What's new
Every version of Glow Shop, newest first.
Version 27.0.20 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- A cleanup update. No new makers, a lot of fixes.
- Home screen: a new Kinetic & sculptures section (Two-Word Shadow, Bloom, Wind Spinner, Zoetrope), tidier names (Vase Shades, Planters, Tea Light Holders) and shorter descriptions. Closing the Love Sign or Emblem Lamp takes you back Home.
- Lighter and steadier: every maker now shares one geometry engine, and 3D previews no longer go black after you've opened a lot of makers.
- Downloads: Download says why when it can't save yet, and never saves the model from before a change that couldn't be built. Light Projector and Path Light files are much smaller.
- Fixes: saved designs open cleanly in Lit Letters, Two-Word Shadow and Wind Spinner; the Infinity Cube counts mirror sheets right; Zoetrope keeps your own frames; the Stairwell's Built one takes off the right filament; have-it ticks and price settings survive a restart; Change key has a Cancel button.
Version 27.0.19 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- Emblem Lamp word emblems: LOVE is the one ready-made word. Type your own and it's kept as a button for next time, remembering whether it looks best stacked or in one row, and its font. New words start in one row unless they have 4 letters.
Version 27.0.18 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- Only the O lights up in the Love Sign and in Word emblems on the Emblem Lamp. The round window fits an O; cut into other letters it didn't look right. With two Os (BOO) you pick which one; a word with no O is made as plain letters.
Version 27.0.17 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- Emblem Lamp: Word emblems. Under Your emblem, choose Word to make LOVE, HOME or any word the emblem under the shade, with the Love Sign's colors: an edge color with a rim round each face, a color for each letter, and filled gaps.
- A light-up letter in the Emblem Lamp: the O becomes a glowing window with your art or photo, lit by its own puck light on a cover that snaps in flush at the back. The glowing ring shows the word too.
Version 27.0.16 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- New: Love Sign. LOVE, HOME, JOY or any word up to 8 letters in big block letters, stacked in two rows or in one. Pick a face color for each letter, an edge color for the sides with a rim round each face, and fill the gaps inside the letters in another color.
- A letter that lights up: make the O a round window with your own art in color, a holiday shape, or a photo as a lithophane. A 3 in puck light with a remote sits on a back cover that snaps in, so it pulls out for batteries or new art.
Version 27.0.15 (beta)
November 4, 2026
- Emblem Lamp themes: Christmas, Valentine's, Halloween and Game day. One click sets up the emblem (a tree, heart, pumpkin, ball and more, all Glow Shop's own art), its colors, the name plate, a matching pattern on the shade and base, and the stand and light colors. Change anything after.
- Shade shapes: drum, tapered, dome, barrel, hexagon, octagon, diamond-quilted and ribbed, with your picture or a repeating pattern on any of them.
- Glowing base ring: the second puck light from the 2-pack sits inside a round base, and a white band round it glows with your words or a pattern. Same remote, no wires. Or pick a solid round base or the low foot.
Version 27.0.14 (beta)
November 3, 2026
- Emblem Lamp (Home screen > Shades, planters & lanterns): your own logo, crest or picture becomes a thick, layered color stand. Glow Shop finds the colors in your picture (up to five), raises each one a step above the last, and lets you pick the filament for each. Add a name plate under it (a name, a number, a team or a family). The emblem pins to a post on a foot; a cup on top holds a 3 in LED puck light with a remote (13 colors, dimmer, timer), and the shade over it shows your picture when the light is on. With an AMS the emblem prints in one go; on one nozzle, the notes give the heights to change filament.
- Your pictures: use art you made or have permission to use. Anything you design is yours to print and sell; logos that belong to someone else need their permission.
Version 27.0.13 (beta)
November 3, 2026
- Bench test (Home screen, everyone has it): ten small test pieces, each about 15 to 35 minutes, that check the parts the designs depend on fit your printer before you start a long print: 608 bearing pockets, the 8 mm rod and bearing post, USB-C and power openings, switch, knob and button holes, magnet and hall sensor pockets, the N20 motor and its gear hubs, screw holes, filament pins and joints, your puck light's cup, and a base lid. Each one has the size the designs use (marked 0) and a step or two either side. Pick the one that fit best and it tells you what to change in your slicer, if anything. Download one or all of them.
- Every printer is different: the printer box in every maker and the print notes in every download now say that the settings in the files are a suggested starting point. Once they load into your slicer, change anything to suit your own printer and filament.
Version 27.0.12 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Inventory (Glow Shop Seller; every tester has it to try): a list of the parts and filament you've bought and still have. Add a pack as it arrives and the count goes up by the pack size; every design's What to buy shows what you have, ticks "have it" when there's enough, and Built one takes out what one build used (with Undo). Low items are flagged, and the real cost per piece goes into What to charge. Home screen > Inventory, or Inventory… under any What to buy.
