A feather is a sloped transition from the the top of the board to the edge of the 3D carved area. This is used to make those depth transitions more aesthetically pleasing and to make the carve less load heavy on the bit.
Category: Designer 5
Designer – Carve Region
A Carve Region can be applied to any closed shape to define a flat depth.
Designer – Basic Drawing
There are several basic drawing tools in Designer for creating shapes and drawn line art.
Designer – Domes
Domes are simple curved surface options for closed regions.
Designer – Textures
Textures are a selection of variable sized repeating patterns that can be used with any selected region.
Designer – Materials
The Materials tool is a dynamic texture generator. There are a selection of default materials to choose from, or any material can be cloned to customize your own materials.
Designer – Place Carving Tabs
The place tabs tool is used to define raster carving tabs from manually placed lines made with the drawing tools. These types of tabs are for 3D raster carvings only.
Designer – Rout Tools
The Rout Tools are a collection of tools for applying router bits as a variable depth path following a selection of profiles. There is also a quick edge rout tool for automatically applying a router profile to the edge of the workpiece.
Designer – Make Pattern
Make pattern allows you to combine multiple elements together to create a new pattern that is added to your pattern library.
Designer – Vcarve Suite – Centerline Text
The Centerline Text feature adds an additional Rout Mode in the Text Tool feature. This feature uses the 60° and 90° V-groove bits to follow the center of the letters for a clean engraved, v-cut look. The depth of the centerline is determined by the width of the text selected.