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For CNC, laser and 3D print shops

Design the wall.
Cut it tomorrow.

This room is live. The wall in it is generated rib by rib by the same engine that writes your cut files.Shape a parametric rib wall in your browser and download cut files nested for your machine, your sheet and your bit.

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01 · Precision

Every rib is its own curve.

No two are the same. Each profile is calculated, numbered and notched for the cleats that hang it. Look closely: that is the plywood edge you will actually cut.

Ribs
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Wall
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Relief
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02 · Your turn

Change it. It rebuilds.

Pattern

More patterns, stacked layers and your own formulas are in the full designer.

Finish

Light

— ribs · — sheets

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03 · Ready to cut

It ends as sheets, not a picture.

The wall you just shaped, nested for a 1220 × 2440 sheet and a 6 mm bit. Dog-bone corners, numbered ribs, cleats and spacer combs included.

Nesting…
Sheets
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Parts
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Cutting
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Corner fillets
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Download as DXF, SVG and STL with an assembly sheet carrying your logo.

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In the shop

Made on the machines you already own.

Routed from sheet goods, lasered from thin stock, or printed. The files arrive sized for the machine that will make them.

A finished rib wall
CNC routing a rib
Laser cutting thin stock
Light across the rib edges

Illustrative footage generated with AI from renders of real walls.

Design studio

The wall is the first. It is not the only one.

Every design tool takes your machine, your sheet and your bit, and gives back files that cut first time.

Live

Parametric Rib Wall

A sculpted wall of flat ribs standing on edge. Choose a pattern, fit it to your wall, machine and material, and download sheet files that cut right the first time.

16 presets

Live

Slat Panel

A slatted acoustic panel: straight slats at an even spacing on two battens, nested onto your sheets.

3 presets

Live

QR Code

A scannable QR code for a link, text, Wi-Fi login or contact card, sized in millimetres and ready to engrave, score or cut as a stencil.

5 presets

Live

Barcode

Code 128, Code 39, EAN-13, UPC-A and ITF-14 barcodes with the check digit worked out for you, sized by bar width in millimetres.

5 presets

Live

Greek Key

The classic Greek key (meander) drawn as one continuous line: a border strip, a closed frame with turned corners, or an all-over fill that repeats without a seam.

5 presets

Live

Islamic Star Pattern

Geometric star-and-polygon patterns built the traditional way (Hankin's polygons in contact) on square, hexagonal and octagonal tilings: 4, 6, 8 and 12-fold stars as engraved strapwork or as a cut-through lattice screen.

5 presets

Live

Geometric Patterns

Parametric surface patterns for panels and screens: honeycomb, chevron, herringbone, Truchet tiles, rings, waves, Voronoi lattice and halftone dots from a gradient or a picture.

8 presets

Live

Ancient Scripts

Write in Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform, runes and other ancient scripts and get clean vector outlines to engrave, score or cut. Names can be spelled sound by sound from Latin letters (a spelling, not a translation).

7 presets

Live

Maze

Solvable mazes for wall art and puzzle books: square, octilinear (45-degree turns), round, hex, triangle and heart or custom outlines. Grooved CNC panels, laser-cut black-and-birch layers, a box frame and back panel with serial number, a solution card and a printable PDF.

7 presets

Live

Mandala

Radial mandalas with N-fold symmetry and mirroring: concentric bands of petals, teardrops, arcs, dots, lattice, scallops and kites. Cut as one connected stencil, or as a layered stack of 2-5 sheets whose openings grow toward the front so each lower layer shows as a rim.

6 presets

Live

Topographic Layers

A layered landscape shadow box: generated terrain (mountains, ridges, islands or hills) or an uploaded heightmap sliced into contour levels. Each sheet is cut so the land above its level remains, with a solid border, registration holes and optional glue guides, front frame and LED spacer.

5 presets

Live

Kumiko

Japanese kumiko lattices (asanoha, sakura, goma, kaku-asa and kikkō) on a triangle or square grid. Cut through as a connected screen with a solid frame, or engraved as a filled bar pattern.

6 presets

Live

Botanical Screen

Botanical screens: space-colonisation leaf venation or recursive branching inside a leaf, circle, heart or rectangle. The veins and rim are the material and everything between is cut away, so the screen is one connected piece.

6 presets

Live

Star Map

A rectangular sky chart for a local date, time and place: stars above the horizon by magnitude as dots or cut holes, constellation lines, a horizon and azimuth/altitude grid, and a text block. Astronomy is computed locally from a bundled public-domain bright-star catalogue.

6 presets

Live

Line Art

Spirograph and guilloche curves, radial rosettes and moiré wave fields, drawn as open paths ordered to keep machine travel short. Score or engrave them on a panel.

