How it works
One design drives everything. The 3D preview, the cutting list and the price all read the same panel set, so what you see is what gets machined.
1. Start from a photograph
Photograph a bookcase, bench or table — or describe one in words — and Sizewood works out which of those three it is and estimates its dimensions, with a confidence score on every dimension so you can see what it was sure about and what it guessed at. Nothing is applied until you confirm it.
What comes back is numbers, not geometry. The type and the dimensions go through the same resolver as a design you built by hand, and the panels are derived from them — so a scanned piece is buildable, editable and priced exactly like any other, rather than a mesh that looks right and cannot be cut.
2. Design to the millimetre
Pick a furniture type and set its external width, height and depth. Add bays, shelves, doors and drawer banks. Everything below the interface is in millimetres, with no exceptions — there is no unit conversion anywhere to round your dimensions away.
Some limits are enforced rather than suggested. An 18mm shelf visibly sags past about 900mm, so a unit that gets too wide grows a bay instead of quietly producing something that will bow in a year.
3. A real cutting list
Every panel comes out with its finished length and width, its material, and edge banding recorded per edge — L1, L2, W1 and W2 — because a workshop needs to know which edges show, not just how many metres of tape to charge for. Identical panels roll up into a single line with a quantity.
Banding thicknesses follow what the machines actually run: 0.4mm prep tape, 0.6mm veneer, and 1 or 2mm ABS or solid wood.
4. Machining and hardware
Hinge cups, shelf-peg lines, cam-and-dowel joints and pockets are placed on the panels themselves, so they travel with the cut list rather than as a note in an email. The operation set matches what cut-to-size shops offer, so nothing on a Sizewood drawing is something a machine cannot do.
5. Exports
- XLSX — the cutting-list workbook in the schema cut-to-size suppliers already import.
- CSV — the same rows, for anything that reads a spreadsheet.
- DXF — nested sheet geometry with the machining, for the CNC.
Exports are free and need no account. Suppliers are configuration, not code, so a second workshop with different limits is a data change rather than a rewrite.
6. Pricing
Board, cutting, edge banding, machining and fixings, itemised and recalculated on every change, at a real supplier’s published rates. Sheets are billed whole, the way a workshop bills them, so the figure moves when a design crosses onto another sheet rather than drifting with the area it happens to use.