mill_ui

mill_ui is a compiler style CAM system that turns declarative panel layouts into validated G-code and blueprints. You describe the profiles, pockets, joinery, and assemblies you want; the pipeline handles layout resolution, toolpath generation, and validation. It begins with a description of what to build, not with a drawing and a series of toolpath decisions made in a GUI.

The pipeline is PML to LayoutAST to RemovalIntent IR to CAM Planner to G-code, with explicit intermediate representations that let each stage be validated and tested in isolation, and a reverse path from layout back to PML. Validation happens before any toolpath is generated: IR level checks for overlap, depth feasibility, and toolability catch errors against the semantic description of what to machine, before G-code exists.

Capabilities stated in the README cover machining features (profile with tabs, pocket, surface facing, hole, engrave, bevel, chamfer, roundover, wave texture), layout managers (Frame, Grid, Split, Inset, Place, Panel, Keepout), and an assembly system for boxes, cabinets, cubbies, and beam structures with joinery resolved automatically from panel interfaces. The intended workflow is natural language to PML by an AI assistant, review of the SVG blueprint, iteration, then cutting.