The gallery holds more than 60 carefully designed projects: signs, kitchen helpers, finger-jointed boxes, games, workshop holders, decor, electronics, 3D reliefs (rosette, waves, sun, leaf, shell, crest and rounded figures) and test pieces for learning. Every template comes with material, layers, cutting depths and matching bits from the library.
Finding a template
Open File → Templates ▸ Template gallery … or File → New → From template. The search box finds titles, descriptions and keywords such as “box”, “Christmas” or “Arduino”. On the left you narrow the choice:
- Category, Material and Difficulty.
- Fits: My machine shows only templates that fit the work area of the selected machine, also rotated by 90°.
- Type: Fixed templates are finished designs, Adjustable ones let you change size, text, shape or font.
Every card shows the estimated milling time and the bits, briefly as diameter (“Ø 3.175”) or tip angle (“V 60°”). “Too large” means the template is larger than your machine by default.
Adjusting
Click a card to open the template in a large view. For adjustable templates you change sizes, texts, shapes and fonts on the right; the preview, milling time and bit list update immediately. Reset to defaults puts all sliders back.
Below the preview you see the workpiece size and material. The note underneath tells you whether the workpiece fits your machine.
Opening as a project
Open as project creates a new project of your own from the template. If the current project has unsaved changes, the app asks first. View in 3D opens the project straight in the 3D view with the cutting simulation.
From then on everything works like your own drawing: shapes, texts, layers, depths and bits can all be changed. Before milling, check the material thickness under Workpiece and the bits in the Cutting tab.
Photo puzzle: The wooden puzzle comes as a rectangle, circle, oval or heart. After opening, the message offers Choose photo …. The photo is cropped to the centre, fills the puzzle exactly and is engraved with the V-bit before the pieces are cut (see Photo engraving). You can do the same later via Draw → Image ▸ Photo engraving ….
Your own project templates
Do many of your projects start the same way, for example with the same board, layers and bits? Save a prepared project as a project template and start every new project from it.
- Save: File → Templates ▸ Save as project template …. Enter a name; saved are the layers with colour and cut settings (laser: with laser profile), all bits or laser profiles, the workpiece with origin, the project's machine values and the milling settings. Include content also keeps the shapes, such as a frame or a logo. The same name replaces the old template.
- New project from it: File → New → My templates or File → Templates ▸ My templates …, then click the card. You get a new project of your own; the template stays unchanged.
- Default: Clicking Default on a card (or Default for new projects when saving) makes File → New → Free project start with this template. The notice afterwards offers Start empty. Click Default again to clear it.
- Rename and delete with the pencil and the bin on the card. Projects created from a template are kept when you delete it.
Project templates are stored in your account (up to 50) and are available on every device; myCNC and Laser.myWerkzeug.de keep separate templates. To transfer only the cut settings to an existing project, use a toolpath template.
Sign wizard
File → New → Sign and engraving opens the sign wizard. On the left you see the finished sign; on the right you choose step by step:
- Shape and size: outline (rounded, rectangle, oval, arch, notched, shield), width and height.
- Text: up to three lines and the font. The first line is set largest; each line adapts to the free width.
- Motif: heart, star or one of the free motifs, left of the text or above it.
- Engraving: V-carving with a V-bit and crisp edges, Recessed with a flat bottom, or Raised, where the letters stay and the background is cleared. Plus depth and border.
- Workpiece: material, thickness and screw holes.
Milling time, bits and whether the sign fits your machine update immediately. Create sign opens a normal project: text, border, holes and outline sit on their own layers and stay editable. The wizard remembers your last choices.
Cutting plan
File → New → Panels and furniture parts opens the cut list planner. On the right you enter the parts: name, width, height and quantity. With Rotation allowed off, the part stays as entered, for example when the grain should run lengthwise. Below are sheet size, thickness, material, the free margin for clamps and the gap between parts. Like work area takes the size of your machine.
On the left the app immediately nests the parts on sheets, largest first. Rotated parts carry the ↻ sign. If they do not all fit on one sheet, tabs appear for each sheet with usage and milling time. Parts that fit on no sheet are named in a note.
