Carveco Maker+ vs Carveco Maker vs VCarve

Working with the Maker Plus version this month, I came to the conclusion that it has serious limitations for creating reliefs.
Despite having much better relief and machining features than VCarve, it is still inefficient for those who make guitars.
So 50 dollars a month is a lot.
Carveco Maker, in addition to being superior to VCarve, being able to bring as many 3D reliefs as you want and having much more autonomy in creating your toolpaths, is the best option among Carveco products and its monthly cost is only 15 dollars.
I still think that software like Carveco Maker and Moi3D are the best combinations for making guitars.
These two software are easy to learn and provide incredible results.
If you have a guitar factory and can hire qualified people with engineering knowledge, I recommend a Rhino Cam, Fusion 3D and Alpha Cam.
But anyway, I've worked for factories that used Artcam, Aspire and Carveco too.
This will depend on your choice.
I've already prepared some of my guitars for Carveco Maker and I'm going to make some videos with Moi 3D and Carveco Maker so you can see how they work very well together.
In fact, you know that I have been selling guitar files ready for VCarve and Aspire for over 15 years with prices ranging from 65 to 95 dollars.
If you are interested in any of them to open in Carveco Maker, write to me in the comments below.
I'm willing to give you a 15-dollar discount equivalent to a 1-month subscription to Carveco Maker so you can test it.
After a month, you tell us about your experience with it.
In the meantime, I'll be preparing more videos for you.
To be clear.
I'm not saying that Maker Plus is bad for making guitars.
So I'm speaking from my point of view and based on my way of working.
It has the possibility of creating guitar reliefs, but the lack of relief layers makes this quite complicated.
In the end there is a balance between the impossibility of importing several reliefs in VCarve and the lack of being able to manipulate these different reliefs separately in Carveco without having to resort to the "Relief Cookie Cutter".
The full Carveco version already gives us more freedom to create very complicated reliefs. Really quite complex.
So I'm speaking from my point of view and based on my way of working.

[@danielnaden28]

Thanks for the video buddy, I'm learning how to use carveco and this is awesome. I hope you have some tutorials around

[@thehobbyhacker9521]

I’ve been trying for ages to wrap my head around this, I’ve even got one of your guitar files for maker. So many things I’m not confident in yet that I’ve not even dared to try and cut a guitar yet. You have no idea how happy a series on using maker makes me. Please please please go nice and slow with plenty of explaining along the way. I’m still only using my machine to cut out templates then building by hand. I’m so excited by this series I can’t tell you just how much.

[@3DCNCGUITARS]

Hi, sorry for the delay. My advice is "don't be afraid". I remember when I bought my first motorcycle and I was very afraid at first and my friend told me: You're going to fall one day anyway and if you're afraid it will be even worse... go with faith or sell the motorcycle. It's the same with CNC. Being afraid will only make things worse. CNC is very difficult to break and anything is easy to adjust. Use cheap wood and start with simpler things than guitars or part by part, but do it!
I'm stopped making videos now because my son is on vacation and I'm with him all the time and when he decides to sleep I'm already too tired to do anything. There's still a tiring month ahead of me Lol.

[@_Tobit]

HiAlex. Is it possible to model guitar necks with carveco 15$ version? Like two rail sweep. Thanks

[@3DCNCGUITARS]

There is no way to make shapes in Carveco Maker. What you can do is import the components from a 3D software and do their machining. The advantage I see in Carveco Maker is its value and the machining resources that are very detailed, while VCarve, for example, has more limitations in this case. If we talk about Aspire, for example, Aspire is also not a good software for making a 3D guitar. You can do something approximate with it and with more complicated steps. I think the combination of Moi3D and Carveco Maker is perfect for making guitars. If you want to try Carveco Maker without any commitment, I still have some coupons to use it for 1 month. You can use Moi3D to test it for 3 months. And if you like it, I will sell the license with a 30% discount.