Type3 Router8 is a professional CNC router software for 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), which can do 2D, 2.5D and 3D carving & cutting.
3D CAD/CAM software like Type3 Router8 is essential for CNC routing. It helps you design, plan, and cut with precision. This software saves time, reduces mistakes, and ensures every piece is made exactly how you want it.
You to create detailed designs with this software. These designs are more accurate than manual ones, ensuring high-quality results every time. It generates the toolpaths needed for the router. This helps the machine cut quickly and efficiently without wasting material.
Type3 Router8 converts your design into G-Code automatically. This reduces the chance of human error and ensures consistency in your work. The software speeds up both design and manufacturing. You spend less time planning and more time creating.
You can work on complex 3D designs that would be difficult to make by hand. This opens up more creative possibilities.
• Sign makers
• ACM cutting
• Cabinet makers
• Engraving
• Packaging (dies)
• Carpet Cutting
• Marquetry
• Stone carving
• POP/POS making
• Plastic routing
• Countertop cutting
Ruler/Dialer creation
Router8 provides a Ruler/Dialer wizard to let the user create a ruler or dialer in just steps, saving design time.
FREE FORM NESTING
Entry & Professional Nesting tools help save more materials and money. RouterType will create as many extra layers as you need to nest all your pieces, with the ability to set tool clearance, spacing, and angle rotation(s).
ADVANCED NODE EDITION
Industry-leading advanced node editing allows the user to smooth curves, straighten lines, and square or round corners in a single click. Additional Features include adding or subtracting nodes, simplifying curves, moving start points, and opening or closing contours.
IMPORT FORMAT
- DXF, ISO, HPGL, IGES, STEP, STL, SAT, NC, WMF
- EPS, AI, BMP, DIG, PNG, TIFF, JPG, +OLE protocol
IMAGE EDITION
If you need some graphic capabilities, a bitmap editor is integrated at no extra cost. The bitmap editing feature will modify the color attributes such as the number of color bits and grayscale and painting with pencil, brush, and spray. The bitmap editor will also resize, resample, skew, mirror rotate the image, etc...
SYMBOL LIBRARY
Populate your library with your artwork or choose from thousands of symbols available in RouterType.
RASTER-to-VECTOR
This feature converts any graphical image to geometric vectors. Conversion can be made with black and white or full-color artwork. Advanced parameters help you handle images of any quality. Center-line vectorization is also available.
Envelope
The envelope feature enables you to place text inside an envelope, the text can be auto-scaled and transformed.Router’8 provides envelope samples in the symbol library, you can create your envelope yourself.
Create a sign with Variables and Matrix
Router8 supports variable text and matrix, user can create signs in batch mode with these functions.
TEXT FEATURE
Industry-leading text creation that includes standard layout features. Use any TrueType font or the fonts provided by Type3. Advanced tools such as kerning, inclining, spacing, and more give you 100% control of the font modification. Even create your library of fonts. Text can even be created and edited along a curve or imported directly from a Word document as editable text.
• V-carve
• Easy tool creation wizard
• Sharp angle finishing
• Bevel• Chamfrein
• Ramping out
• Finishing
• Cutting
• Threading
2D & 2.5D MULTI-TOOL SEQUENCE
Create multiple toolpaths and sequence them as one to optimize the machining time and distance. Add as many tools as you like for roughing, semi-roughing, and finishing machining strategies. Have full control of the parameters of each machining job (depth, step-over, etc...).
MACHINING TIME ESTIMATE
Preview the estimated time of your machining. Export machining report for your operators.
Enhanced CAM functions
Router’8 CAM module has been revamped to always better fit the needs of professional Signmakers: Increased production, improved quality, and maximum security with optimized toolpath calculation.
COLOR MACHINING
Save time in your process. Under a color, save all your machining strategies and parameters. Greatly reducing the time from vectors to G-code.
THE BEST G-CODE EVER
Toolpath strategies for 2, 3, and 4 axes deliver fast, reliable, and very accurate NC codes.
TOOL CREATION WIZARD
Highly graphic and very intuitive, you can create tools of almost any shape and customize your parameters (feed rate, plunge speed, spindle speed...). You can also set tool numbers for your Tool Changer. Special tools can also be designed. Security of depth is also available.
INTAGLIO (Advanced V-Carve)
In a single step, make beautiful 3D recessed engraving. It is especially adapted for 3D engraving with a conical tool. The depth of your engraving adjusts with the width of the contours.
• Sign making
• Woodworking
• Thermoforming
• 3D machining
• Moulding
• Sculpted 3D plaques
• Molded letters
• Ornaments
• GIS Terrain machining
FROM ARTWORK TO 3D
In a few clicks, TypeArt features take 2D contours to grow on the 3D Relief. The user has complete control over the height, profile, accuracy, and flow of the designs using user-friendly design tools for any artistic challenge.
