Make room

Scan your room. Get cabinets made for it.

Plywise turns a quick iPhone scan into modern European cabinetry that fits your exact space, shows it life-size in AR, and hands any local CNC shop the files to cut it.

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Floating 36-inch vanity with walnut drawer fronts, Baltic birch plywood top and a white vessel sink
How it works

From a wall to a cut list in minutes

1

Scan

Walk the room with a LiDAR iPhone. Apple's RoomPlan measures every wall, door, window, and the sink you're replacing.

2

Design

Pick a piece and a look. The engine builds every panel, drawer and hinge to fit the wall: no CAD, no guessing.

3

See it

It locks onto your wall in AR with real wood textures. Walk around it, swap walnut for white oak, slide it into place.

4

Send it

Get a job package any 3-axis CNC shop can cut: layered DXF sheets, cut list, hardware list and a quote.

Live 3D demo

Every model here is built by the engine

Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, change finishes, and pull the drawers open. These are the same parts the CNC cuts, down to the plies in the Baltic birch.

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One box, many looks

Every modern cabinet is the same box

Contemporary European cabinetry is a plywood box on the 32 mm system, built a few different ways. Plywise captures the construction choices (how the fronts sit, how you open them, the base, the ends) as switches, so one engine makes every style.

Classic EuroFull-overlay slab fronts
Ply InsetThe box frames each front
Recessed InsetA shadow line all round
Milan FlushFlush ends, push to open
RunVanities, built-ins, sideboards
Diagram of the construction switches: full overlay, inset, flush face, half overlay; pull, routed groove, channel, push to open; toe kick, plinth, legs, wall-hung
For makers and CNC shops

Files your router already understands

Built for the flat-bed 3-axis routers in thousands of small shops, not a $300k beam saw.

  • Layered DXF per sheet: one layer per operation and depth, ready for a VCarve or Aspire toolpath template
  • Face-only machining (no edge boring), operations grouped for machines without a tool changer
  • Blum CLIP top hinges and TANDEM drawer slides drilled on the 32 mm system
  • U-drawers that wrap the sink trap, dadoed and captured backs, counterbored pulls
  • Grain-aware nesting, true measured sheet thickness, a quote with sheet yield

See a real job sheet →

Open vanity drawers showing a U-shaped drawer box that wraps around the sink drain
Open source

Free to use, build on and ship

Plywise is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The cabinet engine, the iPhone app and the hardware data are all on GitHub.

Engine

TypeScript, no dependencies. A short spec becomes every part, hole and dado. 47 tests, including one that checks every joint was actually machined.

iPhone app

Swift, RoomPlan and RealityKit. Scan, tap a wall, see it in AR with physically based wood textures.

Try it

cd engine && npm run samples builds every sample design into a full job package with a 3D preview.

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Where it's at

Building in the open

Working

Cabinet engine

Vanities, U-drawers, sideboards, built-in boxes; doors, drawers, shelves; toe kick, legs or wall-hung; quotes.

Beta

iPhone app

Scan, place and view on TestFlight. Next: designing on the phone and sending the job.

Next

First cut + shop network

A test vanity on a real 5×10 router, then a simple way to send jobs to local shops.