Designing Furniture Using SketchUp

Corbin Woodworks can design furniture, cabinets or parts for you, and arrange for the manufacturing and assembly. Here are some examples. To discuss your needs please send email to vince@corbinwoodworks.com 
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End Tables: Maple Burl Veneer with Solid Edging

This end table was designed in Sketchup. Then dxf format files were exported for the pedestal pieces, the solid rim pieces, and the top core and read into the Vectric VCarve software. We used VCarve to lay the parts out onto available material sizes and to generate tool paths for the Maverick CNC. We then cut a pattern for the top core, and cut two sets of all the other pieces on the CNC. The rim pieces were deliberately cut about 1/16" long on each end to allow for perfect final fitting by hand. Photos of the cutting process are shown on the CNC CUT WOOD PARTS page, and the final results are shown in the Furniture Gallery Tables page. 

​Bedroom Chest of Drawers

This chest was designed in SketchUp with three drawers in the top level, and one large drawer in each of the lower levels. Two copies were built. A photo of the finished unit is below. The accuracy of the drawing and cut-list enabled the parts to fit together precisely. 

Designing Cabinets Using the CabinetSense Extension to Sketchup
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Double Bath Lower Cabinet

This cabinet was designed to customer specifications using CabinetSense. The cabinets are Euro Style with full overlay. The drawers use the Blum 563 undermount soft-close slides. CabinetSense then exported the dxf files into Vectric VCarve where we laid out the parts and developed the CNC cut lists, as shown below. The cabinet parts were cut on a 5' by 8' CNC. The drawer box parts and dovetail joints were cut on our 3' by 5' CNC. 

First of 3 4x8 sheet tool paths:

Second of 3 4x8 sheet tool paths:

We used our Corbins Pro Dovetail Maker Gadget in VCarve to generate tool paths for cutting the dovetail joints of the drawer boxes for the nine drawers. This is what the tool paths look like in VCarve:

The drawer box sides were cut on the Maverick CNC with the slots for the drawer bottoms. Then we used the dovetail toolpaths to cut all the joints. The joints are just dry fit and are not yet glued and sanded, but the fit is perfect.

Commercial Kitchen

We used CabinetSense to design 27 cabinets for a commercial kitchen. The style is Euro with full overlay. For photos of the finished assemblies, see the Furniture Gallery Commercial Cabinets page. We exported cut-lists from CabinetSense and had the case parts, drawer fronts and doors cut by a computerized saw then edge-banded. The drawer boxes were contracted out. The kitchen is made up of four major groups. The first is a group with four wall ovens, some lowers, uppers, a waste bin and some sheets and pans above the ovens. Here is a print from SketchUp. I've used a CabinetSense feature to open some of the doors and drawers for you to see inside. With CabinetSense it is easy to change the size and features of cabinets as you go.

Across from the oven group is the following double sink group:

To the left of the oven group is the pass-through group:

Across the work-table is the triple sink group: