Hack of the Week No.46

Why not hack together your own layout mixing and matching models form other projects or from your own library!  For some great inspiration check out our  hacks page!

Baseball season is just around the plate (see what we did there...) and its just about time to think about little league awards.

This "Smallville Little League" plaque was created using models from these projects:

The font we used to simulate the v-carving on the ribbons is called: Batang

Note - This hack was assembled in VCarve Desktop with the text simulated in Aspire v8!!!!  Could have been done in VCarve Pro v8 or Aspire!!!  So many options.

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The Design and Make/CNCProjects Team

Greg Raso - "Weekend CNC Warrior" Approved!

We have to give a special thanks to Greg Raso, not just because he sent in great shot of a project he made using our Wine Bar No.1 project or the great picture of his home-built CNC, but because he used Vectric's VCarve Pro version 8 to do it all!  

That's  right, all of you VCarve Pro users that have purchased version 8 or upgraded can now use our projects!

Check out this post for more info.

Check out this post for more info.

 

"I just upgraded my V-carve Pro to version 8 and downloaded the wine bar project. I decided to follow the design on the tutorial for my first project, so it’s not too original."

We think it looks pretty darn nice!!

"I did however have a great time working on it and it looks great!"

Glad you had fun making it, Greg!

"I made it for a friend of mine who happens to make his own home made wine. It’s made out of cherry and I used a cherry tinted Danish oil for the finish. The CNC is a home built that I recently made using plans which I found on the internet, by Dave Gatton"

Thank you Greg for sharing this project with us!  

Consider yourself...  Weekend CNC Warrior Approved!

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The Design and Make It Team

VCarve Pro users this post is for you!

We are very excited about Vectric’s recent new release of VCarve Pro version 8. Previously only Aspire users could work with our projects but one of the major new features for VCarve is the ability to import multiple 3D models in their V3M file-format. As all our projects are available as V3M’s and so anyone upgrading to VCarve Pro version 8 will be able to work with any of our designs in the software! You can read more about the new release, watch videos (including one on how to assemble clip-art) and download a free trial version to check out the new features from this page on the Vectric website: What’s New in VCarve Pro V8. For our Aspire using customers you also have some excellent new tools available in the upgrade too: What’s New in Aspire V8.

Along with this new release Vectric have also added the VCarve Desktop edition, this is perfect for anyone with a smaller light-duty machine looking to add some serious design and machining capability at an affordable price, best of all this can also import and assemble any of our projects too! You can read about the full VCarve range of software here:  http://www.vectric.com/products/vcarve.html

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The Design and Make It Team