Hey @twstdtckno - Fusion should be sufficient for everything except easy 3D relief carving. Carveco and Vectric are way better at that.
@JDog - my only note is Carveco is a subscription so though it is less than Vectric, you will likely end up paying more in the end (or forever). And both are Windows only, which really puts them at the bottom of my list. Maybe Rosetta will help some day?
Hope that helps.
-Tom
You can do that in VCarve Pro.
CarveCo vs VCarve; I didn’t find it easy choosing. In the end I went for VCarve (Pro) as I found the tutorials very good and I believe it is a popular choice on this forum so if I have questions they will be answered in a Onefinity context.
I am a great fan of Fusion 360 and have used it for many years before getting a CNC. I find the Manufacturing (CAM) tough vs VCarve. So I sometimes find myself modelling in F360 and cutting gcode in vcarve.
Thanks Tom,
Appreciate the response! I will get my feet wet with all the freeware. Then once i have some time in maybe make the switch over to more complex stuff.
Thanks again
The full version of carveco has features not found in vectric software.
The import thing was something you can do in basic maker which I said was equal to vectric pro. There are 3d tools in maker + that are not in vectric pro like full relief manipulation and creation from vectors. Something you need aspire for.
@cyberreefguru there is a non subscription lifetime license for 1080.00 for maker+ I do not own any mac so the windows thing was not an issue for performance.
That’s great. Just that the one you mentioned as being Carveco only was not. I wasn’t disagreeing with your assertion that Carveco has things not in Vectric or that Maker is equivalent to VCarve Pro, just that this statement is not unique to Carveco and is in fact in VCarve Pro.
Figured it might have been awhile since you’ve used VCarve and might have missed them adding this feature.
I would have seriously considered Carveco except that I’ve been using VCarve since I started with a Shopbot about 8 or 9 years ago and I dislike the subscription model because it forces me to upgrade on their schedule, not mine. The lifetime option is in Aspire territory pricewise. Otherwise, Carveco is a good alternative at a very competitive price.
aspire is 1995.00 and maker+ is 1008.00. I think the main reason most people go to vectric is the amount of easily found videos for their software. I used vcarve pro trial first for a few months before I tried a month of carveco maker and it was the 3d manipulation stuff that drove me to want to upgrade to either aspire or maker+. The cost was a big factor. I could not find any features aspire had that maker+ did not have so I could not see spending an extra 987.00.
Last year Carveco ran a 50%off on black fri. I would wait and see if any good deals happen this year before buying either way.
Ok, Woodworker all assembled and seems to be ok.Downloaded free trial of Vcarv pro to give it a go. Thought it was figured out, and moved file to a jump drive. When plugged into control box and monitor turned on, the waste board file does not show up. Short of blowing the shop up, what am I doing wrong lol
Quick check, was it the tool path file you moved?
I think so. Is there a step after that that I need to do?
You also need to load the tool path file “into” the controller.
When I place the jump drive into the control box, the file won’t show up.
So not sure how to get the file onto the controller
These are good viewing: https://youtube.com/c/cyberreefguru
Load your file by clicking this:
That’s where the hang up is. When we tap that, the waste board file we created will not show up so we can download it
USB 3.0 is not supported. Find a USB 2.0 flashdrive and try again!
EDIT: Read what @Aiph5u said below.
Hey Nick, hey Greg,
you don’t need to find a USB 2.0 flashdrive. It is true that (Raspberry Pi 3 based) Onefinity Controller does not support USB 3.0. But every USB 3.0 flashdrive is downwards compatible and will be used in USB 2.0 mode and will work on the Onefinity Controller.
What might not be supported, is exFAT Filesystem found on practically every USB drive nowadays. You have to reformat your flashdrive using NTFS or FAT32 instead.
It’s a doddle to load files via PC/mac using the web browser. But that only works if your controller is connected to your network (wireless or cable, then look for IP address on the controller’s screen).
I don’t think the trial version of Vcarve allows you to export/save your tool paths so that you could copy them to the OF…