Complete CNC Design
& CAM Software.

Design, model, sculpt, prepare, and create for your CNC. Designer 6 is the next generation of CarveWright’s powerful design software, now built for CarveWright, RAVEN, and a wide range of CNC machines.

Everything from idea to finished carve.

Designer brings the major steps of CNC creation together so you can spend less time moving between programs and more time making.

1. Start With Your Board

Enter the size of the material you’re carving and Designer shows it on screen as a real 3D board. What you see is what comes off the machine.

2. Arrange Your Design

Drag patterns, text and vectors onto the board and move them around until it looks right. Overlapping 3D carvings merge into a single surface on their own.

3. Send It To Carve

Prepare machine-ready output and turn your digital design into a finished project.

Tools For Creating Anything

Designer starts with a virtual 3D project board where you can build your project by placing and arranging the elements you want to carve.

Add text, patterns, images, vectors, and 3D components. Overlapping 3D elements merge automatically as you build, making complex projects easier to create without manually managing complicated operations.

3D Carving

Place relief patterns and watch them auto-merge into intricate compositions. Add textures and domes with a click.

Drawing Tools

Draw precise vector lines and shapes, then turn them into carvings or cut paths.

2D Cutting

Turn any line into a cutout, or assign a router bit to profile, pocket or drill it.

Text Tool

Add text with a click of a button using any TrueType or OpenType fonts.

Image and Vector Import

Bring in JPG, PNG, SVG and more, and work them straight into the design.

3D Importing Tool

Import any STL file from outside sources to your software’s pattern library.

Included libraries

Includes 75 3D patterns, hundreds of SVG files, and 2 free projects.

Custom Bit Settings

The software comes with preset bit settings, but gives you the freedom to add new bits and customize settings to suit your machine.

Automated Tiling

Carve larger than your machine with auto-tiling which splits an oversized project into carve-able strips with seam guides.

CarveBot AI Assistant

Ask how to do something and get an answer grounded in the manual, with the exact ribbon button highlighted on screen.

AI Pattern Making

Describe what you want, or start from a photo, and get a ready-to-carve pattern. Flat artwork can be raised into a full 3D relief in one click.

CarveDepot Store

Browse thousands of patterns and projects within Designer and try on your board before you buy. Plus, publish your patterns to the store directly from the software.

One software platform. Multiple CNC workflows.

Designer writes G-code for most popular machines. If we don’t have your post-processer, let us know and we’ll add it!

Compatible CNC Systems

Raven
Avid
Axiom
Digital Wood Carver
Fanuc
FoxAlien
generic grbl
Haas
I-Carver
Laguna
Mach3
Onefinity
Sainsmart/Genmitsu
Shapeoko
ShopBot
ShopSabre
Sienci LongMill
Snapmaker
X-Carve

Add the features you need, when you need it.

Each add-on module brings exciting features into your Designer software. Rather than selling a high priced software package with features you’ll never use, you can build your software into what you need when you need it.

Explore Our Add-On Modules

Vcarve Suite

Add professional V-carving, centerline engraving, conforming vectors, and advanced vector carving to Designer. Create crisp lettering, detailed graphics, and carved designs that follow flat or contoured surfaces.

Drawing Suite

Create and edit your own vector artwork directly in Designer. Drawing Suite adds advanced drawing, tracing, path editing, and vector manipulation tools for creating precise custom CNC designs.

Modeling Suite

Create your own 3D relief patterns directly in Designer. Extrude, sweep, puff, and shape vector geometry into dimensional components for signs, decorative carvings, and original 3D projects.

DXF Layout

Bring precision vector drawings from CAD and illustration software into Designer. Import DXF files, scale and arrange components, repair connected geometry, tile oversized designs, and prepare layouts for CNC production.

Slicer

Turn full 3D STL models into CNC projects. Scale your model, divide it into carvable sections, machine the individual pieces, and assemble them into a finished three-dimensional object.

Sculptor

Shape, repair, and refine 3D relief models with intuitive sculpting tools. Smooth surfaces, remove unwanted details, add new features, and turn imported or modeled artwork into carve-ready patterns.

Choose Your Designer 6 Experience

Choose the traditional perpetual license model or a subscription that bundles the complete feature set with ongoing AI capabilities.

Designer Demo

Free Account Signup

Explore the full toolset and cut any project you hold a license for.

Windows Installer

Apple Installer

Perpetual License

One-time purchase

$399.99

Designer 6, yours to keep. Modules and AI sold separately.

Designer Maker

Subscription

$20

/month

Or $200/year (save $40)

For makers who want the everyday toolset in one place, with AI and updates included.

Designer Pro