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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…

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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Add-On Modules

Importing STL’s with Sculptor

There are many 3D models already prepared for CNC available as STL files all over the internet. The best way to import these ready to carve STL files is with…

Invalid or Corrupted STL File

Description of Issue When trying to import an STL file with the STL Slicer or Pattern Sculptor, it fails and reports “Invalid or corrupted STL file”. Possible Causes Most likely…

STL Won’t Import (Runtime Error!)

Description of Issue When trying to import an STL file with the STL Slicer, it fails and reports a Runtime Error!. Possible Causes Most likely the STL file is too…

Rotary Lithophanes

The CarveWright Rotary Jig can be used to create unique lithophanes using common PVC plumbing pipe. The results are impressive! Now you can create unique lithophanes that most people have never…

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