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Cabinet Vision Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons, Alternatives

What Cabinet Vision quotes you starts with the questions its form asks. The 8 gaps reviewers name, and 6 alternatives that print a price instead.

Cabinet Vision pricing page as published on the vendor's own site

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Page at a glance

Cabinet Vision is A modular CAD/CAM system that takes a cabinet job from screen to CNC, sold by quote through a reseller channel that Hexagon is now buying back. It publishes no price, so the only way to get a number is to ask a salesperson for one. Cabinet Vision is licensed by machine or by server, not by named user, and the licence type decides what a second person costs you. A Standalone Licence (which the EULA also calls a Node-locked Licence) is 'limited to a single copy of the Licensed Materials on one designated Licensee Computer', the user 'must be physically present and not accessing or using the Licensee Computer or Licensed Materials from a remote location or another computer', and it 'may only be used by one Authorized User at a time'. A Network Licence is controlled by one License Server at one designated facility, and a Local Area Network variant restricts installation to that Designated Site, with a carve-out that lets employees customarily associated with that site work from their residence and no other offsite location. On top of the seat count you are also buying a feature bundle: the core component carries layout, cut listing, basic rendering and primary estimating, and everything else (x2D CAD, xBidding, xCountertops, xCRM, xMachining, xOptimizer, xRendering, xReporting, xShaping, x2AC) is a separately licensed multiplier. It fits A 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work It's the wrong buy for A one to four person shop cutting on a table saw with no CNC router, because Almost everything that justifies Cabinet Vision's price lives downstream of a machine you don't own. xMachining exists to drive CNC routers, NC saws, drill and dowel machines and edgebanders, so without one you're paying a quoted, non-refundable, multi-module price for layout and cut lists. And Mozaik publishes $125 a month for exactly that non-CNC case, on a page you can read without talking to anybody. Alternatives that publish their prices are Mozaik Manufacturing from $125, SketchList 3D from $79.99, 2020 Design Flex from CA$2,095. A quote-only price and what third parties report instead, eight evidenced gaps and six alternatives, five of which publish a figure.

Start here if Cabinet Vision is on your shortlist

Cabinet Vision earns its money with A 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work If that's you, it does the job. The sections below are the parts worth checking before you sign. But the fit is narrower than the marketing suggests, and the price isn't the whole cost.

The vendor publishes no price. But every number below was verified on 7 August 2026 and comes from a named third party that says which.

Quick facts, verified 7 August 2026. Sources are linked where each figure is discussed.
Pricing modelCustom quote, no published price
Entry priceQuote only
UsersCabinet Vision is licensed by machine or by server, not by named user, and the licence typ
OwnershipHexagon AB (Manufacturing Intelligence, Production Software Division)
Best fitA 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work
Accounting syncJobman ERP (the documented route to MYOB, QuickBooks Online and Xero) (one-way), Xero (two-way), QuickBooks Online (none)

What works

  • The whole product is built to end in G-code, and on standard work it genuinely does
  • You assemble the product from a core component plus multipliers, which is why nobody can quote you a number
  • Bidding is a paid module, not a core capability, and it stops at the bid
  • Laser measurement is built in, but the hardware is sold into two countries only
  • Hexagon reserves on-site audit rights with fifteen days' notice, and you pay for the audit if it finds anything

What does not

  • It rewards repeatable carcasses and punishes full-custom work, which is the opposite of what most small cabinet shops sell
  • Support response is measured in days, and it shows up in every review since 2022
  • The licence is welded to a computer, and Hexagon isn't obliged to move it if you've let Maintenance lapse
  • The contract is non-cancelable and non-refundable, and Hexagon can terminate for a payment you owe a reseller
  • The EULA forbids using Cabinet Vision to estimate or produce work for anybody but yourself

Cabinet Vision is A modular CAD/CAM system that takes a cabinet job from screen to CNC, sold by quote through a reseller channel that Hexagon is now buying back. It sells to Custom home building and Kitchen and bath contractors, and the shape of the product follows from that: xMachining analyses part geometry, picks tools, sets speeds and feeds, generates toolpaths and routes each part to the right machine when a shop runs several. The reviewer with the most detailed account of the system says a fifteen-cabinet standard job can go from draft to CNC files, stop-saw files, reports and drawings 'in literally 10 minutes'. That throughput is the reason shops tolerate the rest.

Ownership matters here more than it usually does. Cabinet Vision is owned by Hexagon AB (Manufacturing Intelligence, Production Software Division), so weigh roadmap risk alongside the feature list. An independent product can be bought and folded into somebody else's plan two years after you sign.

The shops Cabinet Vision fits, and the ones it doesn't

It fits A 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work That's the half most reviews print. Here's the other half, which is the one worth your time.

Don't buy it if you're A one to four person shop cutting on a table saw with no CNC router. Almost everything that justifies Cabinet Vision's price lives downstream of a machine you don't own. xMachining exists to drive CNC routers, NC saws, drill and dowel machines and edgebanders, so without one you're paying a quoted, non-refundable, multi-module price for layout and cut lists. And Mozaik publishes $125 a month for exactly that non-CNC case, on a page you can read without talking to anybody. Look at Mozaik Manufacturing instead.

Don't buy it if you're A full-custom or architectural millwork shop where every job is a one-off. The strongest reviewer on the record spells out the failure mode: the software is superb on standard designs and turns into a scripting project the moment your work isn't. That reviewer calls implementing customisations beyond a simple level 'a truly excruciating experience, even for people who have been using CV and programming other CAD/CAM systems for decades', and the bespoke cabinet company that tried it in 2024 never got a working setup. So buying it commits you to a non-cancelable contract on a bet you're likely to lose. Look at Microvellum instead.

Don't buy it if you're A shop that earns part of its revenue drafting, engineering or estimating jobs for other cabinet shops or contractors. The Cabinet Vision-specific clause at the end of Hexagon's Production Software EULA restricts the software to your own operations and rules out estimating or performing the work of third parties. Hexagon also reserves fifteen-day-notice on-site audit rights and charges you for the audit if it finds non-conformity. That business model is prohibited by the licence you would be signing. Look at SketchList 3D instead.

Don't buy it if you're A buyer who needs to know the total cost of ownership before a sales conversation. Hexagon publishes no price for any core component, any multiplier, any xMachining addition, the S2M Center, the SMA or training. The subscription page answers the price question with a lead form. So every figure in your business case will come from a reseller quote you can't benchmark against a public list, and the contract you sign to test the assumption is non-refundable. Look at 2020 Design Flex instead.

Pricing: what Cabinet Vision publishes and what it doesn't

Cabinet Vision prices on request. And a quote-only vendor is telling you something before the call even starts, which is that the number moves depending on who's asking.

The vendor's own wording is this, and nothing more: "Hexagon publishes no price for Cabinet Vision on any page of the product site. The page that exists to talk about how you pay for it, titled Subscription Options, answers the question with a lead form and a country dropdown instead of a number, and it frames the choice as purchase versus subscription without pricing either one." So treat every third-party page printing tier names and figures for Cabinet Vision with careful suspicion. Those numbers are not on the vendor's site today, and a roundup that reprints them is telling you what Cabinet Vision used to charge somebody else.