The Furniture generator above the parts list offers two pieces. The Box with finger joints works out every part of a box with finger joints from its outside width, depth and height: front and back, sides and bottom, optionally with a lid. The thickness comes from the sheet. The finger width is adjusted so that each edge has an odd number of equal fingers; Clearance makes the fingers slightly narrower than the gaps. The inside corners get dog-bones so the round bit clears them completely. Replace list or Add to list takes over the parts; their sizes are fixed (badge “Finger joints”), name and quantity can be changed. If you change the thickness afterwards, the app recalculates the joints. Mill a test piece first to check the clearance.
The Shelf with dados works out two sides and the shelf boards from the outside width, depth and height. Top and bottom sit in a rabbet, the Middle shelves are spaced evenly. The sides get through dados at the set Dado depth (at most half the sheet thickness) that run out at the front and back; Clearance makes the dado slightly wider than the sheet. The boards are longer than the inside width by twice the dado depth. Optionally a back panel from the same sheet is added and screwed on at the back; sides and boards then become shallower by the sheet thickness. In the project the dados are pockets on a layer of their own and are milled before the parts are cut out. Both sides are identical; one is turned over during assembly.
Create sheet 1 opens the sheet as a normal project: each part is a rectangle (or its outline with joints) on the “Parts” layer, cut outside through the full thickness and held by tabs. The bit follows the thickness. The parts list is remembered; when you open the planner again, the next sheet is already selected.
Build guide for the example boards
The example boards in the Circuit boards category come with a build guide; their cards carry the “Build guide” badge. In the detail view, Open build guide opens it; in an opened project you find it under File → Build guide ….
- Component layout: milled boards have no silkscreen. The layout shows the component side with outlines, polarity, reference designators (R1, C1 …) and, if you like, the values and the names of the connections. Point at a row in the parts list and the matching parts light up in the layout.
- Parts: quantity, value, colour bands of the resistors and polarity hints; IC sockets, heat sinks and accessories are already included.
- Assembly and Test: from milling through soldering to switching on for the first time, step by step to tick off.
Print puts the layout, parts list and all steps on A4, so the guide lies next to the board while you solder.
Wood and acrylic projects (since October 2026, for example the lantern, sundial or pentomino) also have a build guide: instead of the component layout it shows the parts on the workpiece, plus materials and accessories (glue, dowels, screws), the steps from carving to finishing and the assembly. Joints have an adjustable clearance; the guide tells you how to adjust it after a test fit. Templates that also work with a laser show “also for laser” in the detail view. The app derives this from the template itself: reliefs, V-carving, chamfers, deep pockets (4 mm and more) and metal need a milling machine. In the laser program, boards that are too thick still appear in the gallery, marked “Too thick” with a note on how much your laser manages. Choose the power on the left under Your laser's power (5, 10, 20 or 40 W, plus the power of the selected machine); the default is the machine, otherwise the material library, otherwise 10 W, and the browser remembers your choice. Under Sheet thickness, My laser can cut it shows only templates your laser cuts through, Too thick only the others.
Ball bearings (since October 2026: hand spinner, turntable, pillow block, roll holder): the outer and inner diameter of the bearing are sliders, the default is the 608 skateboard bearing (8 × 22 × 7 mm). The fit makes the bearing seat slightly smaller (−, press fit) or larger (+, clearance); mill a test hole first.
Accessories follow the sliders: quantity and size in the accessories of the build guide follow the values you set. A hand spinner with five arms needs six bearings, the bearing bore sets the dowel, bolt and washers (“M10”), the pegboard from 300 mm width needs six screws instead of four, the magnetic strip one magnet per pocket at the pocket's diameter. The bearing is listed with its dimensions (bore × outer diameter × width, common bearings with their short name such as “608”). The values are saved with the project, so File → Build guide shows the right list later too.
Motifs and licences
The templates are original designs. Some use motifs from free icon collections released under CC0, which may be used without conditions. Such templates carry a “CC0” badge on their card; the detail view names the work, collection, licence and retrieval date with a link to the source. You may therefore use these motifs freely in your own workpieces.