Winter may not have arrived yet technically, but you wouldn’t know that from the chill greeting me in the mornings these days. I think I’ll be investing in a small heater for the workshop soon, it will just be too cold to enjoy being out… Read More »It’s programming time – Fit It – Mach II
Ah, poison. I just don’t get enough of it in my day to day life. So it was nice to step back during this project and be able to throw up clouds of dust and contaminate my working environment, just great… Ok, yeah, so that… Read More »How I made a bookshelf
Over the next few weeks I’ll be creating a few short tutorial type videos to help users get the best out of Fit It. The first one today is simply about creating a layout, saving it, and then importing more copies of it in to your… Read More »Fit It – Create, Save & Import
I’ve written a lot about Fit It lately, so I thought I’d do a video instead. Check it out, and download the free trial version from here. If you like it and want the full version, you can buy that from here. I’m working on a… Read More »Fit It – Release Video
Oh wow this feels great to finally say…Fit It is finally available for purchase! See the new menu item up there? Click it! Aw heck, I’ll make it easy, click this button! I’ve also put up a trial version that you can download for free,… Read More »Fit It – The Release!
Are you ready for it? I know you’ve been on tenterhooks…so here you go! The long awaited new title for my panel layout software is….Fit It! Wow, what a let-down huh? What can I say? It won the voting. Like all good comps, there was some… Read More »Fit It’s new name, Contest Winners and a Release Date!
Fit It is now for sale! Click here to check it out! I put the call out last week for a new name for my Panel Layout program and received a number of replies back, I’ve picked my favourites and have listed them below.… Read More »Mega Shoebox video and Name my Optimiser!
[cryout-multi][cryout-column width=”3/5″] Well I’m stoked with the response to my Fit It video from last week. It was overwhelmingly positive and received a lot more comments and emails than normal too which shows it is something that will benefit more people than just myself. And by… Read More »Fit It Beta testing
I’ll be posting a longer update about it tomorrow, but I’m just a little bit excited that I’ve managed to implement Grain direction into my panel layout program Fit It! Woop woop! I’ve put over 20hrs into it the past 3 days, everything is… Read More »Grain Direction
Here’s an update and quick demo of my cutlist generating program, tentatively named ‘Fit It’. What is the point of it? Well, plain and simple, I want to save money! My shop is always full of odd ends and scraps of wood, I’m a terrible… Read More »Fit It – My Panel Cutting Optimiser
This is the first rendition of an automagic panel layout algorith in my panel cutlist program. The first button I click loads up a project from a text file. The project is my Mega Shoe Box cut from 15mm plywood. The panels are all placed… Read More »AutoMagic Panel Layout
If only I charged for the plans for my Single Blade Box Joint Jig…with over 1500 downloads in the first month I could have had a nice little payday! 😉 In all seriousness though, it is nice to feel like I’m giving something small back… Read More »Readers Box Joint Jigs & Panel Optimiser Update