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Rayforge

A desktop application for laser cutting and engraving.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Rayforge is a 3D printing program, available on Linux.

File formats mentioned: PDF, SVG and DXF.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Rayforge is a modern, cross-platform 2D CAD, G-code sender and control software for GRBL, Marlin, Ruida, and” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Rayforge is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Rayforge is a desktop application for laser cutting and engraving. It provides an intuitive interface to create and manage laser cutting projects. Rayforge support communicating with GRBL based laser cutters. Rayforge supports importing SVG, DXF, PDF, and PNGs, and provides advanced features such as multi step jobs, automatic path optimization, interpolation based on laser dot size, and much more.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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