There are basically two types of cabinets, those with the toe kick cut into each cabinet and those that use a detached toe kick base on which one of more cabinet are mounted. The software supports both.
In the Toe Kick area there are actually three choices. You will see two check boxes. One says Has Toe the other Detached Toe. You will also find that you can uncheck both.
The Has Toe checkbox determines if the front toe plate exists. If it is checked, a toe kick panel is placed between the cabinet ends and under the deck. The Height and Inset determine where the toe kick panel is located and also control the toe kick notches in the cabinet ends.
The Height of the toe kick also determines the location of the cabinet deck. As you change the Height, the deck moves up and down to accommodate the height of the toe kick.
If you uncheck Has Toe but leave a distance in Height and Inset, the cabinet ends will be notched for the toe kick but no toe kick panel will be installed. Sometimes this is used when you want a common toe kick panel across a series of cabinets.
When you specify Detached Toe you must also input Height. This is the height of the detached toe base you plan to use.
When you do this, the cabinet box itself is shortened so that when it is sitting on the detached toe base, the top of the cabinet will be the Height above the floor that is set as the overall cabinet Height in the dimension box at the upper left. If you set the cabinet height as 34.5 inch and set the detached toe kick height at 5 inches then the cabinet box itself will be 29.5 inches high even though the cabinet height specified is 34.5 inch.
This might be a good time to discuss the detached toe base. In the Standard Cabinets directory there is a Standard Detached Toe cabinet. This is not some special cabinet but, in fact is made up of a standard cabinet, resized with some of the parts removed. You might want to load it and then pause the cursor over each part to see what it is.
Other than corner cabinets, you will find that all cabinets use the same set of parameters and differences in these cabinets are simply differences in size and parameter settings.
One additional point about the Height of a detached toe cabinet. When this cabinet is placed in a Custom Layout, it is located the specified height above the floor to make it easier to mate it with the detached toe base.