Segmented Bowl Designer
Draw the half-profile. The 3D bowl and the numbers build themselves as you go.
- Per-ring segment counts and miter angles, worked out as you draw
- Live 3D — tip it and look straight down inside before you glue a ring
- Segment-face patterns — quilt blocks, chevrons, monograms
- The ring cut list — OD/ID, wall, height, miter and segment length, by species
- Nothing to install — it opens full screen in your browser
First cut list free · then $6.00 per cut list — your first purchase includes one bonus cut list
The desktop version
Everything in the browser app, plus the parts that need a real machine.
- Colour 3MF export for multi-filament printing — patterned rings become real inlay pieces, fully coloured in OrcaSlicer
- Export to Blender (GLB) — every segment as a solid
- Unlimited cut lists and printed sheets — no credits to buy
- Segment kit and strip-and-mitre sheets
- Save as, a recent-designs list and an AI assistant built in
- Works offline, on your own machine
One computer, one-time — activate with your order number. Windows, v0.8.6 · September 2026.
Draw the profile, pick the woods and pattern, add a lid — then get the cut list.
Segmented bowls
Work from the shop — the kind of piece a cut list has to be right for. One segment out of true and the ring will not close.
What the desktop version adds
The browser app and the desktop app are the same designer. The desktop one adds colour 3D printing, the Blender export, the kit sheets and unlimited printing — and it works offline.
Browser or desktop — what each one does
The same designer, two ways to run it. Designing is free in the browser; the numbers and the printed sheets are what a cut list pays for.
| In your browser | Desktop — $99 | |
|---|---|---|
| Designing the bowl | ||
| Draw the half-profile — rings, wall, height | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live 3D preview with wood grain | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wood species per ring, two-wood segments, ring rotation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Segment-face pattern editor | ✓ | ✓ |
| Segment Map — paint a wood into each segment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Different segment counts per ring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Staves, lid, finial and floating base | ✓ | ✓ |
| The numbers and the printed sheets | ||
| Ring cut list — OD, ID, wall, miter, segment length | First one free, then $6.00 each | Unlimited |
| Print all — every bench sheet in one PDF | With a cut list | ✓ |
| True-size ring templates | With a cut list | ✓ |
| True-size pattern-cut guides | With a cut list | ✓ |
| Stave, lid and floating-base sheets | With a cut list | ✓ |
| Quote sheet from your own board-foot prices | With a cut list | ✓ |
| Save and open design files | With a cut list | ✓ |
| Exports | ||
| STL for 3D printing | With a cut list | ✓ |
| Colour 3MF for multi-filament printing, with inlay pieces | — | ✓ |
| Export to Blender (GLB) — every segment a solid | — | ✓ |
| Segment kit and strip-and-mitre sheets | — | ✓ |
| On your machine | ||
| Save as, and a recent-designs list | — | ✓ |
| AI assistant built in | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Nothing to install | ✓ | — |
Your first cut list is free. After that $6.00 per cut list, and your first purchase includes one bonus cut list. The desktop licence is $99 once, for one computer — get the desktop licence →
Why $99?
Segmented-turning software runs $89 to $169, and it does one job well: the numbers for the lathe. Segmented Bowl Designer gives you those too — then takes the same design all the way to a finished, printable, glue-ready result. For less than the software that only does the first part.
A segmented calculator
$89–169
- Segment counts per ring
- Miter angles
- Board-foot totals and a printed cut list
Segmented Bowl Designer
$99 desktop — all of that, plus
- Live 3D you can look inside before you glue a ring
- Segment-face pattern & inlay editor — quilt blocks, chevrons, monograms
- Colour 3MF for multi-filament 3D printing
- Blender (GLB) export — every segment as a solid
- True-size PDF cut guides
One design, from the first sketch to a printable file. Get the desktop licence — $99 →