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The design system

How the design system works

Real screens from Ridgeline Cabinet Co., a made-up shop. Tap a picture or its blue button to try it. Nothing you do is saved.

One job, from drawing to paid

Designed Drawn Cut Built Shipped Paid

The Brandt kitchen you open here is the one in the drawing set and on the router's sheet. On the shop side it's the job at cutting on the floor, and its balance is in the cash flow.

Open the doors

Drag to turn the kitchen. Tap a door to open it, or open every door and drawer at once.

The Brandt kitchen in 3D, every door and drawer open

The cabinets you open here are the ones the shop cuts: the nest, the labels and the drawings come from them. And your customer can open the doors too, from a link.

Lay out a room, and let it do the fussy parts

Three short clips of the real room screen. Pick one; it plays while it's on screen, and a tap on it pauses it.

It stops at the window. Stretch an upper toward a window and it stops at the window's edge. The note at the top says why: “3 stops at the window or door: a cabinet can't cover one.”
End panels go on by themselves. On a line set for applied ends, every open end gets a 3/4 panel (ringed in blue). Put a base against one and the panel moves to the new open end; slide the base away and both of its ends get one.
Counters and crown, drawn for you. One press of “Draw them all for me” for the countertops, one for the crown. In 3D at eye level, the counter turns the corner on a mitre.

Draw the walls, drop in cabinets, and the price updates as you go.

Build your own part

A shaped end panel in the real part builder. Change the thickness, round a corner, drill a hole, then spin it.

A shaped end panel in the real part builder, step by step. On a computer you can do it yourself.

The part builder with a shaped end panel in 3D, its sketch, body and dowel holes listed beside it
The part builder with a shaped end panel in 3D

Draw a part once and it's nested, labelled and machined in every job that uses it.

The whole drawing set, from one button

In the app it's one press. Here is the whole set it drew for this kitchen: flip through the sheets, tap one to zoom in, or download the PDF.

The set's cover sheet: the Brandt kitchen's job number, the drawing index, the approval block and a line perspective of the kitchen
Download the sample PDF (5.7 MB)

All 21 sheets it drew for this kitchen, the same as in the PDF. It's printed as a sample, so each sheet's code opens this page.

No page setup and no drafting service: numbered sheets with a QR code on each, and an approval block on the cover.

Watch the router cut the sheet

One sheet of this kitchen, nested. Tap a part to read its name, size and machining. Then play the program: the holes, then the grooves, then the outlines.

Sheet 7 of the Brandt kitchen's birch plywood in 3D: its ends, tops, bottom, back and shelves named, with their grooves and holes

The program here is written for this made-up shop's router and tools, on the plain G-code post a new shop starts with. Set up your own machine in the app, then cut a scrap sheet first.

The nest, the labels and the router program come from the same job you just opened, with no second program to export to.

Coming next on this page

  • Put parts together with real joints (explode it)
  • Change a cabinet's doors and insides
See how the shop management side works › The same kitchen on the shop floor and in the cash flow, then your own steps and your dealers.
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