CNC Werkbank — design, check & cut, offline-first

Everything is unlocked while we are in preview. The core workflow — draw, check, cut — is free and stays free. The advanced bits (template gallery, text on a curve, inlay, batch names, every machine profile) come with a 14-day trial you start from inside the app: no card, no e-mail, one click. Pricing comes later and is not published yet, so there is currently nothing to buy and nothing to cancel.

Three steps, and you cannot skip one

Cut stays locked until a program has been checked. Edit the design afterwards and it locks again.

Step 1

Draw

Start from a template or from primitives, set your stock and material, then add operations. Feeds and speeds come from a real bit library — not guesses.

Signs, boards, coasters, house numbers
True V-carve and inlay
Text on a curve, or your own font file
Profile, pocket, groove, drill, engrave

The Draw phase showing the carve preview: a coaster rendered as it will look once cut, with V-carved lettering around the rim and an eight-point star in the centre, beside the operations panel listing each operation's bit, feed rate and depth. — Draw — the carve preview shows the finished piece, not just outlines.

Step 2

Check

Every program is linted and simulated before it can run. You see the cut, the runtime, and anything that looks wrong — while it is still free to fix.

Full material-removal simulation, rendered in your stock
G-code linted against your machine's limits
Toolpath checked against the work envelope
Runtime estimate and per-file bit changes

The Check phase after a full simulated run, in the realistic render: the coaster shown as carved wood with V-grooved lettering around the rim and a compass star in the centre, beside a findings panel reporting no findings, a deepest cut of 1.2 mm, an estimated runtime of 14.5 minutes and two output files split by a bit change. — Check — the simulated result, rendered in the material you picked.

Step 3

Cut

The sender is built in, so there is no second program to configure. A staged checklist keeps Start locked until the machine is actually ready — and nothing ever starts on its own.

Clamp → bit → dial → home → work zero, in order
Air-cut dry run above the stock first
Live position readout and feed override
Hold-to-stop, so a stray click cannot abort a job

The Cut phase in dark theme: a setup checklist for clamping, bit, router dial, homing and work zero, with the Start button still locked, next to a large position readout and a map of the toolpath. — Cut — Start stays locked until every box is ticked.

Before you use it on a real machine. CNC Werkbank drives a router that can hurt you, and this is an early release: check every program, air-cut before you cut for real, and stay at the machine. Cutting needs a Chromium browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, or Chromium on Android) because it talks to the controller over Web Serial — Firefox and Safari can draw and check, but cannot send the job.

Your work stays yours. Designs, projects and G-code are processed entirely in your browser and are never uploaded. The backend only ever sees your licence state and, if you ask for updates, your e-mail address — that is the whole privacy story, and the privacy policy lists every row we keep.

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