And we are not going to print a per-month number we cannot open a page and read. We checked https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Cabinet-Vision/ (product profile shows no starting price field at all), https://slashdot.org/software/p/Cabinet-Vision/ (same Slashdot Media listing, no price), https://alternativeto.net/software/cabinet-vision/about/ (records only the licence model, 'Proprietary' and 'Pay once', with no figure), https://www.capterra.com/search/?query=Cabinet+Vision (no Cabinet Vision product page returned; Capterra search results are JavaScript-rendered and no /p/ URL was found), https://www.softwareadvice.com/cad/cabinet-vision-profile/ (403 to every request, and no Cabinet Vision profile surfaced through search), https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/cabinet-vision/reviews/ (403 to every request, no profile found), https://itqlick.com/cabinet-vision (redirects to a site search with no Cabinet Vision pricing record), https://planitcanada.ca/solutions/cabinet-vision/ (Cabinet Vision's Canadian reseller, now owned by Hexagon; the page is behind a bot-verification wall), https://hexagon.com/products/product-groups/computer-aided-manufacturing-cad-cam-software/cabinet-vision (Cloudflare bot challenge on every request, including from a real browser). Cabinet Vision isn't listed on Capterra, Software Advice or GetApp, which is where a mid-market contractor tool would normally leak a starting price, and the two directories that do carry it (SourceForge and its Slashdot sibling, one listing shown on two domains) publish no price field. Reviewers describe the cost only in adjectives, not numbers: 'super expensive', 'costs a fortune', 'pricing is reasonable for what you get'. And the one number a Cabinet Vision quote is anchored to isn't published either, because the product is assembled from a core component plus however many multipliers the reseller puts on the quote. So recording any single figure here would be inventing one. So the absence is the finding: go into the demo knowing that nobody outside the vendor can tell you what you will be quoted, and that any page claiming otherwise is quoting a structure that has moved.

Cabinet Vision is licensed by machine or by server, not by named user, and the licence type decides what a second person costs you. A Standalone Licence (which the EULA also calls a Node-locked Licence) is 'limited to a single copy of the Licensed Materials on one designated Licensee Computer', the user 'must be physically present and not accessing or using the Licensee Computer or Licensed Materials from a remote location or another computer', and it 'may only be used by one Authorized User at a time'. A Network Licence is controlled by one License Server at one designated facility, and a Local Area Network variant restricts installation to that Designated Site, with a carve-out that lets employees customarily associated with that site work from their residence and no other offsite location. On top of the seat count you are also buying a feature bundle: the core component carries layout, cut listing, basic rendering and primary estimating, and everything else (x2D CAD, xBidding, xCountertops, xCRM, xMachining, xOptimizer, xRendering, xReporting, xShaping, x2AC) is a separately licensed multiplier.

The Cabinet Vision line items nobody mentions on the demo

Payment processing. Cabinet Vision does not process your customers' payments. It does affect how you pay Hexagon: the North American terms of sale reserve a card surcharge, 'Credit card payments, if and when accepted by Hexagon, may be subject to a surcharge.', and they charge interest on late invoices at 'one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month (or the maximum amount permitted by applicable law, if less)' plus collection and attorney fees.

Implementation and onboarding. Implementation is a separate purchase and the maintenance contract does not cover it. The North American terms state that 'Technical support does not include training, consulting, on-site services, or other Professional Services', and the Support and Maintenance Agreement page flags site visits as chargeable: 'Where required, we can send a Support Engineer to your site, ensuring a speedy resolution to your issue (Additional costs may be incurred).' No rate card is published for either.

Minimum term. The EULA defines the terms rather than the commercial minimum. A 'Paid-up License' is defined as 'a license with a license term of thirty (30) years', a Subscription is 'a type of short-term license with a specified fixed term (such as a one-year or other short-term Subscription term)', and Maintenance is described as an 'annual Maintenance contract for Perpetual Licenses, or Maintenance as part of Subscriptions'. The vendor's own subscription page claims flexibility, 'Free from being locked into a long-term contract' and 'Variable renewal periods', but publishes no minimum anywhere.

Getting out. There is no customer-side exit. Section 6 of the North American terms of sale reads in full: 'CANCELLATION. The Contract and Customer's payment obligations are non-cancelable, Products are non-returnable, and amounts paid by Customer are non-refundable, except as specifically provided for in these Terms.' Hexagon's own termination rights are broad by comparison: fourteen days' notice on an uncured material breach, immediate termination for any late payment (including a payment owed to a reseller rather than to Hexagon), and immediate termination on insolvency. The only refund window anywhere in the stack is the EULA's decline clause, which lets you return the software within thirty days of acquiring it if you refuse the licence terms before installing.

Auto-renewal. Neither the North American terms of sale nor the Production Software EULA contains the words renew, renewal or automatic. Both defer to a separate document, the 'Maintenance program terms', which the EULA points at https://customers.ps.hexagonmi.com/terms/ ; that address now redirects to hexagon.com, which refuses every request behind a bot challenge. Before signing, ask the reseller for the current Maintenance program terms in writing and get three things on paper: whether the SMA renews automatically, what notice period cancels it, and what the uplift cap is at renewal.

Modules sold separately. , , , , , , . The Cabinet Vision figure worth writing down is the one with your day-one modules already in it, not the headline tier.

Third-party services you will also pay for. , . These are not on Cabinet Vision's invoice, and they are still part of what this decision costs you every month.

Side note, and it's a useful one: cabinet Vision's 'perpetual' licence has an expiry date thirty years out, written into the definitions rather than the sales page. Anybody comparing a Cabinet Vision paid-up licence against a genuine perpetual purchase is comparing a thirty-year term against forever, and against a competitor like SketchList 3D whose $999.99 one-time licence carries no such definition. It rarely bites in practice, but it tells you exactly how the vendor thinks about ownership, and it pairs with the update clause: without live Maintenance you keep the copy you have and nothing more.

The Cabinet Vision costs that land afterwards

The subscription is the part everyone quotes. These are the lines that land afterwards, and the ones we could not find are named as unpublished rather than left blank.

Sold separately. , , , , , , . Price the configuration you'll really run, because an add-on you need on day one is part of the price.

Third-party services you'll also pay for. , . None of these are on Cabinet Vision's invoice, and all of them are part of what this decision costs every month.

"Cabinet Vision answers the question of what it costs with this and nothing else: "Hexagon publishes no price for Cabinet Vision on any page of the product site. The page that exists to talk about how you pay for it, titled Subscription Options, answers the question with a lead form and a country dropdown instead of a number, and it frames the choice as purchase versus subscription without pricing either one.""

Cabinet Vision pricing page (2026)

"Cabinet Vision is licensed by machine or by server, not by named user, and the licence type decides what a second person costs you. A Standalone Licence (which the EULA also calls a Node-locked Licence) is 'limited to a single copy of the Licensed Materials on one designated Licensee Computer', the user 'must be physically present and not accessing or using the Licensee Computer or Licensed Materials from a remote location or another computer', and it 'may only be used by one Authorized User at a time'. A Network Licence is controlled by one License Server at one designated facility, and a Local Area Network variant restricts installation to that Designated Site, with a carve-out that lets employees customarily associated with that site work from their residence and no other offsite location. On top of the seat count you are also buying a feature bundle: the core component carries layout, cut listing, basic rendering and primary estimating, and everything else (x2D CAD, xBidding, xCountertops, xCRM, xMachining, xOptimizer, xRendering, xReporting, xShaping, x2AC) is a separately licensed multiplier."

Cabinet Vision pricing page (2026)

"Nothing. It's super expensive and I haven't even been able to use it because they can't figure out their post processor. I've called 3 times now to speak with someone in charge and never get transferred to anyone and have yet to get a call back. My company is losing money every day because of these guys and they don't take it seriously. Seriously stay away from this software and company!"

