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DET1242
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Aspire Manual

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Is there any manual, documentation, and whatever for Aspire? I need to be able to set up a training session for new users and would like some reference maerial.

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open Aspire and click on "HELP" tab. I"m old and poor, only have V10.5

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Re: Aspire Manual

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You are going to need to go through the info available on line and other electronic documents. Manuals are pretty much a thing of the past, especially in this sort of software, it changes so fast.
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You will have to print the info as a PDF.

Select the HELP tab as was previously suggested.

The info you are after is in Help Contents and What's New.

Select one of them.

The next screen has a pull down menu system across the top. Select Single Page.

Now use the windows printing function and do a Save as PDF.

The preview will take a while, one is 283 pages and the other 57.

Repeat for the other file. While not ideal this is a close as you will get.

Adrain taught me this years ago. Hope this helps.
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John Lyons
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Re: Aspire Manual

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One of the limitations of the help file, and this is a criticism of many software providers and not just Vectric, is that it tells you what but not why (or how). Plus the layout can be less than logical.

For example, the sidebar navigation for Toolpaths. Why is Moulding the first entry? Why is Pocketing (used more often that Chamfer or Moulding, fourth from the bottom of a long list?:

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and:
Dimensions: The dimensions tool allows you to add a variety of dimensioning annotations to your vector drawing.
That's nice but how do I use the Dimensions command? If I can interactively find out the size of a shape at the bottom of the screen why would I want to dimension it? What kind of annotations?

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