Hi Reese,

Does the software have any provisions to allow you to take 2D clip art and convert it into 3D?

Will

It uses shades of grey to determine depth, so yes it can make a 2-d image 3d. The problem is that a 3-d "looking" image isn't really set up to actually be 3-d. Hard to explain. but look at the image and realize the black will cut deepest and white not at all. Black is used as outlines of everything usually, so there will be a lot of things cut to full depth.

Hard to explain, but you may have to tweak things to get it to look exactly right. The software is free to download, import something and see what it looks like

Shaddy

Will,

My wife Shari does all the designing in ArtCam Pro so I can't help you much in the design area. I mostly did all the carving on the machine. I know she used Corel in the beginning but said it was too time consuming and limiting so she just bought a carving software. We are using the ShopBot now and it is a great machine. I used to spend a couple of hours hand finishing the CW carvings, but they come off the ShopBot very smooth and need no touching up. Frees me up to do other things in the shop. You might want to take a look at their benchtop model. The price is a little higher but the machine is much more suited for heavy duty work. The Bot seems to be pretty trouble free and cuts through all sorts of wood with no problem. We've even been cutting out different shapes now, which we didn't do before.

Reese