SourceForge, GM (7-29)

The five workflows you pay for

Feature totals are noise. So a shop in this category lives or dies on five things, and those are the five to grade, and each one below carries the evidence it's graded on.

The whole product is built to end in G-code, and on standard work it genuinely does xMachining analyses part geometry, picks tools, sets speeds and feeds, generates toolpaths and routes each part to the right machine when a shop runs several. The reviewer with the most detailed account of the system says a fifteen-cabinet standard job can go from draft to CNC files, stop-saw files, reports and drawings 'in literally 10 minutes'. That throughput is the reason shops tolerate the rest. An engineer at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment, 2+ Years on the platform, describes it it plainly: "Cabinet Vision is incredibly productive if what you're building is basically one of a few standard designs where you're mostly just changing the dimensions and specifying standard features that come as a built-in part of CV. If you had a particular 15-cabinet job that was based entirely on a standard design, and your crew didn't need every little detail drawn out in meticulous blueprints in order to get it built, then you could draft that job, generate CNC and stop-saw files, print out your reports and drawings, and release it to the plant in literally 10 minutes. It is also fairly customizable, although that turns out to be a double-edged sword, as you'll read below."

You assemble the product from a core component plus multipliers, which is why nobody can quote you a number Cabinet Vision starts with one of three core components (Core Cabinets, Core Closets or Cabinet Vision Design), each carrying layout, cut listing, basic rendering and primary estimating. But everything past that is a separately licensed multiplier, and several multipliers have their own separately licensed additions. The vendor presents this as scalability. So in practice it means two shops with the same headcount can be running quotes that differ by a large multiple.

Bidding is a paid module, not a core capability, and it stops at the bid Primary estimating ships with the core component, but the tool that produces a real bid is xBidding, a separate multiplier that costs material, labour and other costs of the finished engineered product. And nothing in the module list carries that number onward into a ledger. So the path to accounting runs through a third-party ERP or through re-keying.

Laser measurement is built in, but the hardware is sold into two countries only Cabinet Vision integrates with Leica DISTO devices for point-and-click room measurement, which removes a real source of error on retrofit kitchens. But the hardware side is geographically restricted, and a Canadian or Australian shop has to source the device another way.

Hexagon reserves on-site audit rights with fifteen days' notice, and you pay for the audit if it finds anything The EULA requires you to keep records of every copy and every machine it's installed on, lets Hexagon audit on fifteen days' written notice through on-site audits, electronic audits or self-certification, and makes you pay both the shortfall and the cost of the audit if use is non-conforming. And the software also phones home: the licence permits collection of user, device and network identification, location, organisation domain and software usage data for compliance purposes.

Which trades get value from Cabinet Vision

Fit differs by trade rather than by company size alone, and a blended paragraph hides that. Here is the split for the trades this one sells to.

Custom home building. The workflow that decides it is the whole product is built to end in g-code, and on standard work it genuinely does, and the shop profile that gets value is A 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work doing residential and commercial work. Where it stops being a fit is A one to four person shop cutting on a table saw with no CNC router.

Kitchen and bath. The workflow that decides it is the whole product is built to end in g-code, and on standard work it genuinely does, and the shop profile that gets value is A 5 to 40 person residential cabinet or commercial casework shop that already owns a CNC router and builds mostly repeatable, standard-carcass work doing residential and commercial work. Where it stops being a fit is A one to four person shop cutting on a table saw with no CNC router.

Your books, and whether Cabinet Vision connects to them

Jobman ERP (the documented route to MYOB, QuickBooks Online and Xero) connects one way only, so edits made in your books do not come back, on every plan. Xero connects both ways, on every plan. QuickBooks Online connects, on every plan. Your costs map through cost codes, so test yours against your own chart of accounts before you commit. A code your books don't recognise is how a labour charge quietly lands somewhere useless.

Past those, the road ends. QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, Any CRM other than the in-house xCRM multiplier, Buildertrend, CoConstruct and the residential construction PM category generally, Zapier, Make and general automation platforms do not connect. So if your books run on an ERP rather than the platforms named above, weigh that before anything else.

Beyond accounting it connects to Leica DISTO (Built-in laser field measurement for point-and-click room capture. Hexagon sells the hardware only into the continental US and the UK and Ireland.), ALPHACAM (The x2AC multiplier pushes part and operation geometry to ALPHACAM, Hexagon's sibling CAM product, without buying the full S2M Center.), CNC routers, NC and panel saws, chop saws, drill and dowel machines, haunching machines and edgebanders (xMachining outputs to multiple NC and CNC machines simultaneously, with separately licensed additions for chop saws, drill and dowel, point to point and material handling.), Third-party CAD and CAM (The +3rd Party CAD Import addition imports cut lists and layered DXF files; the +3rd Party CAM addition exports DXF and other common CAM formats.), VORTEK Spaces (Third-party real-time 3D presentation software, listed at $1350 per year, one of exactly two software integrations in SourceForge's directory for Cabinet Vision.), SketchUp (Cabinet Vision ships an 'import SketchUp model' button that one long-term user reports only works if the file is saved back to SketchUp version 8, a requirement they had to phone support to discover.). A public API exists: No public API is documented anywhere reachable. SourceForge's integrations directory counts exactly two software integrations for Cabinet Vision in 2026, VORTEK Spaces and Jobman, and neither is described as an open API. The extension surface Hexagon does document is internal rather than external: an unnamed scripting language for cabinet models and SQL plus VBScript for reports, which the most technical reviewer describes as tooling 'packed with quirks, bugs, and basic usability issues'. The EULA's Toolkit License Agreements exist for other Hexagon products, not for Cabinet Vision.

Getting help from Cabinet Vision, and getting it fast

Support is the line item nobody prices and everybody eventually needs. Onboarding for Cabinet Vision: Implementation is a separate purchase and the maintenance contract does not cover it. The North American terms state that 'Technical support does not include training, consulting, on-site services, or other Professional Services', and the Support and Maintenance Agreement page flags site visits as chargeable: 'Where required, we can send a Support Engineer to your site, ensuring a speedy resolution to your issue (Additional costs may be incurred).' No rate card is published for either.

An engineer at a 1-25 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2023-08-31 describes it: "- not designed for highly custom cabinets - setting up libraries and cabinet construction methods, etc. is not intuitive and causes frustration - live drawing feature doesn't work properly - AutoCAD has what we want - making submittal drawings (good ones that you can read) takes soooo much time - features of program do not work properly - support takes 2-3 days to respond - can't rely on user forum - I've had questions that never get answered - simple things like you can't import a SketchUp model using there "import SketchUp model" button - you'd have to call support for them to tell you to save your SketchUp file as version 8 - TONS OF STUFF LIKE THIS INSIDE THE PROGRAM - super expensive - they'll charge you every chance they get"

But a head of design at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment, 1-2 Years on the platform, writes it differently: "All of the support surrounding this software is terrible. Features are plentiful but trying to get them working is a nightmare. Their website says AMD Graphics work and they super don't. Support takes days to get back to you and even when you follow their documentation to try and fix your issues it still doesn't work. Support wont schedule a meeting just keeps you waiting until you miss their phone call only to start the cycle over again."

The Cabinet Vision term, and what leaving costs

Nobody reads this section before they buy, and it's the one that costs money afterwards. Four terms decide what leaving looks like.

