You have the tools. Now you just need the software.
Tube Shop by Apex Design is the premier solution.
For years, we listened to the same complaints echo across the tube fabrication industry — and as users of that software, we were making them too: software that locks you to hardware, setups that take too long, and tools that simply do not understand the realities of the shop floor.
As a husband-and-wife team, we decided to stop talking about the gap and start building the solution. We put in the hard work to design a tube fabrication software that eliminates your daily headaches and make your production easier. We desire to help professionals and hobbyists alike.
Discover intuitive tools built from real shop-floor feedback to get your jobs done faster and more accurately.
Tube Shop, the Fusion 360 add-in for tube fabrication.
Select the tubes that meet. Every branch end is trimmed and normalized for the cut.
Each branch is copied in memory, boolean-cut against every host it touches, and sampled into 180 bins around its axis. The real tube then takes one square rotary cut. Hosts are never modified.
Parts pack onto your stick with the kerf, the chuck zone and the drop all modeled.
Parts pack right-to-left on the stick length you actually buy, with kerf, the chuck clamp zone and the machine dead zone modeled. Utilisation and drop are reported per stick.
The program posts for the machine you own, pierce points and mark passes included.
The nest posts for your controller and writes the developed DXF, 1:1 wrap templates and the cut list beside it. Pierce points, mark passes and cycle time are known before you load the stick.
L/R/A rows built on the calibrated radius of the die you are putting in the machine.
L/R/A rows in feed order on the calibrated centreline radius of the die you are putting in the machine, with the springback you measured on it. The developed blank length comes with them.
One pipeline.
Two very different shops.
| Key benefits | Professionals | Hobbyists |
|---|---|---|
| Bending calculations | Maximizes shop throughput and drastically reduces scrap metal costs | Saves money by eliminating trial-and-error tube wasting |
| Software interface | Integrates directly with CNC equipment, Laser and Plasma | Simple, fast learning curve without requiring an engineering degree |
| Design integrity | Delivers repeatable, mathematically precise blueprints for production | Gives the confidence to build a safe, track legal cage or chassis in your own garage |
The Fusion 360 add-in
The standalone Windows desktop app follows it.
Refunds: It activates and runs on your machine or you get your money back — 30 days to report it. A change of mind is not a refund. Refund policy
Get build updates as they go out
What shipped, what broke, what changed. Sent when there is something worth sending, not on a schedule — and nothing else. One click to stop.