Toolbox

Toolbox is a hardware and joinery plugin for the BeeGraphy Editor, built for furniture, cabinet and carcass design. It turns panel-based 3D models into manufacturing-ready assemblies by adding fasteners, hinges, connectors, slides, rails and brackets — each with the exact machining operations needed to install them. Instead of modelling screw holes or hinge bores by hand, you place a hardware node, connect a host solid, and the boolean cuts and drilling operations are applied in real time. The result is an assembly visualised with the hardware in place and the machining data ready for inspection or export.

Node Groups

Fastener

The Fastener group contains standard hardware items and their associated drilling operations. BoltNut covers hex bolt and nut pairs from M4 to M24. Wood Screw produces a revolved wood screw with countersink and pilot hole. Dowel provides cylindrical wooden or steel dowel pins with two blind holes. For flat-pack carcass work, Confirmat Screw generates a Euro confirmat with a stepped drill, while EuroScrew is a cross-dowel connecting screw that drills the face and the edge. TeeNut gives a press-in tee nut drilled from the bottom face.

Connector, Lock, and Hinge

The Connector group contains Cam Lock, a Minifix-style eccentric cam lock with a 15 mm pocket, through-hole and cross-bore — ideal for knock-down flat-pack joins. Lock includes Door Lock, a rectangular furniture door lock with pocket, cylinder bore and faceplate groove. The Hinge group provides Cup Hinge, a 35 mm European cup hinge in the Blum Clip Top style, with all six machining operations for the cup bore and mounting arm.

Placement

Placement nodes put hardware onto panels. Place Hardware positions a toolbox item at a world-space location and normal direction, cutting the host solid in real time. Auto Placement distributes N copies of a toolbox item on a chosen face using a CSS-flexbox layout — justify-content along the long axis, align-items along the cross axis, with horizontal and vertical padding shrinking the working area. Each tool’s operations travel as a rigid group, so multi-operation tools keep their relative geometry.

Slides

Drawer Slide outputs a side-mount or under-mount drawer slide pair with a dynamic screw hole array. Linear Rail provides MGN/HGR-series linear guide rails with one or more carriage blocks.

Brackets

Corner Bracket creates a right-angle L-bracket for cabinet and carcass reinforcement, with screw holes on both legs.

Machining and Mapping

Machining Visualizer renders machining operations as color-coded ghost overlays on a host solid, with optional diameter and depth labels for each operation type. It is intended for inspecting and debugging the operations produced by other Toolbox nodes before export. Spatial Operation Mapper maps colliding hardware operations onto sheets using solid-solid intersection — a way to collect and organise machining data across multiple panels.

Example Usage

Flat-pack cabinet joint
Connect a panel to a Cam Lock, then wire a Place Hardware node with the panel as host and a position and normal on the panel face. The cam lock appears in place, and the pocket, through-hole and cross-bore are cut into the panel. Repeat on the mating panel with a mirrored normal and use Machining Visualizer to check all three bores before export.

Automatic door hinges
Use Auto Placement with a Cup Hinge on a door panel, setting the number of hinges to 3 and adjusting padding to respect the top and bottom margins. The cup bores land on the door, the mounting plate holes stay on the cabinet side, and the hinge screws arrange themselves as a rigid group with every operation shown.

Drawer assembly preview
Create a drawer box from panels, then add a Drawer Slide pair in side-mount configuration. Place one slide on the drawer side and one on the cabinet interior with Place Hardware. Each slide brings its own screw hole array, and Machining Visualizer shows the holes as overlaid operations so you can verify the screw pattern matches the panel thickness before producing cut files.