Box generator
Type the outside size and the material thickness. Every panel comes out finger jointed, kerf allowed for, laid flat and ready to cut.
Every machine, every bed size, every camera, side by side. Lay the job out once and pick which machine cuts it from a dropdown. Keep both beds busy instead of one.
The short version
Most of what a cutting program does, every cutting program does. These are the places where this one is genuinely the only option, or clearly the better one, and each is something you can check yourself in an afternoon.
| Area | State | What it means on the bench |
|---|---|---|
| Making tools | ▲ only here | Box generator, finger joints, living hinge, press-fit slot, dogbone relief, kerf strip, puzzle maker, slot tray. Ten of them. The software that ships with these machines has no joint generator at all, so a shop doing flat-pack work draws every tab by hand and scraps a test sheet each time the thickness changes. |
| Marks found for you | ▲ ahead | One Scan button walks the registration marks, sharpens its own guess at each one, and refuses a fit that came out mirrored. The usual way is to jog the head onto every mark by hand and hope you clicked the right pixel. |
| The camera already on the machine | ▲ only here | The camera fitted to these beds is not an ordinary webcam, and most cutting software cannot talk to it at all. This drives it directly on Windows and macOS, with no vendor driver to install, so a machine that already has one keeps it. |
| Two tubes | ▲ ahead | Aimed separately, as a real feature, with a crash guard for the head that has no limit switch. Elsewhere it is a virtual array plus two settings buried behind a vendor password, and it goes wrong quietly if either one is off. |
| A connection that repairs itself | ▲ ahead | Stale ports picked up again, the same machine listed twice collapsed into one, and the sibling machine named when you choose the wrong one. A machine that will not connect is the most common reason people give up on the software that came in the box. |
| Errors that name the next step | ▲ ahead | Including a check before anything is sent, for the trap where a layer's output toggle quietly decides what cuts and what does not. |
| It does not lose the afternoon | ▲ ahead | Tabs come back after a crash or a restart, offered rather than silently put in front of you. Closing one with unsaved changes says so first. A running job can be stopped from the software instead of by killing it. And the coolant interlock refuses to fire a dry tube whatever anyone has clicked, because that is the one failure where the machine destroys itself rather than the work. |
| One button, and it says what is in the way | ▲ ahead | The run panel works out the whole path from this drawing to a cut part, in the order it has to be walked, and shows all of it at once. Every step reads the real state of the machine and the file. Not one of them is a box you tick yourself, because a checklist you fill in by hand drifts out of step with the bench. |
| The file does not leave | ▲ ahead | Draw it, repair it, joint it, nest it and cut it in one place. No round trip out to a drawing program and back, and no export step in the middle that quietly drops a curve or flattens a layer on the way through. |
| Files it opens | ▲ ahead | SVG, DXF, PDF, AI including the older flavour, CorelDRAW, HPGL and photographs. CorelDRAW files in particular are what a lot of job shops actually draw in, and most cutting software will not read one, so the file goes through an export step that loses something every time. |
| Price | ▲ ahead | One subscription covers every machine on your floor and both platforms. There is no higher tier that holds the making tools back, and no charge per bed. |
Next to the other two
Most people reading this already own RDWorks, because it came with the machine, or LightBurn, because they outgrew it. Here is where each one stands, including the places where the other two are ahead.
| Feature | Laseras | RDWorks | LightBurn |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs to run | |||
| Price | 49 USD a year | Free | 99 USD, plus 40 a year for updates |
| Free trial | 30 days, everything unlocked | Not needed | 30 days |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS | Windows | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Making things that fit together | |||
| Finger joint generator | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Box generator | Seven styles, inside or outside sizes | —No | —No |
| Living hinge generator | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Press-fit slots and corner relief | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Getting more out of the sheet | |||
| True-shape nesting | By outline, parts inside holes | —No | By outline |
| Nesting onto a saved offcut | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Offcut rack traced by camera | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Several jobs merged onto one sheet | Layers merged by what they do | —No | —No |
| The camera and the shop floor | |||
| Calibrate from one engraved dot | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Any USB camera at any mounting | ✓Yes | —No | Listed cameras |
| Job library with scannable numbers | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Cut log that learns per material | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
| Tube hours against your own history | ✓Yes | —No | —No |
Prices, platforms and controller support checked on each vendor's own site, 2 September 2026. They change; if you are deciding on price, check before you buy.
