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Private beta · macOS & Windows

Every curve.
Every litre.
Every pass.

ShaperLab Pro is surfboard design software made in a working shaping lab in Madeira. Draw the outline, rockers and rails, see the real volume in 3D, and send clean files to your printer, your CAD or your CNC.

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A 6'4 13/16" shortboard designed in ShaperLab Pro, rendered in glassed PU with its reflection

Rendered in ShaperLab Pro · 6'4 13/16" × 20 3/8 × 2 1/2 · 34.98 L

STEP / IGES accuracy, Fine
0.02 mm
G-code dialects: GRBL, LinuxCNC, Mach
3
Shaper Advisor boards vs target volume
±3 %
analytics, telemetry or trackers
0

Features

From the first line to the file your machine cuts.

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01 · Design

Draw it the way you shape it.

Outline, deck and bottom rockers and a handful of cross-sections. Drag the points, or type the numbers at the stations, and the board is lofted between them.

02 · Live 3D & volume

Every edit, measured.

The 3D board follows every drag, and so do the numbers: volume, surface, wide point and centre of volume. Shaded, zebra and curvature views show what the eye misses.

04 · 3D layers

Channels, concaves, wings and a beak.

Cut detail into the bottom and deck as layers on the board itself. Volume, the 3D model, every export and the G-code follow them.

05 · Fins & boxes

Fins and boxes at real size.

Place fins with their toe and cant, on the boxes you actually install. Boxes and plugs are modelled at hardware size and travel into every file you send out.

03 · Smart Functions

One window for every change.

Press S, type what you want — "volume", "tail", "channels" — check the fields, which come filled from the board, and Apply. Each change is one step of Undo.

06 · Shaper Advisor

A starting point for every order.

Fill in the surfer while you take the order — weight, height, age, fitness, level, their waves — and get a family, dims the way a shaper writes them, a target volume and the reasons. Create board opens it from your own template.

08 · Exports

The file every next step needs.

STL and OBJ meshes, STEP and IGES surfaces for CAD, DXF curves, and true-size PDF templates tiled for any printer — outline, rocker, sections and the spin template.

09 · CNC

G-code you watch before you cut.

Deck and bottom programs for 3-axis machines, with the holders, the fin boxes and the blank in place. Run the whole cut in simulation first, then send it.

↗ · Try it in your browser

Try ShaperLab Lite, right now.

Pro's editor reduced to a browser tab: outline, rocker and sections with knots and tangents, the litres live, a 3D view. Free, no install.

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How it works

One board, six steps, no detours.

  1. 01

    Outline

    Plan shape, nose and tail

  2. 02

    Rocker

    Deck and bottom curves

  3. 03

    Rails

    Cross-sections, concave, vee

  4. 04

    Volume

    Measured from the surface

  5. 05

    Layers

    Channels, wings, beak

  6. 06

    Output

    Templates, CAD, G-code

The workspace

Four views of the same board, and the numbers a shaper writes on the blank.

The ShaperLab Pro workspace with a 6'4" shortboard: Top, Side, Section and Perspective, and the board's numbers in feet and inches

Learn

Ten lessons, six episodes, one board.

Learning ShaperLab Pro builds a single board from its measurements to the G-code, with the project file to download after every lesson. The Advanced series then turns it into a fish for a returning customer. Plus one short video on each thing only Pro does.

Start with lesson 01

Plans

Three versions. Lite is free; Design and Pro are free while we test.

Lite is free and runs in your browser. Design is the desktop editor for shapers who cut by hand. Pro adds every design tool, the exports and CNC. Pricing announced at launch; the beta is free.

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Free · in your browser

Lite

Riders, customers and shapers who want to sketch a board and read the litres.

  • Outline, rocker and sections with knots and tangents
  • Live volume, rockers and widths
  • 3D view
  • The templates, every tail and nose
  • Nothing to install

Free

Open ShaperLab Lite

Desktop · Mac and Windows

Design

Shapers who draw by computer and shape by hand.

  • Full 2D curve editor at full precision
  • Smart Functions and Shaper Advisor
  • Fins and boxes, fin designer
  • Open and save .shaperlab, .s3dx and .brd
  • 1:1 PDF templates and spec sheet

Pricing announced at launch · free during the beta

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Every tool, exports and CNC

Pro

Shapers and shops that want every design tool and cut their own boards.

  • Everything in Design
  • 3D layers: channels, concaves, wings, beak
  • Asymmetric boards and 3D scan import
  • Weight, flotation, stability and flex
  • STL, OBJ, STEP, IGES and DXF
  • G-code, cut simulation, multi-axis, hot wire

Pricing announced at launch · free during the beta

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Private beta

Shape with us before launch.

Free during the beta, with every update as it ships. Tell us your name, what you shape, your machine or CAM, and whether you work on a Mac or Windows.

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Questions

Asked by shapers.

All questions and support →
Which machines and CAM does it work with?

ShaperLab Pro writes its own G-code: deck and bottom programs for 3-axis routers in GRBL / generic, LinuxCNC or Mach3 / Mach4 flavour, with your own header and footer lines and a saved machine file. Multi-axis and disk-cutter programs are written as tool-centre coordinates, for machines running RTCP.

If you use your own CAM, export STEP or IGES surfaces, STL or OBJ meshes, or DXF curves. Hot-wire programs are there for cutting blanks from EPS.

Can I open my existing .s3dx and .brd files?

Yes. ShaperLab Pro opens .s3dx and legacy .brd boards with their outline, sections, fin boxes, colours and bottom layers, and it can save boards back to both formats. The original file is never overwritten: saving writes a .shaperlab file next to it. If something cannot be carried over, it is listed before the board opens.

What do I need to run it?

A Mac with macOS 12 Monterey or later, or a PC with Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). On Windows the installer needs no administrator rights and keeps your settings and licence when you install a newer build over it. The app speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Does it work offline?

Yes. The licence is activated once, offline, and checked on your computer. The app loads nothing from the internet and has no analytics or telemetry. Beta keys expire on the date shown in the app.

When paid plans start, they will be checked online from time to time and keep working for 14 days without a connection.