JoinerKit help
How to do things in JoinerKit, step by step, in the words on its screens.
Start here
- Getting started with JoinerKit: your first job, step by stepFrom a new account to a cutting list and a customer quote: put in your prices, draw the room, add the units, then check the cost and print the quote.
- How to start a job from a sketch, a drawing or a photoTake a photo of a hand sketch with sizes, draw it on the screen, or use a photo of furniture your customer likes: JoinerKit reads it into a job for you to check.Part of Pro
Drawing the job
- How to draw the room: walls, corners and sloping ceilingsSet up a room in JoinerKit: pick its shape, type the walls you measured, move the corners, then add a chimney breast, doors, windows and sloping ceilings with dormers.
- How to add shelves, dividers, doors and drawers to a unitLay out the inside of a cupboard, wardrobe or bookcase in JoinerKit: spaces, evenly spaced shelves, doors on part of a unit, drawers across the front or in a space, and hanging rails.
- Sloped-top, tapered and skeiling units for awkward spacesMake units for sloping ceilings, eaves and stairs in JoinerKit: sloped tops, tapered sides, skeilings that fall to the back, and fitting a unit under the ceiling.
- Doors, windows, skirting, panelling, stud walls, beds and pergolasJoinerKit isn't only cabinets: draw room doors and windows with their architrave, skirting, wall panelling, stud and media walls, beds, loft frames and pergolas, all on the cutting list.
Cutting lists, costs and quotes
- How to get a cutting list and sheet layouts for a jobWhere JoinerKit's cutting list and sheet layouts are, what they allow for (saw cut, trims, grain), how timber lengths are worked out, and how to print them for the workshop.
- How to price a job and give your customer a quoteSet your material prices once, add labour and profit as your own extras, turn on VAT if you charge it, and print or save a one-price quote with 3D pictures.
- What JoinerKit's warnings mean, and how Auto fix puts them rightRed errors are things that can't be built as drawn; amber warnings are things to check. Where they show, what the common ones mean, and how Auto fix and Undo work.
Showing the customer
Your devices, country and measurements
- Using JoinerKit on a phone or iPad, and on site with no signalJoinerKit runs in the web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, keeps working with no signal on site, and saves to your account when you're back in range.
- Using JoinerKit in inches, and in America or AustraliaSwitch JoinerKit to inches, dollars or euros, and to American or Australian words and materials: countertops, baseboard and casing, or benchtops and kickboards.
Moves with a mouse and with a finger
| To | With a mouse | With a finger |
|---|---|---|
| Pick something | Click it | Tap it |
| Pick a shelf, space or door inside a unit | Click it again | Tap it again |
| Move it | Drag it | Drag it |
| Change its size | Drag the dots round it | Drag the dots round it |
| More choices for it | Right-click it | Press and hold it |
| Turn the 3D view | Drag | Drag |
| Zoom in or out | Ctrl + scroll (in 3D, just scroll), or the − and + under the drawing | Pinch, or the − and + under the drawing |
| Slide the 3D view | Right-drag | Two fingers |
| Move something in 3D | Click it, then drag the round handle in front of it | Tap it, then drag the round handle in front of it |
| Move a frame's ladder | Click the ladder in 3D, then drag its round handle round the frame | Tap the ladder in 3D, then drag its round handle round the frame |
Keyboard shortcuts
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Y, or Ctrl+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Delete or Backspace | Delete what's picked (only a shelf, or a space's drawers, when that's what's picked) |
| Arrow keys | Move what's picked one step (the steps are in Settings); with Shift, ten steps |
| Shift while dragging | Put a room's corner anywhere, or turn something freely, without snapping |
| Enter | Finish typing a number |
| Escape | Close a menu, or leave full screen |
Still stuck?
Inside JoinerKit, Ask JoinerKit (part of Pro) answers in your own words and takes you straight to the place. Or ask the people who make it: Send feedback in your photo's menu, the contact page, or support@joinerkit.com. For the trade itself (measuring, sheets, pricing), see the guides.