Nova Studio user guide
Everything Nova Studio can do, step by step. The pictures are taken from the running program and are renewed with every version.
- Getting startedFrom a blank sheet to your first part for the 3D printer, in five minutes, with no account and nothing to install.
- View and workplaneMoving around the scene, looking straight on, and placing new shapes on any surface you like.
- Placing and adjusting shapesThe shape library, dimensions by number and by handle, colour, rotating, tapering and twisting.
- Selecting and arrangingSelecting shapes, finding them in the object list, aligning, mirroring, rotating, laying flat on a face and multiplying in patterns.
- Solids and holesHow simple shapes become bores, slots and pockets, and how to change a group again later.
- Breaking edges and hollowing bodiesChamfer and fillet on chosen edges, walls of equal thickness for boxes, cups and cases.
- Sketches: from outline to bodyDraw a flat outline, round or chamfer its corners and pull or spin it into a body.
- Text and curved letteringRaised or engraved lettering in eight typefaces or one of your own, and if you like along a circular arc, such as on a coin, a lid or a ring.
- Threads, gears and other partsScrews, nuts and tapped holes that fit together, plus gear, spring, bent tube, dovetail, teardrop hole, counterbore and countersink.
- Measuring and notesTape measure, ruler and framing square, distances to the origin, notes that stay attached to a part, and reference points that things snap to.
- Preparing for 3D printingChoosing your own printer, being warned when something does not fit, and laying the part the right way.
- Files, saving and sharingWhere your designs live, how to back them up, which formats layerling imports and exports, and what is possible on a shared server.
- Keyboard shortcutsAll keys at a glance, taken straight from the program so the list is always right.
- Building with an AI (MCP)How an AI assistant such as Gemini, Claude or Codex creates and changes shapes, groups them and takes pictures of the view in your open editor.
- Installing as an app, working offline and self-hostingStart layerling like a normal program, even without a network, and how to run it on your own computer.
- Videos about layerlingVideos that other people have made about layerling.
- Tablet and touchWorking with fingers or a stylus: selecting several bodies, turning and zooming the view, the long press menu, and what to know on an iPad.