THE FORGE

Laser maps of the places people love.

Search a city, a lake, a mountain or a course. MappSmith turns the real streets, terrain and lake depths into layered cut files for LightBurn, xTool or Glowforge, or print-and-cut files for a UV printer.

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Press and hold on the sheet to fire the laser.Tap or hold on the sheet to fire the laser.

Every layer is its own sheet.

Streets from OpenStreetMap, real elevation, surveyed lake depths. The Studio splits them into sheets that line up: blue water at the bottom, the land with the lake cut through it, the roads on top, held together by the frame.

Nine sheets. One Lake Tahoe.

This is the Studio's own output for Lake Tahoe: a base, five depth plates cut to the lake's survey, the land with every street engraved, the road pieces, and the frame with the name.

  1. Frame
  2. Streets
  3. Land
  4. 274 ft
  5. 548 ft
  6. 823 ft
  7. 1097 ft
  8. 1371 ft
  9. Base

Files your laser already understands.

Cut, score and engrave come split on their own layers, one file per sheet. Download LightBurn (.lbrn2), xTool (.xs), DXF, or layered SVG that the Glowforge app reads. Add an assembly guide and numbered pieces.

  • Cut
  • Score
  • Engrave

Pebble Beach Golf Links · Championship finish

Their home course, hole by hole.

Search any course by name. Fairways, greens, tees, bunkers, water and trees come in as their own pieces, raised off the board or carved into it. Par and yardage come from the course itself, onto a plaque.

Breckenridge · Simple look Beta

Ski resorts, run by run.

Any resort on OpenSkiMap: a wood mountain, the runs welded into one white piece, the trees, and a plaque with the summit, the vertical and the run count. Raised, carved, engraved or printed.

Minneapolis · Engraved + cut Beta

Any map, cut into a real jigsaw.

The map is engraved, then cut into pieces right to the edge, every shared edge cut once. Or glue two layers for a hard one, or UV print it first.

Roanoke · Bauble, backer and front frame

A hometown to hang on the tree.

Ornaments come with the hanger hole already cut and the name and year on a bar, in eleven shapes from bauble to stocking. Coasters, clocks and key holders come off the same map.

Pick a place. Put your name on it.

Each of these is the Studio's real output. Pick one and watch it re-form sheet by sheet, then type a title and the laser burns it round the frame.

Your next map order, ready to cut tonight.

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The Studio, one screen at a time.

Every picture here is a capture of the live Studio, not a mockup.

  1. Frame the placeSearch a city, a lake or a landmark, drag the map and pick a circle, a square, a state or a shape.
  2. Build the layersTerrain and lake depth split into sheets, each with its own material, thickness and finish.
  3. See it in your materialsSpin the stack in 3D, assembled or pulled apart, before anything is cut.
  4. Download the filesCut, score and engrave already split, one file per sheet, ready for the laser.
The MappSmith Studio with Lake Tahoe framed in a circle, the cut file and a 3D preview beside it
The Studio building Crater Lake: the cut file above and the stepped 3D piece below, rim to floor
San Francisco pulled apart into its three sheets: walnut streets and frame, the birch land, the blue water
The Crater Lake cut file: depth and terrain contours as separate cut and score lines

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

This is Lake Tahoe, start to finish, exactly as the Studio made it. All in the browser.

  1. 1

    Search the place

    Type a city, a lake, a mountain or a course. Drag the map until it sits right in the frame.

  2. 2

    Pick what you are making

    A layered map, a lake in depth, a golf course, an ornament, a clock. The product sets the sheets for you.

  3. 3

    Check it in 3D

    The preview follows every change in the materials you will cut. No test burn to see if it works.

  4. 4

    Download and cut

    Shoreline, depth levels, roads and the name, each on its own layer, sized to the millimetre.

Built for real orders, not demos.

MappSmith comes out of a working laser and print shop. The parts that take the hours are the parts it does for you.

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  1. Real map data

    Streets from OpenStreetMap, real elevation for terrain, and lake depths from surveys. A lake with no survey gets modelled depth, labelled as modelled.

  2. Sheets that line up

    Water at the bottom, land with the lakes cut through it, roads on top held by the frame band. Every sheet registered to the others.