Version 27.0.11 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Editions: the license page (File > About) now shows which you have: Glow Shop Maker, or Glow Shop Seller with the "What to charge" price calculator. Both are yours forever with a year of updates and fixes; renewing adds another year.
Version 27.0.10 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- New: Zoetrope Lamp (Illusion lights). A many-sided drum spins round a small LED; an ESP32 flashes the LED once per frame, so the pictures it throws on the walls move: a bouncing ball, a golf swing, a beating heart, a word turning into a heart, or your own GIF, playing all round a dark room.
- The picture panels print flat (crisp edges, no supports) and slide into the drum, so one lamp can take many animations. The download includes the strobe program, wiring, and a strip of the frames.
Older versions
Version 27.0.9 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- No more "floating regions" on the Wind Spinner: a picture on the band could leave pieces of band starting in mid-air (the bottom of a window over a cut-out), which Bambu Studio warns about. The golf cart is redrawn so every part is held from below, and any picture (a shape or your own) now gets a thin post wherever band would start in the air, so the word rotor still prints upright with no supports.
Version 27.0.8 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Pictures on the Wind Spinner: under Picture on the band, pick A shape (golf cart, sports, holidays) or Your own picture (a logo, a silhouette, clip art). It's cut through the glowing band like a stencil, ahead of your words or on its own. Pieces that would fall out keep thin bridges.
- New Golf cart shape in the Sports group, for the Wind Spinner and for Lit Letters.
Version 27.0.7 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- No sharp edges on stands: pick Rounded edges (3 mm, the default) or Chamfered edges (2.5 mm) for the top of the base; the bottom edge gets a small 0.8 mm chamfer. Both print upside down with no supports.
Version 27.0.6 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- See how the wiring goes: every infinity mirror download now includes how-to-feed-the-leads.png, a to-scale picture of the wire channel and funnel with the strip in its groove, the leads going down and out the back, and the steps.
Version 27.0.5 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Smooth shapes: holiday and sports shapes are now drawn sharper before tracing and their curves smoothed (corners stay sharp), so a moon's walls come out smooth instead of faceted.
- Easier wiring on infinity mirrors: each loop's wire exit goes on the straightest, gentlest stretch of wall, and the channel widens into a funnel where it meets the groove, so the strip's leads bend in a gentle curve instead of round a sharp corner.
Version 27.0.4 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- "Have it" ticks: in What to buy and on the parts page, tick anything you already have or will buy somewhere else, and it stays out of the Amazon cart. Filament starts ticked, since most people buy it by the roll. Ticks are remembered, and the parts page follows the ones you made in Glow Shop.
- Words on the base stay at least 12 mm tall: the base grows longer to fit them.
- The base color's "Same as letters" button no longer squeezes into the color swatches.
Version 27.0.3 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Words on the base: type up to 30 characters (a family name, EST. 2026, GOODNIGHT) and pick Cut in or Raised. They go across the front of the base, sized to fit.
- Battery tray: the lid now has a frame the 18650 holder sits in, with slots for two zip ties, so the battery is held in place instead of loose inside the base.
Version 27.0.2 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Stands show the whole shape: letters and shapes no longer sink into a pocket. They sit on top of the base, and a tab printed under each foot drops 10 mm into a slot, so nothing is hidden (a moon keeps its full curve).
- Base color: print the stand in any filament color, or the same as the letters.
Version 27.0.1 (beta)
November 2, 2026
- Glow Shop 27: new version numbers. The first number is the year (27 for 2027), and the last number goes up with each update and bug fix: 27.0.1, 27.0.2... Same app as 0.99.23, with everything in it.
Version 0.99.23 (preview)
November 2, 2026
- Infinity mirrors keep their shape: 0.99.21 filled in too much (a tree lost its branch tips). Now only a thin slit under about 7 mm, or a small piece on a narrow neck like a star on top, prints solid. Everything else stays lit, with the mirrors cut to match.
Version 0.99.22 (preview)
November 2, 2026
- Sports shapes: baseball, football, basketball, soccer ball, golf flag, crossed bats, hockey sticks, football helmet, trophy and jersey, next to the holiday shapes in Lit Letters and Infinity Mirrors. Our own drawings, so they're yours to sell. The balls keep their seams and laces as cut-outs.
- On battery, the LED strip card now points to the Battery card instead of suggesting a USB plug.
Version 0.99.21 (preview)
November 2, 2026
- Battery lives in the base: the battery box on the back of wall signs is gone. Picking Rechargeable battery stands the sign on a base that holds the batteries, charge board and button.
