Chris. Thanks. I use a mouse with a roller between the right and left buttons. I do have a wacom tablet that I occasionally use, but have not mastered it. My computer is a an ASUS laptop. I have about 3000 models stored on it currently, so may be upgrading the storage shortly.

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4 things. 1. I make money suing Aspire, so it certainly pays off better for me than a hobby user who makes a few models a year, or mostly uses v carve features. 2. The only feature I found so far in V 12 that is not available in V11.4 is in the Tool paths area, and allows you to one click create a v carve vector from a 3 D model. Some people may find value in that. 3. Everything else in V 12 that I found so far, I can do in Ver. 11.4. albeit might prove to be slower and a bit more difficult as I ramp up V 12 skills. 4. The only other thing is the fear of V 13. What if that has amazing new tools I want, and then I would need to pay for 12 and 13 Hope that helps, it is certainly a better interface that 11.4.

@@scottthompson5652 ...do you anticipate vectric will implement A.I. into aspire..?

@@squidskunk Well... I think there are a lot of folks hoping that AI can take the manual artistic effort out of 3D design. there is certainly already people cobbling together different Depth measuring software with photo editing to develop depth mapping. Not sure is Aspire will be the first to the party on an effective marriage of all that technology. My playing with depth mapping on simple laser images tells me that it is no easy task, as lots of images have dark areas that clearly are not as deep as similar dark areas. My two bits is that it can not be made to work well. in the near future.

CALL DAVE. Thats what I did..

@@scottthompson5652 Tomorrow morning!!!

thanks Doug. I do occasionally use a Wacom tablet. But I have found I am faster with a roller mouse. Probably just need to take more time to learn the pad. Glad to help

Thanks Steve, I just uploaded a new 2 sided pike file in my Etsy store, Scottartcnc. it is a fun carve and pretty easy to paint. enjoy Scott

Morning from Alaska. Unfortunately i am not well schooled on the exact differences between 9.5 and 11.5. Other than to say the vast majority of the tools i use have been available since the pre 9.5 editions of ASPIRE.

That's a good point . I had expanded the material size so I could type instructions right there on the left side. usually I dont do that, but in this case i just wanted to create a list that I could show in the video. But, I am always forgetting something. ..

Morning Edward. Alaska’s taxes are hard to beat. No income tax, rate sales tax in some towns. And they send us a check each year. Florida is an escape from the cold n dark tax… Alaska has a brutal cold and dark tax.

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thanks Michael

Most 3 d printers use stl files. this is saved in my etsy store as an stl. Not sure how Aspire works with 3 D printers as I only use it for design work.

You can print any STL file .

Hi Blue. I do use Bitmap tracing often, but not when i am building parts of a 3D image from a photo. If you watch the video I am building parts of the dogs face and body that are clearly not defined by color changes on the image. In this case if you used Bitmap tracing it would find all the different colors of the dogs face, but those are not the parts of the model i want to build on top of each other. But perhaps i mis understand. Some folks also use bit map tracing to create models for etching. and that is quite different than what is need to build the parts of a 3 d model in Aspire. but let me know if I am missing your point. Good carving. Scott

@@scottthompson5652 Tats great clarification. Thank you and i got ur point now. Thanks once again.

You are quite the model builder yourself Jim, you have created some great stuff lately Scott