A collection of sites and resources that I've found somewhere between interesting and invaluable to my adventures with 3D printing (an Ultimaker Original) and laser cutting with a Glowforge.
This is a living document. Bits will go out of date. New bits will be added.
In no particular order.
Price column meaning is as follows. Read the terms carefully. Always double check the licensing before selling anything!!
| Price | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Free | Totally free. |
| Personal | Free for personal use. Commercial licenses may be available. |
| Commercial | Need a license to do anything with it. |
| Varies | Licensing varies for each asset. |
Some sites have a mix of licenses.
| Site | Licensing | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Noun Project | Personal | Incredible HUGE collection of icons. Both bitmap and vector (SVG). Very reasonable personal subscription price & commercial licensing. |
| Thingiverse | Varies | Huge collection of models and designs. Mostly 3D printing but lots of laser cutting stuff, too |
| Free Picture Stencil Maker | Free | Turns images into stencils. Rest of site is a for-pay collection of tools. |
| Public Domain Files | Free | Tons of public domain fonts, clip art, and artwork of varying quality. |
| Open Clip Art | Free | Tons of public domain clip art. |
| Illustrations, Vector Graphics & Clipart | Personal | Lots of high quality graphics. Typically free for personal use with commercial licenses available |
| Obrary | Varies | Interesting, varied, collection of designs. Includes both finished designs and various templates and swatches. Checkout the living hinge swatches and the laser cutter engrave calibration plates. |
| Snowflake Generator | Free | Generates SVG snowflakes! Incredible for quickly generating a ton of interesting snow flakes for the annual ornament rush! |
| Jigsaw Generator | Free | Generates a jigsaw SVG. Lots of parameters for controlling generation. Engrave and add this on top? Instant jigsaw! |
| Make a Box | Free | Makes simple boxes assembled with tabs. |
| SVG Repo | Varies | Huge collection of mostly entirely free SVG files. Mostly icon sort of things. |
| Makercase | Free | Generates various sorts of boxes (and 3D printed marble runs). Basic, but useful. |
| Boxes.py | Free | Incredible assortment of various box, tray, drawer, and other generators. Lots of knobs available to control exactly what is generated. |
| Elliptical Box Maker | Free | Makes elliptcial boxes. Inkscape extension. |
| Vector Ruler Generator | Free | Generates SVG rulers! |
| Tabbed Box Maker | Free | Inkscape plugin for creating tabbed boxes. |
| templatemaker.nl | Free | Really interesting templates targeting folding paper. Applicable to laser cutting. |
| Rasterbator | Free | Wall art generator. |
| Maze Designer | Free | Laser cut 3D maze designer. |
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| Ocooch Hardwoods | Lots of wood with many specifically rated for use in a laser cutter. |
| MatterHackers | Excellent source for mostly 3D printing machines and consumables. Their education section has an incredible collection of knowledge. |
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| Designing a Laptop Stand with F360 | A fantastic, easy to understand, tutorial showing how to use Fusion 360 to create a laptop stand. The skills within are applicable well beyond just a plan old laptop stand. |
| Intricate Wood Inlays Made Super Easy | Learn how to make wood inlays with a laser cutter. |
| Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms | A neat toolkit for generating plotter art. Since plotter art is really just SVG vector art, it works great on a laser cutter, too! |
| The Ultimate Guide to Laser-cut Box Generators | An inventory of box generators. Some of which were mentioned above. |
| Laser Artisan | A slew of demo videos of someone designing and asemblying various laser cutter based projects. Great inspiration. |
| The Wood Database | A database of all kinds of wood. |
| The KnotPlot Site | Free |