Minimum term. The EULA defines the terms rather than the commercial minimum. A 'Paid-up License' is defined as 'a license with a license term of thirty (30) years', a Subscription is 'a type of short-term license with a specified fixed term (such as a one-year or other short-term Subscription term)', and Maintenance is described as an 'annual Maintenance contract for Perpetual Licenses, or Maintenance as part of Subscriptions'. The vendor's own subscription page claims flexibility, 'Free from being locked into a long-term contract' and 'Variable renewal periods', but publishes no minimum anywhere.

Auto-renewal. Neither the North American terms of sale nor the Production Software EULA contains the words renew, renewal or automatic. Both defer to a separate document, the 'Maintenance program terms', which the EULA points at https://customers.ps.hexagonmi.com/terms/ ; that address now redirects to hexagon.com, which refuses every request behind a bot challenge. Before signing, ask the reseller for the current Maintenance program terms in writing and get three things on paper: whether the SMA renews automatically, what notice period cancels it, and what the uplift cap is at renewal.

Early termination. There is no customer-side exit. Section 6 of the North American terms of sale reads in full: 'CANCELLATION. The Contract and Customer's payment obligations are non-cancelable, Products are non-returnable, and amounts paid by Customer are non-refundable, except as specifically provided for in these Terms.' Hexagon's own termination rights are broad by comparison: fourteen days' notice on an uncured material breach, immediate termination for any late payment (including a payment owed to a reseller rather than to Hexagon), and immediate termination on insolvency. The only refund window anywhere in the stack is the EULA's decline clause, which lets you return the software within thirty days of acquiring it if you refuse the licence terms before installing.

Payment processing. Cabinet Vision does not process your customers' payments. It does affect how you pay Hexagon: the North American terms of sale reserve a card surcharge, 'Credit card payments, if and when accepted by Hexagon, may be subject to a surcharge.', and they charge interest on late invoices at 'one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month (or the maximum amount permitted by applicable law, if less)' plus collection and attorney fees.

Worth a detour here. The licence is bolted to a specific PC, and the shop's ability to move it is contingent on being paid up on Maintenance. The annual Maintenance fee isn't really buying updates. It's buying the right to keep using your own software on hardware that changes, which makes lapsing far more expensive than the invoice suggests. And it also rules out remote work on a standalone seat outright, which matters for any shop that sends a designer home or to a site trailer.

"They can't seem to figure out their post processor correctly so I can Stuart use this extremely expensive software that I purchased over 7 months ago!"

SourceForge, GM (7-29)

"everything, no customer support, no adequate training, costs a fortune for a useless programme."

SourceForge, PAUL W. (7-30)

"We were unsure from the start if this programme was suitable for us. The salesman assured us it would work for us. We are a bespoke cabinet company and after months of attempting to get this programme to work we are still no further forward. Very disappointed in this company, don't waste your money"

SourceForge, PAUL W. (7-30)

What Cabinet Vision reviewers keep running into

Every one of these is checkable on a demo call. None of it is a matter of taste, and each one traces to a vendor page or a named reviewer.

It rewards repeatable carcasses and punishes full-custom work, which is the opposite of what most small cabinet shops sell The most detailed review on the record is also the most positive about the engine, and it draws a hard line down the middle of the category. A fifteen-cabinet job built from a standard design goes from draft to CNC files in about ten minutes. But a job that needs anything outside the built-in library sends you into the scripting layer, and the same reviewer calls the internals poorly designed and full of bugs. The bespoke cabinet company that reviewed it in July 2024 spent months trying and never got there. An engineer at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2023-02-22 puts it: "Cabinet Vision is incredibly productive if what you're building is basically one of a few standard designs where you're mostly just changing the dimensions and specifying standard features that come as a built-in part of CV. If you had a particular 15-cabinet job that was based entirely on a standard design, and your crew didn't need every little detail drawn out in meticulous blueprints in order to get it built, then you could draft that job, generate CNC and stop-saw files, print out your reports and drawings, and release it to the plant in literally 10 minutes. It is also fairly customizable, although that turns out to be a double-edged sword, as you'll read below." Pull your last twenty jobs and count how many used only standard carcass types, standard construction methods and standard hardware. If that number is under about fifteen, ask the reseller to build two of your genuinely awkward jobs live in the demo, not two of theirs.

Support response is measured in days, and it shows up in every review since 2022 SourceForge scores Cabinet Vision at 1.3 out of 5 on Support, the lowest of its five sub-scores, against 1.5 overall across six reviews. One engineer reports two to three day turnarounds and a user forum where questions go unanswered. A Head of Design describes a loop of missed callbacks. And the July 2025 reviewer had a broken post processor seven months after purchase and had called three times without reaching anyone in charge. Get the support SLA in writing before you sign, and ask specifically who writes and validates the post processor for your exact machine, whether that work is included, and what happens if the post is wrong on delivery.

The licence is welded to a computer, and Hexagon isn't obliged to move it if you've let Maintenance lapse A Standalone Licence is locked to one designated Licensee Computer and the user has to be sitting at it. Moving that licence needs new License Files, and the EULA reserves the right to refuse: 'Licensor has no obligation to provide replacement License Files if: (i) the Software is not supported on the proposed substitute computer; (ii) if Licensee is in breach of this Agreement; or (iii) if the applicable Licensed Materials are not covered by Maintenance.' And replacement files are also 'subject to ... Licensee's payment of applicable fees and charges'. So a Head of Design who lived through this wrote that they wished changing a computer or upgrading licensing wasn't such a pain. Ask in writing how many licence transfers per year are free, what a transfer costs off Maintenance, and how long the reissue takes. A dead workstation on a Friday is a shop-floor problem, not an IT one.

The contract is non-cancelable and non-refundable, and Hexagon can terminate for a payment you owe a reseller Section 6 of the North American terms of sale is one sentence long and closes every door: the contract and your payment obligations are non-cancelable, products are non-returnable, and amounts paid are non-refundable. The EULA then lets Hexagon terminate immediately for 'failure or delay in Licensee making any payment when due ... whether such payments are owed to Licensor, an Affiliate of Licensor, or a Reseller'. And since Cabinet Vision has historically been sold through resellers, a billing dispute with your dealer is a licence risk, not just an invoice. So negotiate an acceptance milestone into the purchase order before the software ships. Tie final payment to a working post processor cutting one of your own jobs on your own machine, because after delivery the standard terms give you no refund path at all.

The EULA forbids using Cabinet Vision to estimate or produce work for anybody but yourself Buried at the very end of the Production Software EULA, after eleven pages that apply to every Hexagon CAM product, sits a clause written for this one product line. It restricts Cabinet Vision to your own operations and rules out the side business that a lot of shops with a good CAD operator drift into: drafting, engineering or estimating packages for other cabinet shops, GCs or millwork firms. So if any part of your revenue comes from drafting or engineering for other shops, disclose it to the reseller and get a written variation before you buy. Otherwise you're one audit away from a compliance claim.

Software updates only exist while you keep paying Maintenance, and Maintenance still doesn't cover new modules The EULA states plainly that 'the right to receive available Updates is subject to Licensee purchasing Maintenance'. But the terms of sale then narrow what Maintenance buys: 'Software Maintenance shall not entitle Customer to any release, option, module, feature, or future product, which Hexagon licenses separately or offers for an additional fee.' And because Cabinet Vision is built out of separately licensed multipliers, a lot of what looks like a new feature arrives as a new line item. So that's the mechanism behind the owner review that says you become someone they extort money from annually. And an owner, west coast woodworking, 1-25 employees, 2+ Years on the platform, writing on 2023-11-02, puts it the same thing: "The idea is great but the company is a failure at taking care of its customers. The moment you pay them a dime you become someone they extort money from you annually." Ask what percentage of licence value the annual SMA runs at, whether that percentage is capped, and get a list of the last three releases showing which improvements landed inside your modules and which arrived as new paid multipliers.

