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wow, Gene, thank you! 🙏
I hope to re start soon with your inputs, they seems to go straight to the point.
I agree that I need to learn to familiarize and take practice with command and drawing tools,, yet I feel I need a guide to them, at least initially!
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well,
so to speak, I finally unpacked my Silhouette Portrait 3, downloaded and registered the device, searched for and watched several tutorials, but...
to start with something simple, I would have decided to create my own masks for the spiral on the spinner and the individual number for the Yak-3 Special Hobby 1/32.
I tried scanning the decal sheet and photographing it. I managed to import both files into the dedicated program, but apparently I can't detect the contours of the scanned copy. better with the one photographed, highlighting the contrasts.
scanned one
and .jpg
I managed by trial and error to isolate the spiral and arrive at this point
now I would like to join the main points of the curves, eliminating what is unnecessary and disturbing, but I can't find the right command (or sequence of commands).
even getting just this far was quite frustrating, the tutorials I found didn't enlighten me, and the site manual doesn't go into detail, I think.
Do you kindly have any more detailed tutorials or manuals?
TIA, cheers, Paolo
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just landed.
literally: the courier threw it over the gate of my property in my absence.I hope it hasn't been damaged... for the moment Cigolino (little squeaking) is sitting in his box waiting for me to get my hands on it.
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Hi all,
considering buying a cutting plotter, which I then did, I'm waiting for it to arrive, I discovered this forum.
some of my models with insignia painted via hand cut masks are already on LSP, but I think I've reached my limit with that technique: it's time to learn something new. see you soon, I hope, Paolo- 3
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oookaaaay...
Did someone say "frustration"? 🙄
I played a bit as suggested by Gene with the parameters of the editing function (I have the menu in Italian, I suspect that this also generates confusion, I have to change it to English) and obtained a clearer picture:
the points of the image as they are are objectively many, around 400
so, always following the suggestions received, I tried to simplify with the dedicated command. better, definitely.
then I watched some tutorials on how to join the separate lines of the design, finding two systems: select all the parts of the design and use the "weld" (salda, in Italian) function or zoom in and join the individual points two at a time.
and here I am stuck: I can't connect the various parts of the drawing.
furthermore, having done this, I would like to modify the lines trying to make the curves of the spiral more fluid: zooming in you can see that the curve is not homogeneous but full of jumps which I imagine create confusion for the plotter during the cutting phase.
I continue to bombard the keyboard with commands that prove useless, waiting for help.
I continue also to ask myself how it is possible that there is not (or that I cannot find) an exhaustive manual of this new to me discipline, since the last century I have been accustomed to reading a manual and applying its indications, not to trying things out... to say that It's frustrating, it's not much!
TIA, Paolo