- Infinity mirrors, small details: a star on top, thin points and spikes (narrower than about 20 mm) are too small for the LED strip or for a mirror you could cut, so they now print solid and the tunnel and mirror files follow the main shape. A card tells you when it happens.
Version 0.99.20 (preview)
November 2, 2026
- Lit Letters on a stand: Mounting › Standing on a base. Words and holiday shapes stand in a hollow base, each piece dropping into a pocket shaped like its own bottom. Pick Block, Rounded ends or Wide foot; the base is sized from the height so it won't tip, and long bases print in pinned pieces.
- Battery power: Power › Rechargeable battery (1 or 2 18650 batteries). On a stand the batteries, a USB-C charge board and an on/off button go in the base under a screw-on lid. On the wall they go in a box glued to the back of one letter; the sign hangs from the box and printed sleeves hold the other letters out the same. The Battery card shows how many hours it runs, full and dimmed.
Version 0.99.19 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Share it: under every preview, Share a picture or video saves a glowing picture or a smooth turning video (MP4) of your design, sized for Instagram and Facebook (square), Reels, TikTok and Shorts (tall), YouTube (wide) or Pinterest, with your caption and a small "Made with Glow Shop" label.
- See it in my room: add a photo of your wall, shelf or porch, drag the design into place, and slide the room down to night to see it glow there. Save the picture to show a customer before you print.
- Lit Letters batch orders: type a list of names or house numbers (add x2 for two, or "number | street" for address signs) and get every sign in one zip: a folder per sign with its own project file, plus orders.csv and a summary with total print hours, filament, LED strip and, with the price calculator, cost and selling price per order.
- Address signs: the print time and filament now count the plate as well as the numbers.
Version 0.99.18 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Better print times: walls now speed up on smooth round parts and slow down for corners, flat solid areas print at real speed, small parts get the slicer's minimum layer time, and on Bambu printers the filament's real flow limit and bed levelling are counted. Checked against 8 real Bambu Studio slices: within about ±10% (it was off by up to 40%).
Version 0.99.17 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Estimates that learn: each time you click Exact time, Glow Shop compares your slicer's real time and grams with its own estimate for the same files, and tunes future estimates for that printer (it keeps your last 8 results). The print time cards say when they're tuned.
Version 0.99.16 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Wind Spinner: outdoors it now starts sized for the 3.31 in (84 mm) solar replacement tops we use, and What to buy links straight to them. Indoors it still starts at the 76 mm puck light.
Version 0.99.15 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- What to charge: a "Dry the filament first" option adds the dryer's power to the cost of each piece (about 10¢ per 1 kg roll, editable). Drying runs on its own, so it isn't counted as your time.
Version 0.99.14 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Wind Spinner cup styles: Round, Petals (a flower from above), Swoosh (turbine blades) and Leaves (with a midrib).
- Twist: the cups spiral as they rise, up to 30°, kept printable without supports.
- Top edges: flat, wave, scallop, crown points or flame tips.
- Two-color cups: every other cup in a second color. The cup rotor comes as one object with two parts on two filaments (AMS), and the Bambu Studio project sets up both filaments.
Version 0.99.13 (preview)
November 1, 2026
- Home button: every maker's top-right button is now Home and takes you straight back to the home screen to pick what to make next.
Version 0.99.12 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Sample words: Wind Spinner, Light Projector, Lit Letters and the Two-Word Sculpture now open with GLOW SHOP, ready for your own words.
Version 0.99.11 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- No-print corner: the P1S and X1 can't print in the front-left corner (the filament cutter). Parts that fill most of the bed are now placed just clear of it, and Lit Letters splits with it in mind, so Bambu Studio keeps every part on its plate.
Version 0.99.10 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Lit Letters, smoother walls: letters are traced four times finer and straight edges are kept dead straight, so big letters no longer get a wavy outer wall.
- Lit Letters, stronger joints: the jigsaw knobs on split letters are bigger (5 mm neck, 11 mm head, was 3 mm and 8.4 mm) and closer together, still with 0.3 mm clearance all round.
Version 0.99.9 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Bambu Studio projects: files for Bambu printers now carry Bambu Studio's own printer, process and filament settings, so Studio opens them as real projects. No more "invalid config" warning, each part keeps its settings (supports and all), and a multi-part project puts every part on its own build plate.
Version 0.99.8 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Parts links: every Amazon part in a What to buy list (and in the shopping list that comes with your files) opens it on glowshop3d.com, with one click on to Amazon.
Version 0.99.7 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Infinity Mirrors: one tile, three ways in. A holiday shape (Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July), words and numbers, or your own picture.
- New shapes: ghost, bat, shamrock, Easter egg and a 4th of July star. Wide shapes size themselves to fit your printer.
Version 0.99.6 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Light Projector: the spotlight (gobo) and solar flood light projectors are now one tile. Pick your light, and switch between them any time.
