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Download as Guest. Our VCarve Pro free trial has been designed to allow you to test all the elements of the software to ensure it is the right product for you before you buy. The trial software is not time limited, nor does it require you to sign up with your personal details.

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. The International Cheese Board project features a handy integrated cracker holder for square, rectangle or round crackers - perfect for parties and get-togethers.

Available for Aspire 8. Cool and quirky, this is one wall clock that absolutely wants to solicit a few smiles! All 3D components were created with the Vectric Aspire software.

Software features that came in particularly handy while creating this project included Create Shape From Vector, Two-Rail Sweep, Copy object along vectors, the Drawing and Node editing tools, Smoothing, and Add draft to model.

The Chubby Box features precision pockets to fit lengths of dowels that form the convex sides of the box.

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!

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. 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.

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.

In the Job Setup dialog, you can pick whether you want to create a single-sided, double-sided job or a rotary job. Define your cylinder dimensions, the orientation of the job, how the 2D view will be laid out, and which axis we're wrapping around. 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. 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.

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. 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 and rotate tools allow 3D clipart designs to be edited to instantly produce unlimited design variations. Shapes can be easily scaled, moved, mirrored and grouped. You can also create a vector boundary around selected components which is useful for when you want a boundary vector of the composite model. VCarve also allows you to smooth a 3D object using the smooth tool.

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.

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.

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