Contriver Guitars

06/10/2026

Node Atlas for Autodesk Fusion, Available Now

Direct:
https://contriverguitars.gumroad.com/l/eplcza

Autodesk Marketplace:
Very soon (with 30 day free trial)

Contriver Node Atlas turns a Fusion design into a readable, interactive node graph — helping you understand, inspect, edit, and reuse the parametric structure inside your model.In v1.1.0, Node Atlas moves beyond visualization. You can now edit supported feature parameters directly from the graph, ...

06/10/2026

Here’s a closer look at Node Atlas.

Fusion is the geometric ex*****on layer. Node Atlas is the design logic layer.

It maps the relationships between parameters, sketches, features, bodies, and components into a live interactive graph, making complex models easier to understand, navigate, and modify.

Version 1.1.0 is being .pkgd for launch.

06/10/2026

Here’s a closer look at Node Atlas.

Fusion is the geometric ex*****on layer. Node Atlas is the design logic layer.

It maps the relationships between parameters, sketches, features, bodies, and components into a live interactive graph, making complex models easier to understand, navigate, and modify.

Version 1.1.0 is being .pkgd for launch.

06/09/2026

Node Atlas turns the inside of an model into a live dependency graph, exposing the relationships between parameters, sketches, features, construction geometry, bodies, and assemblies. Instead of digging through timelines and browser trees, we clearly see how the design functions, and what it consists of.

New in v1.1.0:

• Edit feature parameters directly from the graph

• Inspect and modify extrudes, revolves, fillets, chamfers, shells, sweeps, and holes

• Upstream and downstream dependency tracing

• Saved views, filters, and manual relationship mapping

Introducing Script Nodes

Any parametric Fusion design can now be packaged as a reusable module.

Package a design once.
Share it as a ZIP.
Import it anywhere.
Configure parameters.
Execute.

Node Atlas inserts the geometry as a named component and restores live parameter control immediately.

Open a previously executed Script Node and Node Atlas automatically brings it into the semi-lattice structure, restoring real-time editing without re-importing or rebuilding anything.

The goal has always been simple:

Make design intent visible.
Make parametric systems reusable.
Make complex models understandable.

We’re getting closer.

06/05/2026

Node Atlas has been Approved for Autodesk Fusion Add-in Market Place! 🚨🔔

Working away at turning the 0.9.0 Beta into the 1.0.0 release! Feature possibilities have emerged for later integration and as always, we approach that bottom up.

Attendees of my Electric Guitar Design course this summer will receive the updated version before we start our session!

There are a few seats left, if you are interested in not only how designs function, but what they consist of, sign up and let’s talk about it.

More details pending release on the entirety of this project, this is just a node in an ambitious project.

———

“…based on the assumption that physical clarity cannot be achieved in a form until there is first some programmatic clarity in the designers mind and actions;

and that for this to be possible, in turn, the designer must first trace his design problem to its earliest functional origins and be able to find some sort of pattern in them.

I shall try to outline a general way of stating design problems which draws attention to these functional origins, and makes their pattern reasonably easy to see.”

Christopher Alexander
Notes on the Synthesis of Form

06/03/2026

Blue!! 💙🔵

Quiet evening of lo-fi, various tape, and color matching a paint sample.

Let us spray.

06/02/2026

Hello! 👋

I went looking into the poetic and methodical side of this work—the systems; the rules that generate rather than just shape.

What emerged is a beautiful discipline, older than the tools we use to compute it.

Computational Design / Lutherie

An approach to design in which mathematical relationships, and parametric systems govern decisions of form, proportion, and structure as primary drivers.

This summer I am hosting a live event to integrate this way of thinking into real workflows.

Seats are intentionally limited to maintain live feedback and iteration depth.

This is a foundational course—whether you’re a beginner in starting clean, or an advance user looking to refine the process, there is something here at every level.

No prior parametric experience required—only familiarity with Fusion is helpful.

Attendees will leave with a fully structured instrument model and repeatable workflow for designing within a controlled system.

It is structured as a 3-weekend intensive, followed by a one weekend break, and a final 4th weekend roundtable for review, catch-up & clarification.

Course Includes:
- Node Atlas & Fret Engine Fusion Add-ins
- Session Recordings
- Indexing+Material Reference Guides
- Print copy of “How Decisions Propagate”
- One Hour Session of After Support

Held Live via Zoom

Please email [email protected] to Enrol

More advanced courses built on this foundation will follow.

05/31/2026

Many, incredibly thin, almost nonexistent, layers.

05/31/2026

Bass!

37” - 34.5” Scale.. Setneck… it fits 🙃

05/30/2026

Ripping through a cascade on the new new.