Vectric Aspire Pro

Overview

This is the software behind an enormous amount of routed sign work, decorative carving, furniture components and moulded panels. It takes a drawing or a photograph, turns it into a three dimensional relief model, and produces the toolpaths that cut that model on a router or a small mill, all in one environment without exporting between stages.

The two dimensional side is a complete drawing package in its own right: vectors drawn from scratch or imported, node editing, offsets, fillets, boolean operations, nesting for material efficiency, and a text engine with true type support, text on a curve and automatic layout to fit a defined area. Imported bitmaps can be traced into vectors for anything that arrived as an image rather than a drawing.

The modelling layer is what separates this tier from the simpler product. Relief models are built by taking closed vectors and applying shapes to them, flat, domed, round, angled or driven by a profile curve, then combining those components by adding, subtracting, merging or limiting one against another. A sculpting toolset smooths, deposits and carves the relief by hand, and a two rail sweep drives a profile along a path for mouldings and frames.

Machining covers the strategies routed work actually needs: profiling with tabs and lead ins, pocketing, drilling, v carving with automatic flat area clearance, prism carving, fluting, inlay with the appropriate allowances, and three dimensional roughing and finishing passes across the relief model. Everything is previewed against the real material with the actual tool geometry, and the post processor list covers the common machine controllers with editable posts for the rest.

Key Features

• Complete two dimensional drawing with node editing, offsets, fillets and boolean operations
• Bitmap tracing to convert images into machinable vectors
• Text engine with text on a curve and automatic fitting to an area
• Relief modelling by applying shapes to closed vectors and combining components
• Sculpting toolset for smoothing, depositing and carving reliefs by hand
• Two rail sweep for mouldings, frames and profiled edges
• Profiling, pocketing, drilling, fluting and inlay toolpath strategies
• V carving with automatic flat area clearance and prism carving
• Three dimensional roughing and finishing passes over the relief model
• Material and tool aware preview with post processors for the common controllers

What Changed in This Build

• Faster toolpath calculation on large relief models
• Improved vector tracing accuracy on low contrast images
• Additional clipart and texture components bundled
• More reliable nesting on sheets with irregular offcuts

System Requirements

Processor	Intel or AMD 64-bit, 4 cores or more recommended
Memory	8 GB minimum, 16 GB for large reliefs
Graphics	GPU with 2 GB VRAM supporting OpenGL
Storage	10 GB for install with the clipart library
Display	1920 x 1080 or higher

Release Details

Full title	Vectric Aspire Pro
Version string	12.509
Publisher	Vectric
Category	CAD and 3D
Licence	Full version, clipart library included
Platform	Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Interface language	Multilingual, 10 interface languages
Archive size	1.86 GB
Mirrors	4 active, all reporting online
Listed	refreshed 3 months ago, checked again 40 minutes ago

Installation Notes

• Set your material dimensions and origin correctly before designing, changing them later moves every toolpath.
• Always run the preview with the real tool geometry before cutting, it catches gouges that a toolpath list will not.
• Test the post processor output on air on any new machine before committing an expensive piece of stock.

Before You Start

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