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.
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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.
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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.
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Designer – Make Pattern
Make pattern allows you to combine multiple elements together to create a new pattern that is added to your pattern library.
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Designer – Pattern Along a Path
Pattern along a path allows you to draw a line or curved path and make patterns follow that drawn path.
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Designer Tutorial – Text Tools
Designer has powerful Text tools for creating typography in your carvings. It utilizes any TrueType fonts installed on your computer making it endlessly expandable. There are also 3 carving styles to choose from. Raster (3D carved), Outline (choose any bit), or Centerline (v-carved) which is part of the Vcarve Suite. The text tool also has
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Designer Tutorial – Pocket Region
The Pocket Region tool utilizes a selected bit to rout out a designated region (closed vector shape) at a single set depth to spiral in or out a pocket with no islands.
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Designer Tutorial 1.2 – My First Project Part 1
This tutorial covers the basics of laying out a simple project to get familiar with the user interface and essential tools.
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Designer Tutorial 1.3 – My First Project Part 2
This tutorial expands on the project in part 1 by adding a background and learning about project optimization.