Projects, stock and prices
The cut optimizer and the cabinet designer work without an account; the browser remembers what you were doing. An account — free, Join / Log in in the top right — adds what belongs to you rather than to the drawing: saved projects, a warehouse of boards and bands, a catalogue of hardware with its prices, and from them the cost of every job and the offer you send. This page goes through each.
Projects
Save in the calculator or the designer keeps the project under your account, with a name, a picture and the boards it uses. A project is one thing with two halves: the cut plan the calculator made and the design the constructor drew. Either can be missing — a list of parts somebody typed, or a cabinet nobody has cut yet — and a project with both opens in either tool.
My projects lists them on two shelves — 2D for cut plans, 3D for designs — with a filter by decor and a history of snapshots. A card shows when it was last touched, how many parts it has, and opens the plan at the calculator or the design at the constructor. The designer's own gallery, Open, shows the designs; cut plans open in the calculator.
The designer saves every two minutes while you work and asks before closing something unsaved; undo survives a reload.
The warehouse
My stock is your material store, one list for three kinds of thing:
- Sheets you bought — type, decor, brand, supplier, thickness, size, how many. The calculator takes a sheet from here as its stock with the right size and thickness; the designer offers these boards in every slot, with their photograph.
- Offcuts left over — the same row with a smaller size. The pieces worth keeping from a cut plan go in here with one click, and the next job can be cut from them.
- Edge bands by the reel: material, thickness, width, and the length of each piece. A banded edge comes off one piece — you do not splice a visible edge — so the designer plans the job's edges onto the real pieces, longest edge on the shortest piece that takes it, with 10 mm of trim at each end, and tells you which edge nothing in stock will close. Pieces shorter than 150 mm are not worth putting back.
A board can be marked paintable: the designer then offers it under Painted, with a RAL and a sheen, and the paint is priced per m² by sheen from the same page. Decor photographs come from the manufacturers' catalogues and are shared across the site.
The hardware catalogue
Hardware catalogue is one row per article — hinges, runners, legs, hangers, handles, Gola profiles, confirmats, cams, shelf supports, LED — grouped by series, with the price per piece after the supplier's discount, what is on hand and what to keep at least. The built-in catalogue is Emuca's and Blum's; your own series — a handle family with its sizes pasted from the supplier's table, or any other article — are private to your workshop. The designer picks from this catalogue when it hangs a door or fits a drawer, and every row of the bill points at an article here.
Prices and Suppliers are its other tabs: the price list by supplier, per pack as the supplier sells it — a box of 1000 confirmats, a pair of runners, a 50 m reel — with its date and where it came from, pasted straight from an Excel sheet or a CSV in any of six languages. A supplier's discount is applied when a job is costed, not written into the price.
What a job costs
With the catalogue and the warehouse filled, the designer's Summary adds What it costs to buy: boards by the m² cut, with your waste percentage on top; edge banding by the metre; paint by the m²; hardware by the piece — twelve confirmats out of a box of a thousand cost twelve thousandths of the box, not the box. A line without a price is not zero: it is listed by name as still unpriced, and the total says so. The oldest price in the total is dated.
Money
Money holds what goes on an offer: your legal name, tax id, address, phone and email for the letterhead; the markup, the labour as a percentage of the lines, the discount, the VAT rate, the advance, the lead time in days, how long the offer is valid, and the terms note. The page shows the arithmetic on a thousand as you type.
The offer
From the Summary, Make a proposal builds the offer from the bill and these settings — by module, by trade or line by line — in the customer's language, with up to four variants of the same project. Send to client publishes it with the 3D and the PDF; see drilling cards and shop documents.
Ordering the cutting
A cut plan is priced live by the workshops on the map from your real cut length, banding and sheets; pick one and Order. The workshop gets the order with the cutting map and the parts list, you get a copy, and the order moves from new to confirmed, in progress and ready, with an email at each step. The order keeps the bands and the boards as the calculator decided them, so every paper reads the same. Offcuts you want back are marked on the map. See how to use the cut optimizer and, for workshops, the contractor guide.
Languages
The interface is in English, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and Russian — the footer of every page links the same page in each. The shop documents and the offer can be printed in a language of their own, chosen beside the print button, so a Portuguese shop gets Portuguese cards from an English screen.
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