Carveco Perpetual products will need an active internet connection for activating the license on your system. Following that you can happily run your perpetual product without an internet connection. The only exception to this rule would be when installing software updates. Communication with our licensing server will be necessary to check your license entitlement and install any updates.

Unfortunately, all our products are Windows only.

While we do have a few customers using Carveco products in Bootcamp or through Virtual Machines (such as Parallels/Azure/Fusion) the operation and installation in these environments can be problematic. From community feedback we’ve seen that Carveco performs best in BootCamp or Paralells Desktop 16 (since their recent move to support OpenGL4.0). But, as we aim to provide a high-level of customer service and satisfaction – please be aware that we can not officially support the use of Carveco products on any platform outside of Windows.

That being said – if you choose to install Carveco in these environments, we’ll still do our very best to assist you in any way we can.

A good way to check if Carveco will run on your Mac is to run the 30-day version (you can find the form on our ‘Trial Version’ page)

Carveco directly supports over 300 CNC machine tools that range from desktop routers, rotary machines and laser engraving units, all the way through to large industrial hardware dedicated to production manufacturing. If your hardware is not directly supported, Carveco can also output G-Code – widely regarded as the industry standard machine code format and accepted by most CNC machine tools. If you’d like to use a 3D printer, Carveco also allows you to export your design in the STL format.

You can find list of all supported machines and controllers here https://carveco.com/carveco-software-range/supported-cnc-machine-tools/

All Carveco software (Maker, Maker Plus, Carveco) is designed to work with as many different machines and controllers as possible, but Carveco does not include any CNC controller or G-Code sending/streaming software. There are a variety of open-source, OEM provided and paid controller options available that will accept toolpath files created in Carveco software.

Our software does include a variety of dedicated post-processors to ensure robust compatibility with many CNC machine tool brands. Where dedicated post-processors are not available, you can export your toolpath data in the widely-accepted G-Code format.

You can find list of all supported machines and controllers here https://carveco.com/carveco-software-range/supported-cnc-machine-tools/

Carveco provides a library of useful artistic elements to be used together with the software. You can modify them and use them commercially for your projects. You can download the libraries directly from the manufacturer’s website:

– vector library (100 vectors): https://carveco.com/carveco-software-range/carveco/download-the-vector-clipart-library/
– relief library (over 600 reliefs): https://carveco.com/carveco-software-range/carveco/download-relief-clipart-library/
– component library (over 1200 assembly components – Carveco only): https://carveco.com/carveco-software-range/carveco/download-the-component-library/

At Carveco, we don’t impose any limits on the number of computers you can install your Carveco software on. However, there are limits on how many active software instances you can use concurrently (at the same time). The number of concurrent licenses available to you will depend on which Carveco product you either own (perpetual) or subscribe to.

If you wish to use your software on any additional computers, you will need to move/ migrate an active license from one computer to another.

For example: a Carveco Maker Plus user might install and activate a license on a home computer and then install and activate a license on a computer in their workshop. If the user then wishes to install and activate a license on a third computer, they will have to deactivate an installation on either of their existing machines. This will effectively ‘free-up’ a license that can then be used to activate their Carveco software on a third machine.

Carveco software is translated into the following languages:

Chinese (Simplified) – 简体中文
Chinese (Traditional) – 繁體中文
Czech – Čeština
English (United States)
French – Français
German – Deutsch
Italian – Italiano
Japanese – 日本語
Korean – 한국어
Polish – Polski
Portuguese – Português (Brasil)
Russian – русский
Spanish – Español
Turkish – Türk
This includes the software interface and in-line help, as shown below using English and the Korean as an example.

Full information on Carveco’s hardware requirements can be found on our “Hardware Requirements” page.

You can find a comparison of the functionality of individual versions of the software on our “Version comparison” page.

Useful links with training videos can be found on our “Learning and postprocessors” page.

To Carveco you can import the most popular formats of vector files, bitmaps, reliefs and 3D models. See the full list below:

Vector Images:
AI Files *.ai
DGK File *.dgk
DXF (AutoCAD) File *.dxf
DXF (AC1009) File *.dxf
EPS File *.eps
Duct Picture *.pic
SVG File *.svg
PostScript Files *.eps
PDF Files *.pdf
AutoCAD Files *.dxf;*.dwg
Autodesk Files *.pic;*.dgk

Bitmap Images:
Bitmap Image *.bmp
GIF Image *.gif
JPEG Image *.jpg
TIFF Image *.tif
PNG Image *.png

Relief & model:
Carveco Relief *.rlf
Carveco Model *.art
ArtCAM 9 Relief *.rlf
ArtCAM Model *.art
Simple Relief Format *.srf
Bitmap File *.bmp
16-Bit TIFF Image *.tif
Picza Files *.pix
CopyCAD wrap map with normals (*.asc,*.ccb)

Surface & mesh:
3D Studio *.3ds
Carveco Assembly *.3da
Carveco Projects *.3dp
Autodesk DXF File *.dxf
Autodesk DWG File *.dwg
Autodesk DDZ File *.ddz
Autodesk DGK File *.dgk
Autodesk DDX File *.ddx
U3D File *.u3d
Autodesk Machining Triangles *.dmt
Wavefront Object File *.obj
3D PDF File *.pdf
ASCII STL File *.stl
Binary STL File *.stl
IGES File *.igs, *.iges
STEP File *.stp, *.step
3DM File *.3dm