EVER EXPANDING CAPABILITIES

Learn about Origin's revolutionary features here and in the demonstration videos below. Origin is Wi-Fi connected and capable of keeping itself up to date as we continually expand its capabilities.
Work at Any Scale, Anywhere

Origin is a compact portable tool that thinks it’s a big CNC. Do delicate joinery one day and route large plywood shapes the next. Origin can be brought to the material rather than the material to the machine.

On-Tool CAD

Built-in drawing tools allow you to intuitively design directly with Origin - no computer required. A wide range of built-in adjustable applications will have you cutting features like box joints with practically no setup required.

Digital Templates

Simply move Origin to approximately follow your shape outlines on the display. Its revolutionary locating and auto-correct system is capable of helping you achieve cuts within 1/100th of an inch of your intended path.

Precision Registration

Should your work call for accurate placement or alignment, Origin can be used as an edge-finder to easily and accurately position your digital template relative to an edge or corner of your workpiece.

Automated Touch-Off

Origin’s patent-pending z-axis touch-off feature automatically determines the position of the tool tip relative to your workpiece, ensuring highly accurate and repeatable plunge depths.

Automatic Retract

When you’re ready to end your cut, a single button press will rapidly retract the cutting tool. Additionally, the bit will automatically retract if Origin leaves the surface of the work or gets too far off the digital template.

Powered Plunge with Digital Depth Stop

Never fiddle with a depth adjustment again. Enter your exact plunge depth on-screen and Origin’s ultra smooth motor-driven leadscrew plunges the router bit to the desired cutting depth with the press of a button.

Workpiece Memory

Pick up where you left off. Origin automatically recognizes the unique fingerprint created when you lay ShaperTape on your workpiece, allowing you to start and stop without losing the alignment of your digital templates.

Diameter Compensation

Origin uses standard ¼-inch shank router bits and automatically offsets the outline of your digital template to correctly guide the tool regardless of bit diameter.

Fine Tuned Finish Passes

Origin’s on-screen bit offset adjustment enables you to dial in fits with precision finish passes, adjustable to within thousandths of an inch. Dry fitting just became a whole lot easier.

Shaper Origin Features Autocorrect for your hands

Let Origin take care of the details, while you take care of the big decisions, whilst cutting with digital precision.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Designing for Origin

Design for Origin using design software you already use. Shaper uses simple color-coded vector files to tell it what to cut and how - no complicated CAM steps required. And if you change your mind on cutting path type (e.g. cut on the inside of a line versus the outside of a line), it’s easy to modify that directly on Origin’s touchscreen interface.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Retract

Origin enables more precise cuts by automatically correcting or retracting the tool’s bit if the machine strays from the designated cutting path.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Z Touchoff

Origin needs to the know the bit's height above the workpiece to ensure that you cut at your desired depth. Origin's automatic Z Touchoff feature determines this without the need for any special tools or manual effort.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Bit Offsets

Origin allows you to change offsets for your toolpaths directly on the tool. This makes it easy to do roughing and finishing passes, or to slowly size up an opening to get a perfect pressure fit -- without ever having to go back to edit design files.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Simple Shapes with On-Tool CAD

Ever wanted to just cut a simple shape into an existing workpiece? Origin's On-Tool CAD enables you to define and place precision shapes directly onto your workpiece.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Pocketing

Origin's pocketing mode enables you to pocket out an area using free-form movements. Origin's precision motors help you stay within the lines, and the cutter retracts if you go out of bounds.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Easy Hole-Drilling

Origin is an amazing hole-drilling machine. Its helical operation makes it possible to drill perfectly sized and positioned holes without changing bit sizes.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Return to Workpiece

Shaper Origin is perfect for use in a school, makerspace, woodshop, or robotics program because of the ability to start and stop your production and continue where you left off.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Probe

Accurately align digital shapes to physical straight edges using Shaper Origin’s probe function.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Patching

We demonstrate milling a pocket into a surface with Origin and then using the same profile to cut a positive patch so that they fit together perfectly.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Shape Tracing with On-Tool CAD

Use Origin's vision system to scan your workpiece and to create toolpaths without ever involving a computer.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Pen Tool

With Origin's On-Tool CAD functionality, you can design shapes to be cut directly on the tool. Use the pen tool to pick anchor point for your cut.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Fusion 360 Workflow

We’ve only begun to explore the potential of our integration with Fusion 360. Our plugin already greatly accelerates the process of going from design to fabrication, automatically generating and exporting appropriately named sketches from selected faces.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Making Finger Joints with On-Tool CAD

Finger joints are a beautiful addition to your joinery projects, but they can be hard to do well. Origin makes adding finger joints easy.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)

Shaper Origin Features Adding Tape on the Fly

ShaperTape can be added to a project at any time, and all your shapes and cutting history remain intact.

(This demonstration was filmed using a pre-production prototype.)