Carveco - Vectric question

[CommunityUser5]

Hey Michael,

@mhackney

I came across some interesting YouTube videos on taking photos and adding dimensionality to them like this one from Carveco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGxCUp2toY&t=3s with Maker Plus

This functionality doesn’t exist in VCarve Pro 11.5. It doesn’t appear to be in Aspire either but wanted to see if anyone has any experience doing this with different software tools or clarify if Aspire can do this. I’ve not installed the Aspire demo but I have spent hours watching videos and perusing the website and haven’t seen anything that approaches the Maker Plus video above.

Why spend that much money for Vectric Aspire ($2K) if Blender (Blender homepage) is free and open?

→ See here:

• Blender Face Modelling Tutorial
  • Blender Tutorial - Turn Any 2D Image to 3D Model

Blender (Blender homepage) is excellent and very developed nowadays with many tools.

@CommunityUser5

if you think of byuing Vectric Aspire in order to be able to use 3D model creation and editing tools, instead of Vectric VCarve Pro, which means you have a big price difference for this additional capability (USD $1,995 vs. $699), you should know that you can also use many other softwares to create your 3D models, e.g. the free and open Blender as mentioned here:

@CommunityUser5

Vectric Aspire differs from Vectric Vcarve Pro just by the 3D creating and editing tools. But you could do that with another tool (and use VCarve or another CAM software like FreeCAD Workbench just for importing the 3D model and export it as a g-code toolpath). The free and open 3D editing software Blender (Blender homepage) is excellent and very developed nowadays with many tools.

c’t Magazin, 23/2019, S. 144ff: Blender-Workshop, Teil 2

More on other free and open tools here