Vectric Software FAQs by Students
Questions by our students with links to video answers covered in our Q&A Meetups.
- Can you show us how to extend a line?
- How about moving a line, particular distance, like 1.5 inches to the right or left?
- How do I get rid of uneven flat depth area in my VCarve projects? I'm using a quarter inch, eighth inch and a 16th inch up cut endmill. They always seem to be a disaster.
- I use Aspire and I'm interested in producing boat half holes. Has anyone had experience with this particular endeavor?
- The chip load on that chart per teeth, so if as three flutes, you times that number by three. Is that correct?
- So do I have to create vector from the edges, I want to round over with the bit?
- Can you rotate the grain of that wood 90 degrees?
- When zeroing off the machine bed and putting my machine at the zero x y and then loading my Aspire design that's set up to run using the machine bed as zero. Where do I put my machine at for the z height before starting?
- Feb 16th 2023 Q&A Meetup
- Feb 23rd 2023 Q&A Meetup
- Feb 7th 2023 Q&A Meetup
- I do a lot of two-sided projects and I'm constantly, constantly drilling holes into my spoil board for reference when I flip the project over. Is there a way to create a file specific area on my spoil board that I can create new projects in, like a template or something? I usually use three holes for references.
- How to remove text on an imported design to add your own text?
- How to put multiply files in sheets from an older version of Aspire.
- Can you go over the unwrapping selected object tool when I'm looking at made rotary objects, but keeping some sections of the piece still square?
- Making a simple pencil box with no lid and he's making these ribs in between, how do I tell Vectric to cut the ribs as 3D objects, but keep the pocket tool path from cutting into the ribs?
- On the drawing side see where it says sheets. I have inadvertently disconnected that tab and it comes up with a separate box and it, and I don't even remember how I fixed it like that.
- I'm working on a train map and would like to add a contour line with a laser. Has anyone attempted this? If so, how did you do this?
- How do you get toolpath sub-category?
- Can I select what cut to cut out first? I need to cut the inside first before cutting the outside.