RipSaw ScrollForge helps scroll saw, fretwork, intarsia, and segmentation artists see the problem before the wood hits the saw. Islands. Bridges. Cut lines. Seam Snapping. Print accuracy. The parts generic design software was never built to understand.
There's a reason no one ever built pattern software specifically for this community. It's a small world. Quiet. Mostly sawdust and patience and wood that has its own opinions. RipSaw ScrollForge exists because that world deserved its own tool. Not a drawing program wearing a scroll saw hat. Something that understands kerf, fit, and what it actually means to send a pattern to the saw. It won't cut for you. It won't think for you. It just closes the gap between what you designed and what you cut.
Set your blade kerf once, then design with tools that understand cut width, bridge strength, floating islands, seam fit, and print scale. RipSaw keeps the physical realities visible while the design decisions stay yours.
See How RipSaw WorksWhen a cutout creates a piece of wood with no connection to the surrounding board, RipSaw catches it. The disconnected region highlights in orange — just that region, nothing else — so you know exactly what needs a bridge before you ever sit down at the saw.
RipSaw doesn't guess where your bridges go. You place them, shape them with the node tool, and blend them into the pattern's natural lines — ears, feathers, lettering, grain flow. The software watches the width so you stay above the safe minimum. The design decisions stay yours.
Fretwork lives in the details — narrow slots, tight curves, interior cuts that have to fit a blade before they fit the pattern. RipSaw's cut line tool draws those slots as real closed geometry, sized from the blade kerf you entered at the start. You place the line, shape it to follow the pattern's natural flow, and what you draw is what the blade has room to cut.
Assign wood species or stain colors to each piece, rotate the grain texture until it runs the way you want it, drop a grain arrow to mark the cut direction, and let RipSaw number the pieces automatically as you go. Circles for eyes and knots commit as real closed geometry. Tight seams fit because every shape knows where the blade has to be.
See your pattern clean before you commit to cutting. No reference image, no grid, no canvas clutter — just the shapes, textures, and bridges as they'll actually read. It updates as you work, so what you see is always current.
When the pattern is ready, export a craft-specific packet scaled to your finished dimensions — tiled across pages if the pattern runs large. Scroll saw gets a full-size cut template. Intarsia and segmentation get assembly previews, full-scale part sheets, and wood species or stain legends by piece number. What you see is what prints.
Scroll saw work is not just about drawing a pretty line. A good pattern has to survive the cut. RipSaw focuses on the problems that matter most: floating islands, bridge placement, cut lines, and clean full-size print output.
The software watches for disconnected wood and gives you room to make the craft decision yourself: where the bridge belongs, how it should flow, and whether the line you drew will cut the way you meant it to.
Intarsia and segmentation are built piece by piece. The shapes have to fit, the seams have to behave, and the wood choice has to support the picture you are trying to make.
RipSaw gives you a craft-aware workspace for drawing pieces, snapping seams, assigning wood species or stain colors, and marking grain direction. The wood texture previews are functional and still improving — I'd rather be straight about that than oversell it.
RipSaw handles the physics.
You handle the art.
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RipSaw ScrollForge is entering its first public phase. I'm looking for a small group of experienced makers to test it on real projects, and I'm also opening pre-release access for people who want to support the work early.
Beta testers help find the rough edges. Early supporters help cover the licensing costs needed to bring RipSaw into full release. Both matter.
Read how RipSaw handles islands, bridges, cut lines, seams, preview, and PDF output.
Apply for beta testing if you want to give hands-on feedback, or purchase early access if you want to support the release.
RipSaw gets better when real scrollers and intarsia artists put real patterns through it.