For people who'd rather be in the shop
Woodworking plans,
from a rough sketch.
Sketch it, photograph it, or just describe it in a sentence — Sketch Me This turns it into a real build plan, with dimensioned drawings and a cut list worked out to the millimetre. The AI helps you shape the design. The numbers are computed, never guessed.
Founding members get 25% off for life. No spam, no newsletter — one email when there's something to try.
- Metric & imperial
- Real stock sizes
- PDF · SVG · DXF
You already know this loop.
Every hobby woodworker has run it. Most of us gave up somewhere in the middle and went back to a pencil and the back of an envelope.
You sketch it on paper
Then you open CAD, stare at an empty grid, and close it again. The design was never the hard part. Getting it into the computer was.
You fight the software
Two hours of modelling later you still can't get a cut list out of it without paying for a subscription and hunting down the right extension.
You find the mistake at the saw
The dimensions didn't account for the thickness of the sides. You worked that out with the blade already spinning, in a board you can't replace.
What the AI does — and what it doesn't.
Plenty of tools will happily generate a beautiful render of a cabinet with the drawer pulls on the inside. You should know exactly which half of this is a machine having an opinion, and which half is arithmetic.
AI helps with
The judgement calls, where being roughly right is useful.
- Turning a sentence, a sketch or a photo into a starting model
- Exploring proportions — taller, deeper, four drawers instead of three
- Generating variations so you can see options side by side
- Suggesting joinery that suits the piece and your tools
- Talking you through changes in plain language
Computed exactly
The parts where being roughly right ruins a board.
- Every part dimension, derived from the actual geometry
- Cut list, with joinery allowances already subtracted
- Sheet and board nesting, optimised for your stock
- Joint geometry, tolerances and shoulder lines
- Board feet, sheet count and what it will cost
“The AI understands what the piece should look like, but it doesn't yet understand the physics of how it stands up.”
Popular Woodworking, testing AI-generated furniture plans, March 2026We agree. That is exactly why Sketch Me This doesn't let a language model anywhere near the arithmetic. The model helps you decide what to build. A solid modelling kernel works out the numbers — the same way it would in any real CAD package.
Three steps, one evening.
Sketch it, or just say it
“A wall-mounted bookshelf, 900 wide, three shelves, walnut, dadoed.”
Or photograph the sketch on your bench, or something you liked in a shop. You get a real parametric model back, not a picture of one.
Adjust it
Drag a dimension, swap the joinery, add a shelf. Everything downstream updates — the drawings, the cut list, the material cost. No re-modelling.
Take it to the shop
Print the cut list and the shop drawings, or export STEP, DXF and SVG for the CNC. Sized for your actual stock, including the offcuts you already have.
The bit you actually take to the saw.
This is the output that matters. Not a render — a list of parts, in millimetres, with the joinery already accounted for.
| Part | Qty | Length | Width | Joinery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side | 2 | 760.0 | 260.0 | 6 mm dado |
| Fixed shelf | 3 | 874.0 | 254.0 | dadoed both ends |
| Top | 1 | 900.0 | 260.0 | through dovetail |
| Back panel | 1 | 872.0 | 738.0 | 9 mm rebate |
| Hanging rail | 1 | 862.0 | 60.0 | screwed, 8° bevel |
Illustrative output. This is the shape of what Sketch Me This produces — and the standard it is being built to.
Founding members get 25% off for life
The first 500 people on the list set the price, decide what gets built first, and keep 25% off for as long as they stay subscribed.
No card. No spam. One email when it opens.
Questions
Do I need to know CAD?
No. You describe the piece in plain language — what it is, roughly how big, what wood you have. The model, drawings and cut list are generated for you. If you do know CAD, export and carry on in your own tool.
How do I know the numbers are right?
Because a language model never touches them. The AI decides what the piece looks like; a solid modelling kernel derives every dimension from the actual geometry, the same way any CAD package would. Joinery allowances are subtracted, not estimated.
Metric or imperial?
Both. You pick, and the cut list uses stock sizes you can actually buy in your region rather than idealised numbers.
Will it know what tools and timber I have?
That is the point. Tell it what machines and material you have, and joinery and cut lists are chosen to suit — no dovetails if you have no way to cut them, no 300 mm boards if the yard stocks 200 mm.
Is this a replacement for Fusion 360 or SketchUp?
No. Those are modelling tools you drive. This handles the boring part — dimensioning, cut lists, sheet layout, joinery sizing, hardware — and exports if you want to keep modelling elsewhere.
What will it cost?
Not final — which is why this list exists. Join before launch and you get 25% off whatever the price becomes, for as long as you stay subscribed.
What happens to my email address?
It is used to tell you when Sketch Me This opens, and for nothing else. Not sold, not shared, not fed into a newsletter. Details in the privacy notice.
Sketch Me This isn't built yet.
It is being built in the open, and what gets built first depends on what people actually want. Leave your email — and if you have thirty seconds afterwards, say what you are using now.