Design Intuition -- 3D CAD for Woodworking
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Woodworking CAD that's a joy to use... at an affordable price |
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Design Intuition - A tool of inspirationNot just of inspiration, but of realization of that which can be achieved. Taken from your mind and transposed into the computer, a 3D design of ... pretty much anything you desire. Then, your inspiration grows as you see your idea take shape. Your confidence grows as you realize how easy it is to create reliable precision project drawings. Simplicity and elegance. The key to a software tool like Design Intuition is simplicity and elegance. Simplicity of use, elegance in result. From the moment you open the program and begin to use it, you see how the ideas flow from your mind onto the "virtual plans" which turn into printed plans and then into a finished project. Liberate your passion. Woodworking for those who enjoy it on a regular basis, whether they be hobbyists, kitchen designers, contractors, or just every day people, it's the passion in them which delivers the desire to take wood and turn it into something functional. Design Intuition allows that inner-muse to come to life and through the program deliver precise plans to make that dream a reality. |
 When your heart is young, your head full of dreams, and your hands tingle with creativity's beat, grab your tools. Dream it up! |
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Intelligent objects. There are many points to recommend this product. Not just ease of use, although that's one of the strong points. There's the library of "smart" objects which make design and error correction a problem of the past. These intelligent objects allow for mistake correction with a couple of keystrokes thereby decreasing the time it takes to revise a current project into a printable/presentable revised plan. "It's as if the program knew what I was thinking" said a user in an email to GizmoLab founder Jonathan Sand recently. Jonathan understands first hand the trials and tribulations of woodworking as it's been his passion since childhood. Currently shipping in both Macintosh OSX and Windows XP & 2000 versions (Macintosh Universal Binary currently in development), Design Intuition is a tool that can be used by both young and old on the computer today. By going to a number of places and downloading the software, the installation is fast and in less than 10 minutes you can be creating your first project with the tools and objects contained in the software. It works the way you do. You can look everywhere in the software market and with tools that cost hundreds, even thousands more, you'll not find one that works the way that you do. That allows you easily to achieve an end result, and that functionally is worth the investment. At less than $200.00, Design Intuition is the one software product that everyone should have on their computer system. You just never know when someone will ask you to design that new piece of furniture for the basement, or the bedroom. Now you can, and you can view it in 3D as you create it. Customers of GizmoLab share that they use the program in the following areas of woodworking (to name a few):
Design Intuition - Taking Woodworking to a whole new dimension. |
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Mistakes happen ...
How many times have you designed a project (whether by drawing on paper or using a CAD program) only to realize that you made a mistake early but discover it well into the design process, or worse, after submitting it to a client for comments. You now have lots of dimensions to change, lines to erase and redraw, hours of tedious work that is prone to further errors. Especially ones that are difficult to detect, but matter when you try to build from your design drawings. These corrections may take hours, and they're no fun at all.
Recover instantly with Design Intuition
Design Intuition makes recovery from mistakes simple. Our included library of Smart Objects allows you to correct mistakes in mere seconds. Using them is easy, and if you ever have to, correcting a mistake or adjusting a drawing can literally be done as your client watches you. Nice for showing them the flexibility of your work for them and avoids a costly additional visit.
For example, consider the following cabinet:
You realize that it needs to be 1 3/4 inches wider and 1 1/4 inches taller (circled above). Simply edit those dimensions directly on the drawing itself:
Press enter, and the drawing instantly updates ALL the dimensions that need to be changed (circled below):
Notice that all the components of the cabinet have been resized and relocated. Some of them have dimensions that don't change. All of the careful and tedious work of this task has been done for you, in the blink of an eye.
Save money on materials
After investing time and thought into your design, the next step is purchasing. Design Intuition makes this step easy. Because Design Intuition keeps track of each piece in your design, you don't have to. No matter how many changes you make to your design, the Materials List is always accurate, complete and up-to-date. Simply print it out and bring it with you. Shop with confidence that you have a complete and accurate list of the wood you will need.
You no longer have to sit down and transcribe from your finished drawings, a lumber list; a lumber list that becomes out-of-date the moment you alter your design.
* PLEASE NOTE: User testing has revealed that, while Design Intuition is intuitive and quite pleasant to use, some features can't be guessed at nor give visible clue that they exist. Reading our brief and comprehensive User Reference Manual, will reveal Design Intuition's full power and potential.
