About SketchChair

The Project

SketchChair is a free, open-source software tool that allows anyone to easily design and build their own digitally fabricated furniture.

Digital manufacturing processes open up a world of opportunity for producing unique individualized objects, but we think there is a lack of accessible digital tools that allow anybody to use these processes to design and make their own functional, personalized products.

We hope that SketchChair will give anybody the opportunity to design a unique one-off original chair that is personal to them.

The Vision

Within the program, you can upload chairs you have created, adding them to a growing collection of open-source designs in the SketchChair Design Library. Any of these chairs are freely available to be downloaded and edited by anybody, allowing chair designs to evolve as users continually refine and modify them.

Open Source

SketchChair has been made possible thanks to our supporters. The desktop app is open source: its code is on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license, and we welcome contributions from the community.

The browser version is newer and its code is not public yet. It will be released as open source as well.

Diatom Studio

SketchChair is developed by Diatom Studio, a design and research practice focused on creative technologies and digital fabrication.