CNCguitarwizard

Drag the round handles to shape the body. Click the outline to add a handle there; Alt/Option-click or right-click a handle to remove it. Double-click a handle to make it a sharp corner (drawn dark; again, round again), and Shift-click a line to make the span nearest the click straight (again, curved again) — so on the outline, the pickguard, a pickup frame and the contour lines. A stepped top's lines are straight instead: double-click one of their handles to round the line through it, Shift-click a side to curve it. A template chosen in Start from is loaded at once (Load loads it again) — Design by Jone, or a Les Paul, Stratocaster, Jackson RR, Alexi Hexed, Mockingbird, Telecaster, SG, Explorer, Flying V or Jazz Bass style mockup — with its own cavity placements; what the template before it set and you have not changed since goes back to its default. Drag the control cavity (its pots come along), a single pot, the switch cavity, the battery box, a neck bolt (dashed, drilled from the back) or the jack to move it; Shift-drag the control cavity, the battery box, the jack or a pickup to turn it (round ones only move); drag one of the control cavity's square end handles to stretch or shrink it and its cover from that end, or a side handle to make them wider or narrower; the pickup routes slide along the neck. With humbucker frames on (body_pickup_frame: a plain ring, horns or hook), each pickup's frame is drawn dark round it, cut back where it would not fit, with small yellow handles: drag one to shape that pickup's frame, click its edge to add a point, Alt/Option-click or right-click one to remove it; one that does not fit is outlined red and the status line says why (turn it round with body_pickup_frame_direction, or draw it smaller). With a pickguard on, its square handles shape it: click its edge to add one, Alt/Option-click or right-click one to remove it, drag its edge to move the whole guard or onto Create NC file for its own programs (Auto pickguard goes back to the automatic guard). With an arm contour on (body_arm_contour_depth), the green line with round handles is where it starts: drag a handle, click the line to add one, Alt/Option-click or right-click one to remove it; the line's ends sit on the body's edge (Auto arm contour goes back to the automatic one); with a belly cut on (body_belly_cut_depth) its line on the back is drawn the same way in blue (Auto belly cut), with a leg contour on (body_leg_contour_depth, the back of the treble-side waist where the body sits on the thigh) in teal (Auto leg contour), and with a heel relief on the back where the neck joins (body_heel_relief: a smooth contour, a flat notch or a flat slope, a bevel, body_heel_relief_depth deep at the edge) its line in plum: the relief runs from the body's edge at the neck end in to it, out past the heel on the treble side only (round the heel or by the pocket it takes in the whole heel to the pocket's bass wall, across the corner it stops at the centreline; a plate tilted on a bevel takes it across the neck to just past the plate), and the neck bolts' ferrules sink into its surface (Auto heel relief goes back to the automatic line: body_heel_relief_line: round the heel, a curve behind it, or along the neck pocket, its outline the reach out, either taking in the whole heel; or across the treble corner, a straight 45° line clear of a neck plate; a line moved by hand stays as drawn, the status line says so, and choosing body_heel_relief_line goes back to its automatic line). With a neck plate (body_neck_plate: a Fender style plate or an asymmetric one with its treble corner clipped) the plate is drawn on the back in steel grey, its bolts fixed at its holes; on a bevel it tilts with it (Ibanez's Tilt Joint: along the neck, or with body_heel_relief_line corner toward the treble corner), its bolts drilled by hand. With a stepped top on (body_stepped_top), each step's line is drawn in purple with diamond handles, straight between them: drag a handle, click a line to add one, Alt/Option-click or right-click one to remove it (Auto steps goes back to the steps body_top_step_insets in from the edge). With body_engraving on, the decorative engraving is drawn in blue lines; New pattern lays it out from a new random seed (body_engraving_seed). Drag a feature right off the body to remove it (you are asked first), or onto Create NC file to cut it on its own. The neck, its pocket and the bridge follow the neck and scale and stay put. Undo and Redo (Ctrl/Cmd+Z, Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z) step back and forward through the design's changes, whichever editor or field they were made in. To draw the outline in another program, File ▸ Export SVG saves it as a template, 1:1 in millimetres: edit the black path in its Outline layer (or draw a new closed one there) round the locked Reference layer's neck, routes and cavities, keep the three red registration marks, and Import SVG reads it back as handles on the drawn line (within 0.25 mm of it; Undo takes it back). Lines drawn in its Pattern layer (the engraving there is comes with it), shapes drawn beside the outline and pictures pasted in (a PNG kept in the file: its dark shapes are traced) are read back as the engraved pattern, body_engraving_pattern drawn; empty the layer to take the engraving off. Export DXF and Import DXF do the same for a CAD program: the outline on layer cgwOutline (a point on cgwHandles at every handle), what it is drawn round on cgwReference, the marks on cgwMarkA–C, the engraving on cgwPatternLayer; any ASCII DXF is read (lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, polylines and splines, joined end to end). Turn upright shows the drawing standing, the neck up (the view only: everything drags as before); Turn sideways lays it back down. Ctrl/Cmd+wheel (or a trackpad's pinch) zooms about the pointer; zoomed in, drag the background to move the drawing, and double-click it to fit the whole drawing again. The grid is 50 mm.

