Community Stories

Voices From The Workshop

Every workshop has a story. We're collecting experiences from cabinet makers, furniture designers, CNC operators and workshop owners around the world. Tell us how you work, what frustrates you, and what software should become.

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.

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Furniture Maker · MennoMade

Why Am I Building The Same Cabinet Three Times?

Menno Schmitz

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.

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CAD Designer · Neff Kitchen Manufacturers

The Software Is Old. The Risk Is Changing It.

Andis Rasa

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.

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