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Upgrade from Cut2D Desktop to Aspire and in addition to the features you have you’ll get the ability to create designs with v-carving textures as well as gaining the tools you need to create your own 3D models and all of the features in PhotoVCarve. Aspire also has support for add-on gadgets, the ability to merge toolpaths and create toolpath templates & job sheets

Upgrade from Cut2D Pro to Aspire and in addition to the features you have you’ll get the ability to create designs with v-carving textures as well as gaining the tools you need to create your own 3D models. You will also get the Photo VCarving toolpath strategy.

Upgrade from VCarve Desktop to Aspire to gain the tools you need to create your own 3D models and the Photo VCarving toolpath strategy. Aspire also has support for add-on gadgets, the ability to merge toolpaths and create toolpath templates & job sheets

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Aspire for MAC

Post by angel_skull_crusher » Tue Aug 16, 2016 12:37 am

Can I get Aspire for my mac at home? Do I have to run it on a windows emulator? I want to make some decorative tables, chairs, woodpanels, mockups of buildings, small prototypes, spoons, and so forth. The list of projects is really endless. Right now, I want to make some toroidal 2.5 D shapes so that I can build a wood model tokamak and then display it at a conference. I think it could look really cool if done correctly. I had the designs on paper, but I want to be able to program at home on my local machine. As it is now, I have to come in to the shop and program on the windows machine. What should I do? How much is Aspire software anyway?

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by martin54 » Tue Aug 16, 2016 12:52 am

There isn’t a mac version so you would need to run it through a windows emulator, there are people on the forum who do that but as I haven’t used a mac since the G3 was first released I can’t tell you what they use

Prices for software are here

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by LittleGreyMan » Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:30 am

You’ll need a virtual machine (which BTW is not an emulator). I use VMWare, and Aspire runs jun fine, but I have a powerful MacBook, with lots of RAM and a SSD. Some have reported here using Parallels. I do not know if VirtualBox (free) is OK. If you are using virtualization or Bootcamp, you’ll need a Windows license.

Somebody has reported using Wine on Linux, but I didn’t have time to check it on the Mac.

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Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by Rcnewcomb » Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:59 am

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by BOOMER52 » Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:53 pm

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by angel_skull_crusher » Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:35 am

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by martin54 » Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:57 am

Have a look at the program comparison, it might help you decide. If you only want something to generate vector toolpaths then vcarve would be capable of doing that for you, desktop might be suitable but look at the differences between desktop & pro for yourself. You can always upgrade to aspire at a latter date should your needs change & you want to start doing other things.

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by angel_skull_crusher » Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:33 am

Re: Aspire for MAC

Post by martin54 » Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:12 pm

You can always download the trial version to see if it would be right for you before you purchase, there are quite a few programs available that will do what you want so there may be a different software that is better suited for you. I can only speak about my personal experiences. When I was first looking for cam software I looked at quite a few different products, I decided at the time that for my needs Vectric software best fit my need as they offered what I considered to be the best overall package. I wanted a program that not only met my needs but was also reasonably easy to learn & offered reasonable support.
As a signmaker I already had vector based software which was very good & more importantly I was very familiar with so was only really looking for cam software to generate the g code I needed to run the machine. I originally purchased cut2d because I thought that would be all I needed for what I wanted to do. If my needs hadn’t changed then I may well just have kept using that.
Once I had the machine running it became clear to me very quickly that the machine was capable of a lot more than I had originally wanted it for & there were lots of things I could do that I hadn’t previously thought about. A lot of the new things I wanted to try would not be possible with cut2d so within a month or so of purchasing it I upgraded to vcarve pro. Because of Vectrics upgrade policy I lost next to nothing upgrading & never looked back. With some other Companies I would have had to buy the Next version up at full price.

For me no one comes close to matching the package that Vectric offer & a side bonus (for me) is that I have made some new friends through the forum. As I said at the start I can only speak from my own experiences

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Easy & Logical

Aspire’s single interface for 3D component design and machining makes it easy and logical to draw and build 3D component models.

Over 90 Hours of Tutorials

The emphasis on ease of use not only includes the interface and work-flow of the software but also has been carried through into the training materials. Aspire ships with over 90 hours of tutorials based on real-world examples.

