Nine out of ten parts in a furniture project are rectangles. Shelves, doors, side panels, tops. Each has four straight edges, and each edge can be assigned its own edge band: one along the top and bottom, another along the sides; one thickness at the front, another at the back. Banding a straight edge is the most refined scenario in the industry: machine, tape, glue, knife, roller — and the edge is done in seconds.
In this section iFurn.pro describes how to assign an edge to the four sides of a part, how "top" differs from "front" in project terms, how pre-jointing the edge works before banding (why mill the board before the tape) and why "without pre-jointing" is sometimes a deliberate choice rather than cost-cutting.
Here too — combinations of tape thickness on different sides of one part, typical scenarios (heavy PVC on the front, 0.4 mm elsewhere) and how iFurn.pro automatically recalculates the clean dimensions of a part taking into account the edge thickness on each side.
Nine out of ten parts in a furniture project are rectangles with four straight edges. Shelves of wardrobes, doors of cabinets, side panels of dressers, countertops, kitchen fronts — all are panels whose edges run paralle…
ReadWhen you open a rectangular part card in a iFurn.pro project, you see four rows for edge band tape — one per side: Top, Bottom, Left, Right. Each side has its own schematic icon, and each has an independent set of settin…
ReadEdge pre-jointing is an operation on an edge banding machine that is not done every day, but it separates a disciplined factory from a «good enough» one. On the machine the part edge passes through a milling unit that ta…
ReadWhen a technologist opens the part card and sees four edge-tape fields, the temptation is to put the same tape everywhere. It is simple, fast and asks for no thought. But that "same everywhere" is exactly where money sli…
ReadThe three part sizes — "before trimming, without edge", "after trimming, without edge" and "part with edge" — are linked by a recalculation that iFurn.pro performs itself. It is done not for the part as a whole but separ…
ReadSetting up straight edging in iFurn.pro means working with the part's four sides right in the parts table row. The band is set in place; additional edge processing, if needed, is configured in a separate window. No tabs …
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