Checked as it's designed.
Not at CAM prep.
How Datafurn works: your CNC shop limits, checked at the design stage.
Do out-of-limit sizes show up at CAM prep, after someone has drawn them? With Datafurn, the check happens at the design stage, before anyone prepares the job.
Your machine, material and tooling limits sit in one database. Each design takes your materials as inputs, at their measured thicknesses, and is checked against your machines and tools, with the reason for anything you can’t make, such as “part 2800 mm > bed 2500 mm”.
What changes
- Fewer redraws. Each new size or option generated by the model, not drawn from scratch.
- Built with the stock you have. Your materials as inputs to the model, at their measured thicknesses, not nominal figures.
- Problems caught earlier. Out-of-limit combinations flagged at the design stage, so fewer reach CAM prep.
- Machine knowledge doesn’t rest on one person. Your limits sit in a database, not in individual files or one person’s head.
- Change once, and it applies everywhere. A new sheet size or cutter, and every connected product checked against the new value.
The pipeline
- Your materials into your parametric model as inputs, each at its measured thickness.
- The model generates the geometry: one design for every size and option of a product.
- Every change checked against your recorded machines and tools, with the reason for anything you can’t make.
- Output into your existing CAM, where your team checks it before cutting.
If you use Grasshopper, we connect to your existing definition. If not, we build a model of one product family. You don’t need new hardware, and nothing changes on the machine side.
What it does
Limits held as data
Your bed sizes, sheet stock, measured thicknesses and cutters in one database, shared by every product you connect.
Every flag has a reason
Each design checked against the limits that apply to it. A part longer than the bed: flagged. An internal corner tighter than your smallest cutter can cut: flagged. Each flag names the limit it broke.
Location narrows it too
Selecting a location can retrieve local production services and their limits, such as bed size, so each design is checked against the shop that will make it. Filtering by sustainability is planned.
Same choices, same limits
Datafurn is deterministic, not predictive. The same design always gets the same result, and every flag traces back to a recorded limit.
Runs without opening Rhino
Your models run on Rhino Compute on our servers, so new configurations are generated without anyone opening Rhino.
What it doesn’t do
- It can only check the limits you’ve recorded. Anything missing from the database can still reach the shop.
- It checks designs from connected products. It doesn’t check geometry made another way.
- It doesn’t send anything to your machines yet.
- It doesn’t guarantee a design can be built. Your team checks every output before cutting.