What's New in Easel

XY Center of Material Carving

Easel Pro is now easier to align your designs to your material! You are now able to set your X/Y zero location in either the front left corner of the material or the center of the material.

Until now, to make sure your design would carve in the center of the material and to set the carve to the center, you had to use a complex workaround by moving your design into negative space. Now it is as easy as clicking a button in the material menu.

For easy centered carves: - Make sure your design is centered to the material - Change the X/Y from Front Left Corner to Center in the Material Menu dropdown - Notice that the grid changes values - Notice that toolpaths start and stop in the center of the material - Machine Parking is compatible with X/Y center carves - Tiling must be done with X/Y center in the Front Left Corner

Overview Animation for Carving from center

Animation which shows the grid change in the design pane

Animation which shows how to change from Front Left Corner to Center in Material Pane

Digital Read Out (DRO)

Digital Readout for relative machine position is now available to Pro Users. Open the jog menu, carve walkthrough or machine inspector to view the machine position.

In order for the position to be read, you will need to have homed your machine!

How it works

1. Home your machine (You can home in the machine setup, carve walkthrough or machine inspector)
2. Observe the position coordinates populate when jogging or carving

New Machine Controls

New Machine Jog Controls are now available to all users. The new controls have an improved layout and easy homing built in for compatible machines. Don’t worry we made sure you can keep using the old layout if you still love it with a simple toggle.

Changes Include

• An improved layout with more easy to use axis configuration
• Digital Readout (DRO) of the machine position within the controls (requires homing)
• Preset Work Home: Ability to set your work home location and return to it with the click of a button (requires homing)
• A toggle to switch to the old controls (you will lose access to DRO and work home preset)

Overview of New Controls

Keyboard Shortcuts

Machine Controls in the Carve Walk though

Grouping and Ungrouping

New controls for grouping and ungrouping of shapes in Easel. This allows you to group multiple shapes together so that they move, resize, and rotate together letting you get the desired design quicker and easier in Easel.

You can access the grouping and ungrouping tools in the Edit menu, or with keyboard shortcuts:

Animation Overview:

Improved Project Labels

Easel Pro users now have more control over their project labels than ever, right from the Projects Modal.

Create and delete labels from the dropdown.

Select one or more projects to assign and unassign labels in bulk.

Click a label to unassign it from a project.

New text effects

Easel Pro now includes several new text effects to choose from, including Perspective Up & Down, Slant Left & Right, and Barrel:

The new Arc Up & Down effects stretch text around an elliptical arc:

We're excited to see how you use these in your projects. Got something you're proud of? Share it on the forum!

Draggable Shape/Cut Panel

Introducing the ability to move the shape/cut panel. Now you can easily move the panel away from your work area and place it out of the way. This feature is available for all users immediately.

How it works

1. Select a shape.
2. Click on the background of the Shape/Cut panel and drag it any where you want.

Editing point coordinates

Display and edit precise coordinates in Edit Points mode.

How it works

1. Select your shape in the 2D editor.
2. Enter edit mode (e on the keyboard, double-clicking the shape, or clicking the edit button).
3. Select a point. Easel displays the coordinates of the selected point in the point options panel.
4. To move the selected point to a precise location, you can enter the coordinates within the point options panel.

Lock Shapes

Lock and unlock specific shapes while designing in Easel to suit your workflow. Locked shapes will not move, rotate or scale. Locked text fields are uneditable. Ensure parts of your design don't accidentally change while working on other areas.

How it works

1. Select your volume(s) in the 2d editor.
2. On the shape properties panel, click the lock object icon to enable it for the selected volume(s).
3. Click the icon again to unlock the shape and resume editing.

Notes:

• If you have a mixed group of locked and unlocked volumes selected, the lock icon will unlock all volumes on toggle.
• Locking was previously called Pin Shapes in beta

Project Labels

Labels assigned to projects let you easily manage your projects. Each project can now be labeled to ease searching, organizing and keep track of your work.

To use the feature visit an Easel project. Upon clicking on the project name a new modal will appear where you can add labels to a project, create new labels and delete existing labels.

Visiting Easel all projects page lets you filter and search labels across your projects. Clicking a label under project name will show only the project with this label.

This feature is now live for all Pro users.