Vector Art 3D, Inc.

Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Disclaimer
All CNC machines (routing, engraving, and milling) are potentially dangerous and
because Vector Art 3D has no control over how the files and projects described in this
document might be used, Vector Art 3D, Inc. or any associated Resellers cannot
accept responsibility for any loss or damage to the work piece, machine or any
individual, howsoever caused. Extreme care should always be taken and the output
from the software thoroughly checked before sending it to a CNC machine.
The information in this document may be subject to change without any prior notice.
The files and projects described in this manual is supplied under the terms and
conditions of the Vector Art 3D, inc. license agreement and may only be used in
accordance with the terms of this agreement http://www.vectorart3d.com/license
Copyright 2011 - Vector Art 3D, Inc.
www.designandcarve.com
www.vectorart3d.com
E-mail info@vectorart3d.com
Phone (607) 215 4923
Design and Carve Series 1-A
Wildlife Scenes
Introduction
The Design and Carve Series disks from Vector Art 3D have been created to provide a combination of 3D
clipart pieces and tutorials which show the steps to create finished projects using the models. This particular
edition includes animals and natural scenery to allow the user to create Wildlife themed Mantels, Door
Panels and many other carved products. This disk and its contents are designed exclusively for use with
Vectric`s Aspire software.
In this document you can read an overview of the content of the disk, read a review of each project and also
see images of all the clipart and finished parts which are included in the folders on the disk.
Disk Navigation
All the files on the disk can be accessed from the Control Panel that should appear when the disk is put into
the PC. The files can also be accessed manually from the disk.
The main disk has four folders at its root level that contain the data and tutorial files; these are called
Animal Models, Scenery Models, Bonus Layouts and Tutorials.
The folder Animal Models contains all the Aspire models for the individual animals included in the
collection as well as a file called All-Animals.crv3d which contains all the Animal files for copying and
pasting into other sessions. The Scenery folder contains all the Aspire models for the individual pieces of
natural scenery (rocks, trees, mountains, texture, frame, backgrounds etc.) as well as a file which contains all
the Scenery files (All-Scenery.crv3d) to use for copying and pasting between sessions. The Bonus Layouts
folder contains a selection of CRV3D files which are either finished background scenes or complete
projects. Most of these are variations or alternate versions of the projects which are covered in the videos
included as reference or a basis for editing/using in your own projects. Images of all the files included in
these three folders are shown towards the end of this document.
The folder Tutorials has 13 sub-folders; these contain the relevant tutorial videos (self playing exe-avi files)
and where applicable files used during the tutorial and finished saved Aspire files. All these can be accessed
from the disk Control Panel that should open when the disk is inserted into your PC. A description and
images of each tutorial project are shown on the following pages.
If you have questions about using this product then please contact us at info@vectorart3d.com.
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S1-2 Basic Process Overview and Example
Project Overview
Tutorial S1 is approx. 10 minutes long. It consists of a PowerPoint presentation which outlines the basic
process used in most projects on this disk.
Tutorial S2 is approx. 12 minutes long. In it we create the Bison/Mountain scene shown in the image
above. This is designed as a quick overview of the process discussed is S1.
Skills and Tools Covered

General Process Overview and Explanation

Job Setup

Import Components

Scaling and Moving Components

Tilt and Fading Components

Basic Sculpting

Create Shape

Rough, Finish and Cut-Out Toolpaths
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S3 Layout Basics
Project Overview
Tutorial S3 is approx. 11 minutes long. It shows the basics associate with the setup and layout of an
Aspire project. This includes how to import an image to help you do your layout as well importing and
positioning components. A second file is used to show how you can take an imported component
(mountains) and use the distortion tools to adjust their 2D shape.
Skills and Tools Covered

Job Setup

Importing an Image to help with layout

Importing Components

Scaling and Moving Components

Distorting Components
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S4 Height Adjustment Basics
Project Overview
Tutorial S4 is approx. 11 minutes long. It covers the basics associated with adjusting the tilt and fade on
components to get overlapping areas to have the correct perception of depth, while minimizing the amount
of overall height of the model.
Skills and Tools Covered

Adjusting Base Height

Fading Components

Tilting Components

Grouping Components

Adjusting Overall Project Height
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S5 Sculpting Basics
Project Overview
Tutorial S5 is approx. 17 minutes long. It covers some useful Sculpting techniques. The first part of the
tutorial shows how to use the sculpting tools to smooth out a hard vertical edge to soften it to make it look
more natural. The second part shows how to use the sculpting tools to edit the background texture to make
it create more natural transition with the feet of an animal. The last part takes two overlapping mountain
components and shows how to use the erase, smooth and smudge functions to create a natural blend
between the two components.
Skills and Tools Covered

