A sheet-metal factory built its own CAM, nesting and geometry engine

Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭@jonathan_sessa

If you think building a "software factory" is stolen valor...

Well here is everything our software factory built for our real factory in the last two weeks

- Digital twins of all our manufacturing process
- Our own CAM software for our lasers and press brakes
- Our own nesting engine
- Our own geometry kernel for reading customer parts faster (replacing opencascade)
- In-browser, customer-facing DFM tools (like a bending simulation)
- Custom firmware and hardware on the shop floor automation
- 3D Shipping and packing simulations
- An MCP server so AI agents can quote and order parts
- More performant marketing and documentation pages
- No more saas, every tool we pay for is now gone and we control the code.

This is the smallest our software team has been (1 person, me) and things are only speeding up. We are just getting started!