Upcoming Developments
- Include floor and wall planes in cabinet rendering
- Ensure “same as box material” functionality
- Add an option for back panel stretchers
- Investigate post-processing options for alternative CNC controllers
- Enable toggle 4x4 vs 4x8 for stock size of materials
- Account for grain direction by generating rectangular shapes with length oriented along the y-axis
- Enable nesting/optimization settings and parameters (spacing between nested shapes, margin around workpiece, stock material size)
In Progress
- Enable Project-level cabinetry defaults
- Split out cabinet BOM by material type and thickness
- Review application and persistance of default settings
- Revise shelf pin hole spacing (System 32 holes)
- Enable Blind Dado calculations to account for bit width in addition to material thickness
- Retain cabinet placement on reloading (multi-cabinet projects)
- Render cabinet shelves with material texture
- Allow users to specify custom drawer/shelf material
- Include additional options for cabinet back panels (custom back panel thickness & back panel inset & dado construction options)
- Improvements to the Nesting calculations window
Released this week
- Make cabinet property sections collapsible with an accordion
- Functionality for multi-cabinet rendering (viewing all cabinets in a project rendered together)
- Enable unit-switching (mm/inches)
- Bug fixes
- Add locking-rabbet drawer construction option
- Update nesting/optimization algorithm
- Exploration of algorithms to generate cut lists for non-CNC manufacturing
Please feel free to reach out in this thread if you have questions, comments, or feedback related to this update. Have a great weekend and happy carving!