In this short article and video I show how to design a piece of furniture to fit under a slanting roof truss. The cabinet acts as a separation between two rooms.<\/p>
Another thing I show is how you can benefit from using different design software according to the task at hand.<\/p>
Polyboard is in itself extraordinarily powerful and flexible for designing cabinets but you can enhance you design process even more by using it along with other design programs like ProgeCad and SketchUp.<\/p>
Each program has it strong points and I suggest that anyone who needs to design projects professionally learns to master the basics of one or two.<\/p>
For instance I started using Autocad for all my designing. Today I use ProgeCad<\/a> which is basically the same program but cheaper. You can also use DraftSight<\/a> that’s even cheaper…it’s free!<\/p> AutoCad and ProgeCad are very good at quick 2D drafting, so when I have the on site measurements I can throw up a quick 2D drawing of the existing building and the program will tell me if all the sizes are coherent and I’ll be able to get all the precise measurements I need to use as parameters in Polyboard. I use the same methodology for designing stairs with StairDesigner<\/a>.<\/p> In the example below it takes only a few minutes to draw up the basic constraints in ProgeCad.<\/p>