It came with the machine and it writes settings into the controller. Laseras deliberately never writes controller settings: they are the recovery path when everything else has gone wrong, and a program that can overwrite them can lose them. If you need to change what is stored on the controller itself, that is RDWorks' job, and it should stay installed.
Breadth and years. It drives galvo and fibre machines and dozens of controller brands that Laseras does not touch, it runs on Linux, and it has been refined by a large community for long enough that the corners are worn smooth. If you own several kinds of laser, it is the one program that runs all of them.
The work that happens either side of the cut. No other program here generates a joint, packs parts onto a remnant it traced off the bed, merges three orders onto one sheet without tripling the cutting passes, or remembers what a material actually did last time. That is where a shop loses hours and material, and it is what Laseras was built to take back.
One operator, several machines
Add all of them. Each keeps its own bed size, its own camera and its own settings. A dropdown above the canvas says which machine this design cuts on, so the same file can go to whichever bed is free.
Three beds to each other's scale: 1300 x 900 and 900 x 600 with one head, 1200 x 1200 with two tubes
Before the first cut
These are the two ways a morning gets lost, and neither of them has anything to do with cutting. A machine that will not connect, and a drawing that will not open. Both were built before anything else here.
The machine answers on its own, and the drawing opens as it is
A port that went stale when the machine was power cycled is picked up again on its own. The same machine listed twice by the operating system is collapsed into one entry. And when you have two machines and choose the wrong one, it tells you which one you actually chose instead of cutting on it.
SVG, DXF, PDF, AI, HPGL and CorelDRAW files open directly. CorelDRAW in particular is what a lot of shops actually draw in, and most cutting software will not read it, so the file goes through an export step that loses something every time.
Anything the drawing contained that could not be cut is listed after import, along with what was repaired. Silence would be worse.
Gaps too small to see are joined, duplicate lines on top of each other are removed, and specks of debris are dropped. All of it reported.
Whichever the machine has. If it drops mid job, the job is not lost with it.
Print and cut
Touch the four corners of the print with the laser head. Laseras reads the rotation and the size error out of those four points and bends the cut path to match. A sheet that went in a couple of degrees crooked still comes out right, with no camera to buy, mount or calibrate.
Touch each corner of the print with the head, in order
The camera visits four marks and corrects its own aim between each one. The last mark is held back as a check: if it is not where the fit says it should be, nothing cuts.
Cut a cross, send the camera to it, click the middle. A camera that got knocked is back in a minute instead of an afternoon.
Lining things up
The head burns four marks on a scrap sheet and the camera reads them back. Because the machine put them there, it already knows where they are, so calibration is two presses instead of a tape measure and a page of arithmetic.
It burns the marks itself, then reads them back
Put the printed sheet on the bed and press Scan. The camera finds the registration marks itself, works out how the sheet is sitting, and cuts to the print. No jogging the head to each mark by hand.
The same job on a machine with no camera at all. Touch the head to each corner of the print and the maths is the same. Nobody has to buy a camera to line up a printed sheet.
Jog to one point, then another, and it tells you the real distance between them. The machine is already an accurate measuring instrument.
The gap between two tubes is measured the same way, and the second tube stays off until you have confirmed it.
A wide lens bends straight lines near the edges. Both correction models are fitted from the marks, so the bed reads flat corner to corner.
Dual tube
Two tubes, two separate aims, one job. Engrave and cut without unloading the sheet or splitting the file. It ships switched off, because aiming a second tube is powerful and unforgiving, and it turns on only once you have measured the distance between the heads and confirmed it.
The inside is engraved first, then the outline is cut
The same material three ways: scored, engraved, and cut clean through
Auto-nest
Select the parts and let it pack them. It works on the real outline, not the bounding box, so a part drops into the hollow of another instead of reserving a rectangle it never fills. Material is the cost you pay on every sheet, and this is where the software pays for itself.
The same nine parts, laid out by hand and packed automatically
A rectangle drawn around a circle wastes the four corners. Nesting on the outline lets a small part sit in that corner, which is where most of a sheet actually goes.
Turn grain lock on and parts only rotate in ways that keep the grain running the right way. On plywood and veneer that is the difference between a part you can sell and firewood.
Give it the kerf and the thickness and it widens the spacing on its own, because thick material welds itself back together when parts sit too close.
