Free Woodworking Software

This page provides links to lots of free woodworking software, including downloadable software that you can run on your own PC as well as free online utilities.  If you're looking for free plans or other free woodworking materials, check out these two sites:

Free-Woodworking-Stuff.Com - An awesome collection of free woodworking books, catalogs, charts, plans, software, tool sweepstakes, and other woodworking stuff.

Free woodworking plans - The Woodworking Plan Finder has tons of free plans arranged by category.

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Board Feet Calculator
Here's a handy little calculator for quickly computing how much lumber you need to order for your next big project.  To install: download to a temporary location on your hard drive, click on bdft.exe to extract file components, click on setup.exe and follow directions. Delete all files created in temporary location. MS Windows.

Bill of Materials
This is a template for creating a bill of materials or materials list once a final drawing is in hand.

Project Summary Template
Use this template to create a summary sheet for your woodworking projects. Includes project name, date, customer, material costs, labor breakdown, and construction notes.

Online woodworking utilities
Calculators for figuring board feet, moisture content, wood shrinkage, drawer spacing, and shelf sag. Plus a woodworking quiz and wood selection utility.

Downloadable Woodworking Software

Anglesaw
Excel workbook that calculates the angle of a jeweler's saw blade or scroll saw blade if you are inlaying any material into another.

Arc Layout
Excel spreadsheet to calculate the path of a circular arc in a work piece given the length of the arc bottom and the rise at its midpoint. 

Basics
An order processing and inventory control system for cabinet, furniture, fixture and millwork manufacturing.  Designed for small companies.

Board Feet Calculator  
Quick and simple board feet calculator than can be used to figure out how much lumber to order for your next woodworking project.

Board Feet Calculator
Excel spreadsheet which calculates board feet given width and length.

Calculator/Converter
With this calculator you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide (MMs, Fractions, and Decimal inches) without converting to one or the other first.

Compound Miter Angles 
Excel spreadsheet for computing compound miter angles. Displays crosscut (miter gauge) and blade tilt angles.

Compound Miters (Nick Engler)
Nick Engler's calculator for figuring compound miters. Referenced in Popular Woodworking's April 2005 issue.

Component Sheet and Summary Sheet
Excel spreadsheet that computes costs and material requirements for cabinetmakers. Component sheet is for listing components, dimensions and time. Summary sheet is for summing selected groups and setting waste variables.

Cove Cutter 1.0 
Assists in determining blade height and cutting angle for making cove cuts on a table saw.  Interactively generates a cross-section view of the cove.

Design Express
Professional strength 3D solid modeling and associative 2D drawings. It's a no-risk way to get started with 3D parametric solid modeling. Use it as long as you like.  Alibre, Inc.

DesignWorkshop Lite
The complete freeware DesignWorkshop Lite software package provides all you need to build your own 3D models for home design and visualization of architecture, landscapes, exhibits, or any kind of spatial design.

Door Cost Calculator
This simple door cost calculator comes in handy if you order your doors from a door manufacturer.

Dovetail Template Maker
Use this dovetail template designer to get a visual idea of possible combinations of tail and pin layouts. Print templates, fold over end of wood and either mark or cut through the paper to form tails and pins.

Google SketchUp
A free 3-D design program based on the popular SketchUp design application. Allows you to click on a shape and then use features such as push/pull to create your desired 3D geometry. Includes shadowing, texture fills, and a selection of thousands of pre-drawn components. Google Inc.  Windows/Macintosh.

Inch2Metric
Simple but useful calculator that converts from inches to millimeters and reverse.

MaxCut
Provides quick and easy sheet optimizations with accurate cut plans for woodworkers.

Panel Pro 
Creates a bill of materials for a panel door given dimensions of opening, panel, rail and stile parameters and seasonal movement allowance.

Picnic Table Design
Generates picnic table plans based on dimensions and other specifications that you input.  Eidsness U-design software.  Windows.

Raised Panel Calculator
Excel spreadsheet that produces a rudimentary diagram and a cut list for raised panel doors. Inputs include width of rail and styles, outer dimensions and quantity. 

Shelf Deflection Software 
Computes shelf deflection, loading, and related parameters. Also includes info on 38 different wood species.

SlingShot Cabinet Detailer
Spreadsheet that enerates cutlists for frameless cabinet cases that can be exported in CSV format to the Sheet Layout optimization package.

SlingShot ToeKicker
Spreadsheet that calculates toe kick schedules for cabinets. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot.

SlingShot DoorMaker
Spreadsheet that calculates dimensions and cutlists for cabinet door parts. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot.

SlingShot DrawerBoxer
Spreadsheet that calculates dimensions and cutlists for drawer components. A companion spreadsheet to SlingShot.

