CarveWright Developments and Scanning Probe Update

[cmorlier]

Dear CarveWright Customers and Forum Members,

We have been receiving increasing questions about the future plans for the CarveWright line of products and would like to take a minute to pass on several exciting recent developments. First off, I would like to thank all of our initial customers for your input. We have leaned heavily on that input and your experience to mature and polish the product. While there is still much functionality that can be added to this highly versatile machine, we firmly believe that this product will have a significant impact on the woodworking and crafts markets. Your help has brought, and continues to bring us closer to this goal.

As many of you have recently seen and heard, we will be marketing the machine and accessories through Sears under the CompuCarve brand by the end of this year. Getting the machine into large retailers has always been our goal and this is one of the first steps. This is a great opportunity for us to increase the user community which allows us to dedicate more resources to further software and accessory development.

We will continue to direct market the CarveWright through our website. The price structure will be somewhat different because we wil sell the machine with a base software package and the full software package separately (as opposed to all together like we do currently). The machine hardware sold in Sears will be the same hardware that we sell directly (with small cosmetic differences). We realize that good service and software support are critical to our customers and to the success of this product. As such, we will be keeping the service and support functions under our roof to best service all of our customers.

On another front, the wait for the scanning probe is finally coming to an end. It is currently in route to our warehouse. Once we receive them we will be sending out a note letting you know. We can ship them the very same day of the order. The probe and scan manipulation software will be priced at $299.99. We know that you are going to really enjoy this functionality and we thank you for your patience on this.

Thank you again for your outstanding input and support in launching this
exciting machine.

Regards,
Chris Lovchik, CEO
LHR Technologies
www.carvewright.com

[pkunk]

This is truely good news - as expected of the Carvewright™ team!
Question: will the scanner/software work with the Mac version?

[Randy in Minn]

Everyone has been talking about the SCANNER. WHat is this and what will it do for me? Does it hook to the PC or the carvewrite? Scans pictures or objects?

[BobHill]

Randy,

It's an accessory attachment to your CW, where instead of a bit to carve you put in the device and the software that comes with it programes it to move like a carving bit, but instead records the moves into a file which can then be used to make reproductions of what was copied. That's the way I see it as explained to date, anyway.

Bob hill
Tampa Florida

[Aaron B]

Randy,

It's an accessory attachment to your CW, where instead of a bit to carve you put in the device and the software that comes with it programes it to move like a carving bit, but instead records the moves into a file which can then be used to make reproductions of what was copied. That's the way I see it as explained to date, anyway.

Bob hill
Tampa Florida

I could be missing something, but I am not following. You scan something in? a picture? Then the software reads it and makes it carve? Thanks

[BobHill]

Aaron,

It's not a photographic type scanner, it's a device that "traces" the outline of an existing work piece on your belt (suitably secured, I'm sure) and the pointer (replacing a carving bit, but of equal size) will "trace" physically this piece and record the pointer bit position digitally so when you wish to carve a duplicate, it can do so. How much more than that that it'll do is up to how they design the software, I'm sure.

Bob

[RobertP]

I actually got to see this scanner in action last Febuary at a woodworking show here in KC. It will scan any pice of work that you want to reproduce, the head will actually bob up and down until the tip of the pin reaches the surface, just as it currently works when cutting a project. it then records this height and position on the piece on the software until a complete 2d image is made of the work. Its really neat and I cannot wait to get my hands on it, I have alot of old plaster work and mouldings out of old theatres that I want to re-produce.

[Greybeard]

As I intend to work on a small scale, can you indicate what the scanning resolution will be ?

Will this also be available for UK customers when that happy day dawns that there is a 240v machine ?
John

[BobHill]

John,

I believe the scanner works on the same scale and principle as the carving bit in that the belt would travel in Draft mode at 0.010" per half cycle, Normal mode at 0.008" and Best mode at 0.005" and the travel is 8bit (256steps in depth), but I'm guessing on the depth except I would think it would match the carving depth steps.

Bob

[Aaron B]

Aaron,

It's not a photographic type scanner, it's a device that "traces" the outline of an existing work piece on your belt (suitably secured, I'm sure) and the pointer (replacing a carving bit, but of equal size) will "trace" physically this piece and record the pointer bit position digitally so when you wish to carve a duplicate, it can do so. How much more than that that it'll do is up to how they design the software, I'm sure.

Bob

Thanks Bob, that made it much clearer. You're right it sounds like you would need to place it on a backer board to get it to trace the piece instead of just putting it on the belts, if thats what you meant mby "suitably secured". Just me guessing.