Designing furniture with SketchUp and Polyboard
Polyboard is a great program for designing and manufacturing furniture and cabinets. Polyboard is great for modelling panels but when it comes to modelling specific details especially in solid wood construction, it…
Glass balustrades in StairDesigner
StairDesigner doesn’t really do glass balustrades but we can trick it into displaying glass using the techniques below. Open Banister Parameters menu Setting up Banister Parameters to fill the space between the…
How to shape boards in Polyboard
Polyboard as it name suggests works mainly with flat sheet material. Although limited to flat panels Polyboard has many features that enable you to give any shape to any specific panel in…
Adding a half turn landing into a stair with winders
How to design a staircase with a half turn landing using StairDesigner Set up the general view of the stair with a sketch Draw the stairwell for this half turn staircase either…
Lesson 2: Furniture Design using Materials Libraries in Polyboard
Polyboard stocks all the materials to design and build furniture in libraries. Polyboard has 2 types of libraries: The Libraries are accessed from the Libraries menu: Here’s a list of the materials’…
Adding a sliding shelf to a cabinet designed with Polyboard
This short video is to answer a question I received this week about adding a sliding shelf to a cabinet or piece of furniture. Although Polyboard has no specific sliding shelf option…
Lesson 1: Simple furniture design using the basic commands
This Polyboard tutorial is an overview of how to start using the basic commands for simple furniture design. Traditionally, cabinet making has always started by drawing the project. Drawings use geometrical objects,…
How to design cabinets with double rebate joints
This is just a very short article to answer a question from Richard who asked me how to join two panels with a rebate in each panel. Designing a double rebate joint…
Furniture design with shaped elevations and side views
When a designer or cabinet maker is building furniture for interior design in real-life projects, it’s always necessary to design cabinets to precise measurements. When a project combines a custom shaped plan (top view) with a…
Design Furniture with free form shapes
When you start a new cabinet Polyboard proposes a variety of basic shapes that you can modify to fit your specific sizes and parameters. These basic shapes are the plan with a…