3D VIEWER
In the design process, the user can view the shape as a solid and orientate and zoom the object in any direction for optimal view.
SURFACE TOOLS
They deliver entry and advanced surface tools for more free-form designs. Easily create cones, spheres, torus, cylinders, etc... and also benefit from tools such as surface revolution, network surface, coons network, rules surfaces, etc... This section also offers professional projection and wrapping on any surface.
Sweeping TypeArt
Powerful sweeping function with multiple options lets the user easily create complex type art.
3D TEXTURE
This feature allows you to fill a 3D relief with 3D textures. Those can be easily created using Fractal or Spread modes and you can even get a texture from the database. Any 3D-Relief can also be used as a texture.
REALISTIC RENDERING
Giving Life to Your 3D Models. TypeView allows you to beautifully display and create a scene around your TypeArt objects. This new Rendering platform offers all the functionality you can find in a professional photographer's studio, thanks to all the possible effects with light, scenery, different materials, transparency, etc... The renderings created using this module can be sent by e-mail, printed, and used for your catalogs or marketing material.
SCULPTED 3D PLAQUES
From artwork to 3D files, Type3 delivers all the technology necessary such as bas-relief detailing, 3D boolean, 3D wrapping, sculpting, and texturing for the best 3D plaques on the market.
MALE & FEMALE
In a single click, convert your model to male or female. Options include a full mirror of only mirroring specified axis.
FROM GRAYSCALE TO 3D
Easily convert a grayscale image into a 3D relief (and vice-versa) with full control of the progression result. The higher the grayscale the higher the Z-height, the darker the grayscale the lower the Z-height, and all other shades of gray fall in-between.
Create a section with compress mode.
Router8 provides more options while creating sections, software can auto-scale shape in width or h8 to generate a more smooth and beautiful relief.
3D-CLAY-SCULPTING TOOLS
Like sculpting by hand, this section delivers features such as adding, pushing, hand-carving, smoothing... all you need to make a more realistic piece. Use a mask to protect sensitive areas and a mirror to duplicate some sculpting operations.
DUPLICATION
Many of the same duplication tools in the 2D are also available in 3D relief. Duplication features include duplication of 3D reliefs in an array, matrix, and along a curve.
TOOL TESTER
This feature is designed to help you make the best tool decision to save machining time. It will graphically simulate the theoretical result of a 3D relief object. It will help you select the best tool for the job. In addition to the theoretical model and the machined model, a view of the difference between the 2 models is also produced.
BAS RELIEF ENHANCEMENT
This function will put enhanced detail into a 3D scene. It enables some details that would have been completely flattened to remain visible. The user controls the width, height, and scale of the details.
DEFORMATION
This feature will deform a 3D relief into a defined area. It is particularly useful to create a 3D decoration in a linear mode and then to deform it to suit a curved frame and other decorations.
WEAVING (Celtic-style design)
This function will automatically produce a “Woven” effect by providing a profile path and a shape cross-section. There are several options to control how the intersections of the profiles are controlled in 3D.
• Sign making
• Woodworking
• Thermoforming
• 3D machining
• Moulding
• Sculpted 3D plaques
• Molded letters
• Ornaments
3D SEQUENCE
This strategy will quickly calculate a toolpath using several tools from the largest to the smallest one. The toolpaths are optimized so that the next tool only cuts the areas that have not been milled previously.
FINISHING STRATEGY
To optimize your machining time and obtain the best result, you can customize this strategy. You can set the thickness of the passes, the orientation, the type of pass (contouring or raster), step-over, and whether you are machining on a flat form or a complex shape.
TOOLPATH MAPPING
Select the surface and the pattern of the project, an extra tab Mapping appears defining your toolpath. See the section Mapping Tab in the overview about toolpath, the software would auto-map the toolpath to the selected surface based on the setting. You can use the mapping command in the context menu of the tool list also.
3D NC SIMULATION
Preview in real life your machining job through this video where you can see your tool (and not just a ghost shape) running over your jobs. You have full control of the video simulation, by pausing, rewinding, accelerating, or slowing. You can customize material types (wood, stone, metal, etc). This NC simulation will also show you the toolpath geometry, the air-moves, and more…
TOOLPATH MANAGEMENT
Just as the 3D relief has the history design tree, toolpath generation also uses this advanced technology. The system keeps track of each toolpath and its parameters. Each parameter is saved within the part and can be modified at any time in the future. Some key parameters that can be modified are machine depths, feeds and speeds, different tools, and different shapes.
