How do I create working cabinet drawings?

[David J. Potter]

Commonly cabinet makers already know how to build cabinets and do not need others drawings to build them by.
What is necessary are accurate measurements as to height, depth and width and then text annotations as to the attributes of the special cabinets (slide-out shelves etc).

You do this in both plan view with dimensions and text and also a wall elevation per cabinet wall with dimensions and text.

You would do the same on a drawing board or using any CAD software available.

In my experience when cabinets are custom made my drawings are merely conceptual and the cabinet maker comes to the job site after framing has been completed and does his own measurements and drawings which he then goes over with the client to finalize.
Of course not everyone does as I do and cabinet guys vary in their operating basis.

Big-Box commercial cabinet outfits use spacers and modules to fit their prefab cabinets into the postulated spaces, the spacers designed to make up for discrepancies of design provided these are kept to as close to zero as is possible.

The above has worked for me for over thirty years; anything can be made harder or more complicated by anyone.
It is up to you and the people with whom you work with and associate.

DJP