EasyCabinets 5.3.2 – a Major Sliding Door Update

The EasyCabinets add-on has been updated to version 5.3.2. This update affects sliding doors only — but it’s a big one!

You now have access to all variations of the ARISTO “Standard” system. That’s 8 different profile types, each available as ready-made sliding door sets — from 1 to 5 doors per opening. The infill of each door can be freely assembled using structures and individual elements in any configuration you like. Creativity here is truly unlimited.

In addition to ARISTO, a simpler system called FAST has also been added. It supports a wide range of settings and allows for facade replacement. But let’s go through everything step by step.

The ARISTO Standard system includes 8 types of profiles:

• ARISTO Avers
• ARISTO C
• ARISTO Flat
• ARISTO Fusion
• ARISTO H
• ARISTO O
• ARISTO I
• ARISTO Smart

Despite the shared concept of the system, each profile has its own dimensions and its own set of door parameters. We’ve done a significant amount of work and created ready-made sliding door modules for each profile:

• Single door on a single-track guide
• Two doors on a single-track guide
• Two doors on a double-track guide
• Three doors
• Four doors
• Five doors

All configurations have been verified using ARISTO’s sliding door calculator. All values matched perfectly. The dimensions of all profiles and infill panels fully correspond to the data from the official calculation tables.

However, there is one important change related to the structures used to assemble modular infill panels for these doors. In the new version, unlike the previous beta version, when placing an infill panel into a structure you must specify in the infill parameters which edge is positioned in which profile.

For example, if an infill panel is placed in the top position of a structure with horizontal dividers, you need to specify in the parameters that the top edge fits into the groove of the top profile, the bottom edge into the groove of the middle profile, and the left and right edges into the grooves of the vertical profiles.

This step is necessary for correct infill size calculation, as there is no way to automatically determine between which profiles the infill panel is located, or which of its edges is inserted into which profile. Structures can be used to create very complex and unconventional door infill layouts, making automatic detection impossible.

As a result, we now have 48 variations of sliding door modules for the ARISTO “Standard” system. All of them offer a wide range of settings and convenient dynamic features.

Here are just a few of them:

• Support for 18 base colors, with the option to assign a color from the replacement plugin. Color switching can be done via a dynamic click on the guides.
• A dynamic click on the vertical profile allows you to slide the doors. Clicking the left profile moves the door to the left, while clicking the right profile moves it to the right. The system is quite smart and takes into account obstacles in the form of other doors. If you try to move a door in a direction where it is already pressed against another door, it simply won’t move.
• The door movement animation speed can be adjusted in the module parameters. Pay attention to the animation itself — it has become more refined: the door smoothly accelerates at the beginning and smoothly decelerates at the end.
• The Schlegel brush seal can be either enabled or excluded from calculations. It supports 7 different colors, which can be selected in the module parameters.

We didn’t forget about door infill options either — this part is fully packed as well! To create infill layouts, you have 5 types of structures at your disposal:

• Horizontal structure with one divider
• Horizontal structure with two dividers
• Horizontal structure with a variable number of dividers (from 0 to 7)
• Vertical structure with one divider
• Vertical structure with two dividers

And don’t forget that structures can be nested inside other structures. Just imagine the possibilities! The only thing to keep in mind is that the more complex the infill, the less smooth the door movement animation may become.

As for elements, there are only two types of infill panels available — but with very broad capabilities:

• A solid panel infill, supporting facade replacement, material swapping, the use of different thicknesses, and gasket allowance for 8 mm and 10 mm panels.
• A glass infill panel, supporting material replacement, thickness adjustment, and gasket allowance as well.

As a result, you gain access to the entire range of profiles of the ARISTO “Standard” system, offering exceptional flexibility in configuration and infill design. Most importantly, it is built on the same principle introduced in EasyCabinets 5, using structures and elements as its core foundation.

A simpler system, but — like everything in EasyKitchen — it still offers a wide range of settings and useful features.

The FAST system includes the following capabilities:

• Use of crossbars or spring-loaded rollers as upper rollers
• Ability to add a vertical profile and Schlegel brush seal in various colors
• Top tracks can be surface-mounted, double surface-mounted, or mortised
• Bottom tracks can also be surface-mounted, double surface-mounted, or mortised
• Support for facade replacement
• Support for adjusting the door movement animation speed

Many settings marked with an asterisk (*) work in accordance with the technical documentation. For example, when using spring-loaded rollers, the top and bottom clearances of the doors are adjusted automatically.

In total, we have prepared two variations of this system — for two doors and for three doors. If you need other configurations, just let us know and we’ll add them to the library.

We chose not to bind sliding doors to cabinet modules. In that case, doors could not be placed independently and would have to be added strictly inside cabinet modules. This would significantly limit the use of sliding doors.

We have fixed all issues identified after the release of the sliding doors beta version. Thank you to everyone who tested the doors and reported the bugs they found — we truly appreciate this feedback.

If you are already using EasyCabinets version 5, simply download the new version and install it over the existing one.

If you are still using EasyCabinets version 4 and plan to upgrade to version 5, make sure to remove the entire version 4 library first, or install version 5 into a separate folder to prevent modules from mixing with those from the older version.

Keep in mind that the installation affects only the EasyCabinets add-on folders and files. Any custom modules you’ve saved that have different file names will not be affected by the update.