A flipped part often drops into a pocket the original cannot. It is off by default, because a mirrored part is the wrong part on anything with a printed or finished face.
Anything that will not fit stays where it was and becomes the selection, so you can see exactly which parts are over instead of counting what moved.
Making things that assemble
This is the part you will not find elsewhere. Say how thick the material is and the joint maths is done: fingers cut, kerf allowed for, slots sized to press together. Twenty minutes of paper work and a scrapped test sheet, gone, every time the thickness changes. The puzzle maker is the same idea taken to its end: it puts a curved tab on every internal line of the grid, so the pieces hold each other the way a bought jigsaw does.
Five panels, teeth cut to the material thickness, and what they stand up into
Type the outside size and the material thickness. Every panel comes out finger jointed, kerf allowed for, laid flat and ready to cut.
Put a real finger joint on any edge. Tooth count, depth and fit are worked out from the thickness, so the parts press together instead of rattling.
Fills a panel with flex cuts so a flat sheet bends. Wrap a curve, make a rounded box corner, or hinge a lid without a hinge.
A slot cut to the material so another panel presses straight in and stays. Set the width to the thickness and the fit is handled.
Dogbone reliefs in inside corners, so a square tab actually seats in a square pocket instead of jamming on the radius.
Leaves short uncut bridges so parts stay in the sheet until you snap them out. No more small parts dropping through mid-job.
A flat-pack tray with an interlocking divider grid. The dividers slot together like an egg box, no glue and no fasteners.
A jigsaw cut pattern with proper curved tab connectors, so the pieces actually hold each other rather than falling apart.
Packs the parts onto the sheet, rotating them to fit, with the spacing you set. More parts per sheet, less offcut in the bin.
Fills the sheet with a grid of whatever is selected, with the gap you choose. One part becomes a full sheet in a couple of clicks.
Where two parts touch, the beam cuts that line once instead of twice. Faster job, less scorch, and no double-burnt edge between parts.
Turns a photograph into engrave scan lines with proper dithering, so a picture survives being burnt into wood instead of going to mud.
Box generator, finger joints, living hinge, press-fit slot, dogbone relief, holding tabs, slot tray, puzzle maker, kerf strip, test square.
The beam has width. Every joint here takes it out of the right side of the line, so parts press together instead of rattling.
Auto-nest rotates and spaces parts to get more out of a sheet, and can leave holding tabs so nothing drops through mid-job.
Working out a finger joint by hand is twenty minutes and one wasted sheet every time the material thickness changes. Doing it from the thickness, automatically, is the difference between quoting a job and turning it down.
Everything in the box
All of them are in one searchable list, and the six you actually reach for stay pinned at the top. Search understands the words other programs use, so a rename never costs you the tool you already knew how to find.
Pin the six you use. They sit above everything else, in every session.
Type what you called it somewhere else. Offset finds three different tools here.
Each category says how many are in it, so the list has a shape instead of scrolling forever.
Tap any tool in Laseras University for what it does, the steps, and a drawing of it working.
The joint maths, done for you. Most of this exists nowhere else.
Type the box size and get every panel finger-jointed and laid out, ready to cut. Sizes are outside dimensions.
A panel with a notch whose inside corners get a small round relief pocket, so a square tab seats fully. Useful for acrylic and slots a peg pushes into.
A panel with one edge turned into interlocking finger teeth. Make one with tabs and one with slots for a mating pair.
Breaks a short uncut gap into every closed cut shape so parts stay held in the sheet. Snap them free by hand after the job.
A strip of numbered slots to measure the beam width. Cut it, slide a scrap of the same material into each slot, and the snug one's number is the kerf.
Fills a panel with flex cuts so it bends. Fills the selected shape if one is selected, otherwise draws its own panel. Cut a test strip first to check it bends without snapping.
A slot sized to the material so another panel presses straight in. Set the width to the thickness minus the kerf; a scrap edge should push in snug.
A jigsaw puzzle cut pattern. Every internal grid line gets bezier tab connectors so the pieces lock together like a real jigsaw.
A flat-pack tray with an interlocking grid of dividers. Col and row dividers slot together egg-crate style; the base has edge notches to seat them.
Draw a square of a given size for focus and power tests.
What the beam does, in what order, and how far it travels.
Packs selected shapes onto the sheet with rotation and spacing to cut waste.
