Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus...
by WillAdams on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:40PM
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Ages ago, a fine cabinet-maker I used to hang out with (he was my great aunt's bridge partner's husband) told me, "End grain is like a belly button, you know everyone has one, but unless it's someone special, you don't want to see it." --- agree that bamboo does change that calculus a bit, and I've always wondered what he would have thought of a bamboo box with cigarette and lighter and ash tray integrated into it which was made of short little segments of bamboo glued together (but never remembered to arrange for him to see it).
Sawdust has support for laser cutters [0] and has procedures for generating finger joint boxes, with svg export. It can also do more advanced forms via mcp, like this arcade cabinet design [1]. G-code is high on my to-do list because LightWorks isn't getting updates on linux any more would be great to send a design straight to my diode machine.
Sawdust also has support for 3d printing, both for including printable components in designs as well as printing scale models of your build [2]. No slicing built in, but full .step output for any slicer you like, with build volume aware scaling so you can print it on your machine.
[0] https://sawdust.diy/knowledge-base/how-to-use-the-laser-work...
[1] https://sawdust.diy/whats-new/laser-fabrication-enclosures-a...
[2] https://sawdust.diy/whats-new/woodworking-models-can-be-expo...