Stairway Treads
Excel spreadsheet that calculates the ideal number of stairway treads given rise and run.

Task Timer
A handy stopwatch to time your tasks on woodworking projects.

Wood Movement Calculator 
Computes dimensions of lumber at different moisture content levels to assist woodworkers in allowing for wood movement in furniture designs.

Wood Movement Calculator 
Calculates wood movement due to temperature and humidity changes for many exotic and domestic species of wood.

Woodpro 
A lumber database and wood selection system featuring 331 common types of wood and their properties.

Woodsearch   Excel workbook
Excel workbook research aid that provides cross-referencing for over 16,000 woods and corresponding species names.

Woodworkers Calculator
Performs simple operations on fractional and/or decimal data and converts between data formats. Handles inches, feet, metric, etc.

Free Online Woodworking Utilities

Band Saw Calculator
Computes blade speed in surface feet per minute, tooth bite, gullet area, gullet fill, and horsepower required. Inputs include wood species, wheel diameter, tooth pitch, kerf, arbor rpm, depth of cut, and feed speed. International Online Expos Inc.  Online calculator.

Band Saw Feeds and Speeds Calculator
Computes rim speed, bite per tooth, and gullet feed index given wheel speed, wheel diamter, tooth pitch, feed speed, gullet area, and depth of cut. TKT Engineering Inc. Online calculator.

Band Saw Speed Calculator
Computes band saw blade speed in surface feet per minute given wheel diameter and wheel speed. Online calculator.

Band Saw SFPM
Computes band saw blade speed in surface feet per minute given wheel diameter, motor RPM, motor pulley diameter, and wheel pulley diameter. Online calculator.

Board Foot Calculator
A basic board foot calculator. Just enter thickness, width and length to figure out cubic volume and board feet.

Box Calculator
Creates cut lists for building boxes given box dimensions and material thickness.

Coffee Table Calculator
Creates cut lists for building a custom coffee table given table various dimensions and material thickness.

Cove Angle Calculator
Online spreadsheet that yields tablesaw-blade and fence-angle settings for both symmetrical and asymmetrical coves.

Crown Molding Calculator
Enter the slope angle, the angle of the molding with the wall, enter the wall angle, and then push the button according to how the angle was measured in degrees.

Draw Sizer - Arithmetic Progression
Computes graduated drawer sizes using arithmetic progression. Generates a graphic and a list of drawer heights.

Draw Sizer - Geometric Progression
Computes graduated drawer sizes using geometric progression. Generates a graphic and a list of drawer heights.

Draw Sizer - Hambridge Proportioning
Computes graduated drawer sizes using Hambridge proportioning. Generates a graphic and a list of drawer heights.

Ellipses Calculator - Computes various ellipse parameters: major and minor axis, eccentricity, area, foci distance, and loop length.

Footulator
Board foot calculator that is a simplified version of the Tabulator (see below). This utility does not provide materials list generation.

Home Renovator
Online estimating software for the Do-It-Yourselfer. Enter your project details and receive a complete report of the materials required, cutting instructions, recommended tools, cost estimates, etc.

Log Weight Calculator
Computes the weight of one more more logs given the species, diameter at small and large end, length, and number of logs.

Moisture Content Calculator
Computes equilibrium moisture content of wood given relative humidity and temperature.

Online Sheeting Cutting (AP-OCS)
Subscription-based 2D optimization tool that can be used in wood, metal, glass, and plastic industries.

Sagulator
Calculates shelf sag given type of shelf material, shelf load, length, width, and thickness. Handles many different materials including hardwoods, softwoods, and manufactured panels.

Shrinkulator
Estimates dimensional changes in wood,  either shrinkage or expansion, based on changes in the wood's moisture content.

Tabulator
A board foot calculator and lumber material list generator. Provides options for resawing, a waste factor, lumber costs, and customization of output results.

Who wants to be a woodworking whiz?
A quiz game for woodworkers that features 15 questions of varying difficulty and 3 lifelines.

Wood Picker
Wood selection tool that provides 10 different criteria such as weight, hardness, strength, and ease of working. Covers many of the most commonly used woods by woodworkers.

Kitchen Designer
Walks you through the process of creating a floor plan, adding cabinets, counters, doors, windows and appliances-in various styles and colors.

Shelves Calculator
Creates cut lists for building shelves given shelf dimensions and material thickness.

Woodworking Price Estimator - an online wizard for project cost estimating. From the makers of CutList Plus.

Workshop Planner (Grizzly) - Design a shop online. First define the size of the shop and then drag-n-drop tools where you want them. Table saws, band saws, drill presses, shapers, sanders, work tables,... they have em all.

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