Vextrify Laser Control is a real machine-control workspace, not just a file exporter. Connect over USB, place every design exactly on the material with a calibrated camera, get smart material-based speed and power, and run diode and CO2 machines live — on macOS and Windows.
Every machine gets its own tab with its own profile, calibration and job — rename them, reopen saved lasers instantly, and switch between them without losing setup. Locks are never global, so one laser's job never blocks another tab. Today you work with one active connection at a time; running several machines live at once is on our roadmap.
Most laser software only remembers one machine.
A calibrated camera and lens model (ArUco-based) lay a live overlay of your design on the real material, and the Artboard's homography positions it exactly using your own captured alignment — not a generic preset. What you see on the board is where the laser burns — no eyeballing, no guesswork.
Far tighter than test frames or manual jogging alone.
Tell Vextrify your material and goal; a material-based Smart Engine calculates suggested speed and power for you, always inside your device's safety limits — plus an estimated total job time and pure engrave time before you fire. Dial it in once, save it as a recipe, reuse it forever.
A calculated starting point, not a blank settings box — and never marketed as "AI".
Remove a background, extract a clean cut contour, vectorize a logo to SVG, prep a photo for engraving in Photo Studio or AI Studio — every Vextrify tool hands its result straight into the laser job. One app, no exporting and re-importing between programs.
A connected suite, not a single isolated controller.
Framing (dry-run), live job control (send, pause, resume, stop) and live status for diode (GRBL) and CO2/Ruida machines, with a job-start origin and 3×3 anchor so you choose exactly where the job begins. Export clean files for LightBurn, EZCAD or Ruida when a job belongs elsewhere.
A control surface, not just a file exporter.
One clear surface keeps connection status, timeline, layers and the artboard in view at the same time. A full production job reads at a glance instead of hiding behind menus.
Built for overview under production pressure.
Vextrify Laser Control runs as a native desktop app on both macOS and Windows — including the Mac workflows where popular free tools like LaserGRBL leave Mac users stuck on Windows only.
No platform left behind.
Laser Control is not one screen — it's fourteen real capability groups working together, from connecting a machine to engraving the final part. Every item below is a shipped function, not a roadmap promise.
Get from USB cable to ready-to-fire in one click.
Every machine gets its own tab, its own setup, and never blocks another.
See the design on the real material before you ever fire.
A real vector/raster design surface, not a bare job sender.
Type and shape text for engraving or cutting.
Colour-coded layers carry every machine setting.
Get a photo or graphic ready for the beam.
Send, watch and stop the job in real time.
Position the head and the design with precision.
Turn a dialled-in setting into something you reuse forever.
Know how long a job takes before you commit material.
Every job runs inside limits the machine actually has.
Engrave cylindrical parts with the geometry handled for you.
Your setup survives reinstalls, not just sessions.
Every menu, parameter and workflow above, documented in detail with usage notes, common errors and tips.
Yes. You can manage several machines from one PC and one license — each laser gets its own tab with its own profile, calibration and job, and one tab's lock never blocks another. Today you work with one active connection at a time; running several lasers live and firing simultaneously is on our roadmap, not yet shipped.
Yes. It runs as a native desktop app on both macOS and Windows, so Mac users get full machine control — unlike popular free tools such as LaserGRBL, which are Windows-only.
Diode lasers over GRBL and CO2 machines over Ruida, with framing, dry-run and live job control. You can also export clean files for LightBurn, EZCAD or Ruida when a job belongs in another tool.
A material-based Smart Engine calculates suggested speed and power for your material and goal, always within your device's safety limits, and shows an estimated total and engrave time before you fire. It's a calculation, not "AI" — and you can save the result as a reusable recipe.
A calibrated camera and lens model (ArUco-based) overlay your design on the real material, and the Artboard's homography — captured from your own setup — positions it exactly, so what you see is where it burns.
Selection, node editing, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, image, SVG, QR, barcode and measure tools, plus boolean operations, offset/cut-line, array, tabs/bridges, and align & distribute — a real design surface built around the laser job.