Creating Woodworking Plans with Free Software

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Creating Woodworking Plans with Free Software

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I share the tips and techniques I use for creating plans for my woodworking plans using Inkscape, a free open-source software.
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@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Please check my Community tab for answers to common questions and the latest information! - kzfaq.infocommunity

@Alaskan4Life59 Жыл бұрын

I use inkscape all the time for graphic design, I hadn't thought about using it for my woodworking projects. Thanks for the video!

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@ivanerway5451 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to put this tutorial together. One trick I've stumbled across before: instead of turning off the stroke width completely, in Preferences you can turn off changing the stroke thickness when you change the rest of the shape. Under behavior > transforms, uncheck Scale Stroke Width.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Great tip I’ll have to use that! Thanks Ivan.

@thkatandi 9 ай бұрын

Geeeze, already in the first 2 minutes, your tutorial is better than four eye furniture tut on sketchup. Impossible to find the free version, he needs to take the video down or update it. And you use normal measurements, mm!! This is perfect! Thanks very much.

@sassafrasvalley1939 2 жыл бұрын

Tom… that is a clever adaptation. I used to run AutoCAD. Then I got promoted and had 6 draftsmen running that and simulation software. That was over 25 years ago. I doubt that I could even draw a square box with it now!!!! I’m teaching one of my grandsons the basics of scaling objects. We are using grid paper to do rough drawings. Once he understands proportion, hidden details, dimensional call outs, and a few more basic concepts we’ll step up to some software. You did an excellent job of demonstrating and explaining a lot of drafting basics. I’ll share this video with him so he can see how they apply. Thanks bud.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks Dave! Glad you enjoyed it!

@stgeorge143 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I've been looking for a simple solution. This is certainly good enough to communicate what I'm doing to a cut list or to help keep me on track. Much appreciated!

@PondweedSJ23 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial Tom. I am about to design doors for my recently bult shop. I will try this out.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Go for it!

@DennyMK007 Жыл бұрын

12:43 "I prefer to work in millimeters"... Subscribed ;)

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Thanks Denny, welcome to the channel.

@DennyMK007 Жыл бұрын

@@woodshopnerdery Thank you for making this video. Very helpful and educational. I’ve downloaded and installed Inkscape yesterday and already messing with making my first plan. It’s beneficial to me that I have used Photoshop and Corel Draw in the past, so I already know the basic. This program is easy to work with, doesn’t use a ton of ram memory and most importantly it’s free. It’s a winner in my book for a wannabe woodworker like me. I use their website tutorials as well, but would like to see you make more videos with you making everything from scratch without using pictures as a reference. Love that you use the metric system. Less headaches and more accurate measurements. I still refuse to use the SAE system because it is so confusing for me (Naturalized American btw).

@chrisbrookshire5067 Жыл бұрын

That was a well thought out Tutorial I don’t have any experience with this but now I feel confident enough to give it a try.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Great glad you liked it!

@bobharper7014 2 жыл бұрын

Tom - Many thanks! Excellent applicable tutorial. Very timely.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Bob, glad you liked it!

@michaelarighi5268 2 жыл бұрын

Useful. I've had Inkscape for years, but I've never used it for this. Might try it now.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael, Inkscape has come a long way, make sure you have the latest. There is a big improvement from 1.1 to 1.2. For example it now supports multiple pages.

@pinoficara Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Thank you! I just saved a ton of time finding your channel and tutorial. Happy DYI everybody!

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Great, glad it helped. I also made a newer video covering Inkscape and a project with more curved parts if you are interested. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9GPm6-U3cjXgmw.html

@ins614317 Жыл бұрын

You have some awesome videos. Glad I found this.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Thanks William, glad you like the video!

@NicklausIronside Жыл бұрын

Creator "It's called an entagre" Everyone else "no that's called a shelf" 😂 Thank you for sharing this program. I have been looking for something like this for a couple months. I greatly appreciate it

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@kd6vpe 2 жыл бұрын

Tom, The perfect tutorial. I do use inkscape but never thought of using images to create the design. Very nice job. Thank you for the insight. I use Sketchup for my designing but then I do some cnc work and the sketchup gcode addon is awesome. The inkscape gcode creator does not have an easy way of creating tabs which I use with the cnc. Great content keep em comming.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim glad you liked it!

@hardshellwoodworks Жыл бұрын

That was very clever and well explained! Thank you for that! I am in the process of "learning" Fusion; at least for myself, it has its learning curve. Thanks again.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it. I've considered moving to a 3d system, but I can usually imagine the 3d bits if I have good 2d dimensions. Probably make the move one day though.

@timothydavis948 Жыл бұрын

I’m a new sub, I found your channel because I have a shopsmith with a lot of attachments and am going to start learning how each pice works. I hope your channel grows. Thanks for the great tip on Inkscape, I don’t know how I have missed not seen that software. We have a channel under a different name and I am not promoting it here as this is yours and am going to start binge watching your videos. Again keep up the great content.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Thanks for subbing, Timothy! Go ahead and share the channel. I watch A LOT of woodworking on KZfaq. There is a change I've seen some already.

@jameshall1968 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great video. I never thought to use images for dimensioning and photo/graphics software for plan making before. Maybe I will not renew my $240 yearly Shapr3d subscription after all.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome James. Glad you liked it and thanks for watching!

@FridayWorkshop 2 жыл бұрын

Great overview of the software.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@GodFirst607 4 ай бұрын

It's crazy how much they want for these programs. Who is buying these? I'm a retiree, and don't have that kind of money. Plus, I could never rectify that cost, for what I do. Thank you for the video.

@opencurtin 7 ай бұрын

Im on here to learn thanks very much .

