The files were created with the Vectic VCarve Pro software which made laying out a project like this very easy to do. This fun project is intended to inspire you to make a face! A Tree Face, that is. The included project files have eyes, nose and a mustached mouth ready to carve, as well as a couple customizable files to get you started. The Spring Blossom Wreath project will proclaim glad tidings of Spring and the warmer weather it brings!
The wreath features Zinnias, Pansies, Petunias and various leaves arranged together around the ring. The result is a distinguishedv-carved Mantle Clock that you can use yourself or give to someone as a special gift!
Ready to store all your neat stocking fillers you get for Christmas, Michael Tyler has created an iconic 'Man-Box'. This project features a dress shirt and tie! Pulling on the shirt collar allows the lid to slide open and give access to the contents of the box spare keys, change, watches, cufflinks, etc. The Merry Christmas Sled project makes a delightful accent to your festive holiday decor!
This project features four padlock models finished to look like aged metal, then incorporated with a wooden plaque as a truly unique and convenient wall mounted key hanger for you to enjoy! The padlocks were created in Aspire using reference photos of actual antique padlocks as guides during the modeling process.
This Rustic Welcome Door Plaque will add homespun charm to the entrance for your house or holiday cottage! A simple silhouette of a cabin and the vertical welcome board will help to greet vistors and make them feel at home. The heavily-grained texture is entirely vector-based.
Two groups of vectors were profiled-on with a v-bit. Each vector group was set at different depths to yield the rough and weathered appearance. Very effective and quicker to machine than a 3D texture. This elegant and fun novelty clock is based upon the antique Model 50AL candlestick phone introduced in - the first free-standing tabletop dial telephone. Thus, began the era of rotary dial telephone sets which would span most of the 20th century Michael's project features segmented construction for the handset and mouthpiece assemblies.
The finished dimensions of this project are approximately 5. The Pineapple Fruit Server is an easy project you can cut in less than an hour and finish over a weekend. The pineapple shape is an iconic symbol of warmth, welcome, friendship and hospitality.
The server makes a very nice addition to your family and friend gatherings! The finished dimensions of this project are approximately 8. The best part is, anyone can do it! The project uses the new Moulding Toolpath feature released to the public with Aspire and VCarve version 8.
This introduces an easy and efficient method to create nicely profiled mouldings of all kinds.. The "Boat Hull Nautical Shelf" is an attractive way to display small treasures for your home or office. The edge trim and inside back panel were left a natural light color. The instructions included with the file, outline the specific method to acomplish this. This deep sea inspired soap dish is an easy to make project, carved and cut from 1" x 6" PVC trim board material found at any home center store.
The sample imitates a thick-cast bronze metal block with a shallow shell motif dish and a seahorse ornament complimenting the oceanic theme. It is coated with thick bodied metallic paints and a patina applied to yield an aged appearance.
Here is a handy set of three heat-resistant table or countertop trivets representing three of the carnivorous food groups - Beef, Fish and Poultry! The samples were finished with heat resistant paints in contrasting colors silver and black but you could opt to forego the two-tone and just use one color paint instead.
The project files are intentionally kept separate, but you can create your own multiple layout for creating as many trivets per board, as you wish. The Aspire project is similar to the original in several ways, but redesigned to be a bit smaller. The back has two keyhole slots that provide a convenient method to securely hang the shelf unit on your wall.
For this month's project Michael Tyler has created an easy to make Spoon Rest project with a twist. This Vectric version features a hinged frame that swings up and over the bowl area to provide a built-in spoon handle support! Swing back over for compact storage. The slight angle of the handle support will help to keep drips from your spoons where they belong, in the spoon rest and off your counter top.
This project creates a rustic looking cover for standard size cube-style tissue box. Textures were made by creating thin overlay components from photos of actual branches and then combined with components made from Texture Toolpath previews. This cheerful and encouraging wall decoration is a nice addition for your own home or as a gift for friends and loved ones.
The project features five v-carved word plaques with a background texture created within the software and machined with a small ballnose bit. The project can easily be customized as a Christmas themed item if desired by painting or staining with holiday colors. It can be assembled using 10 wood screws to enable disassembly for storage, or glued together as a permanent structure.