Anything cloud-connected disappears when the term ends, and your data may go with it The EULA sets out in capitals that hosted features are never perpetual, and that on expiry you lose access to them. And it then adds a sentence most buyers never read: 'Licensee understands that upon such expiration or termination, License may have no further access to any Licensee data or content it stored on the cloud service relating to the Hosted Features.' So there's no stated export window and no retention period. Keep every job's cut list, reports and NC output on your own file server rather than relying on any hosted feature, and ask the reseller for the documented export path before you enable a cloud module.

Windows only, and the published hardware compatibility has failed at least one buyer SourceForge lists one supported platform for Cabinet Vision: Windows. A Head of Design who bought on the strength of the vendor's stated hardware support wrote that 'Their website says AMD Graphics work and they super don't', which turned a workstation spec decision into a support queue. A head of design at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2022-10-14 puts it: "All of the support surrounding this software is terrible. Features are plentiful but trying to get them working is a nightmare. Their website says AMD Graphics work and they super don't. Support takes days to get back to you and even when you follow their documentation to try and fix your issues it still doesn't work. Support wont schedule a meeting just keeps you waiting until you miss their phone call only to start the cycle over again." Get the exact GPU model, driver version and workstation spec the reseller has tested, in writing, before you buy machines. And don't spec a workstation from a marketing compatibility list.

One more thing worth knowing. Hexagon wrote one product-specific clause into a twelve-page EULA covering twenty-two CAM products. And it's aimed at Cabinet Vision users who freelance. A single clause singling out one product usually means the vendor watched it happen. Cabinet Vision shops with a strong CAD operator drift naturally into drafting and estimating packages for other shops, and that side revenue is prohibited by the licence. Combined with fifteen-day-notice on-site audit rights and the customer paying for the audit when it finds non-conformity, this is the clause most likely to surprise a growing shop.

One more thing worth knowing. The product is assembled from a core component plus multipliers plus additions. So the thing you're comparing on price doesn't exist as a fixed object. Two quotes for 'Cabinet Vision' can differ by a large multiple and both be honest. Before you compare anything, write down the exact module list you need (core component, xMachining and which additions, xBidding, xOptimizer, x2D CAD, xReporting) and make every reseller quote that identical list. Then ask what each line costs on its own, because the annual SMA is calculated off the licence value and the terms of sale confirm Maintenance 'shall not entitle Customer to any release, option, module, feature, or future product, which Hexagon licenses separately'.

One more thing worth knowing. Hexagon has started buying the resellers that sell, train and support Cabinet Vision, which changes who you're negotiating with. For a Canadian shop, the dealer who used to have room to discount and to escalate on your behalf is now the vendor. So two practical consequences: negotiating leverage on the quote is likely to shrink, and the support experience described in the reviews is now Hexagon's directly rather than a dealer's. And if you're mid-negotiation, that's an argument for locking pricing and support commitments into the purchase order now.

One more thing worth knowing. The vendor's public footprint has been absorbed into a parent site that won't serve pages to anyone it doesn't recognise. So buyers can't self-serve basic facts. Every commercial fact about Cabinet Vision, from packaging to renewal mechanics, has to come out of a person rather than a page. Put your questions in writing and keep the replies, because the documents that would normally settle a dispute are either behind a bot wall or were never published. The two that are still readable, the Production Software EULA and the North American terms of sale, both sit on legaldocs.hexagon.com; download and keep your own copies, since the EULA itself warns that 'such documents may not be available online for your future reference'.

Small thing that turns out to matter. Every public review of Cabinet Vision since 2022 names support, and the shops that rate it worst are the smallest ones. Features rating well above Support is the signature of a capable product with an implementation problem, and shop size is the variable that decides which one you experience. A shop big enough to carry a dedicated CAD administrator absorbs the two-to-three-day support cycles. But a five-person shop where the owner is also the CAD operator doesn't, and that's exactly the buyer Cabinet Vision's non-refundable terms punish hardest.

What Cabinet Vision users report

Every quote below is transcribed from a published review, named to the platform that carries it and to the reviewer as that platform displays them. We read the corpus by complaint type rather than by star rating, which is how the disqualifying detail buried inside a five-star review gets found.

"Nothing. It's super expensive and I haven't even been able to use it because they can't figure out their post processor. I've called 3 times now to speak with someone in charge and never get transferred to anyone and have yet to get a call back. My company is losing money every day because of these guys and they don't take it seriously. Seriously stay away from this software and company!"

A GM at a 1-25 employee shop, daily user for 6-12 months, 6-12 Months on the platform, writing on 2025-07-29, says on SourceForge

"They can't seem to figure out their post processor correctly so I can Stuart use this extremely expensive software that I purchased over 7 months ago!"

A GM at a 1-25 employee shop, daily user, 6-12 Months on the platform, writing on 2025-07-29, describes it on SourceForge

"everything, no customer support, no adequate training, costs a fortune for a useless programme."

But a director at a 1-25 employee bespoke cabinet company, Less than 6 months on the platform, writes it differently on SourceForge

"We were unsure from the start if this programme was suitable for us. The salesman assured us it would work for us. We are a bespoke cabinet company and after months of attempting to get this programme to work we are still no further forward. Very disappointed in this company, don't waste your money"

And a director at a 1-25 employee bespoke cabinet company, Less than 6 months on the platform, writing on 2024-07-30, puts it the same thing on SourceForge

"The idea is great but the company is a failure at taking care of its customers. The moment you pay them a dime you become someone they extort money from you annually."

But an owner, west coast woodworking, 1-25 employees, 2+ Years on the platform, says it differently on SourceForge

"Wish i never was introduced to this program. We've used it for over 10+ years now and the updates they make are, frankly, stupid. they'll move buttons around and change colors and add a couple features but never address underlying issues."

An engineer at a 1-25 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2023-08-31 describes it on SourceForge

"- not designed for highly custom cabinets - setting up libraries and cabinet construction methods, etc. is not intuitive and causes frustration - live drawing feature doesn't work properly - AutoCAD has what we want - making submittal drawings (good ones that you can read) takes soooo much time - features of program do not work properly - support takes 2-3 days to respond - can't rely on user forum - I've had questions that never get answered - simple things like you can't import a SketchUp model using there "import SketchUp model" button - you'd have to call support for them to tell you to save your SketchUp file as version 8 - TONS OF STUFF LIKE THIS INSIDE THE PROGRAM - super expensive - they'll charge you every chance they get"

An engineer at a 1-25 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment, 2+ Years on the platform, writing on 2023-08-31, writes on SourceForge

"Cabinet Vision is incredibly productive if what you're building is basically one of a few standard designs where you're mostly just changing the dimensions and specifying standard features that come as a built-in part of CV. If you had a particular 15-cabinet job that was based entirely on a standard design, and your crew didn't need every little detail drawn out in meticulous blueprints in order to get it built, then you could draft that job, generate CNC and stop-saw files, print out your reports and drawings, and release it to the plant in literally 10 minutes. It is also fairly customizable, although that turns out to be a double-edged sword, as you'll read below."

