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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Resizing Boards

Lesson:  This lesson teaches you how to size and re-size aboard using the four tools within SketchList 3D.  You will also learn the relationship between size and location. Summary:  The size...

Virtual Boards

Woodworking Design Software uses virtual boards to achieve designs. Lesson:   Using the tools of SketchList 3D woodworking design software to create boards.  You will learn the five elements of...

Locating Many Boards to Achieve Your Design

  Lesson – Locating Many Boards to Achieve Your Design   Summary: You will learn to locate boards in three-dimensional spaces using the tools available in SketchList 3D   Lesson...

To Err is Human

Sometimes you do things like misplace a dado… …fortunately for us, SketchList 3D makes fixing errors pretty painless! In my last blog, we had completed our cabinet side and mirrored...

Details and Replication – Kitchen Design Software

Continuing my cabinets with SketchList 3D kitchen design software In my previous post I showed how SketchList 3D kitchen design software works with individual boards rather than lines and arcs...

Cabinet Calculator Excel Like in SketchList 3D

SketchList 3D contains a cabinet calculator excel like function. When designing with SketchList 3D you operate on both an individual object (for example a board) and multiple objects. The multiple...

Optimized Material Layout Diagrams

Optimized Material Layout Diagrams and Cut List Reports how to…. A user called me the last week asking about the optimized material layout diagrams in SketchList 3D. One of the...

Optimizing Layout – Furniture Design Software

Furniture design software should optimize parts layouts. The user sent in a project because he was having some difficulty with the optimized layout diagrams.  So as I often do I...

First Steps with Cabinet Design Software

Cabinet Design Software –  Getting started that all important first board. In in my last blog, I showed you the workspace for my actual kitchen. I’ll be adding the cabinets...

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