{"id":1249,"date":"2009-11-15T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-11-15T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T14:46:28","slug":"vectric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Vectric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent two days at the Vectric Users meeting over by the DFW airport here in Dallas. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vectric<\/a><\/span> produces several CNC designer\u00a0products\u00a0(I have them all) but their\u00a0premiere\u00a0product <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectric.com\/WebSite\/Vectric\/aspire\/aspire_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aspire<\/a><\/span> (especially) is the creatived software I use the most \u00a0to design and create the complex forms I machine with my HB2 router machine. The results are the Lithophanes, carved wood signs, 3-D\u00a0sculptures\u00a0and 2-D components I make on my machines.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered I am fairly competent with the operation of the programs but no way near expert (yet) \ud83d\ude42 The two day session shared a lot of information from the creators of the software to the 75+ software customers who were in attendance. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vectric<\/a> company is from England but is sold worldwide. We all had fun in contrasting the Texas drawl with the English accents of the\u00a0presenters.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0bunch\u00a0of folks including myself brought some of our creations for display. Everything was first class. It is exciting to see all the designs and techniques that can be employed in making these beautiful works of art and function.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing I\u00a0definitely\u00a0noticed as I looked\u00a0around the room was that the <em><strong>bulk<\/strong><\/em> of the\u00a0attenders were over 50 \u00a0and quite rotund around their middles. If there\u00a0ever\u00a0was a\u00a0stereotype CNC woodcarver, I now have a vivid\u00a0image. \ud83d\ude42 Yeah, I guess I qualify too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent two days at the Vectric Users meeting over by the DFW airport here in Dallas. Vectric produces several CNC designer\u00a0products\u00a0(I have them all) but their\u00a0premiere\u00a0product Aspire (especially) is the creatived software I use the most \u00a0to design and create the complex forms I machine with my HB2 router machine. The results are the Lithophanes, carved wood signs, 3-D\u00a0sculptures\u00a0and 2-D components I make on my machines. I discovered I am fairly competent with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15,30,31,16,33,19],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodcarving","tag-carving","tag-cnc","tag-engraving","tag-hobby","tag-lithophane","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}