Fair questions, straight answers.
What Blueprint Buddy is, how it thinks, and what happens to your designs.
The studio
What is Blueprint Buddy?
A furniture design studio that starts from a sentence. Describe the piece you want — or upload a photo of one — and the studio drafts it into an interactive 3D model, checks it against real structural physics, and turns it into a cut list, a buying plan with cutting diagrams, and step-by-step assembly instructions you can take to the workbench.
Do I need to know CAD, or be an experienced woodworker?
No. You describe the piece the way you’d say it out loud — “a walnut nightstand, two drawers, about knee height” — and refine it in plain words. Pick your skill level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and the studio explains as much or as little as you want. Never built furniture before? Start from a proven starter and every step is spelled out.
Isn’t this just AI making things up?
No — and this is the founding rule. The AI only translates your intent: “lower, wider, walnut.” Every dimension, joint, and price is then computed by a deterministic drafting engine — code that knows furniture, not a language model guessing. The same design in always produces the same numbers out, and you can tap any number in the app to see the formula behind it.
Can I trust that what I build will hold up?
Every design runs a structural gauntlet before you see it: shelf sag from real wood stiffness, racking, tipping, fastener duty — on material data from the U.S. Forest Service’s Wood Handbook, with a generous safety factor and long-term creep counted in. When something won’t hold, the studio says so honestly and offers the fix. It can — and does — say no.
Designing & building
What kinds of furniture can it design?
Tables, desks, benches, bookshelves, nightstands, and cabinets are drafted from deep parametric templates — and beyond those, a construction grammar of posts, rails, panels, and slabs lets the studio draft novel pieces from a description or a photo. Everything is sized to you: your dimensions, your wood species, your skill level.
What do I actually get at the end?
Working plans: a cut list with joinery allowances already applied, a buying plan that packs your parts onto real boards you can price and purchase, dimensioned drawings, assembly steps with 3D joint close-ups, and a full-screen Build mode that rides to the shop on your phone with checkable steps. Exports include a printable drawing sheet, SVG, CSV, a 3D model for AR, and SketchUp.
Can I see the piece in my room before I build it?
Yes. Export the 3D model (.glb) and on most Android phones you can stand the piece in your room at true size through AR; on iOS it takes one pass through Apple’s free Reality Converter. On any device, the in-studio 3D view orbits, explodes, and measures the piece from every side.
Inches or millimetres?
Both. The studio computes in exact millimetres internally and displays in fractional inches or millimetres — your choice, switchable any time, with a dual-display option that shows both everywhere.
Accounts, saving & cost
Do I need an account?
No. The studio runs entirely in your browser and autosaves designs to your device. Where sign-in is offered, an account adds cloud sync — your projects follow you to any device — but it’s never required to design or build.
How do I share a design or move it between devices?
Every design compresses into a share code — one line of text that carries the whole piece. Paste it anywhere: a message, a note, another device. Share links do the same through a URL. No account needed on either end.
What does it cost?
Designing is free. On installations with accounts enabled, an optional Pro plan raises the monthly AI-message allowance, removes the saved-project cap, and unlocks premium exports — you’ll see plans and pricing in the studio wherever that applies. Nothing you’ve designed is ever held hostage: share codes and core exports stay open.
What happens to my data?
Your designs live in your browser unless you sign in, in which case projects sync to your account’s private store. Design chat goes through the studio’s own server to the AI service to interpret your intent — the geometry itself is computed locally in your browser. There’s no ad tracking and nothing is sold.
Still curious? The studio answers best in person — a live workbench with a drafted piece is one click away.