Vectric Aspire Pro

About this release

Aspire covers the whole path from a drawing to a cut part on a routing machine, and its distinguishing trick is turning flat artwork into three dimensional relief. A traced outline or an imported drawing becomes a shaped component with height, curvature and blending, which is how carved signage, decorative panels, mouldings and jewellery models are produced without modelling them by hand in a general purpose application.

Components stack and combine like layers. Each one carries its own shaping profile, and they merge, add, subtract and blend into a composite relief that can be sculpted afterwards with interactive tools. Imported grayscale images convert into relief directly, and existing three dimensional models can be brought in and merged with the drawn work.

The two dimensional side is a full drawing environment in its own right. Vectors are created, edited, offset, filleted, arrayed and nested, text sits on curves, and imported artwork gets cleaned up and joined so it produces continuous toolpaths rather than a hundred open segments. Bitmap tracing turns a scanned logo into usable geometry.

Toolpath generation covers profiling, pocketing, drilling, v carving, prism carving, inlay, fluting and full three dimensional roughing and finishing, all previewed against a rendered model of the material so the result is visible before anything is cut. Post processors output for the common machine controllers, and job setup handles multiple sided work and sheet nesting.

What it does

Artwork to three dimensional relief

Flat outlines become shaped components with height, curvature and blending.

Component based modelling

Reliefs stack, merge and subtract like layers, then sculpt interactively.

Full vector drawing

Create, edit, offset, array and nest geometry, with text on curves and bitmap tracing.

Wide toolpath set

Profiling, pocketing, v carving, inlay, fluting and three dimensional roughing and finishing.

Rendered preview

See the cut result against a material model before the machine runs.

Machine post processors

Output tuned for the common routing controllers, with multi sided job setup.

Changed in this version

• Faster three dimensional toolpath calculation on large reliefs.
• Improved bitmap tracing on low contrast scans.
• New shaping and texture presets for components.
• Nesting handles irregular parts more efficiently.
• Additional post processors for current controllers.

System requirements

Install order

1. Unpack the archive.
2. Run the installer and let the bundled clipart and texture libraries unpack.
3. Select the post processor for the machine before the first job.
4. Set the default material and tool database to match the shop tooling.

Worth knowing before you start

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