6 presets

Live

Logo to 3D

Turn a logo or artwork (SVG, PNG, JPEG, WebP) into a raised or engraved 3D piece: STL and multi-colour 3MF for printing, heightmap for CNC.

7 presets

Live

Block diffuser

Mosaic sound wall of square wooden blocks at different depths with sloped faces and a colour gradient: cut list by saw setup, backboard placement map, STL, heightmap.

5 presets

Coming next

Custom pattern panels

Your own repeating pattern as a cut panel or screen: scale it, set the bridges, fit it to the sheet.

Coming next

Islamic geometric designs

Star patterns, girih and mashrabiya screens for laser and CNC, generated to size with kerf allowed for.

How it works

From your machine to a wall that goes together first time.

  1. Tell it your machine

    Pick your router, laser or printer from the checked presets, or type in the bed size, bit and kerf. Add the sheet you buy and its measured thickness.

  2. Design or choose

    Shape something in the design studio, or pick a design from the library filtered to what fits your bed.

  3. Download and cut

    Closed-contour DXF and SVG in real millimetres, nested on your sheets, with fillets for your bit and every part numbered.

Machines

One platform. Three kinds of machine.

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CNC routing

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Laser cutting

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3D printing

Your shop

Machines and projects

Assistant

Say what you want. Watch it happen.

The assistant uses the same controls you do. Ask it to fit a wall on fewer sheets, swap the material, or file the design under a client. Your own AI agents can connect too, over MCP.

Plan the Circle Wave for my router on 18 mm birch, 1220 × 2440 sheets.

get machine profile Shop router
wall plan for machine circle-wave

It answers with the real numbers: ribs, parts, sheets and metres of cutting for your bit.

Pricing

Start free. Pay when it earns its keep.

Every plan includes the design studio and the 3D preview. Yearly billing costs less.

Free

$0forever

Try the generators and the starter library on one machine.

  • 1 machine
  • 3 projects
  • 3 exports per month
  • Watermarked files
  • Personal use only
Start free

Maker

$19USD / month

For the serious hobbyist and the one-person shop.

  • 3 machines
  • 25 projects
  • Unlimited exports, no watermark
  • Full design library
  • Commercial licence
  • 50 AI credits every month
Choose Maker

Shop

Most shops

$49USD / month

For shops that quote and deliver client work.

  • Everything in Maker
  • 10 machines
  • Unlimited projects
  • Nesting and tiling
  • White-label exports
  • Client quotes
  • 200 AI credits every month
Choose Shop

Factory

$129USD / month

For teams and automated production.

  • Everything in Shop
  • Unlimited machines
  • API and MCP access
  • 5 team seats
  • 1000 AI credits every month
Choose Factory

Prices in USD. Paid plans let you sell what you make; the files themselves stay yours to use, not to share. Full comparison and credit packs.

Questions

Shop owners usually ask

Which machines does it work with?

CNC routers, laser cutters and 3D printers, plus plasma, waterjet and vinyl cutters. Register the bed size, tool diameter or kerf, and the sheet you use; files are planned for that machine. Exports are DXF and SVG for cutting and STL for 3D.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Everything runs in the browser, including the 3D preview, on a phone, tablet or desktop. You open the exported files in the software you already use: VCarve, Aspire, Fusion, LightBurn, Inkscape or AutoCAD.

Do I get G-code?

Not yet. You get clean design files (DXF, SVG, STL) fitted to your machine and sheet, ready for VCarve, Aspire, Fusion, LightBurn or your slicer.

Will the slots fit my material?

Every export uses the measured thickness you enter for your sheet, your bit diameter for corner fillets, and your kerf on lasers.

Can I sell what I make?

On a paid plan, yes: you may sell the physical products you cut from our designs and the design studio. The digital files themselves may not be resold, shared or redistributed. The free plan is for personal use. See the licence.

What does the assistant cost?

Each answer uses one assistant credit. Paid plans include a monthly allowance and you can buy credit packs; the free plan gets a few answers a day.

Can I cancel at any time?

Yes. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for, then drop to the free plan. Your machines, projects and designs stay.

Can my own AI agent use it?

Yes. On a plan with API access, connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with a personal access token. It gets the same tools as the built-in assistant.

Assistant

Can change anything on this page

Make it fit on five sheets without losing the ripple.

set ribGapMm 18 → 26
plan wall for Shop router

Done. The wall now nests on 5 sheets of 2440 × 1220. The ripple keeps its rings; the gap between ribs went from 18 to 26 mm.

The assistant works on your own machines, materials and projects. Create a free account to try it.

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