Designer – Domes
Domes are simple curved surface options for closed regions.
SOFTWARE
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Designer – Textures
Textures are a selection of variable sized repeating patterns that can be used with any selected region.
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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.
Vcarve Suite
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.
Modeling Suite
Designer – Modeling Suite – Extrude
The Extrude tool allows a profile to be extruded along the inside of a closed vector shape. The angle of the extrusion can be adjusted by setting horizontal, vertical, or setting a custom angle.
Modeling Suite
Designer – Modeling Suite – Sweeps
The Sweep tools will allow a drawn profile to be swept along a single vector path. This means the profile will follow the line along it’s entire length. There are two types of sweeps, rounded, which will round corners, and corner, which leaves sharp corners.
Modeling Suite
Designer – Modeling Suite – Tilt Tool
The Tilt Tool, available in the Modeling Suite, allows a pattern to be tilted vertically, horizontally, or a combination of both can be used to achieve different angles.