  3. Files your laser opens

    LightBurn (.lbrn2), xTool (.xs), DXF and layered SVG, which the Glowforge app reads. Cut red, score blue, engrave black.

  4. Print and cut

    Any sheet can print instead of cut. PNG, TIFF with a white channel, or PDF with a CutContour line and registration marks.

  5. Names that fit the piece

    The place name round the frame band, a name bar with a date, words anywhere on the plate, in any of 1,897 Google fonts.

  6. Place names on the map

    Street, park and water names placed for you along the map and knocked out of what sits under them. Beta, US places.

  7. Sheets of stock

    Lay several maps out on one sheet and cut them together, with registration marks that never fire.

  8. Assembly guide

    A PDF that puts the sheets in order, bottom to top, with numbered pieces, so a tall stack glues up in the right order.

Or UV print it, in full colour.

The same San Francisco from the print engine, in each theme. Pick one and recolour any feature. Print and cut files come with a CutContour PDF and registration marks, so the cutter finds the print.

  • San Francisco printed in the Classic map themeClassic map
  • San Francisco printed in the Vintage themeVintage
  • San Francisco printed in the Blueprint themeBlueprint
  • San Francisco printed in the Noir themeNoir
  • San Francisco printed in the Midnight red themeMidnight red
  • San Francisco printed in the MappSmith themeMappSmith

26 kinds of piece from the same map.

Pick the product and the Studio sets up the sheets, the frame and the words for it. Products marked Beta are live and still getting better.

A raised golf course map titled Your Home Course, par 72: green fairways and trees standing off a stepped wooden board, with blue water
Golf course, raised
A love story board with three heart-shaped map windows labelled first met, engaged and married
Love story
A round map ornament of Roanoke with the name and year on a band across the front
Ornament

Wall maps

  • 3D layered mapBlue water under a land sheet with the lakes cut through it, roads raised on top in walnut. Layered or one board.
  • Engraved mapOne board with everything burned in: water, highways, main roads and streets.
  • Cut-out streetsJust the streets, cut out and held by the frame band. On its own or over a backer.
  • Map tilesOne map split across 2, 3 or 4 boards that hang side by side. Layered, engraved or cut-out.
  • Memory posterA portrait board with a message panel: Where we met, The day we said yes, Our first home.
  • Love storyTwo to four map windows, one for each place in the story, with the date under each. Hearts, circles, houses or stars.
  • Heart mapA heart-shaped map with two names on it, and a walnut heart piece on top.

Lakes and water

  • Lake depth chartThe lake's depth contours engraved like a chart, layered or on one board.
  • 3D lakeThe lake bed cut down in stacked blue plates under the shoreline and the roads that ring it.
  • RiverBetaYour home water in blue on its real banks, rapids, put-ins and river miles marked, a trout pinned at the favourite spot.
  • Island or beach townBetaThe water in blue depth steps, the island in wood with its streets, sand round the shore and a pin at your place.

Sport and outdoors

  • Golf courseThe whole course or one hole, raised or carved, in Championship, Clubhouse or Links. Hole badges, a scorecard, a hole-in-one plaque.
  • Disc golf courseBetaEvery hole raised from tee pad to basket, numbered, with the woods, the water and a plaque.
  • Ski resortBetaA wood mountain with the runs welded into one white piece, trail signs and a plaque with the summit and the vertical.
  • Mountain or trailBetaA peak you summited or a trail you hiked: the mountain in wood, the trail raised in white, a star on the top.
  • Bike trail systemBetaEvery trail raised by difficulty on wood terrain, the signs, the names and the miles of trail on a plaque.
  • Racetrack or race routeBetaA circuit by name or a marathon from a GPX, TCX, KML or GeoJSON file, the track raised on top with its name.

Places people go back to

  • Campus or stadiumBetaThe campus or the stadium in raised wood, the field painted, a plaque with the class and the name. Stadium replicas too.
  • AirportBetaRunways raised with their numbers, taxiways and terminals engraved, a plaque with the code.
  • Land or propertyBetaA farm, a ranch or a first home: the board cut to the boundary you draw or upload, the acreage on the plaque.

