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Any car
Win the unavailable job
Build the pattern while the vehicle is in your shop instead of waiting for a catalog update.
3D scan → 2D cutting template
Turn any car into your next cut file.
The desktop pattern-engineering workspace that turns your own 3D scans into measured, editable, plotter-ready templates. Any car. Any panel. No catalog wait.
$900 once · 50% off launch · refundable until delivery · installers only
PPF Engine
Volvo FH Aero / A-pillar trim
SVG · DXF · PLT · Graphtec FC9000
2D template · this exact piece was cut
Scan mesh
23,849 faces
Template size
608 × 229 mm
Within 8% stretch
>99.9% by area
Pattern freedom changes what your shop can say yes to.
Pattern libraries make ordinary work convenient. They do not help when the new model is early, the panel is rare, or the customer wants coverage nobody has drawn.
PPF Engine turns the car in your bay into the source of truth. You control the coverage, see the material risk before cutting, and keep the reusable pattern.
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Any panel
Sell custom coverage
Place the seam and coverage line where the customer needs it, then save it for the next car.
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Before cut
Protect your margin
Inspect stretch, dimensions and vector quality before a metre of film comes off the roll.
Your scan Your decisions Your reusable pattern
Add up what the pattern library really costs you.
Not just the subscription: the jobs it can’t pattern, that you turn away or cut by hand on paint. Your numbers:
The subscription, a year
$2,400
Revenue you turn away, a year
$31,200
What the library costs you, a year
$33,600
PPF Engine is for the jobs your library can’t sell you.
A rough estimate from your own numbers: your scanner, your rates.
Built for the real PPF workflow.
One real Volvo FH Globe panel, from the STL scan on your computer to its matching PPF Engine cut boundary.
Import scan
Bring the panel mesh in from your scanner and keep the real surface as the source.
Clean mesh
Remove scan noise and prepare an even, workable surface before pattern work begins.
Flatten panel
Turn the cleaned scan into a workable two-dimensional mesh while preserving the panel shape.
Stretch & sag
Preview likely pull and compression zones from the panel geometry before cutting film.
Fit & export
Fit a clean boundary, refine the anchors and send a full-scale file to the plotter.
Source trail
Globe window-adjacent panel · real STL scan · 21,090 faces · matching PPF Engine SVG export
A design tool, not a converter.
A converter would hand you the scan flattened, errors and all. PPF Engine shows every call it makes: where the seam runs, where the film stretches, where a relief cut saves the install. And it lets you overrule any of it.
The output is not a tracing. It is a template. Below is the pre-flight for the same Volvo FH trim you just watched flatten: 23,849 scan faces in one pass, a clean cut path fitted with anchors you can grab, edges kept dimension-true, and the stretch graded before any film comes off the roll.
Faces flattened
23,849 · one pass
Within 8% stretch
> 99.9% by area
Fits the panel
measured, not traced
The toolbox
The tools are the ones an installer actually reaches for, named the way you would say them across the shop:
- T1
Edge wrap
Type the wrap in millimetres: plus wraps past the edge, minus pulls the cut inboard, 0 cuts at the scan edge.
Edge return mm, signed
- T2
Feature detection
Creases, character lines and openings are found in the scan and kept as guides, so seams and trim lines land on the panel, not near it.
Guides from the scan
- T3
Stretch brush
Paint where you would pull the film; the template compensates before the plotter ever runs.
Compensation painted on
- T4
Relief cuts
Drop a relief cut where the film fights back and watch the stress drain out of the stretch map.
Stress shown live
- T5
Pre-stretch
Dial in pre-stretch per zone, the way you actually rack the film on the panel.
Zones per panel
- T6
Seams on the surface
Three seam tools drawn straight on the 3D panel, exactly where the film should break.
Seam tools 3 kinds
One real truck runs this whole page.
PPF Engine is being built inside a working film-installation studio in Estonia, not a software office. The Volvo FH Aero below came in for stone-chip protection; no pattern library covers it. We scanned the front end panel by panel, flattened the scans in PPF Engine, cut the templates on a Graphtec, and installed the film.
Every scan, mesh, and template you have scrolled past is from this truck. The patterns below are three more of the eight panels from that job, each shown beside the exact spot on the truck it protects, exactly as they went to the plotter.
Panels patterned
8
Pattern source
our own scans
Status
cut · installed · on the road
Same truck as the hero scan, the process stills and the pre-flight above.
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The launch-day EV
A customer books the week deliveries start. The pattern database won’t have the car for months. You scan it in the morning, flatten the front, and cut before lunch. No waiting for someone else to measure a car you already have on the lift.
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The partial front nobody patterns
The customer’s budget ends halfway up the hood. There’s no catalog entry for “partial front, this exact line.” You draw the coverage where they want it, test the stretch on screen, and cut it clean: designed, not improvised with a knife on paint.
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The motorcycle tank
Compound curves the catalogs skip entirely. Seam it, flatten it with honest distortion maps, and see where the film fights back before you commit, so you test the stretch on screen instead of wasting a metre of film to find out.
Built by installers and software people in Tartu, Estonia. You get build notes from the actual developers, not a newsletter robot.
Who we sell to
Sold to installers. No one else. PPF Engine licenses go to installation shops and independent installers only: we don’t sell to film manufacturers, or to pattern-database or pattern-software vendors. Your scans stay on your machine, your patterns stay your business.
The app runs on your own computer. Your scans and templates never leave it for our servers.
Presale offer
$900
for your first year
Presale access
$1,800/yr
After presale
- 12 months of full access, starting the day we deliver
- One seat (more seats available after launch)
- Presale license number, monthly build notes, roadmap voice
- Does not auto-renew. You choose when the year is up.
- Fully refundable until your access begins
Installers only: never sold to manufacturers or pattern vendors.
Refundable in full until your access begins. One email, no questions.
Access begins at delivery (estimated Q4 2026). Your 12 months start then.
Taxes calculated at checkout.
At launch: $1,800 / yr or $549 / 3 mo · extra seats sold separately
Presale allocation
200 licenses available
This is the limited presale allocation—not a lifetime cap on PPF Engine licenses. Regular licenses will remain available after launch.
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Not ready to pre-order? Get the launch note: one email when it ships, one when the presale licenses run out. Nothing else.
What exactly am I buying today?
Presale access: 12 months of full PPF Engine access at 50% off the launch price: $900 once, instead of $1,800/yr. You’re charged today; your year starts the day we deliver (estimated Q4 2026), not today. Until your access begins, you can get a full refund with one email.
Is this a subscription? Does it auto-renew?
At launch, PPF Engine sells in 3-month and 1-year terms. Your presale purchase is a prepaid first year. It does not auto-renew. Near the end of it you decide: renew for a year or a quarter at the going rate, or walk away. We’d rather earn the renewal.
How many computers or people can use it?
A license includes one seat. Additional seats for your shop can be purchased after launch. The presale price applies to the license you buy today.
What if it’s late, or never ships?
If we miss the window you’ll get the choice: keep waiting or take an instant full refund. The people behind this cut film for a living; the tool exists because we needed it ourselves.
Do you sell this to film manufacturers or pattern companies?
No. Licenses go to installation shops and independent installers only: not to PPF manufacturers, not to pattern-database or pattern-software vendors. And because it’s a desktop app, your scans and templates stay on your machine; nothing is uploaded to us or anyone else.
Which plotters are supported?
Export is SVG, DXF and PLT (HP-GL), developed and tested against a Graphtec FC9000. If your cutter reads any of those, you’re covered. Files are full-scale in millimetres with a 100 mm reference line so the scale is never in question.