Shop plans for the home woodworker
Talk it through. Print it out. Cut it once.
Describe the piece you want to build. Cutsheet asks what it needs, draws the plan around your space and your tools, checks every part, and hands you pages you can take to the bench.
Your first plan is free. No CAD to learn, no password to forget.
| A Side, white oak ply | 2 | ¾" × 11¼" × 72" |
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| B Shelf, white oak ply | 4 | ¾" × 11" × 34⅜" |
| C Top, white oak ply | 1 | ¾" × 11¼" × 34½" |
- Plan
- Alcove bookcase
- Rev
- B
- Sheet
- 3 of 7
How it works
A conversation in, a checked plan out
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A
Talk it through
Say what you want in your own words, add a photo or a sketch. Cutsheet asks only what governs the design, in one batch: the size that matters, the wood, your tools, whether it has to come apart.
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B
Change anything
Click a part, an assembly or a material and say what to change, or ask for the whole thing "a bit more modern". Every change is a lettered revision with its reason, and you can step back to any one.
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C
Print it out, cut it once
The print set has a 3D exploded view, a cut sheet, drawings, cutting diagrams for your boards and sheets, and build steps in shop order. Every sheet carries a title block, like a real drawing set.
The design conversation
Like asking the best builder in your woodworking club
Cutsheet recommends joinery and hardware with one sentence of why, flags a problem before you build it in, and leaves the decisions to you. You stay the builder.
I want a walnut bed like the photo. Queen. Has to come apart for moving.
Good project for castle joints: the rails drop into slotted legs and gravity holds them, so it lifts apart with no hardware. Three things before I draw it: the mattress height you like, whether you have a bandsaw for the leg slots, and 3" legs or 3½"?
13" to the rail top. Yes on the bandsaw. 3".
Plan is drawn, Rev A. The review found one problem and I fixed it in Rev B: the center rail spanned 80" on one post. I added two posts so no span is over 27".
Reviewed · Rev B · 0 open issuesChecked before you cut
Every part is checked, and the check is on the plan
One model drives every drawing, list and diagram, so a dimension can't change on one page and not another. Then two kinds of checks run on every design and every revision.
- Geometry checks
- Parts that collide, joints that don't touch, tenons that don't seat, panels with no room to move, bores a drill can't reach.
- The foreman review
- A skeptical second reader goes over the design for racking, sag, glue-up order and anything a builder would catch at the bench.
- Results in numbers
- The stamp on every plan says what passed and what's still open. An open issue prints in red on the cover sheet, never hidden.
Why not the usual way
Nothing to learn, drawn for you, checked
Unlike CAD
No toolbars, no weeks of tutorials. You describe it and say what to change. If you've given up on SketchUp, this is for you.
Unlike stock plans
Drawn for your alcove, your mattress, your lumber and your saw. Change a size and every joint and part follows.
Unlike other AI tools
Not a picture and a guessed cut list. A real 3D model with joinery, and a review you can read.
Unlike the notebook
Cutting diagrams lay your parts out on boards and 4×8 sheets, so you buy what you need and no more.
Pricing
Pay for the plans you build
One avoided mistake on a hardwood project pays for a year.
Free
$0
- Design one plan end to end
- The 3D view, review and cut sheet on screen
- Up to 5 revisions
Single plan
$19 per plan
- One plan, revisions for 30 days
- Up to 20 revisions, each one reviewed
- The print-ready PDF set
Builder
$12 a month, or $119 a year
- 3 plans and 40 revisions a month
- Full print sets and cutting diagrams
- Plan history and your shop profile