Drag the handles to shape the two edges; drag a tip handle to change the length. Double-click a handle to make it a sharp corner (again, round again), Shift-click an edge or the tip to make the span nearest the click straight (again, curved again); the tip corners are the edges' last handles. A drawn truss-rod cover is straight between its corners instead: double-click one to round the cover through it, Shift-click a side to curve it. Click an edge to add a handle there, or the tip to shape it with one (drag it out for a round nose, in for a notch); Alt/Option-click or right-click a handle to remove it. For a sharp point (Jackson style) drag one tip corner onto the other: within 3 mm they meet, and the point then moves as one (Shift-drag a corner to part them again). The tuner holes come from the headstock style; drag one to slide it along its edge, kept as far from it as it was so the tuner's key stays outside (Shift-drag moves it anywhere), and an edge you drag takes its holes along, each keeping its distance from the edge. Every hole must keep that distance from the edge, and the wood between holes. Changing the style or its tuner settings lays the holes out by the style again. Until you move a handle the outline follows the fitted one (a changed style redraws it); Start over goes back to it; Undo steps back a change, Redo forward again. A neck chosen in Start from is loaded whole (Load loads it again), its tuners' places with it: the Telecaster neck sets a slotted nut (the fretboard running on under it), a flat six-in-line headstock drawn as a Telecaster's (its heel's end square) and a truss rod adjusted at the heel (set truss_rod_adjustment to headstock for the modern way, reached behind the nut; truss_rod_spoke_wheel says whether the adjuster is a spoke wheel); the Stratocaster neck rounds the heel's end (neck_heel_end), its pocket and the fretboard's end with it. Lettering typed in headstock_engraving_text is drawn in blue: drag it to move it (it must keep 2 mm from the edge, the nut's seat, the tuner holes and the truss-rod cover). With the truss rod adjusted at the headstock (truss_rod_adjustment) its cover is drawn over the dashed trough, in the style chosen (truss_rod_cover_style: a Gibson bell, Ibanez / ESP, a PRS teardrop or a rounded rectangle): drag one of its square corners to draw your own cover (click its edge to add a corner, Alt/Option-click or right-click one to remove it), or a round handle past its far end or beside its widest side to make it longer or wider; choosing a style again goes back to it. It must cover the trough and keep its screws in wood and clear of the edges and the tuner holes. File ▸ Export SVG saves the outline as a template, 1:1 in millimetres, to edit in another program: the black path in its Outline layer runs from the nut on one side round the tip to the nut on the other, round the locked Reference layer's nut, tuner holes (dashed, the edge's clearance round them), truss-rod cover and lettering; keep the three red registration marks, and Import SVG reads it back as edges and tip handles (each edge running away from the nut, the tip across from one edge's end to the other's). Lines drawn in its Pattern layer, shapes drawn beside the outline and pictures pasted in (a PNG kept in the file: its dark shapes are traced) are engraved on the face with the lettering, headstock_engraving_depth deep (1 mm), and drawn in blue; empty the layer to take them off. Export DXF and Import DXF do the same for a CAD program: the outline on layer cgwOutline (a point on cgwHandles at every handle), what it is drawn round on cgwReference, the marks on cgwMarkA–C, the engraving on cgwPatternLayer; any ASCII DXF is read (lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, polylines and splines, joined end to end). Ctrl/Cmd+wheel (or a trackpad's pinch) zooms about the pointer; zoomed in, drag the background to move the drawing, and double-click it to fit the whole drawing again. The grid is 10 mm.