REMAINING MATERIALS
This feature is designed to help in your tool decision by showing you graphic areas with left-over material.
Modeling Compatibility with digital tablets (i.e. Wacom)
Creation of Relief from 2D Contours
Customized Compression Modes
Library of customizable profiles Basic sweeping tool (profile along a curve)
Advanced sweeping tool (profiles between rails)
Professional sweeping tool (with compression profile)
Rope or Twist effect
Fit sweeping creates 3D relief from 3 views
2D geometric tools (cf. 2D geometric tools in 2D features list)
Conversion of text in vectors (cf Dynamic Text in 2D features list)
Auto-Conversion of Grayscale Images into 3D Relief
Modification of grayscale heights
Smoothness set-up features in grayscale conversion
Conversion of 3D-Relief in Grayscale image
Matrix duplication of 3D-Relief models
Circular duplication of 3D-Relief models
Duplication of 3D Surfaces along a curve
Slicing of 3D-Relief (to retrieve contours)
Boolean operations (add, subtract, merge min., merge max…)
Male & Female flip
Smoothing
Weaving (Celtic-style 3D design tool)
Bas-Relief details enhancement
Raise details feature
3D textures library
Advanced 3D Texturing Fractal
Advanced 3D Texturing Spread
Fast 3D Viewer
Camera position customizable in 3D-Viewer
Lighting position customizable in 3D-Viewer
High-Quality Ray-Tracing Rendering
Materials library for rendering
Pre-loaded scenes for more realistic rendering
Rendering Background customizable
3D-Clay Sculpting tools
Hand-style sculpting (strength, depth, radius…)
Advanced sculpting using Color Masks
Mirrored Sculpting feature (unlimited)
Re-adjust 3D-Relief height
Tool tester to preview machining results from a tool
Remaining material calculation
Extraction of the contours of the remaining material
Facet (flat skin)
Measurements tools (see the same section in the 2D features list)
Pro Snap Tools (grid, gravity, center, on a point, middle…)
Import/Export Graphic Files Format (BMP, TIFF, EPS, AI, JPG...)
Import/Export Mechanical Files Format (DXF, KCD, HPGL, PLT, IGES, ISO, WMF, *NC...)
Library of Engraving & Signs Symbols
Advanced Zoom / Automatic Save (custom) / Customized Grids and Guides
Dynamic Measure Tools (Distance, Perimeter, Angle, Surface...)
Geometrical 2D design tools
Free-hand design (mouse or digital pad)
Trim feature / Extend Curve tool
Advanced Nodes Editor / Intersection locator
Dynamic Text Mode Editor / Create-your-own Fonts
Surface builder (sphere, cylinder, cone, tore, cube…)
Revolution Surface (partial, full, angle…)
Advanced Surface Tools (Coons, Network, Ruled, Skinned, Swept)
Parallel Projection on surface extend / Merge / Untrim surfaces
Scan to Vector (B&W, Color, Raster to Vector, Stroke Line)
Transform Tools (Boolean, merge, subtract, add…)
Matrix / Circular / Select & Drop duplication with advanced set-up
Duplication along a curve with advanced set-up
Homothetic duplication along a curve
Mirror Duplication and Flips / Morphing Offset (Outline/Inline, Round & Flat Corners)
Conversion in Art & Segment / Curve Segmentation
Reverse contour directions
Auto-conversion of Rough curves to straight shapes
Alignment Tools (between objects, on a table, resize...)
Matrix Layout (Serialization) / Dials / Rulers wizard
2D Texturing with 20+ customizable styles
Free Form Nesting (angle rotation, direction, starting point, tool clearance…)
Crop/Punch tool/Envelope/Morphing
Color for CAM (Shortcut Vectors to G-Code, unlimited colors)
Inlaid Work (offset, angle radius, nesting on male pieces…)
Cutting strategies (in, out, bridges, round corners….)
Plotting (center tool on vector, one way, forward & backward…)
Drilling (spot-drill, multi-step with Z up, multi-step without Z up…)
Engraving (step-over, pass thickness customizable, conventional or climb milling…)
Multi-tool Sequence (unlimited tools upload, fully custom…)
Milling/Pocketing (step-over, pass thickness customizable, angle definition per pass…)
Intaglio (V-Carve, standard or optimized mode)
Preview of the remaining material
3D-Real life Toolpath Simulation
Tool Creation Wizard (Bit types or Beams, Dimensions, Feed rates...)
Tangential Entry and Exit / Custom Bridges
2, 3, and/or 4 Axis Machining / Time Estimate / Fine-Tuned Post Processor at Installation
If you have any questions about CNC router software - Type3 - Router8, please view in the following PDF document for Router8.