@eduardoteixeira3605 Жыл бұрын

Nice tips video, thanks! Was very helpful

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@user-lr3zf3gn1w 7 ай бұрын

Tom, I would love to know if you have a quick and simple way to lay out cut parts on plywood sheets? My theory would be once you get these rectangles laid out to size, you could then move them over to a different layer that was sized to 1219.2mm X 2438.4mm (4’x8’). Then you could position the rectangles to the best layout allowing for the most efficient use of the materials. Would my theory be correct? Might you consider making a follow up video on how you do that when making a Ply project? FYI, I love my mkV 500 and mkV 500up520!!

@woodshopnerdery 7 ай бұрын

Larry, I use cutlistoptimizer.com/ Google or search KZfaq for how to use this website. I think it may be what you are looking for.

@jamesbrunk9817 2 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to learn Lightburn software now. With my computer skills, or lack thereof, I think I’ll continue with a few pencil sketches and keep “winging it” with the rest of my projects! It would take my about 10 times as long if I tried to design using any software.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James, paper definitely still works

@oneeyedphotographer 7 ай бұрын

I hoped for a video that tells me whether "this software is suitable for my purposes." I want to design using mostly sheetgoods, so designing a drawer and using several of them in a chest of drawers, to make rebates and trenches and lap joints and mortice and tenon joints, for example.

@oneeyedphotographer 7 ай бұрын

You should be able to correct perspective in image editting software, maybe even in Paint. When you export, specify the number of pixels on the long side to get all images the same height. Some software can increase the resolution of an image. I would be inclined to adjust measurements to conform with available stock

@Your_Crafty_Critic 9 күн бұрын

I am not very experienced with computers and have traditionally done my design work using pencil and paper. I would like to upgrade to drawing on the computer. It appeared to me your tutorial outlined how to create a view from one angle, which was impressive to me on its own. I envision creating a 3D model of a 2x4 piece of lumber. My goal is to be able to rotate, twist, and view this 3D lumber piece from different angles. Ideally, I would also be able to create and assemble all the 3D lumber pieces for my project, and then manipulate the view of the complete assembled model. Hopefully, I explained that, so it makes sense. Can I do that in Inkscape? Thanks in advance for your input.

@hoseinbebany 2 ай бұрын

Ty Sir

@toddharshbarger8616 2 жыл бұрын

That was REALLY helpful! Earned my like n sub!

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you glad you liked it!

@toddharshbarger8616 2 жыл бұрын

@@woodshopnerdery if not mistaken another important advantage with Inkscape is the ability to easily print out 1:1 templates that can be easily glued to stock and directly guide cuts.

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

@@toddharshbarger8616 yes I have used inskape for that purpose many times.

@Crashawsome 3 ай бұрын

4:00 'étagère' is French for bookcase

@solar_baby1392 6 ай бұрын

I instantly subscribed because of the name.

@billmclaughlin8438 2 жыл бұрын

That was very interesting Tom. Taking a couple of pictures and creating a drawing. But that seemed to be a lot of work. Wouldn’t it just be faster to draw it out on graph paper?

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliments Bill. It may have been faster for some people with graph paper. I think it depends on which tools you are proficient at. I didn't feel overworked while drawing the design. Once I got the design based on factory dimensions, we printed the design and measured out the space where it will go. We decided to make it 6 inches wider and 3 inches less deep. All I had to do was make a copy of the file and quickly resize parts and labels.

@toddharshbarger8616 2 жыл бұрын

@@woodshopnerdery plus it saves paper! And storage space for all those drawings!

@trep53 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing the plan software you use, I’ll try this. BTW as a hobby wood worker I’m not a fan of subscription software so this is good. I’m a proponent of using metric in my shop but most measuring tapes or rules I find are either fractional inch or both fraction & metric. Do you know a source of metric only tapes and rules? Not saying I’ve done an exhaustive search but Metric only is hard to find.

@woodshopnerdery Жыл бұрын

I agree, as a hobbyist free and simple works. I do have some good all metric measuring tools, and yes they were hard to find. I made a Community post about it in case others have the same question. Links provided in the post. kzfaq.infoUgkxjuyLlwpo6S0l9OO1KI71WZ5rmLDHdGbx

@iokarii 4 ай бұрын

This is please 2d drawing? What do you thing about Plasticity 3D? Is quite cheap, much cheaper then commercial giants.. Learning could be more, but can found some flaws in construction.. And create some visualisation four customer (or yourself). Thank you for video..

@marsilia5821 6 ай бұрын

I have some plans that I created years ago, I want to convert them into FREE DOWNLOADS FOR NEW WOODWORKERS AND KIDS any suggestions?

@brucewelty7684 8 ай бұрын

Load freecad or SU2017 inkscape is one step worse than a drawing board.

@neilusdin2389 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

@michaelarighi5268 2 жыл бұрын

étagère=ā″tä-zhâr′ Sorry, my French grandmother rolled over in her grave when you said it.

@sassafrasvalley1939 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks… I was trying to figure out how to spell it out phonetically for him! LOL

@woodshopnerdery 2 жыл бұрын

Good catch I should have practice the pronunciation before recording. But, if I waited on perfection I would have exactly zero videos posted.

@b0b2600 Жыл бұрын

I just saw the video, I was just about to say that. Etagère is French for a shelf. Pronounced like 'eta-chair' Iam an Irish woodworker, been living in South West France for 13 years and my wife is French. Like the video. Always hard to find software for woodworking, I've been using qcad for 2d design and templates. I use only Linux. Gl and thanks.

@Crashawsome 2 ай бұрын

@@woodshopnerderyit was 1 word