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3D Model Preview

The 3D model preview allows 3D components to be displayed in different material types or colors to produce realistic results for customers quotations, web site content or including in your marketing material.

3D Assembly Made Easy

Aspire’s interactive approach to assembling 3D component models, makes it easy to change the shape and characteristics of individual parts of the job and build up complex designs using simple 3D shapes.

Dynamic Editing

Aspire lets you dynamically edit 3D components using the mouse as well as giving you the ability to enter specific values to manipulate the part.

Instant Preview Updates

Changes to shape, height or inclination are instantly updated in the 3D view showing exactly what the final result will look like. This takes the guess-work out of creating high quality models.

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Adds the ability to create double-sided projects in the same session. It avoids the need to have 2 sessions, one for each side.

Enables the use of a rotary axis (also called a 4th axis or indexer).

The software has a comprehensive set of drawing tools to let you easily create vectors from scratch or add to imported data.

Building 3D shapes from 2D vectors with the interactive 3D shape modeling tools make it easy to experiment with different settings and results.

The toolpath options cover all typical 2D routing operations, 2.5D and 3D machining strategies. All toolpaths can be previewed to show just how the part will look when it is actually cut.

Including; Import Toolpaths, Printing, File Thumbnails, Video Tutorials, 64-Bit Support, Gadgets and more.

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Machine Parts on Two Sides

Two-Sided Machining adds the ability to create double-sided projects in the same session. It avoids the need to have 2 sessions, one for each side.

Job & Material Setup

In the Job Setup dialog, you can pick whether you want to create a single-sided, double-sided or a rotary job. You can change that, retrospectively.

Define how you want to flip the material for double-sided projects from the Job Setup dialog. This influences the positioning of the vectors and models so that geometry on each side is created in the appropriate positions relative to the opposite side.

Multi-Sided View

You can view the opposite side’s geometry using the keyboard shortcut ‘=’, or through the ‘View’ menu.

In the 2D view, you will see the opposite side’s vectors as if you were looking at them through the material block.

In the 3D view, you will see the entire merged model as if it was simulated.

Importing STL Model

When importing an STL model (with the ‘Import both Sides’ option enabled) into a double-sided project, each side of the model will go onto a side.

You can import the entire model on each side by sliding the slicing plane all the way to the bottom. This is useful when importing models which contain non-convex surfaces, such as, a plate.

Machine Wrapped Rotary Parts

Enables the use of a rotary axis (also called a 4th axis or indexer).

Wrapped Rotary Machining

Enables the use of a rotary axis (also called a 4th axis or indexer). Where you can create rotary projects and visualize your job in a wrapped environment, with the ability to create and simulate the toolpaths in an auto — wrapped simulation.

Rotary Job and Material Setup

In the Job Setup dialog, you can pick whether you want to create a single-sided, double-sided job or a rotary job. You can change that, retrospectively.

Define your cylinder dimensions, the orientation of the job, how the 2D view will be laid out, and which axis we’re wrapping around.

Vector Unwrapping

The vector unwrapper tool converts a vector into another vector suitable for using with the two-rail sweep tool to create rotary models from a desired cross section.

This is useful when rather than modeling a profile along the rotation axis, it is more intuitive to specify a desired cross section. The tool transforms a vector, representing a cross section, into a profile vector that can be subsequently used with two rail sweep tool.

Spiral Toolpaths

In order to create a toolpath that wraps around multiple times, one can create a long vector at a certain angle. Such a vector is an equivalent to the strip of fabric when it is unwrapped from the roll.

Although such a toolpath will exceed the 2D workspace of the rotary job, thanks to the wrapping process during both simulation and machining the toolpath will actually stay within material boundaries.

Model Import into Rotary Project

The software has the ability to import full 3D models from third party software for unwrapping in a rotary job, where you can position and orient the model in a rotary view.

Not only can you import full 3D models for unwrapping the software also allows for the importing of «Flat 3D» models (relief style models) that you can position and simulate before cutting.

Drawing & Layout Tools

The software has a comprehensive set of drawing tools to let you easily create vectors from scratch or add to imported data.

