Map designer for laser & engraving shops

Laser maps of the places people love. Ready to cut in minutes.

Search any place on Earth. MappSmith builds the streets, the mountains and the lake depths into layered files that open straight in LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge, or print-and-cut files for a UV printer.

7 days free, then $12 a month. Cancel anytime. Or 10 maps for $10.

MappSmith is included in the FoundryPass — 7 days freeMaker alone: $12/mo · $99/yr, unlimited maps · or 10 maps for $10 · lifetime only via the Master KeyGet the pass
MappSmith Studio
The MappSmith Studio with Lake Tahoe: the map, the cut file and a 3D preview
A finished Crater Lake piece

Custom map orders sell well. Making the file is the part nobody wants.

A hometown, the lake house, the course they play every Saturday. People pay for those. The hours go into tracing streets and stacking layers by hand.

By handIn MappSmith
Find the placeScreenshot a map and hope the crop works.Search any place on Earth and frame it round, square or to a state.
Get the streetsTrace them in Illustrator, one road at a time.Pulled straight from OpenStreetMap, already vector.
Mountains and lakesHunt for elevation files, then guess at the layers.Real elevation data and lake surveys, split into as many levels as you want.
LayersSeparate them by hand and hope they line up on the bed.Cut, score and engrave already on their own layers, registered to each other.
"Can you move it a block?"Start over.Drag the map. The file follows.
Check it before cuttingBurn a test piece.Spin it in 3D in your real materials first.

From a place on the map to a piece on the wall.

Drag the slider. This is Lake Tahoe, start to finish, exactly as the Studio made it.

Lake Tahoe framed in a circle on the map
The mapThe cut fileThe piece

Every layer is its own sheet. The file already knows which is which.

Frame and streets
Cut from one sheet. The roads stay joined to the frame, so nothing floats loose.
Base
The neighbourhood, engraved fine, sitting under the streets.
Water
A colored layer at the bottom, showing through wherever the land stops.

Downloads open in LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge with cut, score and engrave already split, or as layered SVG and DXF for anything else.

A Manhattan street map pulled apart into its three layers

Or UV print it, in full colour.

Any layer can print instead of cut. Print + cut files come with a CutContour PDF and registration marks, so the cutter finds the print. Pick a theme and recolour any feature.

San Francisco printed in the Classic map theme
Classic map
San Francisco printed in the Vintage theme
Vintage
San Francisco printed in the Blueprint theme
Blueprint
San Francisco printed in the Noir theme
Noir
San Francisco printed in the Midnight red theme
Midnight red
San Francisco printed in the MappSmith theme
MappSmith
A raised golf course map: green fairways and trees on a stepped wooden board with blue water

Their home course, hole by hole.

Golf maps are the gift people ask for by name: for the player who has everything, the club pro, the member-guest trophy.

  • Search any course by name. Fairways, greens, tees, bunkers, water and trees come in on their own layers.
  • Raised off the board or carved into it, in three finishes: Championship, Clubhouse and Links.
  • Real hills as stepped layers, lakes cut to depth, hole numbers, the course name and par on the frame.
A love story board with three heart-shaped map windows
Love stories

Where they met, got engaged and got married, each place in its own window with the date under it. Hearts, circles, houses or stars.

A round map ornament with the name and year on a band
Ornaments

A hometown, a first house, a college town, with the name and year across the front. Bauble, star, tree, snowflake or stocking, sized to hang.

And from the same map

Map clocks

A round face with the hour ring and the shaft hole already cut.

Coasters

Small round burns, quick to cut and sold in sets.

Key holders

A wall board with a header and the hook holes placed for you.

Map tiles

One map split across two, three or four panels for a wall.

Heart maps

A heart-shaped map with two names on it.

Memory posters

A rectangle, engraved, with a date and a line of text.

Sheets

Lay several maps out on one sheet of stock and cut them together.

Your own art

Add a compass, an anchor or your logo and drag it onto the piece.

Make your first map tonight.

Free for 7 days, cancel anytime. Built by Maker Foundry, a working laser and print shop, for real orders. Everything you make is yours to sell.

Open the Studio

— or open the whole rack

Alone it’s $12/mo. In the pass, it’s one of six.

$24/mo · every app · lifetime only via the Master Key
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