Product updates

What's New in Easel

New tools, apps, and improvements from the Easel team.

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Easel Generate

Easel Generate brings AI design generation into Easel. Describe the design you want and Easel creates it — as 2D vector artwork or as a 3D bas-relief — ready to bring into your project and carve. Or take your existing projects and iterate on them using a description.

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October 2026

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Curved Text

We've added the ability to wrap your text around a circle, flow it along a wave, or follow any shape you've drawn. This option bends your letters along a preset curve or a shape from your own design.

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A Chicago flag made of dozens of carved tiles, each made by a different student in the Lane Tech MakerLab

Easel Classroom

Are you a K-12 teacher or educator? Easel Classroom gives every student on your roster their own Easel Pro account, inside a private class you run. Students design, share, and carve on their own login, and you can see and comment on all of it from one place.

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Favorite Apps

Keep the apps you use most one click away. Heart up to ten apps in the App Library, and they appear in the Apps menu in the left toolbar every time you open a project.

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Textured Pockets

Give a pocket a finished, hand-worked surface instead of a flat floor. Pick a texture for any pocket, and Easel carves it with a ballnose bit in its own pass after the pocket is cleared: chip carving, dragon scales, basket weave, Japanese wave patterns, fluted reeding, and dozens more.

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GrblHAL (Beta)

Easel can now set up and carve on machines running grblHAL, the firmware on boards like the Sienci SuperLongBoard (LongMill MK2.5, AltMill), Teensy 4.1 breakouts (PrintNC and similar), BTT SKR and Octopus boards, PicoCNC and other RP2040 boards, and grblHAL builds for ESP32.

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Wireframe toggle in the bottom-right corner of the 2D editor

Wireframe Mode

We've added a wireframe mode toggle. View each shape as a thin outline, so you can see its precise geometry without distractions while designing.

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A custom straight bit with its own photo, between two catalog bits in the Toolbox

Custom Bit Photos

Your custom bits can now show what they actually look like. Add a photo when you create a custom bit, and it appears on the bit's card in your Toolbox, so the bits you've added are as easy to tell apart as the catalog ones.

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Easel Generate 2D Workpiece to 3D

Easel Generate subscribers can now select the current workpiece as an input for 3D mode. This allows you to more easily lock in details like fonts and the placement of elements before converting to a 3D carve.

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Dragging, snapping, and resizing a 3D model in the 3D view

Easier model positioning in 3D workpieces

3D workpieces now let you position the model interactively in the 3D view. Drag the model or relief boundary into position, or pull the corner handles to resize it:

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