If you love laser engraving but often run out of ideas, this one's for you. xTool's Atomm platform has a set of design generators where you just put a few numbers in a box and it builds the design for you. No CAD skills, no design skills. You send it straight into xTool Studio and cut it.
I made two projects this way on my xTool F2: a working fidget heart keychain with spinning gears in black acrylic, and a two-tone wooden rose that says "Love". Everything here works with any xTool laser.
Jump to: Where to find it now · A quick tour of Atomm · Project 1: fidget heart keychain · Why I cut each part in the middle · Cutting and assembly · Project 2: name flower · The settings I used
Before you start: where to find it now
I filmed this in January 2026 using the Atomm website. Since then, xTool Studio has brought Atomm into the app itself. On the Studio Home tab you'll now see Atomm AI and Atomm Discover down the left, and Discover has all the generators in one place. So you can start right inside Studio instead of opening a browser. The steps for each generator are the same. More on that in my xTool Studio update guide.
1. A quick tour of Atomm
Atomm is xTool's platform for inspiration. Other users and xTool themselves upload projects, and you can browse them for ideas:
- Explore shows projects, and you can filter by your machine (there's an F2 section, plus the F series and P series and so on).
- Laser & Cut is full of user uploads. If you make something you're proud of, you can upload it yourself and earn points.
- AImake generates images, logos, 3D images and depth maps that you can send straight to Studio. I've used it loads.
- Creative Lab is what this guide is about.
Creative Lab is full of parametric designs. That just means you plug in a few basic measurements, like the size you want and the thickness of your material, and it reshapes the design in front of you. Then you export it to xTool Studio and make it. Click More to see the full list. xTool keep adding to it.
2. Project 1: the fidget heart keychain
Pick a design that suits your machine. The F2 is a smaller galvo laser, so I'd avoid anything too complicated (more on why below). The Fidget Heart Keychain is complex to look at but simple to make, and it's great fun.
Open it and you get a 3D assembly view. On the right are the settings you can change, and the model updates as you go:
- Size: the overall length.
- Hole settings: the hole radius and its X and Y offset, so the keychain hole suits whatever ring you've got. Keep your changes sensible so everything still fits inside the design.
- Material: changes how it looks on screen, so you can see it in black acrylic, walnut, red acrylic and so on.
- Layer thickness: the thickness of your material. This is the important one.
Turn on Exploded view and it even shows you the order to put the parts together. Handy for later.
- Measure your material. I used calipers on my black acrylic and it was 2.5 mm.
- Set Layer thickness to match. The default is 3 mm, so I changed it to 2.5.
- Pick the material so you can see how it'll look. I chose Black Acrylic.
- Click Open in Studio at the bottom right. It splits the design into flat parts and opens them in xTool Studio.
3. Why I cut each part in the middle of the bed
The parts arrive in Studio as one grouped object. On the F2 I didn't want to cut them all in one go, and here's why.
On a galvo laser like the F2, the beam comes from the middle and is steered by mirrors. The closer a part is to the center of the work area, the straighter the cut edge. Near the outside, the beam comes in at more of an angle, so the edge ends up slightly tapered. On a design where gears and layers have to fit together, that taper can stop things fitting. So I cut each part one at a time, as close to the center as I could.
- Right-click the group and choose Ungroup.
- Be careful here. Some parts are made of several pieces (an outline plus its holes). Select every piece of one part, right-click and choose Group, then drag it out of the way.
- Do that for every part. Check you haven't left a piece behind. I missed one the first time, which is why it's worth taking your time.
4. Cutting the parts and putting it together
- Move the first part to the center of the work area.
- Set the material. I used xTool's 1/8" (3 mm) Black Acrylic from the library.
- Set it to Cut and open One-click set. I went for 90% power at 3 mm/s so it would cut through in one pass.
- Frame it with Outline framing, then slide your material so the part sits near the edge of the sheet. That way you use as little material as possible.
- Close the lid so it holds the material down. If it's hanging off the edge, make sure it's clamped securely so it can't move during the cut.
- Click Process. Mine estimated 3 minutes 42 seconds for the heart. Acrylic cuts slowly.
- Repeat for each part, one at a time.
Safety: make sure you have good extraction. Cutting throws off lots of little offcuts and they can catch and flame. Keep the cover down and use your cutting plate.
Then put it together in the order the exploded view showed: the five little pegs into their slots, the small piece over them, the large gear (check it spins), the smaller gear meshed with it so the two turn together, the keychain piece over the two pegs, and finally the top piece. Everything fitted really nicely, even with the offsets, and the gears spin. I made one in wood too, and that worked just as well.
5. Project 2: the name flower generator
For the second project I used the Personalized Name Flower Generator. Click Create New and you get a set of options down the left:
- Flower: pick a flower head. The design updates as you click each one. I chose a rose.
- Leaf: choose a leaf style and use the sliders to change its size and move it up or down the stem. You can shorten the stem here too.
- Text: type the word you want. I kept "Love", but it could be a name. You can move the text along the stem, but keep it joined to the stem or it'll fall apart when cut. I also made the font a bit bigger so it would be sturdy. If the letters are too thin, they can snap.
- Click Open in Studio.
It comes in quite large, probably designed for bigger machines like the P2 or P3. To make it fit the F2, I scaled it down and rotated it diagonally, which gets the longest length into the work area. Then:
- Right-click and Ungroup.
- Take the background piece first, move it to the center (Align center in the top toolbar does it quickly), set the material to 1/8" (3 mm) Basswood Plywood and set it to Cut.
- Then do the same for the top piece, on its own layer color so you can tell them apart.
For this one I picked a bit more power than the default, 100% at 6 mm/s, because the outer edges are where the beam is at its most angled and it can struggle to cut through there. Even so, I needed two passes to get all the way through. There was more char than I expected too, because the little cut-out pieces kept flying up during the cut, so expect to give it a clean.
I redid the top piece in red MDF, glued the two together, and ended up with a two-tone red rose that says "Love". Made entirely from a generator, no design work at all.
The settings I used
These are the cut settings from the video, on the xTool F2 with the blue (455 nm) laser. They match the settings in my free Laser Settings Library, where you'll find plenty more on the F2 settings page.
| Material | Process | Power | Speed | Passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black acrylic (3 mm setting, my sheet was 2.5 mm) | Cut | 90% | 3 mm/s | 1 |
| Basswood plywood, 3 mm | Cut | 100% | 6 mm/s | 1 (I needed 2 near the edges) |
Every sheet is a little different, so test a small cut on a scrap first.
Have a go
That's the beauty of these generators: anyone can make something like this. Have a look through the list, find something you like and get making. If you're new to Studio, start with my beginner's walkthrough. And let me know in the comments on the video what you made.