Vector Shape Creation

The software has a comprehensive set of drawing tools to let you easily create vectors from scratch or add to imported data. These include options for creating standard shapes (circle, elipse, rectangle, polygon and star) along with line, curve and arc drawing tools. There is also a powerful tool to create vector textures for panels and backgrounds. These tools can be controlled using typed input to create exact sized objects or can be used dynamically with the mouse to sketch your artwork. The tools also take advantage of the ‘snapping’ to let you use points on existing objects to ‘snap’ onto when you are drawing vectors.

Picture Editing & Cropping

With the ability to import bitmaps into the software, you can further edit imported images using the ‘Edit Picture’ tool, this allows you to adjust the visual properties of a selected bitmap, enabling you to adjust the contrast, brightness and gamma of any selected image.

Borders of different sizes and radii can also be added to bitmaps for aesthetic purposes. Bitmaps can also be made black and white. The software also has the ability to crop images to any given vector allowing you to remove parts of the image you are not interested in.

Image Tracing (Vectorization)

Image tracing also known as vectorization allows you to take an imported image such as a scanned drawing, graphic design or photo and to convert colors in that to vector outlines. These outlines can then be used as part of your design to create toolpaths or to generate 3D shapes using the modeling tools. The software will import many file formats including jpeg, bitmap, gif, png, tif, it will also extract images from a PDF file.

Advanced Text Tools

The ‘advanced text’ tools let you access true type or open type fonts on your PC to create text outlines for your design. In addition, the software comes with a selection of specialist single stroke / stick engraving fonts for efficient machining when making things like badges or small signs.

When creating text you are able to see live feedback of the text that you create and edit. The text can be controlled using automatic sizing and layout options. There is an inbuilt spell checker where errors will be underlined in red, where you are able to locate the correct spelling as well as having the ability to add words to the software’s dictionary too!

There are also editing tools for fitting text to a curve and interactive text arcing and spacing (kerning) where the text maintains formatting, allowing you to easily make edits after the text has been created. This text can be dragged dynamically along a curve so you can perfect the placement of your text.

Import 2D Data (DXF, DWG, EPS, AI, SKP, SVG etc.)

Data can be imported from a huge range of other design programs using a variety of industry standard file formats. These include DXF, EPS, AI, SVG and SKP (SketchUp) as well as PDF files. Once imported, the program has a wide range of tools to make working with this data as efficient as possible.

A very important set of tools are those used to identify duplicate vectors and identify and rejoin open vectors. These tools can save an great deal of time when working with poor quality data to get it ready to machine.

As well as importing vectors from other programs the software also offers the ability to export your data in either DXF, EPS or AI file formats. This feature is very important if you need to share data with a customer in order that they can use it to plan a layout or installation.

Basic Dimensioning

The dimensioning tools allows you to create a variety of different types of measurements on your drawing. These can be oriented in any direction or fixed horizontally or vertically. There are also options to add angular and arc dimensions. You can control the text height, font number of decimal places and position for each one. Dimensions can be snapped to vectors, guidelines and the corners or mid-points of each side of your work area.

Vector Transform & Editing

Whether your design vectors have been created in the software or imported you have a large choice of editing options to prepare your part for toolpath creation or modeling. Vectors can be easily scaled, moved, mirrored, distorted, grouped, welded, trimmed, filleted, extended, offset, smoothed and joined together. As with the drawing tools you either have precise control over the editing values adjust the vectors very accurately or can use the mouse to dynamically make adjustments until your layout looks correct.

Vector Layout

In addition to the editing tools the software also has tools to let you layout parts either in a rectangular array to create a grid of objects or in a circular array to create symmetrical layouts around a center point. When laying out a grid you can adjust mirroring options and shift alternate rows and columns to make more complex layout patterns.

Vector shapes can also be pasted along the path of another vector by specifying the distance between each copy or just fitting a specific number on the guiding object.

True Shape Nesting

True Shape Nesting lets you automatically arrange and fit vector shapes and components into your material size or user definable area, to get optimal material usage and minimum wastage. Part Nesting is perfect for Sign and Cabinet makers who need to minimize material wastage and cut as many parts – letters & cabinet doors / panels – as possible from sheet materials.

Reduce Material Costs = Increased Profits

The nesting routine places vector shapes and/or components as close to each other as possible ensuring a sufficient gap to allow the parts to be cut out correctly. The nesting includes options to control part direction to reflect material grain or machine orientation. It intelligently determines what parts of your geometry should be nested together. It can also automatically nest objects on both sides of a job together to create two-sided nested geometry.

