What programs does glowforge use

Greetings and welcome, Patty!

Have you worked through the “first prints” tutorials, yet? If not, that’s really a good place to start:

https://support.glowforge.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002142613-Learn-By-Doing-Your-First-Prints-and-More

People use all sorts of different software to create designs. The actual cutting is handled by the web-based Glowforge User Interface (GFUI), which also has some basic design functions:

https://app.glowforge.com/

Here are some more common “getting started” topics:

The Made on Glowforge forum category is for sharing things you create with your Glowforge and, requires a project shared in the first post of any thread. I am moving this to the Everything Else category for you.

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