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The Glowforge 3D laser printer creates beautiful things at the push of a button. You can see what it does in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCaqh38JVQ.
You can make an endless variety of useful, beautiful, and practical things from a bunch of different materials like wood, leather, felt, fabric, acrylic, paper, and more. See what amazing things other Glowforge owners are making over on Instagram, #glowforge.
We will send you major updates via email, but these happen only occasionally when we have major news. We update the Glowforge Owners Forum regularly, though, and you can have more frequent announcements emailed to you. First, you need to set up your owner account and log in. You'll know the signin worked if you go to glowforge.com and see your email in the top-right hand corner.
Glowforge uses subtractive manufacturing while traditional 3D printers use additive manufacturing. A 3D printer builds up material, like plastic filament, layer by layer. With Glowforge, you’ll put a piece of material like leather, wood, or acrylic in the machine and it carves out your product using laser light. The technical name for the category of tools that includes Glowforge is a CNC laser cutter engraver, but that's a mouthful, so we call it a 3D laser printer.
You can use your Glowforge from your Mac, PC, tablet, and more, using our simple, powerful, and free web interface.
You’ll just need an up-to-date version of Google Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge.
You can design with any software that saves a PDF, including dozens choices like Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Autodesk 360, and Sketchup. Glowforge can print JPG, PNG, SVG, PDF, and other file formats. To print a file, just drag-and-drop it directly on our app, and then adjust the preview to your liking.
Every Glowforge unit is manufactured by Flex, one of the best-respected manufacturers in the world, in a facility used for producing Fortune-500 consumer electronics products. They are designed in Seattle and parts are sourced from around the world. Some units are assembled at Flex's U.S. facility and some are produced at their facility in Mexico.