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Co-founder of Cuttle here. Thanks for mentioning us @ekla.

Unlike most vector tools, which are designed for illustration or screen-based work, Cuttle is focused specifically on the needs and workflows of cut design. I myself have a Glowforge at home. I regularly copy-and-paste from Cuttle into GFUI. We want to make Cuttle as feature-complete as Illustrator for cut design. (If there’s any feature you’re missing, let me know and we’ll prioritize it.)

Cuttle has unique features such as live (non-destructive) booleans, outlines, “repeat” modifiers, and much more. See for example @federico’s tutorial on making geometric earrings to see how these can be used:

Cuttle also has parameters, which let you define numbers for dimensions, material thickness, or anything else and then reference these in your design (like a spreadsheet). For example, @wildparadox made this tiered organizer where you can change the size, number of holes, number of shelves, etc.


(Both of these are the same project, just changing the parameters!)

You don’t have to use parameters, but it’s something you can grow into as you get more into cut design, especially assemblies.

Finally, if you dabble in JavaScript you can add functionality to Cuttle. @bwente made this “slat box generator” that can take any shape and automatically make the vertical slats and slots for it. He used this for halloween coffin box, ferrous guy, and hex box.


And if you don’t program, others are sharing their custom modifiers like @bwente above. (see more)

Anyway, that’s my pitch for why you should consider Cuttle :smiley:

(Also happy to answer any questions!)

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