Maker Growth Hub

Free maker tool

Laser Settings Library

Reference settings are a starting point. Your machine on your material is the only real answer.

Nothing is uploaded. It runs in your browser, so your files never leave your machine — and it stays free.

Part of the Maker Toolkit: fourteen tools that share one shop profile and one product list, so what you set up here is already known everywhere else.

Maker Toolkit v1.0 · August 2026

How it works

Laser Settings Library, step by step

It keeps the settings you have proved on your own machine, and uses them in preference to any table. A cut speed you log here is what the Production Planner turns into machine hours, and what the Nester, Splitter and generators use to cost a run. Underneath sit 406 reference starting points for the materials you have not tested yet.

  1. Cut a test gridOn scrap, from the same batch you are about to run.
  2. Log what workedSpeed, power, lens, and the note you will want in six months.
  3. Watch it propagateThat number is now the one the rest of the toolkit estimates with.
  4. Fall back when you need toThe reference table covers what you have not tested yet.

Why it is built this way

The decisions behind it

Your machine is the authorityTube age, lens, air assist and the sheet in front of you all move the result. A setting you proved beats any chart, including ours — so yours is used first.
Logged once, used everywhereThe tools share one shop. A speed you prove turns into machine hours in the Planner and material cost in every generator, without re-entering it.
Yours to keepSaved in this browser and exportable as CSV. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Questions

Laser Settings Library — common questions

Can I trust published laser settings for my machine?

Treat them as a starting point and never as a recipe. Tube age, lens, air assist, focus height and the specific sheet in front of you all move the numbers, and a tube at the end of its life can be down 30% on power while reporting the same percentage. Test on scrap from the same sheet.

Why log my own settings when there is a reference table?

Because the reference table cannot price your work. Once you have logged real speeds, the pricing calculator and the production planner compute cut time from your machine rather than from an average of other people’s. That is the difference between a quote and a guess.

Can I export my settings?

Yes, as CSV. Worth doing periodically: the library lives in your browser, so exporting is how you move it to another computer or survive clearing your browser data.

Next in the workflow

What most makers open after this

These are not a list of everything. They are the tools this one hands off to, and they already know what you did here.

FreeYour ShopSet your bed, your kerf, your material and your rates once. The other tools stop asking.FreeProduct PricingPrice it so you actually get paid.FreeFile CheckerFind the problems that waste a sheet, before you load one.

Free, and staying free

This one costs nothing. No account, no limits, no watermark.

Ten of the fourteen tools are free for good. If you want the generators that design the product, and the planner that tells you whether the batch fits your week, that is what the Hub is for.

See what the Hub adds