Planichapa
Sheet metal flat patterns online — DXF for plasma and laser
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Details
- External ID
- 1253988
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Planichapa
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Design Tools, Productivity, 3D Modeling
Description
Flat pattern development for boilermaking, in the browser: cones, cylinders, segmented bends, pipe branches, transitions and more — 50 parts. Every part calculates on its own page, no account needed. A free account gives unlimited calculations, 3D, to-scale PDF, history and 3 parts a month in DXF. Calculated on the neutral line, in mm or inches. DXF comes in cut, bend and weld layers, ready for plasma, laser and oxy-fuel. Full access: one-off 12-month purchase (US$79), no auto-renewal.
Enrichment
- Niche
- computer-aided design software
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sheet metal unfolding and dxf generator for fabricators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web frontend and user dashboard are straightforward, generating mathematically precise CAD flat pattern developments and exporting valid DXF geometries for 50 distinct boilermaking sheet metal forms requires deep domain-specific geometry and CNC manufacturing knowledge.
What it would actually take: A full implementation requires a 3D computational geometry engine (e.g., using WebGL/Three.js on the client and Open CASCADE, CGAL, or custom parametric math on the backend) capable of accurately unfolding complex sheet metal shapes (cones, transitions, segmented bends) while accounting for material thickness and bend allowances. It also requires a DXF generation library (like ezdxf) that outputs strict CNC-ready vector paths for laser and plasma cutters. The hard part is mastering the exact analytic geometry algorithms for sheet metal unrolling without self-intersections or manufacturing tolerances issues.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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