Appliances and furniture

Chair construction drawing (how the tenons meet in the back leg)

A chair drawn for making: four tenons meet in the back leg, and they must be set at different heights

This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.

Notes in the source (in Japanese)

Source (YAML)

examples/gallery/201-椅子の製作図.zumen.yaml

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