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’ libraries and their use: Panels Materials:This library stocks all the different panel types and specifications. Panels or boards are the base material for…

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Adding a sliding shelf to a cabinet designed with Polyboard

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 it’s easy to change the parameters of a standard shelf so that it can be set up to slide. There are two ways…

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Lesson 1: Simple furniture design using the basic commands

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, lines, arcs, etc. to represent the final cabinet. The objectives of the drawing being to provide the design and all the manufacturing information…

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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 (or for any joint) for a cabinet with PolyBoard is a very easy process that only takes a few minutes to do. The…

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Furniture design with shaped elevations and side views

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 different shaped elevation (front view) and yet another shape for the  side view, the overall shape of the cabinet can get very complicated to…

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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 constant height. The basic ones are simple rectangular cabinets, L shaped cabinets and corner shaped cabinets. Each shape is parametric and can be…

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Polyboard library download and advice

One of Polyboard’s most powerful features is the notion of manufacturing libraries. Although it’s easy to see how powerful and user friendly it is to design cabinets and furniture with Polyboard, some other manufacturing features are not so visible to the new user and go largely unnoticed in a quick demonstration. Manufacturing methods are a…

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