Where does your time go?
Parametric workflows and AI exactly where time disappears in design, development and fabrication: in variants, in handovers, in everything somebody repeats by hand each time. I look at how you work and rebuild the parts that slow you down.
- Process analysed and rebuilt
- KI agents in the workflow
- 2–6 people
- Invoice & NDA
Three places where processes lose time
It is almost never the people. It is that the workflow was never designed — it grew over years, one tool and one file at a time.
One change drags twenty steps behind it
A dimension changes and half the design has to be reworked, because nothing is connected to anything else. Built parametrically, the same change is one slider.
The knowledge sits in files, not in the process
A similar project from two years ago is in the folder, but nobody can bring it to new dimensions. A definition can do that. A folder cannot.
Routine nobody ever automated
Parts lists, labelling, quote text, variant renders, fabrication data — by hand every time. This is exactly where AI agents belong: inside the process, not as a toy beside it.
When the software you have stopped fitting
Most workshops do not come to Rhino because they want to learn something new, but because the subscription got too expensive or the program gives up on free-form shapes. Both are good reasons.
Buy once instead of paying monthly
Rhino runs as a licence you own, and Grasshopper comes with it. Over a few years, three seats work out markedly cheaper than a subscription.
Curved, twisted, double-curved
Exactly where classic furniture and mechanical CAD gets sticky, Rhino is only getting started. Free-form surfaces, unrollings, compound angles — and all of it stays manufacturable.
You keep whatever already works
Rhino reads DWG, STEP, IGES, DXF, SketchUp and PDF, and writes the same back out. It can run alongside your existing system and take over exactly the jobs the other one fails at.
Three ways to rebuild the process
Which fits depends on whether you want to be able to do this in-house or only need the result.
Your people learn it
Rhino, Grasshopper or both — taught on a job you currently have on the floor. Not a practice cabinet, but the piece going out next week.
We rebuild the bottleneck
I look at how a project actually moves through your shop and rebuild the one step that costs the most — on a real job, with one of your people watching, handed over documented.
I build them for you
An agent takes over a part of your workflow and runs it on its own: kicking off design variants, reading receipts and preparing them for the books, writing quote and product text, building social media material out of finished projects. Plus the classic configurator that drops out a parts list and DXF.
How workshop training works
First call, 30 minutes
What you make, what you draw with, which machine is at the back, and who should be able to do this. Free and without obligation.
Send me a real job
A drawing, a photo, a cutting list — under NDA if need be. Half an hour with it tells me more than any questionnaire.
Proposal with scope and price
Content, dates, effort, fixed price. You decide before anything starts.
Delivery and handover
Sessions timed so the workshop keeps running. At the end you get the working files and a short guide — and you may keep sending me questions afterwards.
The small print, up front
- Group size
- 2 to 6 people, more on requestBeyond that nobody learns anything. Larger teams we split.
- Location
- In your workshop or onlineTravel around Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland is included.
- Machines
- CNC, laser, press brake, plotterWe set the output up around what you actually have — nesting and labelling included.
- Billing
- By invoice, fixed priceQuote up front, no open-ended hourly billing.
- Confidentiality
- NDA on requestYour designs and client data stay with you; I show nothing without clearance.
- Language
- German or EnglishMixed teams are no problem.
What is an AI agent, concretely?
A program that carries out a recurring task on its own instead of merely making it easier: it reads, decides and writes back into your systems without anyone starting it each time. Examples from live projects: reading receipts and preparing them for the books, generating and judging design variants, building product text and social media material out of finished projects, deriving quotes from a parts list. Which task is worth it is something we work out from your actual workflow, not from the tool.
We work with AutoCAD, SolidWorks or furniture software. Is it worth moving?
Usually not as a complete switch but as an addition. What you have is probably good at what it does. Rhino comes in where it gets sticky: free-form shapes, many variants, unrollings. One does not have to replace the other.
Will it work with our CNC?
Almost always. Rhino writes DXF, DWG, STEP and IGES, and Grasshopper produces cutting lists, drilling patterns, labelling and nested sheets. Exactly what your controller needs we look at in the first call.
Our people are joiners, not computer people.
That tends to be an advantage. Someone who knows how a part is actually built understands a parametric definition faster than someone who only thinks on screen. We work on a real job from the start, not on theory.
Only one of us does the drawing.
Then Format C is often the right one: I build the configurator for your standard product and someone with no CAD knowledge operates it. That frees your draughtsman for the special cases.
Send me a job and a question
The first call takes half an hour and costs nothing. Afterwards you know whether it pays for you — and I know whether I am the right person for it.