Journal: what appeared on the table.

In the studio, newest first

1. 3 November 2026

   1. Pictures on the table, as printed sheets

      Lay a sketch, a plan or a screenshot on the table and it arrives as a printed A4 or A3 sheet, with printer’s margins. Touch it and the camera leans in so you can read it. A photo of a paper sheet can be scanned: the studio finds its corners and straightens it.

      • From a file, a camera photo or a scan
      • Sheets stay on the table between visits

   2. A turntable under the base board

      Turn the model with two fingers; let go near a right angle and it settles square. On a desktop, [ and ] turn it by 15°, and with Shift by a quarter turn.

      • While it turns, a quiet pencil note shows the angle
      • The steel rule now reads a true 0–30 cm

   3. Better photographs

      Every material has its own fine grain, and everything cut by laser has a darker, charred edge. In the photo studio soft shading gathers under each terrain layer and in inside corners, glazed openings get panes of clear acrylic with warm light behind them, and the final picture has a macro depth of field.

      • Four new presets (Aerial, Evening, Spot and Section), seven in all

   4. Building in the fast tempo

      Draw boxes, walls from plan lines and slabs on the base board, and the laser cuts them from the material you picked. Touch a wall to add a window, a door, a ribbon window or a glazed screen.

      • Base boards in A4, A3, A2 and A1
      • Louvres, stairs, columns, cylinders, perforation, railings and cross bracing
      • Scale figures: people, cars, trees and shrubs, faceted stacked trees among them
      • Buildings stand on the terrain beneath them

   5. A drafting template and a “work” mode

      Beside the mat lies an architect’s template: freehand, straight and polyline strokes, a rectangle, a circle and the scale figures. In work mode, the default, every cut goes straight through; meditation mode keeps the slow knife, pass after pass.

   6. A cutting layout for the whole model

      As soon as something stands on the base board, “Model’s cutting layout” gives one ZIP: DXF and SVG for every sheet, kept apart by material and thickness, and an actual-size PDF for the knife on A4 or A3. Part numbers run through the whole model.

2. 2 November 2026

   1. A shelf of works, and autosave

      Whatever is on the table is already saved: autosave is on by default and can be switched off in Settings → Work. Your works sit on a shelf as small prints; touch one and it comes back to the table.

      • Open the studio and your last work is waiting on the table

   2. Cutting by hand, assembling on the board

      An A3 cutting mat with a 10 mm grid, a steel rule that snaps to lines, and a knife that deepens the groove with every pass. Pick up a cut part and bring it to the base board: it snaps to an edge, and a thin bead of glue turns matt in 2–3 seconds.

      • Apple Pencil cuts, fingers hold
      • Tap with two fingers to undo, with three to redo
      • A quick tap of a second finger stands a part on its edge

   3. The photo studio, and the sound of the room

      Pick up the camera and the table becomes a studio with a curved paper backdrop: Dark studio, White world or B&W hard light, a lamp you move by hand, prints that land on the table. Sound comes in three layers (Room, Music and Material), each with its own slider; the laser is synthesised, and the radio plays your own music, Spotify or YouTube.

   4. Terrain from contour lines

      Drop a DXF of contours on the table: each line becomes a plate of your sheet, standing on a base board as stacked layers, terraces or one engraved sheet. “Export cutting layout” gives DXF, SVG and an actual-size PDF in one ZIP, with a quiet note of the laser and knife time.