Free
For you, family and friends
$0
- Keep 3 lamp designs in My designs
- Keep 3 photo textures in My textures
- Download the 15 built-in shapes without an account
- Print for yourself, family and friends
- Not for sale
3D-printable desk lamp designer Shape the shade.
Print the glow.
KUZE Lampforge is a desk lamp designer that runs in your browser. Shape the shade, wrap it in any of 156 textures or one made from your own photo, set it on an LED base made to fit, and see it glow. Then download the STL files and send them to your 3D printer.
- 15 shade shapes
- 156 textures
- Free to design
- Nothing to install
Light
Room
Stills from the Lampforge studio, which works out the glow from the lamp's own shape. Open it to turn the lamp and change every part.
Fifteen shapes
Start from a finished lamp.
Every built-in shape prints without supports at its default size and downloads free as it is, with no account. Pick one to open it in the studio, then make it yours.
Vortex
Swirl
Gem
Origami
Stack
Circuit
Willow
Skirt
Ripple
Twist
Capsule
Chisel
Sphere
Cube
Rectangular
Previews from the studio, each on the rounded base it starts with. There is also a Random button for a shade of your own.
Open LampforgeHow it works
From slider to desk.
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Step 1
Pick a shape
Start from the Vortex lamp the studio opens with, choose one of the 15 shapes, or press Random for a new shade.
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Step 2
Shape the shade and the base
Drag the outline, set the cross-section, twist and wall, and stack up to six textures, built in or made from your own photos. Choose a base; the LED pocket and the groove that holds the shade follow.
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Step 3
Download the STL and print
The shade and the base come as two STL files for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer or Cura. Your own designs are saved to My designs first, which is free for three.
In the studio
More than a lamp shade.
- Textures
- 156
- Shade shapes
- 15
- Base styles
- 5
See it glow
Switch the lamp on and the light is worked out from the shade itself: brighter where the wall is thin, striped where a texture catches it. Try day and night, brightness and colour temperature.
Parts that fit
The base holds a round LED 59.5 mm across. Its pocket, the ledge the LED rests on, the cable channel and the groove for the shade all follow your design.
Prints without supports
Lampforge measures the steepest overhang of the shade and the base, and warns past 45°. Closed-top shades and tripod bases export upside down, so they need no supports either.
Checked for your printer
Each part is measured against 180 mm and 256 mm beds, such as the Bambu Lab A1 mini and A1, with an estimate of the filament it needs.
Textures from your photos
Photograph a weave, a carving or a tiled wall, frame the pattern, and Lampforge turns it into relief that wraps the shade, with the glow showing every ridge. The photo stays in your browser.
My textures, in every tool
Keep the textures you make in My textures and use them again on any lamp, or on a pot in Potforge. Free keeps 3, Commercial up to 100.
Plans
Free for you. Commercial to sell.
Free keeps 3 lamp designs for anything but selling. Commercial keeps every lamp you design, lets you sell what you print, and works in every KUZE tool.
Commercial
For sellers, billed monthly
$12 / month
- Unlimited lamp designs
- Keep up to 100 photo textures in My textures
- Every KUZE tool, Potforge included
- Sell printed lamps in shops, at markets and online
- Cancel any time
- STL files may not be resold
Commercial
For sellers, billed yearly
$99 / year
- Unlimited lamp designs
- Keep up to 100 photo textures in My textures
- Every KUZE tool, Potforge included
- Sell printed lamps in shops, at markets and online
- About $8.25 a month
- STL files may not be resold
Prices are in US dollars. One Commercial plan covers Lampforge, Potforge and every KUZE tool we add. It is billed monthly or yearly: upgrade inside the studio, and cancel any time; your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. Refund policy
Questions
Before you open it.
Do I need an account?
Not to design, and not to download one of the 15 built-in shapes as it is. You need one to make a texture from your own photo, and to download a lamp you made or changed, which is saved to My designs first. That needs only a Google account or an email address: sign in with Google, or with a link or code we email you. No password.
Is Lampforge free?
Yes. Designing is free and there is nothing to install. The built-in shapes download without an account, and the Free plan keeps three of your own lamps for any use but selling. Commercial adds unlimited designs and the right to sell prints.
Do I need CAD or 3D-modelling skills?
No. You shape the lamp with sliders, shape buttons and an outline you drag. Lampforge keeps the shade, the LED pocket and the base the right size for each other, and builds the STL files for you.
What files do I get?
A ZIP with two STL files, shade.stl and base.stl, plus design.json with every setting and a README with assembly notes. You can also download the shade or the base alone. The files are made in your browser.
Can I make a texture from my own photo?
Yes, with a free KUZE account. In the texture layers, choose “+ Texture from a photo”, pick a JPG, PNG or WebP and drag a box over the pattern. Lampforge turns its light and dark into relief, finds the repeat so no seam shows, and wraps it round the shade or the base. The photo is processed in your browser; only the texture is kept. Each one is kept in My textures (3 on the Free plan, up to 100 on Commercial; when it is full, delete one or upgrade), and a design can use as many as you like. The photo texture guide goes step by step.
Which LED does the lamp use?
A round, flat LED module 59.5 mm across and 8.2 mm thick, the kind sold as an LED lamp kit with a cable. The base has a pocket for it, a ledge it rests on, an open bottom to push it out and a channel that leads the cable out the back. The LED is not part of the print.
Do I need supports to print it?
Not for the built-in shapes: all 15 stay under about 41° of overhang at their default size, and the hollow base has no inside slope steeper than 45°. For your own designs, Lampforge measures the steepest overhang and warns past 45°.
Which printers does it work with?
Any FDM printer whose slicer opens STL files, which covers Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Elegoo and the rest. Lampforge also checks each part against 180 mm and 256 mm beds.
Can I sell the lamps I print?
Yes, on the Commercial plan, paid monthly or yearly. One subscription covers every KUZE tool, Potforge included. The Free plan covers everything else, gifts included. Nobody may resell the STL files themselves.
What happens to my designs if I cancel?
Nothing is deleted. You go back to the Free plan, every design stays in My designs, and your earliest three stay downloadable.
Who makes Lampforge?
KUZE, a small 3D-printing studio in Perak, Malaysia. KUZE also makes Potforge, a planter designer, and one KUZE account works in both.