I'm SM Farid. I design for machines I'll never hear run.

That’s the whole challenge of remote CNC design: the file has to be so complete that a stranger on another continent can load it, zero it and walk away confident. That’s the standard I hold every deliverable to.

Most of the jobs that find me start the same way: a shop with a machine it’s outgrown, a customer asking for something the current files can’t produce, and nobody in the building with time to sit down and model it properly. So the work gets done here instead — the geometry, the relief, the render the client needs to approve, and finally the program that runs on the machine.

I work across the whole chain rather than one slice of it, because the slice where things go wrong is almost never the one you’re looking at. A beautiful relief that ignores grain direction splits a panel. A clean nest that ignores your kerf makes an assembly that falls apart. A toolpath that ignores your post makes a crash. Designing all of it in one head is the point.

It’s a solo practice on purpose. You talk to the person doing the work, there’s no handover, and the answers you get about tolerances and feeds come from someone who chose them rather than someone reading them back off a sheet.

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CNC router artwork & parts
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Laser cut & engrave design
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3D wood carving design
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3D Modelling
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Photorealistic rendering
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CNC programming & toolpaths

Working arrangement

Based

UTC+6

Clients

Worldwide, remote
Booked as
Project or hours
Machines served
3-axis router · laser

The cutter decides, not the render

A model that can’t be reached by a bit is just a picture of a part.

Notes ship with the files

Bit list, stock thickness, zero point. A program without context is a rumour.

Small and honest

One person takes the job, answers the email and knows where every radius came from.