An engineer at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment, 2+ Years on the platform, says it plainly on SourceForge

"This package is basically a mess under the hood, and the result is that implementing your own CV customizations beyond a fairly simple level is a truly excruciating experience, even for people who have been using CV and programming other CAD/CAM systems for decades."

An engineer at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2023-02-22 reports it on SourceForge

"All of the support surrounding this software is terrible. Features are plentiful but trying to get them working is a nightmare. Their website says AMD Graphics work and they super don't. Support takes days to get back to you and even when you follow their documentation to try and fix your issues it still doesn't work. Support wont schedule a meeting just keeps you waiting until you miss their phone call only to start the cycle over again."

A head of design at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment, 1-2 Years on the platform, describes it it plainly on SourceForge

"Overall I wish anytime I need to change a computer or upgrade licensing it wasn't such a pain. The bad experiences leave me looking for new software."

A head of design at a 26-99 employee shop, user, administrator and deployment who reviewed it on 2022-10-14 writes on SourceForge

The realistic shortlist against Cabinet Vision

The realistic alternatives, and what each costs to start. Cheaper doesn't win here, and neither does expensive. Fit does.

Each vendor's own published pricing page, read on 7 August 2026. And prices are the entry tier, so read the billing unit beside them rather than the figure alone.
Tool Entry price Billing unit Users included Published?
Cabinet Vision Quote only Custom quote Cabinet Vision is licensed by machine or by server, not by n No
Mozaik Manufacturing $125 per account, per month 1 Yes
SketchList 3D $79.99 per user, per month 1 Yes
2020 Design Flex CA$2,095 per user, per year 1 Yes
Microvellum Quote only per seat 1 No
PRO100 $2,549.99 per seat, one-time licence 1 Yes
Jobman $200 per account, per month 1 Yes

Mozaik Manufacturing. Publishing a price you can read without a sales call, and covering the non-CNC shop that Cabinet Vision has nothing cheap for. Mozaik prints three tiers on its own home page: Mozaik Manufacturing at $125 a month for table-saw shops, Mozaik CNC at $225 a month for nested CNC routers, and Mozaik Enterprise at $325 a month for multi-machine control. But Nothing in its published material matches the breadth of Cabinet Vision's commercial casework and submittal tooling, and it has no equivalent of the Leica DISTO field-measurement integration.

SketchList 3D. Total price transparency and a real perpetual option. The pricing page lists $79.99 a month, $49.99 a month billed annually at $599.99, $37.50 a month billed every two years at $899.99, and a One-Time License at $999.99 with one year of maintenance included, plus annual maintenance plans at $69.99 and $229.99. And it's also the only option here that a one-person shop can buy in an afternoon. But It's a woodworking design tool, not a production system. There's no CNC post-processing engine, no nesting optimiser, no commercial casework submittal package and no ERP handoff.

2020 Design Flex. Publishing four tiers with the gating spelled out (CA$2,095 and CA$2,395 for Foundation with and without the Success Plan, CA$2,695 and CA$3,195 for the full product), and licensing per named user in the cloud rather than per machine, so a workstation swap is a sign-out rather than a support ticket. But It's a showroom and design tool with manufacturer catalogues, not a shop-floor CAM system. And it doesn't generate G-code, nest sheets or drive a CNC router.

Microvellum. Parametric modelling on an AutoCAD-based platform, which is the direct answer to the Cabinet Vision reviewer who said the live drawing feature doesn't work properly and that AutoCAD has what they want. And it's the more common choice for architectural millwork and genuinely custom work. But It publishes no price either, so you're back in the same quote-only position, and its packages page routes you to a demo request rather than a number.

PRO100. A single published one-time figure for design drawings, exterior and interior elevations, 3D renderings and floor plans, with no annual maintenance obligation attached to keeping the software running. But Presentation and drawings rather than manufacturing. It has no CNC output engine, no nesting and no commercial casework engineering.

Jobman. It's the complement rather than the replacement, and it's the only documented bridge from Cabinet Vision to MYOB, QuickBooks Online or Xero. So if your problem is that job costs never reach the ledger, this is the piece Cabinet Vision doesn't have. But It's an ERP, not a CAD/CAM system. It can't design a cabinet or cut a sheet, and it takes only cabinet names and three dimensions out of Cabinet Vision.

"The idea is great but the company is a failure at taking care of its customers. The moment you pay them a dime you become someone they extort money from you annually."

SourceForge, William B. (1-02)

"Wish i never was introduced to this program. We've used it for over 10+ years now and the updates they make are, frankly, stupid. they'll move buttons around and change colors and add a couple features but never address underlying issues."

SourceForge, A CABINET VISION User (Engineer) (8-31)

Who should not buy Cabinet Vision

Don't buy Cabinet Vision if you're A one to four person shop cutting on a table saw with no CNC router. Almost everything that justifies Cabinet Vision's price lives downstream of a machine you don't own. xMachining exists to drive CNC routers, NC saws, drill and dowel machines and edgebanders, so without one you're paying a quoted, non-refundable, multi-module price for layout and cut lists. And Mozaik publishes $125 a month for exactly that non-CNC case, on a page you can read without talking to anybody. Look at Mozaik Manufacturing instead.

Don't buy Cabinet Vision if you're A full-custom or architectural millwork shop where every job is a one-off. The strongest reviewer on the record spells out the failure mode: the software is superb on standard designs and turns into a scripting project the moment your work isn't. That reviewer calls implementing customisations beyond a simple level 'a truly excruciating experience, even for people who have been using CV and programming other CAD/CAM systems for decades', and the bespoke cabinet company that tried it in 2024 never got a working setup. So buying it commits you to a non-cancelable contract on a bet you're likely to lose. Look at Microvellum instead.

Don't buy Cabinet Vision if you're A shop that earns part of its revenue drafting, engineering or estimating jobs for other cabinet shops or contractors. The Cabinet Vision-specific clause at the end of Hexagon's Production Software EULA restricts the software to your own operations and rules out estimating or performing the work of third parties. Hexagon also reserves fifteen-day-notice on-site audit rights and charges you for the audit if it finds non-conformity. That business model is prohibited by the licence you would be signing. Look at SketchList 3D instead.

Don't buy Cabinet Vision if you're A buyer who needs to know the total cost of ownership before a sales conversation. Hexagon publishes no price for any core component, any multiplier, any xMachining addition, the S2M Center, the SMA or training. The subscription page answers the price question with a lead form. So every figure in your business case will come from a reseller quote you can't benchmark against a public list, and the contract you sign to test the assumption is non-refundable. Look at 2020 Design Flex instead.

