We build AI tools for laser engravers
One workspace, four studios, every step from a raw photograph to a laser-ready file.
Why we built this
Laser engravers spend an embarrassing amount of time stitching together Photoshop, Blender, MeshLab, and half a dozen plug-ins just to turn a customer photo into a laser-ready file. Most of those steps are now solvable with modern AI in seconds — background removal, image upscaling, monocular depth estimation, single-photo mesh generation. We built the studios laser engravers actually need, in one browser app, with the AI baked in.
Who it's for
Custom engraving shops processing customer photos. Etsy makers shipping one-off personalised products. Crystal subsurface engraving specialists. CNC operators who need depth maps. Memorial and portrait engravers restoring old photographs. The common thread: turning images into laser-ready files, fast.
The studios
- Photo Studio — background removal, image upscaling, AI prompt-based edits, and AI image generation.
- Embossing Studio — photograph → 16-bit grayscale depth map using emBOSS v1.0.
- Mesh Studio — photograph → 2D / 2.5D / 3D textured mesh, exportable as GLB, OBJ, STL, PLY, or DXF.
- Crystal Studio — four-viewport editor for subsurface laser engraving; arrange meshes and 3D text inside a crystal shape, export a colour-true PLY point cloud.
How we charge
Credit-metered, with a free tier so anyone can try it. Paid plans add a larger monthly credit allowance and unlock the highest-fidelity AI generation model. Credit packs are available for one-off bursts; credits never expire. See pricing for the full breakdown.
Where this came from
LaserTools started from a frustration rather than a business plan. Turning a customer photograph into something a laser can cut or engrave meant a chain of unrelated programs — one to cut out the background, another to upscale, a third to fake a depth map by hand, a mesh tool to make it three-dimensional, and a scattering of plug-ins holding the joins together. Every one of them had to be bought, installed, learned and kept working, and none of them had been written with engraving in mind. Meanwhile the hard parts of that chain had quietly become solvable by AI in seconds. So the goal was narrow from the start: put the whole path in one browser tab, aimed squarely at what engravers actually make, and let the AI do the parts that used to eat an evening. Not a general 3D suite with an engraving mode bolted on — a workspace that assumes a laser at the end of it.
What we build
Four studios that hand off to each other. Photo Studio cleans up the source image — background removal, upscaling, AI edits and generation. Embossing Studio turns a photograph into a 16-bit grayscale depth map for relief engraving and CNC. Mesh Studio makes a 2D, 2.5D or 3D model from a single photo and exports it as GLB, OBJ, STL, PLY or DXF. Crystal Studio arranges meshes and 3D text inside a crystal blank and writes the colour-true PLY point cloud that subsurface engraving needs. Around them sit the things that make the studios usable: free browser viewers like this one, written guides, and file exports in the formats real machines expect. Two rules shape all of it. Everything runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing tied to one computer. And every tool aims at a finished, laser-ready file rather than at a pile of settings.
Getting in touch
Write to [email protected]. It is a real inbox and it is where everything should go — a tool behaving oddly, a file that will not open, a format you need exported, a question about your plan or credits, or a request for something that does not exist yet. Feature requests genuinely do shape what gets built next, so send them. When you are reporting a problem, the fastest thing you can include is the file you were working on, the studio and model you were using, and what you expected to happen instead. A screenshot of what you saw usually saves a round of questions. You can also find LaserTools on Facebook, which is the better place for looking at what other engravers are making and for the shorter kind of question. We would rather hear about a rough edge than have you work around it quietly.