Privacy & limitations.
Your sketches stay on your device
This first release uses browser localStorage to save profile sketches and preferences on your current device. They are not uploaded to a Norman Online account or a Norman-operated backend. Clearing site data, using private browsing or switching devices can delete or hide saved work. Export a JSON backup for anything you want to keep.
Public beta — no account needed
The public beta drawing studio does not require a username or password. There is no third-party analytics or advertising tracker in this package, and ordinary sketches and saved product copies remain in your browser storage. When you explicitly run a specialist Swan Neck calculation, the numeric dimensions and bend settings are sent to the Norman Cloudflare calculation service so it can return a reference drawing. Calculations are processed for the request; this release does not provide server-side job storage. Your hosting provider may process routine network data and access logs under its own policies.
Technical limitations
Profile Studio models an open 2D centreline polyline with points in millimetres. DXF export writes that polyline in millimetre coordinates; it is not a developed flat pattern, a finished sheet-metal part with thickness, or a validated bend programme. Material and thickness fields are informational only, and are not applied to DXF geometry.
Do not use these sketches directly for manufacture, pricing guarantees, machine control or safety-critical decisions without independent engineering checks. The web preview does not include bend allowances, tooling selection, collision checking, press-brake setup or gauge validation.
Independent preview
Norman Online has a public marketing homepage and a public beta drawing workspace. The specialist reference-geometry service runs on the server; returned drawings and coordinates are accessible to anyone who requests them. It is a separate sheet-metal software project. The associated Windows application, other projects and their private source code are not shared through this site.