Generates a calibration square to check if your machine's X and Y axes are accurate.
Sets the order the machine cuts in, and how much it allows for the width of the beam. These are job settings, not a change to your drawing.
Cuts a line at each of a series of focus heights, with the height engraved beside it, so you can pick the sharpest one off the sheet.
Generates a calibration pattern to measure the laser beam width.
Removes duplicate line segments shared between adjacent shapes.
Reverses the direction of selected paths.
Generates a power and speed test grid so you can find the right settings for your material.
Everything you need so a file never has to leave for another program.
Generates a Code 128 barcode as laser-cuttable vector bars.
Tidies the points inside each selected path: repeated points, points on a straight run, segments too short to be worth a command, surplus nodes, and circles drawn with far more points than they need. Says how far the path moved.
Inserts common laser-cut shapes: arrow, star, hexagon, cross, heart outline.
Closes selected open paths by connecting the last point to the first.
Lays copies of the selected parts along a path, evenly spaced by distance travelled. Select the parts, then add the path to the selection last. Turn the copies to follow the path, or keep them all upright.
Arranges copies of the selection in a circular pattern.
Cut a hole in a panel with the shape lying on top of it. Select the panel first and the cutter last: the topmost shape is cut out and disappears, the panel keeps its layer. Also called subtract or difference.
Removes shapes that are exact duplicates (within 0.01mm tolerance).
Positive grows the shape, negative shrinks it. Use for kerf compensation or press-fit slots.
Fills the sheet with a grid of copies of whatever is selected. The original stays where it is and the copies step out from it. Spacing is the gap between parts, or switch it to centre to centre.
Keeps only the piece where the selected shapes cover each other and drops the rest. Also called intersect.
Grows or shrinks the selected closed shapes by a set distance. A positive distance goes outward, a negative one goes inward. Raise the count for concentric rings, each one further out than the last. The shapes you started with stay where they are.
Creates the convex hull outline of selected shapes.
Generates a scannable QR code as laser-engraved vector squares.
Draws the outline a QR code fills at a chosen dot size, plus one dot on its own to compare, so you can see whether it will still scan before you engrave it.
Removes redundant collinear points from selected paths. Reduces node count on dense imported paths to speed up the job planner.
Keeps what belongs to one shape only and removes the piece they share, leaving a gap where they crossed. Also called exclude or XOR.
Cuts a sheet of blank label blanks at a set size, ready for you to drop text or artwork into each one.
Generates multiple text labels with auto-incrementing serial numbers.
Moves and scales selected shapes to exact numeric values.
Save and reuse shapes across jobs.
Reduces the number of nodes in selected paths by removing points within tolerance.
Smooths sharp corners and snaps near-miss endpoints in open paths.
Splits a compound path into individual sub-paths.
Creates a silhouette outline at a fixed distance around all selected shapes.
Merges overlapping shapes into one solid outline and fills any enclosed holes. Union keeps a hole; weld fills it.
Photographs, halftones and fills that survive being burnt.
Fills the selected shapes with an even grid of engraved dots, for a stipple or halftone look.
Fills selected closed shapes with parallel scan lines.
Creates the inverse of selected shapes as an engrave fill within the bounding box.
Fills closed shapes with parallel scan lines at a chosen angle, clipped to the shape's boundary. Enable cross for a two-direction crosshatch in one pass.
Fills closed shapes with concentric inward offset rings.
Burns a matrix of squares at different power and speed settings to find the right parameters for a new material.
Converts an imported photo to laser engrave scan lines using image dithering.
Writes text along a line or an outline. Select the path first, then type the words. Letters are spaced by distance travelled along the path and turned to follow it. Positive offset sits the words above the path, 0 sits them on it, negative sits them below.
Converts open paths into closed outlines by expanding them to the given width.
Line the camera up and put a printed sheet exactly where it belongs.
Line the cut up with a printed sheet using the bed camera. The camera walks the sheet's registration marks, reads each one, and checks the result against a mark it held back before anything cuts.
Generates test lines at different speeds for measuring laser spot size.
Line the cut up with a printed sheet by hand. Jog the head onto each printed mark or sheet corner, and the design is turned, shifted and resized to match what the head measured.
Traces shapes from the camera bed image. Connect a camera and switch to Cut mode to use this.
Use the head itself as a measuring instrument.
