ShopReady Draft 2D · 9:47 · narrated, with captions
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.
The same film, a piece at a time
Chapter · 1:01Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 1 of 8: The cut list
Chapter · 1:25Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 2 of 8: Two parts with a shape
Chapter · 1:09Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 3 of 8: Materials and the nest
Chapter · 1:22Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 4 of 8: Moved by hand, then drawn
Chapter · 1:18Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 5 of 8: The job, its stock and its sheet
Chapter · 1:36Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 6 of 8: A dado and shelf-pin holes
Chapter · 1:45Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 7 of 8: Pockets, cutting order and tabs
Chapter · 1:30Cabinet parts, from cut list to sheets, part 8 of 8: The job sheet and the labels
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