Carpentry
Joints marked out on parametric parts, and cutting lists for the panel saw.
Joinery and cabinet making: joints marked out on the parts, templates, and parts laid out as cutting lists.
What you can design
11 parametric designs come in the library's Carpentry folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Carpentry, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Finger joint
An edge cut into box-joint fingers and slots.
Mortise and tenon
A tenon on an edge and the mortise it goes into.
Dovetails
Dovetails (tails or pins) along a board's end.
Housing and rebate marks
Housing (dado) and rebate marks parallel to an edge.
Routing Inset
A border routed a distance inside a shape.
On the toolbar's Allowance button
Mitre Frame
A frame's four mitred pieces round a picture, with their cut lengths.
Hinge Bore
Cup hinge bores (35 mm) with their fixing holes along a door's edge.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Carpentry drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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CNC router (DXF, depth in the layer names)
DXF and DWG
CNC routers through Vectric, Alphacam, Enroute, Fusion or the machine's CAM
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CNC router (G-code, tools from the layers)
G-code
Routers whose control runs G-code (Fanuc-style, Mach, LinuxCNC, grbl / FluidNC)
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Emulator: CNC (G-code)
G-code
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: laser (LightBurn)
LightBurn Projects
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: laser (SVG)
SVG for Glowforge and xTool
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Laser CAM by colour (DXF)
DXF and DWG
CO2 and fibre lasers whose software sorts by colour (RDWorks, LightBurn's DXF import, LaserCut, Trotec Ruby, Epilog)
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LightBurn laser (project)
LightBurn Projects
CO2, diode and fibre lasers run by LightBurn (Ruida, Trocen, TopWisdom, GRBL, Galvo)
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Panel cut list
Each part (a closed outline on a cut layer, named by the text in it: *Rails (2)* makes two) for a panel saw optimiser.
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…