Deep craft tools without a walled garden
Why rosette and fretboard designers belong inside a broadly useful CAD/CAM platform.
General CAD is powerful because it can describe almost anything. Specialist tools are powerful because they understand that a ten-by-ten rosette mosaic is not merely a coloured rectangle and a fret slot is not merely a line.
The false choice
Craft software is often either wonderfully specific and technically isolated, or broadly capable and indifferent to the actual making process. Cadivari’s direction is to let specialist definitions produce ordinary, reusable geometry.
A rosette is physical data
A mosaic cell has a measured width and height. A veneer strip is a radial layer. A tile repeat cannot simply stretch to fill a ring. Encoding those facts produces a better visual preview and a better route to channel geometry.
A fretboard is more than a taper
Scale calculation, slot width, compound radius, longitudinal slope, bass-edge fallaway and soundhole end geometry affect one another. A dedicated designer can expose those relationships while still generating familiar CAD faces and CAM operations.
Specialist input should create general output wherever practical.
Beyond instruments
The same architecture can later support fixtures, joinery, sign-making, templates and other workflows where domain knowledge reduces repetitive construction without narrowing the underlying model.