Barleycorn
Fine interlocking grain d'orge — the classic dress field.
Learn the patternFree offline guilloché pattern generator
A guilloché pattern generator built for watch dials.
Most pattern generators draw abstract line art. Dial Studio generates guilloché the way a dial actually needs it — laid out around a real movement, masked around markers, apertures and sub-dials, previewed as engraved metal, and exported as fabrication-ready files. No rose engine, account or cloud required.
Works offline. No account. Your designs stay local.
Patterns you can generate
From classic grain to hobnail studs.
Dial Studio's engines cover rose-engine, straight-line, rosette and tiling patterns — each rendered around the constraints of a real dial. A few of the classics:
Clous de Paris
The hobnail lattice of faceted pyramid studs.
Learn the pattern
Basketweave
Woven guilloché with broad, clearly separated strands.
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Vagues (waves)
Flowing wave engraving spaced to stay legible.
Open starterWhy a dial-native generator matters
A generic guilloché or spirograph generator gives you a pretty vector, then leaves the hard part to you: fitting it to a dial diameter, clearing the centre hole, opening a date window, reserving sub-dials, and keeping markers legible. Dial Studio does the pattern and the dial engineering together, so what you generate is already shaped for a real watch.
- Movement-aware layout — centre hole, date window, open-heart and sub-dial apertures, chapter ring and marker spacing.
- Fast controls — preset, lobes, amplitude and ring step change the look in seconds; deeper controls sit behind disclosures.
- See the metal — switch from clean line art to a realistic engraved-relief preview with true light and shadow.
- Fabrication-ready export — SVG, DXF, STEP, STL, PNG and sidecar files for laser, CNC, water jet, rose engine or vendor handoff.
Read more about the full toolset on the watch dial design software page, or jump straight into a pattern: barleycorn or Clous de Paris.
Note: Dial Studio is software and file handoff only — it does not fabricate, order or guarantee physical dials. Exports are fabrication-oriented handoffs; measure, test, verify, then cut.