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The Kerf Method

How an AI engine designs factory-ready furniture from published industry standards — System 32, Blum & Hettich hardware data, the Minifix joint system, EN 312 board specs — with every number derived, every claim gated, and everything unverified honestly labelled until a real factory cut confirms it.

● the LLM proposes · the deterministic engine computes · gates before anything ships

Cycles render of the engine's doored cabinet, door ajar on its real hinges

rendered by cycles from the engine's own placements & fittings — nothing hand-modelled

// The CNC process — every bore, simulated from the engine's real coordinates

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panel

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bore

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x (mm)

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y (mm)

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Ø (mm)

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depth (mm)

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tool

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This is not an illustration: every coordinate above is read live from the engine's current model — the same numbers its DXF panel drawings and gcode carry. Ø5/8/15 mm bores run on the gang boring head (System-32 spindles at 32 mm pitch); Ø35 hinge cups run on the router spindle. The real machine file is still gated behind verify-before-the-saw — two deterministic gates plus a human first-cut approval.

// The book — the method, chapter by chapter

// Standards & sources the knowledge base cites

// Where this lives

The full book is a living document in the engineering repo (KAI Engineering/Kerf/The Kerf Method — Engineering Book.md), written and updated by the same R&D loop that builds the engine. The models it describes are on the Flagship Advancement page — orbit them, open the doors, explode the joints; the hardware you see is placed by the rules in these chapters.