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

SketchList 3D User Finds Ease of Use

Hi Dave, I finished my first SketchList 3d project recently so I figured I’d send you some pictures.  I’m a software engineer and had no experience with woodworking but was...

Home office – furniture design software 3d model

  Finally it’s ALMOST finished.  I had been asked to put together a series of videos on one project.  I choose a desk that I might actually build someday.  The...

Clone and Mirror, Rotate, Merge Assemblies

Questions are good.  I got a great question in an email last night. “I am trying program and couldn’t find a way of rotating a door inside of an assembly,...

Many parts named “clone” lead to confusion

I did some design work for a very clever artist last week.  She had a specific idea for a shelving unit for her art work.  I received a series of...

Build a Shed?? Application of Woodworking Design Software

A while back a longtime user of SketchList 3D and I spoke about different projects one could do in SketchList 3D.  He said he had some new ideas.  Well did...

3D Software for Furniture, Cabinets, Woodworking, Remodeling

  When SketchList 3D was first released people wrote in with comments like: “It’s hard to describe – but much more than a drawing program.” “I see this as a...

Toe kick in board – cabinet design software

How to cut a toe kick in a board?  Select the board and enter the board level detail – select the surface of the board and click the Shape button....

Making a drawer as a basic cabinet design software process

Normally you wouldn’t start building drawers before you did the carcass – but it’s a good way to show how to put five boards together to make a box.  Again...

Thinking about assemblies in a project with cabinet design software

Assemblies are the building blocks of your project.  You must have one and can have as many as you like.  You’ll get a feel for the right number of assemblies...

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