layerling user guide

Everything layerling can do, step by step. The pictures are taken from the running program and are renewed with every version.

• Getting startedFrom a blank sheet to your first part for the 3D printer, in five minutes, with no account and nothing to install.
• View and workplaneMoving around the scene, looking straight on, and placing new shapes on any surface you like.
• Placing and adjusting shapesThe shape library, dimensions by number and by handle, colour, rotating, tapering and twisting.
• Selecting and arrangingSelecting shapes, finding them in the object list, aligning, mirroring, rotating, laying flat on a face and multiplying in patterns.
• Solids and holesHow simple shapes become bores, slots and pockets, and how to change a group again later.
• Breaking edges and hollowing bodiesChamfer and fillet on chosen edges, walls of equal thickness for boxes, cups and cases.
• Sketches: from outline to bodyDraw a flat outline, round or chamfer its corners and pull or spin it into a body.
• Text and curved letteringRaised or engraved lettering in seven typefaces or one of your own, and if you like along a circular arc, such as on a coin, a lid or a ring.
• Threads, gears and other partsScrews, nuts and tapped holes that fit together, plus gear, spring, bent tube, dovetail, teardrop hole, counterbore and countersink.
• Measuring and notesTape measure, ruler and framing square, distances to the origin, notes that stay attached to a part, and reference points that things snap to.
• Preparing for 3D printingChoosing your own printer, being warned when something does not fit, and laying the part the right way.
• Files, saving and sharingWhere your designs live, how to back them up, which formats layerling imports and exports, and what is possible on a shared server.
• Keyboard shortcutsAll keys at a glance, taken straight from the program so the list is always right.
• Building with an AI (MCP)How an AI assistant such as Claude or Codex creates and changes shapes, groups them and takes pictures of the view in your open editor.
• Installing as an app, working offline and self-hostingStart layerling like a normal program, even without a network, and how to run it on your own computer.
• Videos about layerlingVideos that other people have made about layerling.