Layer Management

The Layers are a very efficient way to keep your 2D data organized, one of the main uses is to allow you to temporarily hide data you were not currently working with. Layers could also be used to group vectors you might be using to model related shapes in a 3D design to make it simpler to work on a small part at a time.

The ability to associate toolpaths with specific layers and types of data means you can create Toolpath Templates which can be assigned to other parts that share the same layer structure. This is particularly powerful for applications like Cabinet Making where different designs can be automatically machined once a template has been set-up.

Multi Sheet Support

Not only can you organise your design onto layers but you can also make use of multiple sheets in your projects to help manage and organise your work on a per sheet basis when working with multiple materials in your designs. Each sheet can have it’s own dimensions and settings, making it an ideal solution for when you are working on a project that requires multiple materials. The sheets tab lists all of the current sheets and allows you to create, update and delete them. You can create sheets of different sizes and thicknesses as well as having the ability to control the material appearance for each sheet to better visualize your toolpaths as part of the overall project. All sheets within a project can be managed individually or collectively, making it simple to resize or update a specific selection of sheets.

Rulers, Snap Grid and Guidelines

Rulers, Snap Grid and Guidelines help to make vector drawing and 3D part layout much simpler. These options can be switched on / off as required. When combined with Snapping options that automatically detect and snap the cursor to key regions on a design these tools make it easy to create very accurate part.

Trim Objects to a Vector Boundary

The trim tool allows you to simultaneously trim all the objects inside or outside of a selected area. This makes it very easy and quick to create textured areas or patterns within a specific boundary.

Create Vector Texture

Repeating vector patterns can be quickly created using the ‘create vector texture’ tool. It’s easy to modify the settings to create an infinite number of variations from regular wave patterns through to uneven natural looking grain lines.

These vectors can be machined using the profile and texture toolpaths to create decorative wavy texture panels along with wood-grain and sand-blast effects. These can also be projected onto a 3D surface to add even more variation.

Smart Snapping

This allows you to snap to lines and extensions, which don’t necessarily exist as geometry. It reduces the need to create construction geometry, and would be helpful in aligning vectors or nodes.

Quick Keys

This allows you to add more precision to your shape creation and editing process more easily by allowing typed values while creating geometry. This is supported for creation of circles, ellipses, rectangles, polygons, stars, polylines and when in editing nodes or transforming vectors.

For example, while dragging to create a circle, you could type ‘3R’ to create the circle with a radius of 3. Or, also while dragging, you could type ‘3D’ to create one with a diameter of 3.

Vector Validator

The Vector Validator is intended to help find issues with contours after file imports that are stopping tool-path creation such as overlapping contours or intersections. It also indicates zero-length spans.

3D Modeling

Building 3D shapes from 2D vectors with the interactive 3D shape modeling tools make it easy to experiment with different settings and results.

Create Shapes from Vector Outlines

The create shape modeling function instantly adds 3D shape to a closed vector outline based on either a curved, angular, concave, smooth, planar (flat) or custom profiles that you can create from a vector, allowing for an unlimited set of profile options. These shapes can be controlled by adjusting angle and height values.

Your 3D design updates instantly showing you what your model looks like while experimenting with different shapes, heights, tilts, fades and combine modes. This allows you to quickly define the shape you actually want.

Once generated the shape is added to the component tree and can be further edited and combined with other shapes to make your finished 3D part.

Two Rail Sweep

Sweep along two vector rails to model 3D shapes based on one or more cross section shapes. This powerful tool can be used to create accurate geometric shapes like borders or can be used to create flowing organic shapes such as a leaf or decorative flourish.

Options for this tool include:

Controlling the direction of the drive rails
Scaling to a specific height
Dynamically dragging or snapping the exact position of each cross section to define the shape you want
Link corresponding nodes on matching drive rails to make mitre-style corners.
Filling the middle of a closed rail to create panel shapes

Extrude and Weave

Extrude and weave allows you to use one or more vectors as drive rails and extrude either vector cross sections or existing 3D components along them. In addition to the standard extrude the function has an option to automatically create a weaved effect where the drive rail/s overlap.

