Things we built because we needed them ourselves. They are free, they need no account, and they work on any file, not only the ones you bought here.
Drop in any STL and find out whether your machine can make it: size against your work area, carved depth, the board thickness you need, how much detail each bit would smooth away, and roughly how long it will take.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
Upload a relief or cut-out STL, set which side faces the cutter, and get the boundary vectors around the carving: the blue line around the carved area and the red line around the subject. Fine-tune them with node editing, cut, trim and join, then download a DXF and SVG that land on the model in VCarve, Aspire, Carveco, ArtCAM and Fusion.
Runs in your browser. Your STL is never uploaded.
Open any STL, OBJ or 3MF and see in plain words whether it is watertight with no mesh errors: holes and open edges, non-manifold edges, faces pointing the wrong way, broken triangles, loose fragments and faces crossing each other, all marked on a 3D view, with the size in mm and inches and the volume. Checks only, changes nothing.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
Drop in a broken STL, OBJ or 3MF and get it back repaired for the machine that will make it: a clean 2.5D relief for a CNC router, a closed solid for an FDM or resin printer, or a depth map for a laser. Holes, bad edges, inside-out faces, units and orientation are fixed, and the result is checked again before it says ready.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
Drop in a relief STL that is thicker than your board. It levels the relief first, so the rim sits flat all the way round, then slides a cutting plane up from the back and takes away only the spare material under the carving. The carving keeps its exact depth and the file comes back watertight.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
Enter any ball nose and stepover to see the ridge height between passes, the number of passes and the finishing time, and the coarsest stepover whose ridges a light sanding removes.
Inches or millimetres. Works for tapered ball nose bits too.
Work out what to charge for a carving: materials, machine time and your hands-on time, times a multiplier, rounded to a price that looks deliberate, plus what you keep after the platform fee and what your hour really earned.
Same formula as our guide to selling CNC carvings.
Design a one-piece printable lampshade in the browser, change the profile and the weave live, and download the STL. There is a free demo and a standalone Windows desktop version.
Prints in vase mode with no seam.
Something you keep doing by hand that a tool could do for you? Tell us and it might end up on this page.
