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Building alcove shelves and cabinets

Polyboard’s Project Mode is a fantastic tool for setting up fitted furniture. Here’s a short video that shows how to set up a cabinet and shelf unit for fitting in alcoves. Polyboard can not only design your cabinet but using the Project Mode you can also draw the rooms adding simply textures and lighting to…

How to use image files to enhance a Polyboard model

From version 5.10B of Polyboard you get some very neat render options. With improved lighting and shadows, these options will allow you to create more realistic images to present your projects. But with the possibility of applying an image directly to a Polyboard panel it now becomes possible to add some special effects that makes…

Making curved cabinets

Polyboard doesn’t allow you to draw the plan view of a cabinet using arcs or curves but you can get a good approximation by dividing the curve into segments . The trick is to use a CAD program to draw out the plan and get the exact position of each segment . In this…

Replace cabinet tops with rails

A question that comes up often is how to replace the top of a kitchen base cabinet with 2 rails. This is in fact very easy to do using the surface split command . The disadvantage of this method is that when you change the cabinet depth the space between the rails remains constant and…

Japanese cabinet making

Here’s another way to build furniture. I hope you enjoy the video. Leave a comment …….

Making raised panels in Polyboard

Polyboard is great for fast and efficient design and manufacturing of cabinets and furniture from sheet materials, but has certain limits in showing detailing in 3D presentations of solid wood objects. This is mainly true for profiled sections such as mouldings and turned parts. How to make raised panel doors Although you can get around…

Making modular framed panels with Polyboard

Polyboard is a cabinet design software but its powerful and versatile functionality makes it extremely useful for a vast array of other tasks. Although mainly designed to build cabinets and furniture from sheet material Polyboard also includes the possibility to work with bars or lengths of material. Any given panel can be set up in…

New features in Polyboard 5.01a1

Including Polyboard dimensions, partial views, sections and exploded views Here’s a non exaustive list of new features in Polyboard 5.01a1 (released June 2013) This document presents the main new functions of Polyboard 5 compared to Polyboard 4. We do not list the functions that are still under development. One of the big changes in the…