Carpentry
Joinery and cabinet making: joints marked out on the parts, templates, and parts laid out as cutting lists. A drawing whose industry is Carpentry offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| Mortise and Tenon | A tenon on an edge and the mortise it goes into | |
| Dovetail | Dovetails (tails or pins) along a board's end | |
| Housing | Housing (dado), groove and rebate marks parallel to an edge | |
| Finger Joint | An edge cut into box-joint fingers and slots | |
| Hinge Bore | Cup hinge bores (35 mm) and their fixing holes along a door's edge | |
| Routing Inset | A border routed a distance inside a shape | |
| Mitre Frame | A frame's four mitred pieces from its moulding |
The production tools (Registration Mark, Drill Hole) are offered for every industry.
The Housing tool marks housings (dados) across a board, grooves along it (a housing along the grain) and rebates along an edge. The Hinge Bore tool marks the 35 mm cup hinge bores of cabinet doors, with the fixing holes of the hinge makers' drilling patterns.
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Carpentry folder (see Run Parametric):
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Cabinet carcass | A base cabinet's parts as a cutting list |
| Bookcase | A bookcase's parts as a cutting list |
| Workbench | A workbench's parts as a cutting list |
| Shaker door | A frame and panel door's parts |
| Table legs and aprons | A table frame with mortise and tenon joints |
| Dovetail template | A marking template for a through-dovetail |
| Mitred picture frame | The four mitred pieces of a frame |
| Stair stringer | A cut stringer for a straight flight |
| Common rafter | A pattern rafter for a pitched roof |
| Pergola rafter tail | A template for a rafter's shaped end |
| Arch template | A turning piece for an arched opening |
On a 3D page the parts are put together with their fittings - hinges in the Hinge Bore tool's cups, shelf pins, cams, dowels, drawer runners - and their edge banding (Hardware in 3D).
Parts cut or engraved on a laser go out as a LightBurn project or SVG for Glowforge and xTool from File › Export › Export….
Cut list for the saw
File › Reports… › Panel cut list lists each part (a closed outline on the cut layer, named by the text in it: Rails (2) makes two) with its material, thickness, length × width (the length along the grain), grain, quantity and edge banding on each edge, in the columns of MaxCut, OptiCut or CutRite or a general layout; saved as CSV, it is just the parts' table, to import into the saw optimiser. Draw a line on a layer named Grain across a part to say its grain runs the other way, and lines on an Edge banding layer along the edges to be banded. A part's outline is its finished size, banding included: the sizes listed are the cut sizes, less the band's thickness on each banded edge (or choose the finished sizes, for an optimiser that takes the banding off itself). Each part's thickness is its own 3D thickness (a 6 mm back among 18 mm boards: see A part's 3D settings), else its layer's, else the board's. See Reports.
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the router's G-code (CNC router (G-code, tools from the layers)) and the Panel cut list as CSV in one click, beside the drawing, after checking the design: see Make It.
File › Export › Export… lists this trade's formats first. File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs; those that come with the app for this trade: Laser CAM by colour (DXF), CNC router (DXF, depth in the layer names), CNC router (G-code, tools from the layers), LightBurn laser (project). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.