Excellent feedback. Thanks! Some further notes:
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Alignment — If you only have one thing selected, what would you align against? Making it possible to align to the stock area which I guess is what you want would require an additional interface element — Carbide Create seems to be striving for simplicity. FWIW, I achieve this by just always including a rectangle which matches the stock size and selecting it as well EDIT: and it turns out that there is such an interface element — one just can’t get to it unless one selects at least two things.
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apps / templates — there is a library of design elements, and we did have two folks who worked up something of an interface (listed at: https://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Carbide_Create#Resources ):
- http://chaunax.com/shapeoko/twhl.html — Generate rabbeted boxes for Carbide Create — announced at: Rabbeted box generator for Carbide Create
- Generating square grids and curved surfaces: Cutter Pack Giveaway!
I did mention the first at least to the team, and there was some discussion of the latter by @robgrz and I believe @edwardrford in that thread.
FWIW, I do things programmatically by doing up a parametric design in METAFONT (I’ll pair it with an OpenSCAD file which pulls in the parameters for a 3D rendering) which allows one to do pretty much anything one would like — hoping to finish up the folding bookshelf design I’ve been working on thus.