The Scale Relief tool within Carveco allows you to increase or decrease the Z-height of 3D Relief artwork either freeform (using the red drag handle) or to a specified Z-height. Further controls let you preserve any detail even at very shallow heights - perfect for low-relief applications such as coin making or engraving.
The Invert Relief tool allows you to quickly invert a 3D Relief model so that the model sinks into the material, to effectively create a mold of your 3D design. You can also mirror your design to produce matching top and bottom halves when machining a model.
The Create Boundary From Relief tool allows you to automatically create a vector boundary around 3D relief; rather than having to manually create a boundary by tracing around the model - freehand. This feature is useful to for isolating artwork to perform further operations, such as smoothing or creating an accurate offset. Alternatively, the boundary...
All Carveco software comes with a downloadable library of relief models, ready to incorporate into your designs. Once installed, you can easily search for and drag-in relief models, directly from the relief clipart library panel.
Creating a triangle mesh allows you to export your 3D artwork for use in other 3D packages, or for use in 3D printing. You can export a mesh as either an open mesh or closed off with a flat plane at the back, with quality controlled by changing the tolerance of the mesh.
The 3D Relief Editing tools in Carveco help you quickly create fantastic, organic 3D artwork from existing relief models. In this video we'll show you how to use the included artwork from the relief clipart library (but you can also use your own relief artwork) to create something completely new just by using the copy,...
Carveco lets you import a variety of full 3D model formats and can transform them into relief models for incorporating into your design. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the different options to import, scale and position 3D STL models to assist you in building up your design composition.
In this video we take a focused look at our Shape Editor Tool. Available in Carveco Maker Plus and Carveco; the Shape Editor lets you easily create 3D shapes from 2D vectors in real-time.
As an alternative to Vector trimming, Carveco Maker Plus and Carveco allow you to make selections for Zeroing areas of a 3D relief, based on the underlying Bitmap colours. Using your primary colour selection in the colour palette - the Zero Under Colour and Keep Under Colour tools allow you control over what areas of...
