Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 1 of 8: The cut list

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets: the whole project

A 24 inch base cabinet taken from its cut list to labelled, nested sheets. The cut list is imported from a spreadsheet file, an arched toe valance and four corner gussets are drawn and added as shaped parts, and all fifteen pieces are nested on a sheet of 3/4 in plywood and one of 1/4 in, with parts moved by hand and the overlap warning shown. The CNC job comes ready with a piece for each sheet, its stock the sheet's material and zero at the sheet's corner. On the nested sheet the Sides get a dado and shelf-pin holes; Add operation makes the dadoes a pocket and the holes a drilling operation, the pocket gets dogbone corners, the parts are cut out in a safe order with tabs on the small ones, and the job comes out with no problems found. A job sheet, a label for every piece and a map of each sheet finish it.

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 2 of 8: Two parts with a shape

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 3 of 8: Materials and the nest

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 4 of 8: Moved by hand, then drawn

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 5 of 8: The job, its stock and its sheet

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 6 of 8: A dado and shelf-pin holes

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 7 of 8: Pockets, cutting order and tabs

Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 8 of 8: The job sheet and the labels