The advanced toolpathing options in CarveCo can drastically improve the finish quality of certain types of reliefs. The 2-sided functionality in the newer versions of VCP and Aspire and rotary axis operations are very good and easy to set up. This lets you retain all of the organic character of your model - including a slip of the chisel or fine surface texture, if that's the artist's intention, without the cold, hard-edged plastic shapes typical of most other CAD programs, like F360 or say Rhino. Both are fairly unique in the CAD/CAM world since they give you the ability to sculpt your 3D model using voxels (3D pixels) - which allows complete free form control over your model. I also have a lot of 'old' CNC guys who cut their teeth on the DelCAM stuff that still use ArtCAM because they didn't see the need to learn a new program.Īs a power user of both programs - they each have their place and both are very capable. I have a lot of jewelers who use my scanning services that still use ArtCAM (because of the Jewelsmith functionality) - so CarveCo is a real life line for those guys. I would say that Aspire is probably easier to learn if you aren't already familiar with this type of CAD/CAM. As a user of ArtCAM since v5.5 and Aspire since its inception - they're similar in a lot of ways, but different. I'm not sure that a comparison video would really tell the whole story.
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This includes custom video training showing how to setup and machine your 3D scanned part, just like we have been offering for the Vectric suite of software and ArtCAM Pro, since the beginning.
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IBILD Solutions is now offering full support for CarveCo users and continued support for ArtCAM users. Last edited by Richard Gonzalez 03-28-2019 at 1:20 PM. No affiliation, just been interested since I bought a one year subscription to ArtCAM Standard from Autodesk (and was given a perpetual license when Autodesk stopped offering it) I have not seen or done a comparison, but I believe it is easily the equivalent of Vectric's Aspire, and has some features that I do not believe Aspire has (including a wizard to handle face profiles from a photograph). Autodesk offered a versions of the software for a couple of years, but took it off the market early last year after having been in existence since 1993.Ĭarveco’s offering is basically what was ArtCAM Premium, which Autodesk would rent to you for $3000/year.Ĭarveco is offering for an unspecified “Limited Time” a perpetual license for £1200 (~$1600), including 1 year of support and upgrades.
Carveco is a new company that bought the rights to ArtCAM software, originally developed by Delcam, which was bought by AutoDesk.