About the complete tutorial
How to make guitars with Aspire and VCarve
This video pack is intended to teach you how to make your own guitars in Aspire or VCarve.
The content of these videos does not follow a step by step of the same guitar model from start to finish.
The reason for this is because each guitar you are going to make will have different situations and just following the process of a single guitar will not make you know how to make any one.
It would be very convenient for me to make a step by step video showing me making just one guitar.
It is well known that free video creators are comfortable with presenting a guitar that flows easily on their screen. That's because this one has already made this guitar and already knows what to do.
But when you are going to apply these same techniques on a totally different guitar, you will certainly experience enormous difficulty.
This series of short and objective videos was made to introduce you to the main features we use in Vectric's software to make a guitar.
You'll learn how each feature works and as you make your own guitar model, you'll know what to do because you know each of the software's tools well.
VCarve is identical to Aspire being different from it for not having the modeling tools.
The following modules are for Aspire or VCarve, but because they have many features in common, it was difficult to separate one tutorial from the other.
Except for the modules where the top image have not VCarve logo, they will not be useful for VCarve.
But anyway, it's interesting to know the differences between Aspire and VCarve in terms of curiosity and learning.
MODULE 1
1 Import vectors and make corrections
2 Separate Elements for each layer
3 Separating Top and Bottom Elements
4 Separating Body and Neck
5 Cutting Bitmaps
Total Time: 23:55 min
Files
Body Toolpath Organization Aspire
Body Toolpath Organization.ToolpathTemplate
Body Aspire
Neck Aspire
Fretboard.dxf
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1 Scaling the guitar - vectros and bitmaps
2 Making the body contorn
3 Tool Box
Total Time: 26:10
Files
back guitar.png
front guitar 1.png
front guitar 2.png
body details 1.png
body details 2.png
Guitar-images.Aspire
Vectors from images.Aspire
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| MODULE 3
1 Organization of Tools
2 Organizing Toolpaths
3 Different Ways to save GCodes part 1
4 Different ways to save GCodes part 2
5 Saving double sided GCodes
6 The importance of the initial organization of the toolpath tree
7 Short Tips - Importing toolpaths with subgroups
8 What are we going to use Toolpaths
9 Cutting parameters Feeds and Speeds
Total Time: 33:30 min "Including video 3 Toolbox from Module 2"
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MODULE 4
1 Main tools to create Surfaces
2 Component Properties
3 Basic Shape Functions
4 Relief on a centerline
5 Basic funtions of 2 Rails Sweep
6 Selection and Cutting Functions
7 Turning a vector
8 Combination of Components
Total time: 23:11 min
Files
4.4 Relief on a centerline
4.5 Basic 2 rails sweep
4.8 Combination of Components
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| MODULE 5
1 Create body with Shape
2 Body relief with cliparts
3 Creating Arm rest
4 Arm rest with molding toolpath
5 Arm rest with Clipart and Clipping VCarve
6 Softbelly with Shape
7 Softbelly relief with center line
8 Softbelly with 2 rails sweep
Total time: 49:30 min
Files
5.1 Aspire
5.2 Body relief with cliparts VCarve
5.3 Create Arm rest Aspire
5.4 Arm rest relief with cliparts VCarve
Rickenbacker Body solid.stl
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| MODULE 6
1 Body chanfer
2 Body chamfer on VCarve
Total time: 09:56 min
Files
6.2 Body chamfer on VCarve
6.3 Body chanfer on Aspire
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MODULE 7
1 Pocket neck
2 Pocket to angled neck 2 rails sweep
3 Angled pocket with clipart
Total Time: 16:13 min
Files:
7.1 Gibson-SG-Special VCarve
7.3 Gibson-SG-Special-origin Aspire
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| MODULE 8
1 Refining your toolpaths Neck
2 Refining your toolpaths Body
Total 30:10 min
Files
10.2 Refining Roughing Toolpaths VCarve
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| MODULE 9
1 Archtops on Aspire part 1
2 Archtops on Aspire part 2
3 Archtops on Aspire part 3
Total 1:37:48
Files
Video 1 Aspire
Video 2 Aspire
Video 3 Extra Aspire
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MODULE 10
1 Making a neck on Aspire - short version with narration - 13:40 min
2 Make shape neck on Aspire - Uncut version - without narration - 2:14:55 min
Extra
Shape Neck Aspire VS Moi3D - Making on Moi3D the same process from Aspire 9:54 min
Total Time: 3 hours
Files
10.2.3dm
Lines for VCarve or Aspire 10.5
10.1 Refining Roughing Toolpaths VCarve
Sweep - Aspire
plane.stl
Smoothed Neck.stl
Video 10.0.0 Shape neck on Aspire export to 3.5.dxf
Front neck.stl
Video 10.0.0 Shape neck on Aspire export to 3.5.dxf
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