1 of 15 · 32 s Turn a nightstand into a hall table
The starter nightstand becomes a hall table by changing one dimension: the parts that depend on it resize, the joints are checked again, and the cut list follows.
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One thing at a time, under a minute.
Every video is a real recording of the app on one of the gallery projects, with the sound on. Press play on any of them; nothing downloads until you do. If one shows something you want to try, the project it uses is linked under it. The same videos are posted on Instagram as @graindraftapp.
2 of 15 · 60 s Every part. Every joint. Before you cut.
A minute through the four workspaces on the Adirondack rocking chair and the starter nightstand: parts and joints, the exploded view, X-ray, the cut list and the packet.
3 of 15 · 57 s Your cut list, before the lumber run
The trestle table's cut list: stock sizes and board feet per part, grouped by material with a price, the oak price changed, the kerf changed, and the Copy, CSV and PDF buttons.
4 of 15 · 58 s Plywood is $70 a sheet. Don't waste a corner.
The floating shelf's plywood parts placed on a sheet with the kerf, so you know how many sheets to buy and where each part comes from before you go.
5 of 15 · 59 s Every joint, from the inside
The L-shaped desk in Joinery X-ray: mortise and tenons, dados, box joints and pocket holes shown through the wood, then a section cut through the cabinet.
6 of 15 · 57 s Will it tip?
The tip-over check on the two-drawer writing desk: a load on an open drawer corner tips it by a sixteenth, and widening the leg spread passes the check.
7 of 15 · 60 s This top will crack by February
The trestle table's wide oak top: how much it moves across the seasons, its breadboard ends, and the finding that says to slot the holes.
8 of 15 · 58 s A sixteenth too wide. Again.
A drawer on the L-shaped desk, built from its opening: box joints in the exploded view, runners or side-mount slides, opened with Motion and checked for clearance.
9 of 15 · 55 s The only paper I take into the shop
The planter box's shop packet: shopping list, cut list, part layouts, joint details, machine setups and glue-up stages, downloaded as one PDF for the bench.
10 of 15 · 57 s Taper one leg. All four follow.
A taper on a desk leg from two numbers, a mirrored leg that keeps its joints, and the machining steps written out in plain words.
11 of 15 · 54 s Start with a single board
One board from Add board, a sketch drawn on its face and sized by typing, a pocket pulled into it, then a DXF and a Shaper Origin export.
Starts from a new project Open GrainDraft
12 of 15 · 52 s I glued the shelf in before the back. Once.
The bracket wall shelf's glue-up order with screws and pilot sizes, the packet's assembly pages with a picture of each stage, and the findings check.
13 of 15 · 54 s Model → Origin, datum already marked
The box-joint bench in the Shaper Origin deck: every cut as a job, the datum corner on each setup, the setup SVG and the whole-piece package.
14 of 15 · 59 s Not sure where to start? Open a finished one.
From the gallery on this site into the app: the floating shelf opens with its parts, joints and packet ready, and you can change it from there.
15 of 15 · 54 s No download. No account. No credit card.
GrainDraft in its tablet layout: the four workspaces, projects saved on your device with recovery copies, a backup download and a share link.
Recorded in GrainDraft on the projects named above. Vertical, 1080 × 1920 originals; the copies here are 720 × 1280.