Gifts and the home

  • OrnamentA small hanging keepsake with the hole already cut, the name and year on a bar. Eleven shapes, bauble to stocking.
  • CoasterSmall round burns, quick to cut and sold in sets.
  • Map clockA round face with the hour ring and the 10 mm shaft hole cut. The ring on the streets, separate, or one board.
  • Key holderA wall board with a header and 4, 6 or 8 hook holes placed for you.
  • Jigsaw puzzleBetaAny map cut into a real jigsaw right to the edge: engraved, two layers glued, or UV printed.
  • 2 Pieces to the PuzzleBetaTwo to four places as jigsaw pieces that fit together, the names above and a line below.

Any place people care about.

Cities, mountains and lakes, all rendered in the Studio. Open any of these and make it your own.

Crater Lake, a layered laser-cut mapCrater LakeTerrain and lake depth togetherMount Rainier, a layered laser-cut mapMount RainierTerrain reliefSan Francisco, a layered laser-cut mapSan FranciscoStreets and coastlineLake Minnetonka, a layered laser-cut mapLake MinnetonkaThe lake house, depths and roadsManhattan, a layered laser-cut mapManhattanCity street gridDenver and the Front Range, a layered laser-cut mapDenver and the Front RangeMountains meet the cityLake Tahoe, a layered laser-cut mapLake TahoeA lake cut to its depths

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
Screenshot a map and hope the crop worksSearch any place and frame it round, square or to a state
Trace the streets in Illustrator, one road at a timePulled straight from OpenStreetMap, already vector
Hunt for elevation files, then guess at the layersReal elevation and lake surveys, split into as many levels as you want
Separate the layers by hand and hope they line upCut, score and engrave on their own layers, registered to each other
"Can you move it a block?" Start overDrag the map. The file follows
Burn a test piece to check itSpin it in 3D in your real materials first
Hours of tracing for every order$12 a month, unlimited maps, or in the FoundryPass

If you sell what you make, this is for you.

Laser shops, UV print shops and anyone making custom map gifts. Everything you make is yours to sell, on every plan.

Made by a shop that cuts maps.

MappSmith is made by Maker Foundry, the team behind TumblerForge, PatchForge and ToneSmith. We run a working laser and print shop, so it is built for real orders: the drag-the-map-a-block requests, the stack that has to glue up right, the file that has to open on the first try.

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Simple pricing. Commercial use on every plan.

The Maker plan starts with 7 days free and unlimited maps. Or buy maps ten at a time, no subscription.

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Unlimited maps while you find your groove.

$12/month

  • Every product, layer and finish
  • Unlimited maps and downloads
  • Every file: laser, print and cut
  • Commercial use, cancel anytime
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Save 31% against paying monthly.

$99/year

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  • Unlimited maps and downloads
  • Commercial use

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  • The same map again within 7 days is free
  • Every file: laser, print and cut
  • Commercial use
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The Maker plan starts with a 7-day free trial with full access. Nothing is charged until day 8 and you can cancel before then. One trial per person. Map credits never expire. All sales are final, so try everything in the trial first.

Try all of it free for 7 days.

Every product, every file type, full access. Cancel before day 8 and you pay nothing. That is the guarantee: the trial is long enough to cut a real order before you pay a cent.

Questions before you start?

What is MappSmith?

A map designer for makers with a laser or a UV printer. Search a place, pick what you are making, style the layers and download production files: layered SVG, LightBurn (.lbrn2), xTool (.xs) and DXF to cut, or PNG, TIFF with white and PDF with CutContour to print.

Does it work with my laser?

If your software opens LightBurn, xTool Creative Space, DXF or SVG files, yes. For a Glowforge, upload the cut SVG: engrave, score and cut come in as separate colours (black, blue and red), so they arrive as separate steps.

What do I need?

A computer with a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox, with hardware acceleration turned on. The Studio is built for a desktop or laptop screen.

Can I sell what I make?

Yes. Commercial use comes with every plan, including maps bought ten at a time.

What counts as one map?

A downloaded map uses one credit. Downloading the same map again within 7 days, after changing its words, layers or materials, is free. A new place, size or shape is a new map. Credits never expire.

How does the free trial work?

The Maker plan starts with 7 days free with full access. You add a card to start; it is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel first, and each person gets one trial. All sales are final after that, so the trial is the time to try everything.

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Make your first map tonight.

26 products, real streets, terrain and lake depths, and files for every laser, in your browser.

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