Sculpting Smooth

Sculpting - Add Material

Sculpting - Erase (Undo + Shift) Materail

Sculpting - Smudge
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S6 Pheasant Dog Mantel
Project Overview
This project comprises 4 sections:
Tutorial S6A is approx. 11 minutes long. It covers importing the components, making copies, adjusting
size and position and using the distortion tools to create the basic background layout.
Tutorial S6B is approx. 17 minutes long. It covers adjustment of the components height, tilt and fade
and sculpting to finish the background (shown in the top image on this page).
Tutorial S6C is approx. 18 minutes long. It covers importing two different sets of components to show
how to create alternate layouts with the same background.
Tutorial S6D is approx. 7 minutes long. and covers the creation of 3D Rough and 3D Finish toolpaths.
Skills and Tools Covered

Import Components

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning and Copying of Components

Grouping Components

Base Height Adjustment

Tilt and Fade

Sculpting

Grouping and Hiding Components

Toolpath Creation
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S7 Wolf Eagle Panel
Project Overview
This project comprises 3 sections:
Tutorial S7A is approx. 12 minutes long. It covers setting up the part, drawing the outline shape,
importing the components, adjusting size and position and using the distortion tools to create the basic
layout of the components.
Tutorial S7B is approx. 11 minutes long. It covers adjustment of component heights, tilt and fade and
creating the shape to make the bevelled edge to create a style of model that could be used as a raised panel.
Tutorial S7C is approx. 15 minutes long. It covers creating the vectors needed for the toolpath
boundaries and creating 2D Pocket, 3D Rough, 3D Finish, 2 different Texture and a Cut-Out Toolpath.
Skills and Tools Covered

Vector Drawing

Import - Dynamic Scaling and Moving Components

Set Exact Height for Components

Tilt and Fade Components

Create Shape

Combine Mode – Low

Vector Creation/Edit for Toolpath Boundaries

2D Pocket, Rough, Finish, Texture and Profile Toolpaths
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S8 Big Horn Sheep Background Crop
Project Overview
This project comprises 3 sections:
Tutorial S8A is approx. 13 minutes long. It covers importing the two components, cropping the
background and simple sculpting.
Tutorial S8B is approx. 14 minutes long. It covers splitting the background component, scaling the
height and detailed sculpting to blend the split areas.
Tutorial S8C is approx. 8 minutes long. It covers creating 3D Rough, 3D Finish and the 2D Profile CutOut Toolpath.
Skills and Tools Covered

Import 3D Clipart

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning and Copying of Components

Trimming one Component to the other

Sculpting - Smooth

Creation of a Vector from a Component boundary

Splitting Components

Scale Components

Sculpting Smooth – Smudge

Rough, Finish and Profile Toolpath Creation
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
S9 Framing Examples
Project Overview
This project comprises 5 sections, all tutorials include toolpath creation:
Tutorial S9A is approx. 10 minutes long and covers toolpath creation to leave a vertical pocket edge
Tutorial S9B is approx. 9 minutes long and covers modelling a bevelled pocket frame edge
Tutorial S9C is approx. 18 minutes long and covers vector creation and modeling to create a window
frame effect
Tutorial S9D is approx. 20 minutes long and covers the creation of a rustic frame. This includes vector
creations, modelling the texture using the toolpath preview to component function, sweeping the log shape.
Copying and distorting the components to make the complete frame.
Tutorial S9E is approx. 16 minutes long and covers creating a part in a dish with a rough/rustic edge.
Skills and Tools Covered

Toolpath Creation using negative Boundary Vector Offset

Create Shape

Vector Drawing

2 Rail Sweep

Create Component from Toolpath Preview

Component height adjustment

Low Combine Mode

3D Rough, 3D Finish, Profile Toolpaths
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
A1 Raccoon Wall Art
Project Overview
Tutorial A1A is approx. 17 minutes long. It shows an idea for a rustic style mantel/wall art arrangement.
This uses 2 different tree trunk models and the raccoon file. These are combined and the depths adjusted so
they can then be sculpted together. A vector is used to trim the bottom and ends of the trunk to make them
rectangular. Finally boundary vectors are generated and Rough, Finish and Cut Out Toolpaths calculated.
Skills and Tools Covered

Import 3D Clipart

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning and Copying of Components

Set Exact Height

Fade and Tilt

Crop Component outside selected vector

Sculpting

Component Boundary Creation

Rough, Finish and Profile Toolpaths
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
A2 Canada Goose Panel
Project Overview
This project comprises 3 sections:
Tutorial A2A is approx. 18 minutes long. It covers creation of the frame, importing and positioning the
goose. Next it shows how to create the vectors to 2 Rail Sweep the underlying shape, to raise the head and
wing tips of the goose over the frame.
Tutorial A2B is approx. 18 minutes long. It covers importing, mirroring, adjusting the heights and
sculpting the Cat-Tail components into the frame.
Tutorial A2C is approx. 17 minutes long. It covers creating the vectors needed for the complex toolpath
boundaries and creation of 2D Pocket, 3D Rough, 3D Finish and a Cut-Out Profile Toolpath.
Skills and Tools Covered

