Northwood Designs "NWD" was founded in 1986 as a cabinet making company. By 1990 cabinet making went by the wayside as CNC technology and software for the CNC industry became the prime focus.

NWD's first software product was released in 1991, and by 1995 NWD software was in daily use in 27+ countries by companies of every size.

Today NWD software technology is in use by tens of thousands of companies, both as NWD products and as modules within some of world's largest CAM software companies.