- How to Use guide now installs with Glow Shop: File > How to use, the Start menu, or your Glow Shop folder.
Version 0.99.5 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- New: Holiday Infinity Mirrors. Pick a Christmas tree, star, snowman, bell, ornament, gift, candy cane, stocking, gingerbread man, mitten, heart, moon or pumpkin, or bring your own picture, and Glow Shop makes it an infinity mirror: a tunnel of lights inside the shape.
- Solid outline for your own pictures: fills in faces, buttons and stripes so the shape lights cleanly.
Version 0.99.4 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- New: Infinity Cube. Six two-way mirrors in a printed frame of edge bars and corners, with an LED strip on every inside edge: glowing cubes going on forever. Same size as the Tunnel Cube, with a button to switch between the two. Mirror cutting file for your laser included.
Version 0.99.3 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- New: Flood Light Projector. A printed hood for a solar flood light: a stencil in front of the LEDs and a sheet Fresnel lens at the front throw your words, a pattern or your own art several feet across on a wall or the driveway. Prints in sections on any printer; swap stencils for each holiday.
Version 0.99.2 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- New: Path Light Projector. A cap that slips over a solar path light and puts stars, waves, leaves, your house number or your own art on the ground. Soft shadows with no lens, or sharp with a small glass lens. Swap the stencil any time.
- New: Lantern Panels. Replacement panels for post-cap solar lanterns: cut right through to throw your pattern round the yard, or glow panels in white PLA. Words on the front, a pattern on the rest.
Version 0.99.1 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- Shop these parts: the cart button now opens your design's parts list on glowshop3d.com, with one button to put everything in your Amazon cart.
Version 0.99 (preview)
October 31, 2026
- New: Wind Spinner. A kinetic spinner for the yard or the desk: two rotors turning opposite ways, your words cut through a band that glows at night.
- New: Gobo Projector. Turn a standard spotlight into a projector that throws your words or picture sharp on a wall, with a printed housing and a glass lens.
- One file, every plate: downloads now include a project file with each part on its own build plate and its own settings (Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer).
- Open in Bambu Studio now finds Bambu Studio on every PC.
- Smoother shapes from your own pictures: straight edges come out straight, curves smooth, even from a JPG.
- Lit Letters: a solid 45° ledge for the mirror or acrylic face that prints clean.
- Stairwell: bricks on the outside too.
- Amazon cart: put a design's whole shopping list in your Amazon cart in one click.
- Feedback & community in the File menu, and a new How to Use guide (PDF).
Version 0.98 (preview)
October 30, 2026
- New: Stairwell. A real round brick shaft you look down into, with steps winding round the walls into the light. Glass on top, or a two-way mirror and a mirror floor so the stairs go down forever. Taller than your printer? It prints as rings that key together.
- New: Hydrangea Spin Lamp. A dome of hydrangea florets that turns slowly round a still LED, so the petal shadows drift across the room.
- Lit Letters: infinity mirror faces, any light color plus RGB effects (fade, rainbow, chase, flash), wiring diagrams for letters with holes (like 8 and 6), and your own shapes from a picture.
- Address Signs: Halo (lit from behind) and Lit (glowing numbers) in one place, on a backer plate with the street name.
- Big letters split into pieces with jigsaw joints so they fit your bed.
- Cutting files for acrylic faces and mirrors: SVG for a laser, DXF for a CNC router.
Version 0.97 (preview)
October 29, 2026
- New: Lit Letters. Glowing channel letters for any word, name or initials. LED strip inside, with a printed face or a laser-cut frosted, clear or two-way mirror acrylic face (a mirror when off, glowing when on).
- Any printer: pick your printer, filament and slicer the first time you open Glow Shop. Files come out ready for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer, Creality Print and others.
- Open in your slicer and exact print times from your slicer, straight from My designs.
- Pull it apart: Ctrl+E explodes a design to show its parts, Ctrl+R puts it back.
- Installer: choose the drive and folder Glow Shop goes in.
Version 0.96 (preview)
October 28, 2026
- My designs: everything you make is filed in folders by type (Lamps, Signs, Shades & Planters, Pattern Lamps, Illusion Lights, Sculptures), with pictures, ready to reopen.
- Open a saved design: bring any download back with every setting as you left it, change it and print again.
- Update check: Glow Shop tells you when a new version is out.
- License dates: see when your year of updates ends.
- Better print times for thin, detailed prints like the tunnels and panel lamps.
- New: Bloom sculptures, Two-word shadow sculptures, Endless staircase, Hallway and Tunnel cube lamps.
To install or update: run Glow-Shop-Setup.exe. It keeps your designs, your license key and your settings. Prefer the zip? That still works: extract it over your Glow Shop folder and choose "Replace the files".