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[00] IntroLaser-ready SVG

Real places. Cut in layers.

Cities, lakes, coasts, mountains and countries, turned into stacked sheets for your laser cutter from real map, depth and elevation data.

Choose a place
Rectangular layered map of San Francisco in 3D, with navy roads raised over birch land and teal water

San Francisco200 × 300 mm3 sheets

[01] The problem

By hand, every layer is traced.

  1. Contours drawn one by one from survey charts.
  2. Each sheet matched by eye to the one below.
  3. Slivers too thin to cut, crumbs too small to glue.
  4. A kerf that throws every fit off.

[02] The journey

Pick. Shape.
Stack.

  1. 1 Pick a place
  2. 2 Frame and layers
  3. 3 Download and cut
San Francisco as a rectangular map pulled apart into layers: teal water, birch land with engraved streets, navy roads

Maps

Any city or island. Water, land and raised roads.

Make a map
Lake Simcoe as a rectangular map with its depth layers pulled apart in shades of teal, from indigo to mint

Lakes

12,000+ surveyed lakes. Up to 16 depth layers.

Make a lake map
The Solent and the Isle of Wight as a layered map, its sea-floor layers pulled apart in shades of teal

Coasts

Harbours to whole seas. The sea floor at chart depths.

Make a coast map
Mount Rainier in 3D, its stacked wooden layers pulled apart above a teal water sheet

Terrain

Peaks, ranges and valleys, stepped by height.

Make a terrain map
Australia in 3D like a carved atlas: its birch layers pulled apart over a teal water sheet

Countries

Engraved like an atlas, far-off parts in insets.

Make a country map
The Great Lakes in 3D as a carved chart: the lakes in teal depth layers sunk into a birch sheet engraved with towns, roads and borders

Charts

The Great Lakes and Great Salt Lake, ready-made. Up to ten depth layers.

Make the Great Lakes

[03] The files

One SVG per sheet.
Rim to rim.

  • Sized for the bed

    One SVG per sheet in millimetres, every sheet with the same frame and rim.

  • Cut and engrave

    Red hairlines cut, black fills engrave. Opens in LightBurn, xTool and Glowforge.

  • Kerf offset

    Set your beam width and every cut is offset, so pieces fit as drawn.

  • Uncuttable slivers

    Slivers and crumbs smaller than your smallest detail are cleaned up.

Data: OpenStreetMap / lake depth surveys / GEBCO / EMODnet / GMRT / Copernicus DEM

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