Talk to the machine.
Let it look, then cut.
A tablet next to the laser, with a camera watching the bed. It sees what's on it —a fresh sheet, an offcut, half a board— and you tell it out loud what to do with it. No mouse, no files, no walking back to the PC.
It's not a beta: it's internal development, and it's far from working. You can't install it or request it. This page is here so you know where Nofacto is headed, not to sell you something we can't give you.
- Comes with Ultra
- Tablet with a camera
- Opens from the browser
- Spoken, not typed
- No date. It'll be ready when it's ready.
The machine stops being blind
Today you send a file and trust the sheet is where you think it is. The idea flips that: the camera looks at the bed first, recognizes what's there and what it's made of, and from then on «cut this there» actually means something.
The tablet points at the bed. Whatever is on it is the starting point, not a file.
It measures the offcut and guesses the material. Now it knows what it's dealing with and how much room there is.
It fits what you ask for inside that specific piece, not on an imaginary sheet.
And you just say it
Whoever is at the machine has their hands full and, often, dirty. Typing there doesn't happen. The idea is to say it out loud, the way you'd tell a helper who knows how to look.
«Cut Ana's file on the sheet that's on the bed.»
«Cut thirty pieces from the 3 mm acrylic offcuts.»
«From that offcut over there, get me twelve keychains.»
With gloves on and the machine running, a touchscreen gets in the way. Voice is the only thing that works with your hands full.
Without seeing the bed, «there» means nothing. Vision is what turns a loose sentence into an order with a place, a size and a material.
Before firing it will show on the tablet what it understood and where it will land. A machine that obeys a misheard sentence burns material.
And this is where it really stands
No makeup, because I'd rather you learn it here than after waiting for it.
Seeing and measuring
Recognizing an offcut on the bed and measuring it is the furthest along. In good light it gets it right; in shop light, not always.
Understanding what you say
Turning a loose sentence into a job with its file, quantity and material is the hard part, and it's a long way off.
Sending the cut to the machine
Getting a spoken order to end in a real cut goes through Studio, and that bridge isn't built yet.
There's nothing to install yet
When it works it will come with Ultra, like the rest of the team apps. Meanwhile, check out the ones you can already use.