The tool includes many options to help you control the way the shape flows and the final result you get. The variety of 3D forms that can be created with this tool vary from simple linear extrusions all the way to extremely complex ornate woven shapes and it certainly qualifies as one of the most powerful tools in the program.

Turn & Spin

Create spun profiles easily using the Spin & Turn Modelling Tool.

The turn tool takes a profile and turns it, like a lathe or a potter’s wheel, to create a rounded symmetrical component. To use the tool you require only the profile that you want to turn. This profile should represent the outer boundary of the shape you wish to create.

Interactive Sculpting & Blending

Aspire’s powerful 3D Sculpting tools provide total flexibility when modifying designs. Models can be manipulated like a piece of virtual clay to smooth out edges and discontinuities, as well as to add extra detail, all helping to create that authentic ‘hand carved’ look for your models. This function sets Aspire apart from typical computer modelers as this type of dynamic editing cannot be replicated using standard surface or solid CAD/CAM modeling programs.

The Sculpting tool lets you interactively modify 3D designs using the sculpting tools with control over brush size and strength, plus options to,

Smooth, Smudge Deposit, Remove & Erase with options to raise, lower or blend the changes

The Sculpting Tool allows for the option of using any model as a brush for sculpting, giving you an unlimited selection of brush styles that suit your needs. The component brush option can be used as part of the deposit and remove tools, where the brush will leave an impression in the composite model that simulates the pushing of the component brush through the surface when dragging, and a stamping effect when clicking!

You can also use the dynamic rotation option that intelligently rotates the brush in the direction that you are sculpting. The custom brush allows you to easily add texture and detail to your composite model.

The option to Preserve Transparency limits sculpting changes to only be on the 3D model surface and not ‘bleed out’ onto the surrounding flat plane.

The option to show the grayscale background allows you to see a grayscale image of the model shown on the sculpting screen. This means that you are better able to see how sculpting changes affect the whole model. You can also opt to overlay a bitmap image when you are sculpting, allowing you to easily refer to your original material.

If bitmap is selected when opening this tool, it will be overlaid on the sculpted model, helping you to sculpt more accurately.

The Undo function allows the sculpted changes to gradually be returned back to the original state. Allowing changes to be undone on specific local regions without having to undo any changes made to the complete model.

The sculpting can be controlled using the mouse or even a pen tablet (such as a Wacom) and where applicable PC’s that use a touch-screen.

Create Texture Area

This feature lets you create a repeating pattern or texture. It requires a single «tile» component and optionally one or more closed boundary vectors which define the region in which the tiling should take place.

The create texture area form lets you specify the spacing and overlap of each tile, enter a «shift» for every other row or column of your pattern and control the «symmetry» or reflection of the tiles. This provides powerful control to make an incredible number of variations to your pattern and create some very interesting effects. The pattern dynamically updates as you make changes, you can even adjust the size and position of your original «tile» at any time

40 models have been created specifically for use with this new tool and are supplied with the software as part of the included clip art. In addition to these pre-created models you can also create new components or edit existing ones to use with this function so the potential for creating architectural panels, sign backgrounds, decorative textures or any other applications are endless.

Import 3D Models & Clip Art (STL, OBJ, 3DM etc.)

Any model you create in Aspire can be saved as a piece of clipart for use in other projects.

Import 3D mesh files created in other CAD software such as,

Rhino 5, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Silo, MOI, Blender, SketchUp etc.
STL, 3D DXF, OBJ, 3DS, VRML, 3DM, SKP file formats

Interactively change the size and orientation of imported 3D models.

Interactively rotate 3D mesh files into the required orientation for adding to a design.

Instantly convert designs from raised models to recessed mold cavities.

Easy to use interactive drag and drop, size, mirror, rotate and distortion tools allow 3D clipart designs and modeled components to be edited to instantly produce unlimited design variations.

3D Segmenting

When importing 3rd party 3D models you have the ability to segment the model into parts for assembly to help minimize the loss of detail (undercuts) that can occur upon import. You can interactively segment a model all from within the 3D view where you can control the position and angle of the segment plane. The parts can be easily visualized individually and in a layout format so you can view how the models will be imported as a relief prior to import.

