Your Grasshopper definitions,
checked against your shop.
CNC shop limits for Grasshopper definitions, held once as data and checked as you design.
Your bed sizes, sheet stock, material thicknesses and cutter limits in one database. Your materials go into your definition as inputs, at their measured thicknesses, and every design is checked against your machines and tools, with the reason for any flag. Output into your existing CAM.
Hard-coded limits
Where do your shop limits live today? Inside each definition, as a slider capped at the bed width or a panel split at the sheet length? That works until a machine, a supplier or a sheet size changes. Then every definition needs updating.What changes
- Limits in one database, shared across definitions and machines.
- Your materials as inputs to your definition, at their measured thicknesses.
- Every design checked against the limits that apply, and every flag naming the limit it broke.
- A new sheet size or cutter, changed once, and every connected definition checked against it.
- Definitions run headless on Rhino Compute, on our servers.
- Output into your existing CAM, where you check it before cutting.
Datafurn can only check the limits you’ve recorded. Anything not in the database can still reach the shop. How Datafurn works
What a pilot looks like
- We sign an NDA and agree scope, duration and ownership in writing.
- You share one existing definition and your machine, material and tooling data.
- We load your limits and connect Datafurn to the definition.
- You compare the output against what you’d normally produce.
The pilot is for independent manufacturers using Grasshopper, with 5–50 employees and 3-axis flatbed CNC routers cutting sheet materials. One place is for a larger manufacturer with someone who owns its definitions, such as a computational designer.
Don’t use Grasshopper? We can build the model for you.