Overview

Specialist tools overview

A guide to the specialist rosette and fretboard design systems included in Cadivari.

Updated September 20262 min readSpecialist toolsets

Specialist workflows with ordinary geometry

Cadivari’s first specialist tools serve guitar-making workflows without defining the wider platform around one craft. They automate focused calculations and repetitive setup while keeping rosettes and fretboards connected to the same CAD, 3D, CAM, and project-file system used for general projects.

Rosette Designer

Build a physical band stack from mosaic bands and measured veneer strips. Cadivari calculates the concentric placement, fretboard opening and routed channel, then places the result into CAD at exact size.

Read the complete Rosette Designer guide.

Fretboard Designer

Create classical, steel-string or custom fretboards with exact scale length, nut and 12th-fret dimensions, fret positions and flat, constant-radius or compound-radius surfaces. The linked CAD object can drive both the blank geometry and fret-slot CAM.

Read the complete Fretboard Designer guide.

One shared CAD and CAM model

Specialist designs use their own .cadiv-rosette and .cadiv-fretboard files when saved independently. Once placed in a project, they remain associative Cadivari objects and participate in the ordinary .cadiv project workflow.