3D Textures from Images

Import 2D (color and black & white) image files – BMP, JPG, TIF, GIF and instantly convert them to 3D component textures that can be applied onto or behind 3D models and machined as part of your project.

Aspire can be used to build an infinite variety of 3D textures from imported images. These textures can be combined with other 3D shapes in the design and can also be interactively edited to any size or height as well as being sculpted or smoothed to adjust their final look before toolpath creation.

This function can also be used to make high quality lithophanes (back lit machined photos).

Relief Slicing

The software has a tool to Z-slice a part to create separate models if your CNC size, tooling or material limits the depth of part you can cut. Where you are able to choose the thickness of individual slices, where they can be tweaked and visualised in the 3D view to give you maximum control of how your model is sliced for machining. This helps to ensure that there are no thin slices that can be problematic from a machine and assembly point of view.

Offset Model

The Offset model tool creates a 3D offset of the composite model. This can be used to make the model larger or to reduce its size. One application for this is to create a wall thickness between the inside and outside of a press, mold or die to accomodate the material being formed.

3D Component Editing

Many of the vector editing tools which can be used on 2D data in Aspire can also be used to edit 3D components. Shapes can be easily scaled, moved, mirrored, distorted, grouped, trimmed and cropped. Aspire also allows you to smooth a 3D object or to add draft which creates angled walls on the part (good for vacuum forms). Other features include, the emboss tool to reduce the height of a model whilst preserving important surface detail, replace below, allowing you to trim (or flatten) the bottom of a component or multiple components and many others.

3D View Component Manipulation

Many of the dynamic component editing tools can be accessed directly from the 3D view. This allows 3D objects to be moved, scaled and rotated. In addition how they combine with other shapes can be adjusted along with their height and even adding a tilt or fade.

Editing the components in the 3D view makes it quick and easy to see the immediate effect of the changes to the composite model and so reduce the time it takes to create a 3D layout.

Mirror Mode

This feature allows you to define a component level so that it mirrors all of its components in a certain way, based on the mirror type. This allows you to build pleasing symmetrical arrangements with ease.

Level Clipping

The level clipping mode makes it easy to constrain the model you are creating to a chosen boundary. Use vectors to define your boundary and the contents of your level are dynamically clipped so that only what lies inside the vectors is kept. This makes it simpler to assemble different models and allows you to rearrange your components and see the results of clipping in place.

3D Component Manager

Our unique ‘component’ based modeling approach gives enormous flexibility when creating complex designs. The ability to work on small simple pieces makes it easier to build up the pieces you need to create a complex job. This also gives you the power to continue to edit individual parts of the design as you build it up. This approach is particularly useful if you need to make design changes based on customer feedback.

Using the component manager (component tree) individual 3D objects can be adjusted to change the way they interact with each other within a project. These can be further organized by the use of ‘levels’ to create sub-assemblies of shapes that first combine with each other before being added to the overall shape of the model.

As you make changes to a component the 3D model will update to show you instantly the effects of your choices making it easy to iterate through different design options.

Intelligent Clipart File Format — 3DClip

Aspire’s special 3DCLIP file format lets you save one or more 3D Components as a model that retains the individual component elements used to create it. Rather than save several individual files to cover all the permutations, these allow you to export a single clipart file that preserves the structure of the components. The visibility of individual components can then be altered, even after the design has been imported into a new model. This is in effect is way of creating «Intelligent Clipart».

A Component, Component Group, Level or the Visible Composite Model can be exported from any session of Aspire to add to your library of clipart and then import and re-use all or part of in another project.

Clipart Browser

The clipart tab provides quick and convenient access to Vectric files containing 3D components or 2D vector artwork. This allows you to easily re-use previously created shapes in new projects.

This tab includes the library browser that allows you to add folders containing 3D components into the software or you can use the local files option that allows you to quickly see the contents of several folders of 3D components in one place.

The clipart tab also allows you to access the online clipart that comes free with the software, where the clipart can be downloaded directly from the running software (providing you have internet access). The software comes with previews of the clipart you’re entitled to, and with internet access you can download the clipart straight into the software for ease of use.

The software gives you the choice of whether to display just the contents of the current folder or up to 3 sub-folders as well making it easy to access many models at once.

You can «drag & drop» a thumbnail into the 2D or 3D view and the selected object will be imported at the location of the dropped thumbnail and added to the model’s component tree.

