Pottery Shape Generator for Designing Forms Before You Touch Clay
Explore ceramic forms live with adjustable dimensions, instant visual feedback, and clean blueprint PDF export. This pottery shape generator helps you test proportions, refine silhouettes, and prepare better forms before you start throwing.
Built by a potter, for potters. Currently in public beta.
Adjust dimensions, refine the form, and export your design as a clean blueprint PDF.
Use the pottery shape generator to explore vessel forms with more clarity and less guesswork. On phone, rotate your screen to landscape mode. For the best experience, use a tablet or desktop.
How it works
Set your key dimensions
Start with height, diameters, and core proportions that matter in real ceramic form design.
Explore the form live
Use sliders and shape controls to refine the profile in real time and immediately judge what works.
Export your blueprint
Save your concept as a clean blueprint PDF you can keep, print, or take into the studio.
Sketching pottery forms takes too long
This pottery shape generator helps potters design vessel forms before working on the wheel. Instead of redrawing the same idea again and again, you can adjust height, diameters, and proportions live, see the profile update instantly, and export a clean blueprint PDF for studio reference.
It is made for hobby potters, ceramic students, studio makers, and teachers who want a faster way to explore shape, proportion, and structure with less friction.
Why use this pottery shape generator
Test shape ideas in seconds instead of redrawing them one by one.
See the form and its proportions evolve together as you work.
Define the structure before you touch clay and catch weak proportions earlier.
Make changes live and judge immediately whether the form still holds together.
What you can do right now
Not a generic design tool
This generator was built from real pottery workflow frustrations. It was not made for engineers drawing perfect industrial objects. It was made for potters exploring vessel forms, proportions, and practical dimensions before working on the wheel.
It is a focused pottery design tool for ceramic form exploration, built from inside the craft rather than from the outside.
Who this pottery shape generator is for
Explore ideas faster and build confidence before throwing.
Learn proportions, structure, and form relationships more clearly.
Develop and test variations without redrawing every concept by hand.
Use it as a visual support tool for discussing form and proportion.
Push shape exploration further with a faster iterative workflow.
Other tools for potters
Shape exploration is only one part of the pottery process.
If you also care about how your form translates to real making, you can continue with the DIY Pottery Wheel Guide, where I break down the decisions that matter when building, refining, or understanding a pottery wheel in actual studio use.
The Shape Generator is part of a wider body of work developed through Studio Bernhard, where I explore handmade ceramics, form, process, and practical tools for potters.
What’s coming next
The current version focuses on pottery form exploration. Future development will expand the tool into a deeper ceramic design workflow.
Available now
Live shape exploration
Dimension control
Blueprint PDF export
Advanced form refinement
Planned next
Lids
Mug handles
Teapot spouts
Better project organization
Longer-term vision
3D previews
Glaze preview
Upload your own glaze references
New form suggestions and surprise features
Help improve the generator
Get updates, early improvements, and future feature announcements as the Shape Generator evolves.
If you find a bug, hit a limitation, or have an idea that would make the tool better, I would genuinely like to hear from you. Early users are helping shape what this becomes.
I am also open to hearing from people who see real potential in this project and want to contribute through coding, marketing, product thinking, or collaboration.
If that sounds like you, reach out at borut@studiobernhard.com
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A pottery shape generator is a digital tool that helps you explore vessel forms by adjusting dimensions and proportions live. Instead of redrawing forms by hand, you can test ideas faster and see the profile update instantly.
It is made for hobby potters, ceramic students, studio potters, teachers, and design-focused makers who want a faster and clearer way to explore ceramic form.
Yes. You can export your design as a clean blueprint PDF and keep it as a visual reference for studio work, planning, or teaching.
Both. Beginners can use it to understand proportion more clearly, while experienced potters can use it to test shape variations faster before throwing.
Yes, but it works best in landscape mode on phone. For the best experience, use a tablet or desktop.
No. It is a focused pottery design tool built specifically for ceramic form exploration, not for generic industrial or engineering design.
If this tool has already saved you time, sparked new ideas, or helped you shape better forms, you can support its further development here.
I’m building the Shape Generator as a practical tool for potters, one step at a time. Your support helps me keep refining it and adding features I’d genuinely want to use myself, including lids, mug handles, teapot spouts, glaze previews, and more advanced design tools.
Thank you for helping move the project forward.
Borut Cafuta
ceramic artisan
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