Cabinet software – optimzing material layouts
Cabinet Software – Laying out cutting diagram
Finding and fixing optimizer issues in cabinet software.
I received an email from a user whose optimized layout diagram didn’t exactly work out for his cabinet design. I took this as an opportunity to cover some of what might go wrong when using the optimizer – since if you are a SketchList 3D user you might have experienced the REDBOXES in your cutlist plus optimized layout diagram report.
There are commonly 4 sources of this error.
- Material defined but no added to stock.
- Size of stock not fit the size of the board.
- Wrong [or no] grain direction assigned to a board.
- Wrong board orientation set for a board.
Please view the video to see the problem at hand and how I went about determining the source and fixing the issue.
There is more help on optimized layouts for cabinet design under your help menu of SketchList 3D.
David Rozewski
My woodworking love started in 6th grade in school shop class. I have a BS in Industrial Technology and an MBA. At my first job, I computerized a production accounting system – the results were positive, and I loved the challenges. I left the corporate world to begin woodworking full time and one of my first decisions was to use CAD for my designs. I found that CAD did not meet all my needs. I wrote a specification of what I wanted and turned it into a prototype. SketchList 3D incorporated in 2007. We completed programming and launched. Today thousands of woodworkers use SketchList 3D.