The clipart tab is a great way to browse and select from the free clipart that is included with your purchase. In addition to the free clipart, our sister company Design & Make has a variety of professionally created CNC ready clipart available to purchase. Visit Design & Make here designandmake.com/ to find out more.

Free 3D Clipart (worth over $5,000)

The Aspire installation includes a large variety of 2D and 3D clipart files that can be used as is, in your own projects or edited to create your own variations.

The files include a mix of formats. The 2D artwork (150 items) comes in CRV format, including basic shapes, game layouts, moulding profiles, stylized text and more. The majority of 3D files are V3M or 3DCLIP format some of which have individual components saved in the file (see section on Intelligent clipart). For the panel, shields, weaves and some ribbons there are CRV3D files that include vectors so you can see how some of the files were created and easily edit and recreate versions of your own. There are also 40 files created specifically for use with the create texture tile function.

Over 150 of the models are commercial quality pieces of 3D clipart from Design & Make. Each one of these is presented in 3 different styles, raised, dished and recessed (so actually 450+ variants), retail cost to purchase just these files would be over $5,000 if bought from the Design & Make website.

There are almost 700 different individual designs to download in a number of variants totalling over 1,350 different files. You can read more about the specifics of the files and see a catalog of the models by clicking on the link below.

Design & Make

Design & Make has a library of over 2500 high-quality, CNC-ready dimensional clip art models.

You will find a selection of relief-style clipart pieces, mini projects, and collections to suit every CNC project need. These can be purchased, downloaded and carved as individual models or combined to make more complex designs.

Toolpaths

The toolpath options cover all typical 2D routing operations, 2.5D and 3D machining strategies. All toolpaths can be previewed to show just how the part will look when it is actually cut.

Material Setup

Referencing the software to how your CNC will be setup is one of the most important elements of the process. A summary of the material set up is displayed at the top of the toolpath tab allowing you to quickly check the settings before you start calculating toolpaths. Any of these values can be easily adjusted to change the tool reference for its X,Y or Z zero location, move the position of a model in the material, adjust the position where your machine starts from or specify distance to ensure the tool lifts above any clamping that is being used.

2D Production Profiling

Using the profiling toolpath strategy, objects can be cut out quickly and efficiently. Simply select the vector shapes you wish to profile, select the tool from the tool database and the software will do the rest. The profiling automatically offsets for the tool radius and sorts nested shapes to ensure that inner shapes such as the center of a letter ‘O’ are cut before the outer shape (so parts are not released from the material before they are cut). Full control of cut direction is offered along with either automatic or manual control of tool entry point for each shape.

Profile machining includes production cutting options that ensure parts can be held in place and accurately machined with high quality edges and corner detail.

3D tabs for smoother profiling plus advanced options for automatic positioning to hold parts in place when machining
Lead in / out and overcut distance to prevent dwell marks appearing on components
Advanced ramp options for controlling how the cutter enters the material, reducing heat build-up and cutter wear
Profile around the outside / inside of open shapes
Sharp internal and external bevelled edges and corners
Last pass allowance

Cut-outs can be done in multiple passes depending on the maximum cutting depth of the tool used and a positive or negative allowance can be specified to either ‘under cut’ or ‘overcut’ the shape if required. The number of passes on a cut can be edited very precisely to allow very thin final cuts or to individual add or remove particular cut depths.

A separate last pass allowance can be specified for the last pass in a profile toolpath. If this allowance is given, then all but the last pass will be over-cut by the specified allowance with the final pass being the only pass which cuts to the actual edge of the part. This can significantly improve the finish on the cut-edge.

The ability to specify that square corners are required is another powerful feature. This is often used when profiling with a v-bit tool, where with a conventional toolpath the tool will ‘roll’ round a sharp external corner leaving a radius on the top of the chamfer created by the tool, with the ‘square corners’ option an angular chamfer will be created instead.

The profile toolpath is probably the most important toolpath option available. It is used for some of the simplest and also the most complex things you may do with your CNC. The software has been structured to let you customize whether you just want simple options for quick cut-outs or whether you want to access more advanced features to control cutting on particular material. This allows both new and experienced users to decide how much information they need to be presented with when creating this frequently used function.

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