This project produces a useful bread server for your dinner table. The design features a Cornucopia model carved into both end panels. The cornucopia is a symbol of abundance and will be a nice addition to your Thanksgiving holiday table or for use year 'round!
The cornucopia can be replaced with any model of your choice to customize your Bread Server. For September Michael Tyler has created the perfect place to save and store you money.
The Big Buck Bank project features a vcarve method to create engraved appearance of the front and back of an enlarged dollar bill. I got the inspiration to try this technique from a discussion on the Vectric Forum.
The procedure used was to create thin component models of the front and back of a dollar bill image, import STL versions of each into separate instances of VCarve Pro 8, then create a finish toolpath with a large stepover setting to yield a line engraving effect. Michael Tyler's project this month is an elegant Mantel Clock exclusively created for Vectric Aspire users!
The clock was designed with an American 18th century neoclassical style in mind to add a touch of class to your mantlepiece, side table or shelf. The interleaved flourish reliefs were derived from the Vectric clipart models that are included with Aspire 8. For this months project Michael Tyler has created the perfect place for you to display flowers around your home during the summertime.
Making this vase will show how to use commonly available items to create an attractive stone and coral inlay appearance. Michael Tyler brings you yet another great project for all the warm beverage drinkers.
The lid design features a faux "pierced tin" effect which is accentuated by dabbing silver paint on the pierced area panel. This project is available to Aspire 8. This month Michael Tyler has created a classic woodworking conundrum, the Wooden Chain. This project is a great way to get people talking about how it was made. The files demonstrate how easy it is to create a wooden chain with your Vectric software and CNC machine.
This project is available free of charge to all Aspire 8. For April's free project Michael Tyler has created a useful interestingly shaped dish for all those who like a snack while enjoying a cold beverage. What better way to store your peanuts than a large peanut shell? The Peanut Shell Dish project features 2-sided machining and uses several new features introduced with Aspire version 8!
This project has a 3D appearance but is machined completely from 2D vectors no 3D raster carving at all. This project is available free of charge to all Aspire 4. For this months free project Michael Tyler has created something very useful for all those who enjoy a nice hot beverage dispensed from their home drinks machine. This project provides a useful way to conveniently organize and store up to twenty K-cups. The storage holder rotates on a small Lazy Susan giving you easy access to all sides.
The design and finishing technique gives the appearance that the holder was made from slices and slabs of small logs or branches with the bark left on them. The tool transforms a vector, representing a cross section, into a profile vector that can be subsequently used with two rail sweep tool.
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. 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. 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. 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 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. The 'advanced text' tools let you access true type or open type fonts on your PC to create text outlines for your design. 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 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.
Data can be imported from a huge range of other design programs using a variety of industry standard file formats. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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 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.
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. 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. 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 help to make vector drawing and 3D part layout much simpler. 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. 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. 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. It reduces the need to create construction geometry, and would be helpful in aligning vectors or nodes.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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. Aspire's powerful 3D Sculpting tools provide total flexibility when modifying designs.
The Sculpting tool lets you interactively modify 3D designs using the sculpting tools with control over brush size and strength, plus options to,. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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. The clipart tab is a great way to browse and select from the free clipart that is included with your purchase. 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 items comes in CRV format, including basic shapes, game layouts, moulding profiles, stylized text and more. 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. There are almost different individual designs to download in a number of variants totalling over 1, 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. You will find a selection of relief-style clipart pieces, mini projects, and collections to suit every CNC project need. All of the features are enabled and there are a selection of free projects available for you to download and cut on your CNC machine to check the compatibility.
Step by step tutorial videos are available to guide you through the entire process, from downloading the free trial to completing your first project. There are a variety of free projects available to you to cut from within the free trial. If you already own Cut2D or VCarve you can upgrade to Aspire by simply paying the difference in cost between the two software packages.
To find out more visit our pricing page here: Product Pricing. This video shows the process to model a 3D sign using the create shape and two rail sweep function. Try Before You Buy. I would like to be kept up to date with information about new products and services.
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