Cut-list calculator
From width, depth, height, number of drawers and door type, it generates the full cut list.
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CarpinterIA: learn to build your own melamine furniture
A hands-on course in Guarne, Antioquia, Colombia, in two formats: one day to start from scratch, or 4 sessions to kick off a real project for your home. The pieces are cut to order with edge banding and you assemble them yourself.
- 1-day express
- 4-session full course
- Groups of 4 to 6
- 15 mm melamine
- Guarne, Colombia
Express course · 1 day
Your first toolbox
For people who have never built furniture. In one day you learn to measure, drill and assemble square, and you take home a small toolbox you made yourself.
- For complete beginners
- About 5 hours, with breaks
- Pieces arrive pre-cut: no saw on day one
- You take the toolbox home
Full course · 4 sessions
Your own project, one part at a time
You pick a project for your home: a closet, a nightstand, or a piece for the living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom or bathroom. Each session is a small project that is part of the big one, and you finish the rest at home with the same technique.
Tools and a simple carcass
You safely use the drill, jigsaw and circular saw, and build a simple MDF box: the carcass of every piece of furniture.
Practice module and order
You build a module with a shelf, design your project and send its cut list with the edges that get banding.
Your project's first module
You drill with a jig, join with confirmat screws and leave your first module assembled, square and with its back on.
Doors, drawers and a plan
You fit hinges and drawer slides to that module and leave with a plan to build the remaining modules at home.
The tools
The AI part: error-free cut lists
Melamine furniture sizes depend on the board thickness and the clearances. I wrote tools that do the math so nobody has to do it by hand.
Order sheet
Turns the cut list into a printable sheet for the cutting shop, with the area of each material and the meters of edge banding for quoting.
Clearances page
Door, drawer and back-panel clearances, generated from the same numbers the calculator uses.
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