Aspire Desktop 9.5 / Bit Maps

Desktop 9.5 Upgrades are:

1. In Place Text Editing
   1. 9.0 and earlier required starting over when editing text
   2. Show in old version
2. Picture Edit / Crop

1. Rotary Job Support – previously only in Aspire (maybe pro?)
   1. 
   2. Not limited to “Round” designs

1. Extending a Polyline
   1. Open Polyline Tool, control click on end to extend polyline
   2. From node edit, right click to edit polyline
2. Smoothing Joining
   1. Better than earlier versions

1. Bitmap Backgrounds (I was not able to get this working for today’s demo)
   1. Edit/Options/Shaded Background set to “Image”
   2. Edit/Options/Image File Path

1. Online Clip Art
   1. Shows all available Clip Art and which of those you have already downloaded
2. Helical Arc Output
   1. Machine dependent

2D Bit Map Tracing

There are a few things to consider when importing a bit map in to VCarve.

1. Photo Resolution
   1. Higher Res = Bigger Import but…
   2. Camera angle and background color if from photo

1. Picture sizing
   1. Based on resolution
   2. X vs Y

1. Getting good vectors
   1. Pencil, Ink Pen, Sharpie

• 1. Need a very good contrast

1. Trace Resolution
   1. Corner Fit

• 1. Noise Filter
     1. For example, set at 4 will ignore 2 x 2 clusters of pixels

• 1. Bitmap Fading

Questions?

Ideas for next month?