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Learn 3D by building real things.

Draw furniture the way a workshop makes it, board by board, right here in your browser. Free, with nothing to download and no account.

  • Five lessons, about an hour
  • On a computer, tablet or phone
  • Every board checked to 1 mm

Never used 3D before?

Start with First steps

Five little games that teach the mouse. Do each one as many times as you like: no timer, no score.

Play the first game
  1. 1ClickPop the knots out of a plank, then double-click the toolbox.
  2. 2DragPress, hold and move. Stack the planks on the pile.
  3. 3ZoomRoll the wheel to get closer. Find the ladybird on the bird box.
  4. 4Turn and slideDrag to turn the shed round and find its door. Hold Shift to slide it.
  5. 5Draw and pushDraw a rectangle on the ground, then pull it up into a box.

On a laptop or a tablet? Every game works with a trackpad or a finger too.

How a lesson works

The same three steps, every lesson.

  1. 1

    Watch it done

    Each step is acted out first: the tool lights up, the pointer drags, the size is typed into the Measurements box, the board appears.

  2. 2

    Do it in the model

    The tools work the way they do in SketchUp: Rectangle, Push/Pull, Move, the arrow keys that lock an axis. Each step ticks itself once your model has it.

  3. 3

    Check your work

    Check my work measures every board to the millimetre and tells you which one is wrong and why: too long, too far left, turned the wrong way.

Courses

Each one builds one real thing from start to finish.

Free5 lessons, about 60 minutes

Cabinet making in 3D

Draw a real 1000 × 2100 × 600 wardrobe the way a workshop cuts it: the box, the back and plinth, shelves that fit, doors with the right gaps, and a filler scribed to a wall that isn't straight.

For carpenters, joiners, kitchen fitters and anyone who wants to plan furniture properly.

0 of 5 lessons passed

750 points

Being drawn now

Shelves that don't sag

Alcove shelves on battens: measuring wall to wall, spans, and why 18 mm board needs support every 800 mm.

Being drawn now

A kitchen run

Base units, a worktop and fillers to the walls: the sizes kitchen fitters work to.

What would you like to build next?

Who it's for

In your language

The lessons speak 6 languages so far. Pick yours here, or at the top of any page.