3.7 M
people in EU fabricated metal manufacturing — the base that programs by hand.1
In development with Bacchetta Srl · partner machine shop
CAM that
programs
itself.
CNCGen turns a technical drawing into verified G-code in minutes. No CAM programmer. With an operator who approves, not one who draws.
The problem
The knowledge walks out of the shop and never comes back.
Programming a part takes a CAM operator with ten years at the bench. In Europe that person is retiring faster than the trade replaces them, and every hour of their time is a batch that has not started.
The product
It does not generate code.
It makes decisions.
Deterministic, inspectable stages: a part goes in as a drawing and comes out as a machine package, assigned to the right machine — with a human gate in between.
01 · Recognition
It reads a drawing the way a shop foreman reads it.
The DXF is normalised into an intermediate representation and decomposed into features: profiles, grooves, holes, seats, chamfers, threads. Every feature carries a confidence, and below the threshold the system asks instead of guessing.
Turning, milling, multi-spindle lathes
Assisted re-tracing when the drawing is ambiguous
Feature graph
ESTØ40 · L600.96
INTØ28 H7 seat0.91
FOROØ20 through0.88
SMUSSO1×45° ×20.52
02 · Planning
It picks operations, tooling and cutting parameters.
Operation sequence, workholding, clamping and machining order follow from the geometry and the material. Tools come from the customer’s real crib, not from a catalogue.
Vc, feeds and depths computed for the material
Cycle time estimated before anything reaches the machine
Work plan · 25 s
T01OD turning
T03Drilling
T05Boring
T07Finishing
03 · Human gate
No G-code leaves the system without an approval.
The operator reviews strategy, tooling and parameters, changes whatever they want, and approves. This is where the product parts company with black-box generators: a person stays accountable for the part, and every decision is on the record.
Full audit trail for certification and quality
Every human correction feeds the model
HITL review · operator
OD / ID sequence verified
Tools confirmed (4)
Cutting parameters
Approve and generate G-code
04 · Shop floor
It also decides which machine, and when.
The job does not end at the G-code: CNCGen knows the machine park, the job queue and the setups currently mounted. It proposes the right machine for the part, sequences the queue to cut tool changes, and groups jobs that share a setup.
Machine assignment on capability, tooling and tolerances
Job queue with priority and due date
Grouped setups: less downtime, more parts per shift
Machine queue · morning shift
LB30003 jobs
NLX25002 jobs
DMU50free
Same setup on 2 consecutive jobs — −22 min of setup
Market
A growing market, served by software from the ’90s.
Why now.
Three curves are crossing: generational turnover is draining programming skill out of the shops, reasoning models are finally dependable on geometry and constraints, and modern controls accept code from outside sources without friction.
Why us.
The product is being built inside a machine shop running since 1978, validated on real parts with real cycle times. The most valuable data — the operator’s correction — comes from daily use, and cannot be reproduced by anyone starting from the software.
Contact
We are at the beginning,
and that is the right time to talk.
The product is being built on the shop floor, on real parts. If this market interests you, let’s talk now.
info@cncgen.io