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Common questions

The practical questions.

Understand which workflow to use, what information to prepare and where technical review fits into the process.

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Good to know

Answers before you begin a design or cutting list.

Furniture currently follows a design-and-save journey. Supported cut lists follow a separate optimisation, quote and payment journey. The answers below help you choose the right route.

Before you begin

A few useful answers.

The practical details, so you can take the next step with confidence.

Can I save a furniture project and return later?

Yes. Signed-in customers can save supported Studio projects and reopen them with their selected furniture configuration, materials and details.

Can I upload a cutting list?

Yes. Board Cutting provides a current workbook template for importing component rows. Use the supplied columns, product codes, millimetres and whole-number quantities.

Are preview drilling positions production instructions?

No. Preview geometry supports inspection. Production drilling is released only from compatible article data and approved technical output.

Can different parts use different materials?

Yes. Cutting-list components can use published materials independently. Furniture projects can assign separate materials to bodies, fronts, backs, drawers and worktops where the recipe requires them.

Can I order a furniture design straight away?

Furniture projects currently remain saved designs. Supported cut lists have a separate optimisation, quote and payment journey; a visual preview does not approve a design for manufacture.

When is the price confirmed?

Supported cut lists optimise and price before you review the quote and pay. Unsupported machining, coating preparation and delivery exceptions need staff review before payment.

How do collection and delivery work?

Collection and delivery are available through the ordering journey. Configured areas use the current delivery charges; unmatched postcodes go to staff for a delivery quote before payment.

Choose the tool

An idea for furniture or known panel sizes?

Studio lets you configure furniture and save a design. Board Cutting & CNC starts with finished panel sizes or an existing guided part template.

Prepare the brief

Keep the detail that belongs to your route.

For furniture, bring overall dimensions and storage needs. For cut lists, bring finished panel sizes, quantities, exact material, grain, edges and required operations.

Know the next step

Saving and ordering are different actions.

A furniture save does not start manufacture. Supported cutting lists can optimise and price, then continue to quote review and payment. Specialist exceptions remain with staff review.

Begin with the decision

Which journey are you on?

Furniture is a design-and-save journey. Supported cut lists have quotation and payment steps. Unsupported details keep their review requirements.

The workspace shows the available next step; these routes do not make every illustrated design orderable.
Explore a furniture designConfigure a supported item or measured project, then save your design.Enter finished panel sizesPrepare a supported cut list with material, grain, edging and service choices.Ask a project-specific questionBring the exact item, code or operation and a focused reference if available.

Find the answer by project stage

Read the guide that owns the detail.

Use these pages when your question needs more than a short answer.

Preparing production detail

Review finished sizes, materials, edges and machining before entering components.

Prepare a cutting brief

Following your journey

Compare saving furniture with supported panel quotation and payment.

Follow the stages

Before asking support

Still need a hand?

The support page has a focused message checklist. Start with the question you need answered.

Contact support
  1. Choose the relevant design or panel route

  2. Identify the exact item, material or operation

  3. Include a project or order reference if you have one

  4. Keep only the drawing or screenshot needed to explain the question

Need project-specific help?

Send the exact question to support.

Include the project reference, part name, material and relevant drawing where possible.