Vector Creation

Create Shape

Import Components

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning and Copying of Components

2 Rail Sweep

Trimming one Component to another

Component Height Adjustment

Sculpting

Boundary Vector for Toolpath Creation

Layer Management

2D Pocket, 3D Rough, 3D Finish and Profile toolpath setup
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
A3 Duck Lake Door Pair
Project Overview
This project comprises 3 sections:
Tutorial A3A is approx. 18 minutes long. It covers creating the frame vectors and components,
importing the background components, adjusting their height and sculpting to finish them off.
Tutorial A3B is approx. 12 minutes long. It covers importing, positioning and adjusting the duck models.
The second part of this video shows how to import a texture to use for the water then position, smooth and
fade to complete the layout.
Tutorial A3C is approx. 11 minutes long. It covers dividing the model into two separate doors, copying
and pasting them into another session of Aspire and creating 3D Rough and Finish toolpaths for each door.
Skills and Tools Covered

Vector Drawing

Create Shape

Import Components

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning and Copying of Components

Height Adjustment, Tilt and Fade

Smoothing Components

Splitting Components

Copy and Paste Components between Aspire sessions

3D Rough and Finish toolpath setup
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
A4 Sheep - Mountain Mantel
Project Overview
This project comprises 4 sections:
Tutorial A4A is approx. 15 minutes long. It covers importing a sketch to use for the layout, vector
creation and editing, importing the mountain components, adjusting size and position and using the
distortion tools to create the basic mountain range layout (top image).
Tutorial A4B is approx. 10 minutes long. It covers importing the additional component to finish off the
layout of the parts and doing the height adjustment (middle image).
Tutorial A4C is approx. 16 minutes long. It covers final height adjustment and sculpting the components
together as well as creating the basic dish shape (lower image).
Tutorial A4D is approx. 11 minutes long. It covers final sculpting of the dish edge and creation of 3D
Rough and Finish toolpaths.
Skills and Tools Covered

Import an image to use for layout

Vector Creation

Import Components

Dynamic Scaling, Positioning, Copying and Distortion of Components

Fade and Tilt

Sculpting

Creating the dish effect on the finish part

Generating toolpath boundary vector

Creating 3D Rough and 3D Finish toolpath
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Animal Models
The image above shows all 36 individual Animal models which are included with the DC1-A Wildlife Scenes
Disk.
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Scenery Models
The image above shows all 42 individual Scenery models which are included with the DC1-A Wildlife
Scenes Disk.
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Bonus Layout Files
The “Bonus Layouts” folder contains a mix of different Aspire files that are additional undocumented
projects and variations of the ones covered on the disk. Images of the contents of each file is shown on the
next 8 pages – all these models are created from components included on the disk.
2Door-Panel-30x34-Lake-Ducks-TP.crv3d
C-Recess-Deer-Tree-Eagle-Tree.crv3d
Deer-Oval.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Door -36x80x1-5-Goose.crv3d
Door-Panel-36x48-Forest-Dog-Pheasant.crv3d
Full-Door36x96-Eagle.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Full-Door36x96-Eagle-Elk.crv3d
Full-Door36x96-Lake-Ducks.crv3d
Mantel-Bird-Dog-48x6x0-75Scene1.crv3d
Mantel-Mountain-48x6x1.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Mantel-Mountain Range.crv3d
Panel36x40-Oval-Deer-Tree-Test.crv3d
Panel36x40-Oval-Deer-Tree-Test-Sculpted
Panel_Doors-Different Designs.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Panel-12x12-Elk-Forest Scene.crv3d
Panel-12x12-Elk-Mountain.crv3d
Panel-30x34-Lake-Ducks-TP.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Panel-36x40-Elk-Mountain-Recess.crv3d
Panel36x40-Oval-Deer-Sculpted.crv3d
Panel36x40-Recess-test-deer-eagle.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Panel-Mountain-Big-Horn-Example.crv3d
Panel-Mountain-Big-Horn-Example-Oval.crv3d
Wolf-Eagle18x30-shaped-panel.crv3d
Wolf-Eagle18x30-shaped-panel2-TP
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.
Wolf-Eagle18x30-shaped-panel3-TP.crv3d
Wolf-Eagle18x30-shaped-panel-TP
Woodland-Deer Mantel-no-cabin-48x6.crv3d
Woodland-Deer Mantel-w-cabin-48x6.crv3d
Woodland-Mantel-A.crv3d
Woodland-Mantel-Components-48x6.crv3d
Design & Carve Series 1-A – Wildlife Scenes
Copyright ©2011 Vector Art 3D, Inc.