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Cabinet Maker · Skyline Kasten
Four Months Just To Learn The Software
Normunds Vitols
A couple years ago I started taking cabinet making seriously. I thought finding software would be easy. SketchUp wasn't built for cabinetry. Shapr3D wasn't built for cabinetry. Then I started going deeper into dedicated cabinet software and honestly... I wasn't prepared for how difficult it would become.
I don't really think about furniture the same way most software does. I sculpt first and dimension later. The problem is that every time a project moves to the next stage, it feels like I have to rebuild everything from scratch.
Everybody in the company knows our software stack is old. The problem isn't buying new software. The problem is that twenty years of manufacturing knowledge is trapped inside the systems we already have.