NWOM

New Way of Making

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Authenticated compiler scene

New Way of Making

A file-based substrate for sophisticated physical projects. Describe the intent once; compile it into exact geometry, checked outputs, and a workbench you can actually move through.

95 scene entities 2 real controls 1 exact publication

Loading the checked-in Legible Station publication…

The scene behind this menu is not a render. It is the 8 MB GLB emitted by the NWOM compiler for the wall-legible-library project — the Legible Station, iteration 002.

The substrate

A project stays legible from idea to object.

NWOM keeps human intent, machine truth, exact outputs, and design history together in ordinary files. Agents can work at the same level of rigor as the compiler without becoming the source of truth.

  1. Source

    Say what is true

    design.nwom.yaml carries typed entities, relations, dimensions, controls, and capability versions. INTENT.md records what the project is for and what still has to be measured.

  2. Compile

    Make the claims close

    Deterministic checks resolve exact B-reps, interference, vendor constraints, scene composition, and artifact hashes. A changed source cannot masquerade as a current publication.

  3. Workbench

    Test the physical decision

    The production viewer opens the same immutable compiler scene, with hierarchy, role layers, shadows, lighting, articulation, and reviewed source-patch previews.

  4. Make

    Hand off exact outputs

    Depending on the project: STEP assemblies, GLB scenes, cut lists, BOMs, vendor order packets, assembly notes, and analysis. The human remains the order gate.

The world on this page

One wall, one instrument: the Legible Station.

An instrument that manufactures a home for every object that enters the room — and never lets an object lie about where it is. Vertical, standing-height, addressed storage compiled into a measured apartment wall.

S

Spine

A walnut-framed vertical openGrid face with a real 40 mm wiring plenum behind it. The float is function, not styling.

L

Leaves

Three lifting rows of translucent Gridfinity bins presented at 30°, each hiding an addressed one-motion bay. Swing clearance ships as compiled proof.

P

Palettes

Two wall-less boards on full-extension travel with Gridfinity slotted flush — drawers reduced to their essence.

W

Witnessed by survey

Nine dimension witnesses ship inside the scene — four substantiated by compiler-measured geometry, five honest assumptions awaiting a tape measure. In the local workbench, filling a blank is a provenance event: the sketch firms up where truth lands.

Prototype instrument — not order-ready. This scene proves its modeled solids compile and do not interfere at the selected controls. Cleat and stud math, lift and slide hardware, LED and PSU selection, and two tape measurements remain explicit order gates.

Local-first by design

Open the real workbench.

The project library is filesystem-backed and loopback-only. There are no accounts, uploads, or hosted project APIs on this site. Clone the repository, compile a project, then enter the production workbench used to build the project behind this page.

nwom / local
git clone https://github.com/AlexDaines/nwom.git
cd nwom
uv sync --dev
uv run nwom check projects/adjustable-metal-bookshelf --atlas atlas
uv run nwom view --atlas atlas
Open the source ↗

NWOM never places orders. It produces authenticated artifacts and packets a human reviews and executes.