Jog the head to two opposite edges, mark each, and the machine moves to the midpoint.
Generates a visible reference line between two stored head positions to measure distance.
Saves the current machine position as a named origin point for future jobs.
Settings that live on the controller.
Copies selected shapes with Y scaled by the object-to-roller ratio. Shows how the design will appear on a cylindrical surface.
How it behaves
Controls do not disappear when they cannot be used. They stay where they are and say what is blocking them, so you fix the cause instead of hunting through menus for a feature you are no longer sure exists.
Learning it
Every tool has a small i beside its name. Press it and you get three drawings: what you start with, what the tool does to it, and what comes off the bed. One sentence under each. No video to find, no PDF to search, and nothing to read standing up that was written sitting down.
Across 55 of the 61 tools. The rest are pickers and panels that carry their own guide, where a second drawing would only repeat it.
Whole jobs rather than single buttons: connect the machine, set the profile, calibrate the camera, frame, and line up a printed sheet.
The i button and the University read the same guide, so the two can never drift into telling you different things.
The first lesson is the one that costs sheets. A layer switched off still draws on screen and is never sent, so the canvas and the machine can disagree without a word. The lesson puts them side by side.
Nothing in the app says homography, affine or residual. Not in a guide, not in an error, not anywhere. If a sentence needs a glossary it has not been written yet.
Not on your own
Two rooms, both built into the software rather than parked on a forum somebody has to remember to visit. Ask about a problem you are hitting and get an answer from the people who own the same machine. Share a design you cut, and take one somebody else cut.
Post the question with a screenshot. Other operators and the people who wrote the software answer, and the answer that worked gets marked so the next person does not read the whole thread.
Post preview images and the cut file. Give it away, or set a price. Download what other makers share and open it straight in Laseras.
A priced design links to the maker's own store. The money and the file go directly between the two of you.
Your name and your machine show beside your posts. There is no password and no sign-up, and it stays on your computer.
The problem you are hitting has usually been hit before. Search the questions before you write one.
Price
A month is long enough to run real jobs on it, not just click around. Drive your machines, register printed sheets, cut work you sell. The making tools run too, so you can watch a box come out flat before you decide.
Every machine you own. Both platforms. All 61 tools.
No card to start.
Not a demo. Connect your machine, cut jobs you are paid for, and find out on your own bench whether it holds up.
One subscription covers your whole floor. We do not charge by the bed, and adding a machine costs nothing.
New tools and fixes arrive as they ship. Laseras tells you when a newer version is out rather than leaving you on an old one.
Drive the head, frame, register a printed sheet with or without a camera, and cut. Every day of the thirty.
Box generator, finger joints, living hinge and the rest all work, and you see the flat pattern they produce.
Until you subscribe, a generated pattern cannot be cut, exported or copied out to another program. You can see it. You cannot take it.
Get it
Install it, point it at the machine on your bench, and run your next job on it. Windows and macOS, same features on both.
Works with RDC6445, RDC6442, RDC6332 and similar controllers, over USB or over the network.
Who makes it
Laseras is made by Inultimate Ventures Pvt Ltd in Mumbai. It started because the software on our own machines kept getting in the way, and every feature here was written to fix something that had already gone wrong on our bench.
The registration maths was worked out because a printed sheet came out rotated. The head spacing warning exists because a job cut in the wrong place. The pause button is greyed because a stop command was ignored and a head ran past its limit. We find these the same way you would, by cutting.
Where it is going
This is work in progress, not a list of what you get. It is here so you can hold us to it. None of it costs extra when it lands: it arrives in the subscription you already have.
The sheet registration works today with the camera fitted to machines we build. Ordinary USB cameras and network cameras are next, so the same one press alignment runs on a machine we did not fit. The hard part, the maths that turns a photograph into machine coordinates, is already done and does not care where the picture came from.
One board family is verified against real machines today, and the download page names them. The settings maps for the wider family are written and waiting on hardware to test against, because a controller map that has never met a machine is a guess. Every board that passes is another shop that can run this.
A plug-in for CorelDRAW and Illustrator so the artwork on your screen reaches the bench without an export step in between.
Take the speed and power you worked out for a material to another machine, or hand it to somebody else, as a file rather than a photo of a notebook.
A different kind of machine and a different protocol underneath. Early work, and honestly the furthest away of anything here.