Furniture Manufacture

Wood and materials: design and construction considerations

What materials are best for your project? Whatever your wood working project you have the choice to start with raw materials that are either solid wooden boards or a composite material manufactured…

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cabinet design preliminaries

Cabinet design preliminaries

A guide to choosing the best way to design and build your cabinets. From a rich history to the brink of an exciting future Whether you are an amateur or a professional,…

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cutlist plus polyboard integration

CutList Plus and Polyboard Integration

CutList Plus is a cutting optimisation solution that will take a cutting list and from it generate a cutting diagram or map optimised to minimise material waste. Polyboard is our furniture design…

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Polyboard 7 new features

Polyboard 7 full version revealed plus download advice

We’re excited to announce the official release of the Polyboard 7 full version, now available for download and sale. This major update to Polyboard version 7 is packed full of new features,…

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Mach3, Mach4 and alternatives to LazyCam for furniture manufacture

Mach3 and Mach4 are PC based software solutions for generating the GCode to run your CNC machine. They are developed and supported by ArtSoft. Mach3 came first and targeted the hobby market….

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bar install Polyboard

Free Cabinet Design Program + Manufacturing Service

This commercial project shows you how a professional workshop partnered with one of customers to design with the free version of our cabinet design program Polyboard, then outsource cut and machining of…

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furniture designing software

Furniture Design with Optimised Manufacturing: All-in-one Configuration

The biggest constraint to setting up a woodwork business is the initial cost of investment. This is particularly the case with furniture manufacture. Albeit on a smaller scale, it requires an industrial…

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furniture software

Design and manufacture to corner the woodwork market

Do you ever think…there’s got to be a better way? Got a great idea and want to expand into a new market? So often it comes back to having the time. What…

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