Designer 6

The Carving Cutout tool automatically separates a finished carving from the surrounding board material. Select the elements of your carving and Designer automatically creates the outer cutout, holding tabs, bit optimization, and draft where needed — combining several preparation steps into one so you don’t have to build each one manually. In this tutorial:• Cutting

Molding Profiles are ready-to-use drawing elements for creating detailed molding and swept profiles in Designer. Choose from Cove, Classic OG, Roman OG, and Cove and Bead profiles, then size and position them for use with modeling tools like Sweep and Revolve. Because they’re standard vector drawing elements, they can also be combined with other geometry

Auto-Optimize automatically analyzes your project and applies several carving optimizations to help you get better results before you compile. It looks for cliff edges and applies draft where needed, removes internal feathers, and performs bit optimization — combining several preparation steps that would otherwise need to be done individually. Make Auto-Optimize part of your workflow

The Tiling tool lets you create CNC carvings larger than a single board. Divide a large project into multiple boards or strips for machining, set individual board dimensions, and use strip indicators to see how the pieces fit together. When the project compiles, each strip is automatically compiled as its own board. In this tutorial:•

The Mirror Across a Line tool creates perfectly symmetrical designs in Designer. Draw a mirror line to quickly duplicate and flip vector geometry, constrain the line horizontally or vertically, and work with the mirrored result as an editable group — useful for symmetrical signs, shapes, and decorative elements. In this tutorial:• Creating a mirror line•

Boolean Operations let you quickly combine and modify vector geometry in Designer. Use Union, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude to combine closed vector objects into more complex shapes — a core tool for building up CNC designs from simpler geometry. In this tutorial:• Union• Subtract• Intersect• Exclude• Combining closed vector objects into complex designs

The Mortise tool creates CNC-friendly mortise and tenon joints directly in Designer. Because CNC routers use round cutting bits, square-cornered mortises need extra relief to fit a rectangular tenon’s corners. The Mortise tool adds that relief automatically, with a choice of Dog Bone or T-Bone relief styles. In this tutorial:• Dog Bone and T-Bone relief

The Gear tool makes it easy to create precision gears for your CNC projects directly in Designer. Create spur gears, internal ring gears, and rack gears by entering the number of teeth, pitch diameter, and pitch — Designer automatically calculates the remaining values for you. You can also adjust pressure angle, board diameter, cutting bit,