The verdict, by shop size

One to four person shop, hand tools and a table saw, no CNC

No. You'd be buying a quoted, non-refundable, multi-module CAD/CAM system for the one third of it that runs without a machine. Every review from a 1-25 employee shop on the record is a one-star review, and two of them are from shops that never got the software working at all. Mozaik prints $125 a month for the non-CNC case on a page you can read tonight, and SketchList 3D prints $79.99 a month. So start there and revisit Cabinet Vision when a router lands on your floor. This band runs 1 to 4 on the crew, doing residential work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Five to twenty-five person residential cabinet shop with a nested CNC router, building mostly standard carcasses

Only under conditions, and they are worth being honest about. This is the band the product was built for, and the throughput claim is real: one experienced reviewer takes a fifteen-cabinet standard job from draft to CNC files, reports and drawings in about ten minutes. But the conditions are all commercial rather than technical. So tie final payment to a working post processor cutting one of your own jobs on your own machine, because the terms of sale are non-cancelable and non-refundable once the deal closes. Get the SMA renewal mechanics in writing, because the EULA and the terms of sale both defer to a Maintenance program terms document that's no longer readable online. And budget for support that a 1.3 out of 5 rating says will answer in days. This band runs 5 to 25 on the crew, doing residential work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Twenty-six to one hundred person commercial casework or millwork manufacturer with dedicated CAD staff

Only under conditions, and they are worth being honest about. Both 26-99 employee reviewers on the record describe the same trade: an excellent engine wrapped in customisation tooling that only a specialist can survive. One of them says outright that if your shop doesn't need complex, highly specific customisations, Cabinet Vision could be a great product. And at this size you can afford the guru-level CV technician that reviewer says you need, while the commercial casework submittal and engineering tooling is genuinely deep. So condition the purchase on having that person hired before go-live, not after. This band runs 26 to 100 on the crew, doing commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Full-custom or architectural millwork shop where every job is bespoke, at any headcount

No. The evidence points one way. The bespoke cabinet company that bought it in 2024 spent months and never got a working setup, and the most technically competent reviewer on the record calls customisation beyond a simple level excruciating even for people who have programmed other CAD/CAM systems for decades and describes the package as a mess under the hood. And combine that with a non-cancelable contract and there's no cheap way to discover you were wrong. This band runs undefined or more on the crew, doing residential and commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Shop that drafts, engineers or estimates jobs for other cabinet shops or contractors as a revenue line

No. The Cabinet Vision-specific clause at the end of Hexagon's Production Software EULA limits use to your own operations and excludes estimating or performing the work of third parties. And Hexagon backs that with fifteen-day-notice on-site audit rights and makes you pay both the shortfall and the audit cost if it finds non-conformity. So this isn't a grey area you negotiate after the fact. This band runs undefined or more on the crew, doing residential and commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

One thing to check before you sign with Cabinet Vision

Last thing, and it's ours rather than the vendor's. We run conversion work for contractors and we inspect their sites at scale.

Cabinet Vision won't tell you what it costs. Its own subscription page answers the price question with a lead form and a country dropdown, and the GM who reviewed it in July 2025 called three times without ever getting a callback. And cabinet shops absorb that habit and run it on their own sites, where a homeowner with a $40,000 kitchen budget meets a quote form and nothing else. Of the 380 contractor sites Fervor inspected, 95.8% carried a serious WCAG violation and 61.3% a critical one, and on a form-only site those failures land squarely on the one element standing between the shop and the job: unlabelled fields, error text screen readers never announce, and a submit button no keyboard can reach.

But we can put a figure on it. Of 380 contractor sites we inspected, 82.8% loaded slowly enough that a quote form went unseen. The sample is every site we could inspect reproducibly, rather than a panel we picked. The workings are public in the Contractor CRO Index.

"82.8% of the 380 contractor websites inspected loaded slowly enough that a quote form went unseen."

Fervor Studio Contractor CRO Index (2026)

So do both. The second one is usually cheaper to fix than the first one is to buy. The numbers are all public.

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What we checked on Cabinet Vision, and what we didn't

We didn't run Cabinet Vision on a live job, and we won't imply otherwise. And what stands behind it is documentary: 13 vendor pages read on 7 August 2026, and a review corpus sorted by what went wrong. Pricing was verified the same day, and every figure above traces to a page we opened.

So: eleven quotes on this page, eleven from SourceForge.

And https://hexagon.com/products/product-groups/computer-aided-manufacturing-cad-cam-software/cabinet-vision (Cloudflare bot challenge; cabinetvision.com 301s here, so the live product, packaging and support pages couldn't be read at all), https://customers.ps.hexagonmi.com/terms/ (Maintenance and Subscription program terms; redirects to hexagon.com and is blocked), https://marketing.ps.hexagonmi.com/piracy (the Compliance Policy the EULA's audit remedy points at; connection failed), https://www.capterra.com/p/135049/Cabinet-Vision/reviews/ (this ID belongs to CoStar Real Estate Manager, not Cabinet Vision; recorded here as a warning against guessing Capterra IDs), https://www.softwareadvice.com/cad/cabinet-vision-profile/ (403), https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/cabinet-vision/reviews/ (403), https://www.g2.com/products/cabinet-vision/reviews (403), https://www.trustradius.com/products/cabinet-vision/reviews (403), https://www.reddit.com/r/Cabinetry/ (blocked), https://planitcanada.ca/solutions/cabinet-vision/ (bot verification wall; this is the Canadian reseller Hexagon acquired in June 2026) and https://www.kcdsoftware.com/pricing (403, so KCD was left out of the alternatives) refused automated retrieval for Cabinet Vision. Forum and social threads are the ones people most want quoted, and they are exactly the ones we cannot verify, so none of them are here.

What that leaves untested: cabinet Vision's Customer Portal, eSupport and knowledge base, all of which sit behind a customer login. And everything above is 13 vendor pages and a review corpus, which is documentary rather than hands-on.

What Cabinet Vision users say

Nothing. It's super expensive and I haven't even been able to use it because they can't figure out their post processor. I've called 3 times now to speak with someone in charge and never get transferred to anyone and have yet to get a call back. My company is losing money every day because of these guys and they don't take it seriously. Seriously stay away from this software and company!
GMSourceForge
They can't seem to figure out their post processor correctly so I can Stuart use this extremely expensive software that I purchased over 7 months ago!
GMSourceForge
everything, no customer support, no adequate training, costs a fortune for a useless programme.
PAUL W.SourceForge
We were unsure from the start if this programme was suitable for us. The salesman assured us it would work for us. We are a bespoke cabinet company and after months of attempting to get this programme to work we are still no further forward. Very disappointed in this company, don't waste your money
PAUL W.SourceForge
The idea is great but the company is a failure at taking care of its customers. The moment you pay them a dime you become someone they extort money from you annually.
William B.SourceForge
Wish i never was introduced to this program. We've used it for over 10+ years now and the updates they make are, frankly, stupid. they'll move buttons around and change colors and add a couple features but never address underlying issues.
A CABINET VISION User (Engineer)SourceForge
- not designed for highly custom cabinets - setting up libraries and cabinet construction methods, etc. is not intuitive and causes frustration - live drawing feature doesn't work properly - AutoCAD has what we want - making submittal drawings (good ones that you can read) takes soooo much time - features of program do not work properly - support takes 2-3 days to respond - can't rely on user forum - I've had questions that never get answered - simple things like you can't import a SketchUp model using there "import SketchUp model" button - you'd have to call support for them to tell you to save your SketchUp file as version 8 - TONS OF STUFF LIKE THIS INSIDE THE PROGRAM - super expensive - they'll charge you every chance they get
A CABINET VISION User (Engineer)SourceForge
Cabinet Vision is incredibly productive if what you're building is basically one of a few standard designs where you're mostly just changing the dimensions and specifying standard features that come as a built-in part of CV. If you had a particular 15-cabinet job that was based entirely on a standard design, and your crew didn't need every little detail drawn out in meticulous blueprints in order to get it built, then you could draft that job, generate CNC and stop-saw files, print out your reports and drawings, and release it to the plant in literally 10 minutes. It is also fairly customizable, although that turns out to be a double-edged sword, as you'll read below.
A CABINET VISION User (Engineer)SourceForge
This package is basically a mess under the hood, and the result is that implementing your own CV customizations beyond a fairly simple level is a truly excruciating experience, even for people who have been using CV and programming other CAD/CAM systems for decades.
A CABINET VISION User (Engineer)SourceForge
All of the support surrounding this software is terrible. Features are plentiful but trying to get them working is a nightmare. Their website says AMD Graphics work and they super don't. Support takes days to get back to you and even when you follow their documentation to try and fix your issues it still doesn't work. Support wont schedule a meeting just keeps you waiting until you miss their phone call only to start the cycle over again.
A CABINET VISION User (Head of Design)SourceForge
Overall I wish anytime I need to change a computer or upgrade licensing it wasn't such a pain. The bad experiences leave me looking for new software.
A CABINET VISION User (Head of Design)SourceForge

Frequently asked questions

How much does Cabinet Vision cost?

