Designer Tutorial – Carving Bit Settings

Raster carving is how to make highly detailed carvings. The default settings are sufficient for most operations, but if you’re setting up a new bit or are dialing in new material settings, you may wish to make changes. This video explains the settings available for making those changes.

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Designer Tutorial – Defining Global Bits

The Bit Builder gives users the ability to add new or custom configure existing bits. This will allow for ultimate control over all the speed, feed, and spindle settings for every bit. Custom bits can be stored globally in your system or are stored on a project level. This means if someone designs a project […]

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The Drag Knife

The blades used are 2mm shaft blades. Most blades compatible with Cricut and similar vinyl cutters will work. These blades are inexpensive and readily available through a number of outlets including Amazon. BE AWARE: The blades with black or painted shafts will not work as they must be conductive to work with the touch plate. […]

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Designer Tutorial – Cut Path Tool

The cut path tool is an automatic way to cut a shape out of your project board. It also automatically adds tabs to hold the cutout in place. This tutorial covers how to use this tool and edit the settings and positioning of the tabs.

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Designer 5 Pattern Compatibility

Designer 5 offers a greater amount of resolution for patterns. Due to changes in the formatting of patterns in Designer 5, patterns created in Designer 5 may not be backwards compatible. This means that patterns created in Designer 5 will not be able to open in earlier versions of Designer. In this article, you will […]

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Designer 5 Project Setup

Glossary Creating a New Project When creating a project, Designer will automatically detect what machines are registered to your account. It will only allow a project to be created for those types of machines. For example, if there is only A, B, or C models CarveWright machines registered, it will NOT allow the user to […]

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Bit Builder Tool

The Bit Builder gives users the ability to add new or custom configure existing bits. This will allow for ultimate control over all the speed, feed, and spindle settings for every bit. Custom bits can be stored globally in your system or are stored on a project level. This means if someone designs a project […]

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