Cabinet Design

Adding Slack to Your Grooves in Polyboard

Polyboard calculates all your assembly details at exactly the right size and by default leaves no play in the grooves between the panels. If your CNC router is machining grooves just a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Modular framed panels with Polyboard

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…

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New features in Polyboard 5.01a1

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…

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