Paper Tools is like full self-driving for CNC. As fast and direct as your manual tools, you just measure and mark your material. A video camera “sees” your marks, then autopilots your CNC to find their precise position, with repeatability of +/- 0.002”. All the code to make your cuts is generated without touching CAD or CAM—using any tool on any material. Paper Tools works with your CNC router, mill, plasma, laser and more.
Introducing our one-stop shop where you can pick up the same video camera tested with Paper Tools, USB extension cable, mounting adapter and of course the software, all as a quick kit.
Download the latest Paper Tools installer for Windows & Mach 4 right here
View the getting started guide with simple instructions for how to use Paper Tools straight away.
With a video camera pointed at your material, Paper Tools navigates your CNC machine so you can cut parts wherever you print or draw a simple square target.
“Please Oh Please, No More Hole Saws.”
With a video camera attached to your CNC machine and a Paper Tool, you can do simple things to get your CNC machine cutting your material in just a few minutes—so toss your hole saws and finally use your super-clean CNC for all your everyday work.
Like a hole saw kit, this bore Paper Tool has a variety of common hole sizes and depths each with a target, a visual representation of your result, and an instruction step that Paper Tools can read. I measure and mark my material like the good old days, with a caliper and a pen, then position the bore Paper Tool above my mark. Printing on tracing paper lets me see through it to line it up with my marked material. Paper Tools then navigates my CNC machine to precisely find the target under the camera. In just a few seconds I put a hole in a piece of material right where I want it using my nice precise CNC machine instead of a manual drill press and a crusty hole saw waggling all around making a jagged mess.