KerfSense
The board is the primitive. The joint follows the intent.

Built for
woodworkers.

A bench,
not CAD.

The board is the primitive. The joint follows the intent.

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A native Windows desktop app for woodworkers. The zero-install demo runs in your browser.

Explore the Simple Chest plan

Pine storage chest representing the curated KerfSense demo plan
Curated plan Simple Chest
Orbit the real plan
Computed cut list 18 parts from SimpleChest.kerf
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Leg-Back-Left
3.50 × 3.50 × 23.50
Leg-Back-Right
3.50 × 3.50 × 23.50
Rail-Bottom-Front
3.50 × 3.50 × 36
Rail-Top-Left
3.50 × 3.50 × 24
Lid
0.75 × 32 × 45
Panel
0.75 × 16.92 × 38.33

Stock totals come directly from the analyzed plan.

BoardIt starts with a board.

Not sketches.
Not solids.

Work with real boards, with species, grain, and actual dimensions. A design is boards and the ways they meet.

Close view of a square-edged pale pine board
JointJoints follow intent.

Connect boards.
KerfSense reads the arrangement.

Name the joint — mortise & tenon, half-lap, dado — and it deepens the design, never the price of entry.

Pine rail tenon aligned with a side-grain mortise in an upright stile
ChangeChange propagates.

Adjust the stock.
The plan updates.

Thicken a leg and the mortise depth, tenon length, and stock lengths that depend on it update. The plan stays one coherent thing.

Pale pine rail meeting a square post in a clean right-angle joint
PlanThe cut list is the result.

Get a real cut list.
Build from the plan.

Board feet for lumber, sheet counts for panels, per-board shop notes, and per-end saw settings — computed from the plan as it stands.

Finished frame-and-panel pine chest corner with square leg and rails

No suggestions. No lock-in.
The design stays yours.

KerfSense states what is — and tells you when something is impossible in the stock you've given it.

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