Furniture Design Blog

SketchList 3D's popular woodworking blog brings you biweekly updates on furniture design trends, user success stories, and how to make the most of our software.

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LATEST BLOGS

Cabinet Design Software Improves Your Output…

   SketchList 3D works the way you do in the shop. Using the SketchList 3D you lay out your work in detail – assembly by assembly, board by board, joint...

Board Orientation & Optimizer in Cabinet Design Software

Board orientation, along with grain orientation in the cabinet design software, serves to map boards onto the materials from which they will be cut. The main idea is to identify...

Cabinet Design Software Enables Face Frame Placement

How to place face frames on your case work. Had an good online training session Saturday morning with a few SketchList 3D users.  Covered placing objects and moved onto joinery...

Cabinet Design Software – SketchList 3D – Locating Objects

New Learning Opportunity We are testing the new SketchList 3D cabinet design software webinar for training new (and experienced) users.  The first thing that you need to learn is how...

Cabinet Design Software Helps User Design Projects

Email sharing a story of how cabinet design software aids work… Got this email with some very nice photos of work that Pieter Minnaar did in SketchList 3D AND in...

Woodworking Design Software Does Tapered Legs

Just a Small Cut Makes a Big Difference A long time SketchList 3D user emailed asking how I would do a leg with multiple tapers.  I took a few minutes...

Tips and Hints #1 – Make Better Use of Your Woodworking Design...

Certain things you just learn over time. SketchList 3D has been around in one form or another since about 2006-2007.  Which means I have been using it for nearly seven...

Dado on Board Surface in Furniture Design Software

Question on adding a dado on a surface with furniture design app. A SketchList 3D user emailed in this morning. “So far I have added two vertical panels for a...

Cabinet Design Software – New Board Form

Changes to new board form help assure proper input to the Optimizer The new board form in SketchList 3D version 4 performs several different functions. The first thing you do...

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