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Every part of Lathe

51 screenshots of the app as it ships in 0.14 — from a sketch on a face to a building on its site, a wired panel and a routed board. Every picture is the real app.

Sketch Model Solid tools Generate Check Drawing Manufacture Print Floor plans House Site Electrical Boards Around the app
Sketch

Every part starts as a sketch.

Lines, arcs, circles and text on any face or plane, with the lengths and angles shown as you draw and constraints that hold them.

The sketcher: a profile drawn on the part's top face, its length and angle read out under the cursor.
The sketcher: a profile drawn on the part's top face, its length and angle read out under the cursor.
Text is a sketch too — lettering to extrude, emboss or cut into a face.
Text is a sketch too — lettering to extrude, emboss or cut into a face.
Model

The part is its history.

Every step stays in the browser and stays editable — change a sketch from last week and everything after it rebuilds.

The Model tab: sketches, extrudes and a cut in the browser; the part on the grid.
The Model tab: sketches, extrudes and a cut in the browser; the part on the grid.
Extrude, with its settings beside it: distance, direction, and whether it joins or cuts.
Extrude, with its settings beside it: distance, direction, and whether it joins or cuts.
Loft between two profiles.
Loft between two profiles.
Sweep a profile along a path.
Sweep a profile along a path.
Solid tools

Beyond extrude.

Lattice, channels, hinges, and holes sized from a fastener table rather than a number you looked up.

Lattice: pick a face and a pitch — the Mac Pro pattern, dimples or round holes.
Lattice: pick a face and a pitch — the Mac Pro pattern, dimples or round holes.
Channel: a groove cut along a line on a face — or a snap-in run a cable presses into.
Channel: a groove cut along a line on a face — or a snap-in run a cable presses into.
A print-in-place hinge from a few numbers.
A print-in-place hinge from a few numbers.
Fastener sizes are data: metric and inch ship, and sizes of your own travel with the file.
Fastener sizes are data: metric and inch ship, and sizes of your own travel with the file.
Generate

Parts from a few numbers.

Common parts you would otherwise model from scratch, each one a normal editable part once it is made.

A Gridfinity baseplate, any size.
A Gridfinity baseplate, any size.
A knob with its grip and its shaft.
A knob with its grip and its shaft.
A box and a lid that fits it.
A box and a lid that fits it.
A cable clip that snaps shut.
A cable clip that snaps shut.
An enclosure sized from a circuit board — the standoffs where its holes are.
An enclosure sized from a circuit board — the standoffs where its holes are.
Check

Will it hold, will it print.

The part checks itself before it goes anywhere: its mass from the material, how it bends under a load, and a coupon to print before you trust a fit.

Strength: a load on the part, and how far it bends.
Strength: a load on the part, and how far it bends.
Mass, volume and centre of mass from the material you chose.
Mass, volume and centre of mass from the material you chose.
A test coupon — three channels a fifth of a millimetre apart — to print before the real part.
A test coupon — three channels a fifth of a millimetre apart — to print before the real part.
Drawing

Drawings for the shop.

Views, sections, dimensions, GD&T, hole charts and parts lists, with a title block that knows the material. Out as PDF or DXF.

A part on an ANSI B sheet: four views, dimensions, and a title block with the material and the weight.
A part on an ANSI B sheet: four views, dimensions, and a title block with the material and the weight.
A floor plan on its sheet, with an elevation and the door and window schedule.
A floor plan on its sheet, with an elevation and the door and window schedule.
Manufacture

From the part to the machine.

CNC toolpaths on the part itself — stock, tools and operations — simulated before the cutter touches anything.

The Manufacture tab: the part, ready for a job.
The Manufacture tab: the part, ready for a job.
A job: stock, tools and operations, the toolpaths drawn on the part.
A job: stock, tools and operations, the toolpaths drawn on the part.
Simulate the cut, and scrub through it.
Simulate the cut, and scrub through it.
Setup sheets for whoever runs the machine.
Setup sheets for whoever runs the machine.
Print

Straight to the printer.

How long it will take, how much filament, and whether it needs supports — then off to Bambu Studio.

Print: the estimate beside the part.
Print: the estimate beside the part.
Time, weight and cost, from your printer and filament.
Time, weight and cost, from your printer and filament.
Your printer, set up once.
Your printer, set up once.
Floor plans

Buildings, too.

Walls, doors and windows on a grid, rooms, storeys, roofs and stairs — and a LiDAR survey from Contour straight in.

Walls, doors and windows, with their swings and sizes.
Walls, doors and windows, with their swings and sizes.
A roof over the plan, and the elevation drawn from it.
A roof over the plan, and the elevation drawn from it.
The building as a solid.
The building as a solid.
A room scanned on an iPhone, drawn as a plan.
A room scanned on an iPhone, drawn as a plan.
House

The building in 3D.

The plan stands up as a house: walk through it, furnish it, paint it, and light it by the sun or its own lamps.

The House tab: the plan built in 3D, furnished and painted.
The House tab: the plan built in 3D, furnished and painted.
Walls down, looking in from above.
Walls down, looking in from above.
Walking through at night, by the room's own lamps.
Walking through at night, by the room's own lamps.
Buy mode: place furniture and see what fits before it is placed.
Buy mode: place furniture and see what fits before it is placed.
The catalogue: furniture, fixtures and plants at their real sizes.
The catalogue: furniture, fixtures and plants at their real sizes.
Site

The ground around it.

The plot, the garden and the walks; parking laid out as built; the ground shaped; drains sized from the runoff; planting with a schedule — and every piece aware of the others.

The site in 3D: the garden, a sidewalk, and a lot with trees and lights.
The site in 3D: the garden, a sidewalk, and a lot with trees and lights.
A parking lot as built: striping, accessible spaces, islands and lights.
A parking lot as built: striping, accessible spaces, islands and lights.
The site plan: accessible and EV spaces, the accessible route, a curb ramp, a gap that is too tight.
The site plan: accessible and EV spaces, the accessible route, a curb ramp, a gap that is too tight.
Drawing a lot: guides that snap to whole rows, and the count before you click.
Drawing a lot: guides that snap to whole rows, and the count before you click.
Planting and drainage: a bed of coneflower, trees at their spread, drains piped to an outfall.
Planting and drainage: a bed of coneflower, trees at their spread, drains piped to an outfall.
Electrical

Wire the building.

Devices on the plan, circuits run to the panel, and the schedule and service load computed — never typed.

Wiring: devices on the plan, a circuit run to the panel.
Wiring: devices on the plan, a circuit run to the panel.
Forty-six kinds of device, drawn the standard way.
Forty-six kinds of device, drawn the standard way.
The panel schedule and the service load, on the sheet.
The panel schedule and the service load, on the sheet.
Boards

Circuit boards.

Parts from a built-in footprint set, nets and a ratsnest, copper routed by hand with the design rules checked, and the board in 3D.

A board: parts placed and copper routed.
A board: parts placed and copper routed.
A copper pour over the board.
A copper pour over the board.
The board in 3D, every part modelled.
The board in 3D, every part modelled.
Around the app

Made for the Mac.

One start screen for everything, a command palette on ⌘K, settings on ⌘-comma, and the release notes in the app.

Start: a part, a building, an electrical plan, a board, or a guided first part.
Start: a part, a building, an electrical plan, a board, or a guided first part.
⌘K finds any command — and any document.
⌘K finds any command — and any document.
Settings: units, snapping, appearance, printing.
Settings: units, snapping, appearance, printing.
What's New, in the app.
What's New, in the app.
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