Hexagon doesn't publish a price for any part of it, and no reachable third-party directory carries one either. The page that exists to explain how you pay, headed Subscription Options, replies with a lead form: 'Fill the form below with your details and comments to learn more about our subscription options.' And the reason a single number doesn't exist is structural. You buy one core component, then as many separately licensed multipliers as your shop needs, then additions inside those multipliers, then S2M Center if you want direct machine communication, then an annual Support and Maintenance Agreement. So two shops with the same headcount can be quoted very different totals. Reviewers describe the cost only in adjectives: 'super expensive', 'costs a fortune', and from one dissenting voice, 'pricing is reasonable for what you get'.

Is Cabinet Vision a perpetual licence or a subscription?

Both are offered, and the perpetual one isn't quite perpetual. Hexagon's Production Software EULA defines a 'Paid-up License' as 'a license with a license term of thirty (30) years', and a Subscription as 'a type of short-term license with a specified fixed term'. But either way, the right to receive updates depends on a separate Maintenance purchase: the EULA states that 'the right to receive available Updates is subject to Licensee purchasing Maintenance'. So a thirty-year paid-up licence with lapsed Maintenance is a frozen copy of whatever version you stopped at.

Can I move my Cabinet Vision licence to a new computer?

Only with new License Files from Hexagon, and Hexagon isn't obliged to issue them. The EULA states: 'Licensor has no obligation to provide replacement License Files if: (i) the Software is not supported on the proposed substitute computer; (ii) if Licensee is in breach of this Agreement; or (iii) if the applicable Licensed Materials are not covered by Maintenance.' And requests are also subject to Hexagon's then-current policies and to payment of applicable fees. A Head of Design who lived through the process wrote that they wished changing a computer or upgrading licensing wasn't such a pain. So ask your reseller in writing how many transfers per year are free and how long a reissue takes.

Can I cancel a Cabinet Vision purchase if it doesn't work for my shop?

The standard answer is no. Section 6 of Hexagon's North American terms of sale reads: 'The Contract and Customer's payment obligations are non-cancelable, Products are non-returnable, and amounts paid by Customer are non-refundable, except as specifically provided for in these Terms.' The only refund window in the stack is in the EULA, and it applies before you install: if you decline the licence terms, you may return the software within thirty days of acquiring it for a refund of the licence fees. Once the software is installed and running, that door is shut, which is why an acceptance milestone tied to a working post processor belongs in the purchase order rather than in a follow-up email.

Does Cabinet Vision connect to QuickBooks or Xero?

Not directly. Nothing on Cabinet Vision's own module list is an accounting connector; the closest are xBidding, which builds bid data, and xReporting, which prints reports. The one documented route to a ledger runs through Jobman, a cabinet-shop ERP listed at $200 per month, and the handoff is thin: 'Jobman only requires an export of Cabinet Names, Heights, Widths and Depths from Cabinet Vision'. Jobman then rebuilds the quote and invoice on its side and syncs two-way with MYOB, QuickBooks Online or Xero. So your job costs reach the ledger through a second system you also pay for.

Can I use Cabinet Vision to draft or estimate jobs for other shops?

No. The last clause in Hexagon's Production Software EULA is written specifically for this product: 'Where the Licensed Materials licensed under this Agreement include any part of the Cabinet Vision software product line, Licensee may use such Software only in connection with Licensee's own operations and not for estimating or performing the work of third parties.' Hexagon reserves the right to audit compliance on fifteen days' written notice, including on-site, and to charge you for the audit if it finds a problem. If contract drafting is part of your revenue, get a written variation before you buy.

How good is Cabinet Vision support?

It's the lowest-rated part of the product on the only public review set that exists. SourceForge shows six user reviews with an overall rating of 1.5 out of 5 and a Support sub-score of 1.3 out of 5, the worst of the five categories. And the specifics are consistent across three years: 'support takes 2-3 days to respond', 'Support takes days to get back to you', 'Support wont schedule a meeting just keeps you waiting until you miss their phone call only to start the cycle over again', and from a buyer in July 2025, three calls without a callback while a post processor stayed broken. Remote technical support is what the SMA buys; training, consulting and on-site work are separate paid services.

Who owns Cabinet Vision, and does the reseller I buy from matter?

Hexagon AB owns it, inside the Manufacturing Intelligence business area's Production Software Division, alongside ALPHACAM, EDGECAM, RADAN, WORKNC and ESPRIT. The channel matters more than it usually does. Cabinet Vision has historically been sold, trained and supported through regional resellers, and Hexagon has started buying them: on 19 June 2026 it acquired Planit Canada, its Canadian Cabinet Vision reseller since 2008. Two things follow. Your quote, your training quality and your support experience are partly a function of which dealer you land with, and Hexagon's EULA lets it terminate your licence for a payment you owe 'to Licensor, an Affiliate of Licensor, or a Reseller'.

Freshness

How we keep this page current

Three dates govern this review, and they carry different meanings. The initial source sweep is dated August 7, 2026; when only part of the evidence set is recaptured later, that later date is stated beside the refreshed claim. We last revised the page on August 7, 2026. And the user reviews we quote were posted over roughly the last 24 months, so their individual dates remain part of the evidence instead of being overwritten by a later pricing update.

We revise the page when Cabinet Vision changes a published price or a contract term, when a rating we cite moves by more than a few tenths, or when the vendor ships something big enough to change the verdict. We never bump the date just to look fresh, because Google treats that as manipulation and so do we. If a figure here reads as stale by the time you land on it, treat it as a floor and check the vendor's own page. We linked it at every number for exactly that reason.

Sourcing

How this review was researched

Every figure on this page traces to a captured source linked inline where it appears. The initial sweep is dated August 7, 2026; any later, partial recapture is dated at the claim rather than relabelling the whole evidence set. Ratings come from Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice and the Apple App Store. Note that Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice share one Gartner Digital Markets review pool, so an identical score across all three is a single sample rather than three corroborating ones, and this page treats it that way. G2, TrustRadius and Trustpilot block automated access, so where their numbers appear they are labelled as reported rather than verified. No claim here is sourced from Reddit or from a contractor Facebook group, because neither could be retrieved and quoting them would mean inventing attribution. Pricing marked as reported comes from third-party roundups, never from Fervor. Fervor's own findings come from the Contractor CRO Index 2026.

About

About Fervor Studio

Fervor Studio is a conversion rate optimization (CRO) and web design studio for home services contractors across North America, based in Cochrane, Alberta. Fervor does not sell field service management software and is not an alternative to Cabinet Vision. It publishes the Contractor CRO Index, a public benchmark measuring contractor website conversion potential using reproducible, open-source methods such as axe-core and Google Lighthouse. Fervor Studio is operated by Fervor Group Inc.

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