Tell it which cases are on your shelf. It sizes every cabinet to hold them, draws the wall to scale, and hands the whole thing to a cut list that lays your parts out on the sheet.
Free during open beta. Sign up and use everything. No card, nothing to switch on: your free beta starts the moment you sign in, and nothing renews. See what it costs after the beta, or read the open beta terms.
Five stages, and each one hands its work to the next. You never re-type a dimension, and nothing gets measured twice.
Search 217 tool cases and set how many of each are on the shelf.
Drop cabinets in and watch the bank draw itself to scale, sized to its boxes.
Choose a material for each component from your own library.
Every piece, its cut size, its grain and its edgebanding, in one table.
The optimizer nests every part on your sheets and hands back the offcut.
Every case in the catalog carries its real footprint, so the cabinet comes out sized to hold your box with the drawer slides and the tray that make it pull out. Type a name or a part number, say how many you have, and put them on the wall.
It covers the Systainer³ line, the S, L and XXL storage boxes, and the third-party cases that stack with them.
On the Festool forums a cabinet like this gets called a sysport, after Festool's own SYS-PORT cart. This plans yours, sized to what is on your shelf rather than to a catalog.
Inventory
A Systainer needs more room than its own width. The planner adds what goes around it, then reports the cabinet that comes out the other side. Change the slide type or the carcass thickness and every cabinet re-sizes with it.
489 mm of cabinet
Height works the same way. Each box sits on its own tray, so a cabinet holding six cases stands a tray thicker for every one of them.
Materials live in a library you build once: species, thickness, sheet size, and how it is priced, whether that is per sheet, per board foot, per linear unit or per roll. Every project draws from the same library, so a price change lands everywhere at once.
Then each component of the cabinet picks its own. One box can mix 3/4 inch sides, a 1/4 inch back and 1/2 inch trays, and the cut list follows every one of those choices. Edgebanding is worked out per exposed edge rather than picked per component, so you never have to remember which edges show.
A material for every component
Every piece in the plan is named the way you would name it at the bench, and carries the size to cut it at. The saw kerf and the edgebanding are already out of the number, so what you read is what you set the fence to.
| # | Part | Material | Cut size | Grain | Edgebanding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Side L, Bank A | Baltic birch 18 mm | 610 x 596 | vertical | Birch 1 mm, front edge |
| 2 | Side R, Bank A | Baltic birch 18 mm | 610 x 596 | vertical | Birch 1 mm, front edge |
| 3 | Bottom, Bank A | Baltic birch 18 mm | 604 x 380 | horizontal | Birch 1 mm, top edge |
| 4 | Back, Bank A | Baltic birch 6 mm | 700 x 596 | none | none |
| 5 | Top stretcher (front), Bank A | Baltic birch 18 mm | 604 x 90 | horizontal | Birch 1 mm, top edge |
| 6 | Toe kick fascia | Maple 18 mm | 900 x 140 | horizontal | Maple 1 mm, top edge |
The real table carries four more columns: a tick box per piece for cut, edgebanded and done, a scale drawing of the part with its edgebanded sides marked, the part type, and which sheet it came off once the layout has run.
Sheet layout
One click sends the whole bank across. Every part gets a place on your real sheets, turned where the grain allows it and spaced by your saw's actual kerf, and whatever is left over comes back as an offcut you can spend on the next job.
One sheet from a four-cabinet bank, drawn from a real layout. Your own numbers depend on your sheets, your kerf and what you are building. You can also tell it to spend your leftover remnants before it opens a fresh sheet.
Tell it how many of each you already have. As you place boxes on the wall it keeps a running total of what the plan needs beyond that, so the shopping list writes itself instead of getting guessed at the till.
| Case | Owned | Placed | To buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Systainer³ M 137 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| Systainer³ M 187 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Systainer³ M 337 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Systainer³ M 437 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Systainer³ L 237 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Set the wall in feet and the cabinets in millimetres if that is how your head works. Every field reads and writes in the unit you chose.
Your first sign-in opens a sample project that is already planned. Pull it apart to see how it works, or start a blank one whenever you are ready.
Two things are being built now, and both land for everyone on a plan at no extra cost.
Walk around the wall before you cut it. Spin it, look down the run, and see whether it reads right in the room and not just on an elevation. The 3D view already runs in CabDesign, the full cabinet suite this planner is built on, and it is coming here next.
The catalog grows as cases get measured. New Systainer models go in as they ship, and more of the systems woodworkers actually stack next to them are being added alongside the five brands already here.
Pricing
Nobody is being charged for any of these today. Every plan opens the whole tool, so the only thing that changes between them is how long you keep it and what you pay.
See whether it plans the wall you actually have.
7 days, no card needed
We never take a card, so there is nothing to cancel.
For anyone whose next wall is already on the whiteboard.
Unlimited projects, cancel any time
Nothing is being billed while the beta runs.
For the one wall you have been meaning to build.
One-time payment, no subscription
14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
None of this is running yet. You sign up and the whole tool is free while the open beta lasts. When it ends you will hear from us first, and then you decide whether this is a monthly thing or a one-wall thing. The open beta terms cover how it works.
Nine answers on a page of their own: which cases and brands are in the inventory, what the trial covers, what it costs, and how the cut list works.
Pick your boxes, size the bank, cut the sheet. Seven days free, and no card to hand over first.
Start freeBuilt on the same engine as CabDesign, the full cabinet design suite from the same shop.