternative are usually asking one of two things. Some want different CAD and CAM software for the shop floor. Others want something that sits in front of the shop: a way for customers to design and ask for a price before anyone opens the CAD. Closetforge answers the second question only. If you need machine code for a router, this page will tell you plainly that Closetforge is not the tool, and what it does instead.
At a glance
| Cabinet Vision | Closetforge | |
|---|---|---|
| Who uses it | The shop's designer, estimator and machine operators | The workshop's customer, then the workshop |
| What it is for | Designing, pricing and building cabinets and rooms | Letting customers design wardrobes and request a quote |
| Scope | Custom cabinets and rooms ("case goods") | Wardrobes only |
| Machine output | G-Code for CNC routers, panel saws and other machinery | None; a MaxCut CSV cut list only |
| Published price | None on the product page we read; "Contact Sales" | On our pricing page |
| Customer designs it themselves | Not described on the page we read | Yes, on your own website |
| Cut lists and bill of materials | Yes | Yes, in the workshop PDF |
Cabinet Vision facts: nexus.hexagon.com/home/product/cabinet-vision, read 9 October 2026.
What Cabinet Vision is
Hexagon's product page describes Cabinet Vision as "design-for-manufacturing software". It lists custom cabinet and room design, photorealistic renderings, material optimisation, bidding and costing, and cut lists and bills of materials. Combined with the S2M Center, the page says, it "can automatically create machine-ready G-Code" for CNC flat table routers, point-to-point machines, panel saws, drill and dowel machines, chop saws and other machinery. The page calls it a solution for "custom case goods manufacturers" and groups its benefits as selling more jobs, designing what you want, and producing more while reducing costs (nexus.hexagon.com/home/product/cabinet-vision, read 9 October 2026).
The same page lists related Hexagon products: Cabinet Vision Paperless Traveller for nesting and production operations, Alphacam for CAD CAM machining, and Workplan for manufacturing project management. It offers training through the Nexus Academy, documentation, a knowledge base and peer forums. The buttons on the page are "Contact Sales" and "Contact Support"; no price or plan is printed there (nexus.hexagon.com/home/product/cabinet-vision, read 9 October 2026). Figures you may see elsewhere come from resellers and third-party articles, and we do not repeat them here.
What Closetforge is
Closetforge puts a finished wardrobe configurator on your own website, under your brand and your domain. A customer designs the wardrobe in 3D in six steps, or describes it to an AI assistant that makes the changes for them. Every change is checked against the same building rules, so a design that cannot be built is refused with a sentence that says what to do instead.
When the customer asks for a quote, their phone number is checked with a text-message code, and the server prices the design from your own settings: the boards you buy and what they cost, your waste allowance, your labour minutes and hourly rate, your mark-up, VAT, installation and travel. You receive a customer PDF and a workshop PDF with a cut list, the hardware and accessories, and a cut layout across the boards. By default nothing reaches the customer until you approve it, unless you switch on automatic sending.
Where they differ
Who designs. Cabinet Vision is used inside the shop. A designer draws the job, prices it, renders it for the client and sends it to the machines. With Closetforge, the customer makes the first design on your website, at any hour, and the request arrives already priced. Your designer's time goes to the jobs that are real.
What leaves the software. This is the largest difference. Cabinet Vision, on Hexagon's description, ends in machine code for the shop floor. Closetforge ends in a quote: two PDFs and a cut list that can be exported as a CSV for the MaxCut panel optimiser. If your workshop programmes a CNC router, Closetforge does not replace the software that does it.
Scope. Cabinet Vision covers custom cabinets and whole rooms. Closetforge covers wardrobes, including corner, walk-in, sliding-door, stepped and stacked units, and nothing else. A shop that builds kitchens and office furniture as well as wardrobes needs broader software either way.
Setting up. Cabinet Vision is configured around your construction methods, connectors and door catalogues, and Hexagon offers training for it. Closetforge comes with the wardrobe rules already written. You set your boards, labour and rates rather than drawing a construction library, and we set it up with you.
Price. Hexagon prints no price on the page we read. Our plans are published on the pricing page.
Using both
Many workshops that run CNC software would use Closetforge in front of it rather than instead of it. The customer designs a wardrobe on your website and asks for a quote. You check the measurements at the survey, approve the quote, and when the order is confirmed, your designer draws the job in the CAD you already use and sends it to the machines. Closetforge has no file link to Cabinet Vision, so that step is done by hand from the workshop PDF.
What the pair gives you is a split of the work: the customer does the first design on their own time, and the shop software does what it was bought for.
Choose them if…
- Choose Cabinet Vision if you run CNC machinery and need software that turns a cabinet design into machine-ready code.
- Choose Cabinet Vision if you build kitchens, offices or other casework as well as wardrobes, and want one design and costing system for all of it.
- Choose Cabinet Vision if your designers draw every job in the shop and you want renderings, bidding and production in the same software.
- Choose Closetforge if you build fitted wardrobes and want customers to design them on your own website, with each request priced from your own rates and a cut list ready for the workshop.
- Choose both if you run a CNC shop and want wardrobe enquiries to arrive designed and priced before your designer opens the CAD.
What Closetforge does not do
- No kitchens. Closetforge handles wardrobes only, by decision. Kitchens, bathrooms, doors and other furniture are out of scope; a quote can carry custom lines for the odd extra.
- CNC output is limited to a MaxCut CSV. The cut list exports as a CSV for the MaxCut panel optimiser. There is no file for a CNC machine, no machine code and no file exchange with Cabinet Vision or any CAD.
- EU supplier catalogues only. The supplier catalogues we import come from European suppliers. There is no UK merchant price list built in; you enter your own board prices.
- No integrations. It does not connect to accounting, CRM, e-commerce or job-management software.
- No production planning. There is no scheduling, stock control or shop-floor tracking.
- No team management in your account. Extra logins are added by us on request.
- No customer payments. It sends quotes; it does not take deposits.
How this page was checked
Every Cabinet Vision fact above was read on Hexagon's own product page, linked in place, on the date at the top of the page. If something here no longer matches that page, Hexagon's page is right. Tell us if something has changed and we will re-check.
See it for yourself
Open the live demo to design a wardrobe as a customer would and read both quote documents, including the cut list. To see how your own boards, labour and travel would price a recent job, book a call.