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    You're welcome Max. This feature is similar to the point editor in CAD programme Rhino3D, which I'm familiar with. That's why I recognized its usefulness. πŸ™‚ Cheers, Peter
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    That's a great tutorial! Let me add my two cents as well, i hope its OK, otherwise I'll ask Kev to move this post. I received my Silhouette Portrait 3 recently and am learning the software now. With the Basic Edition that comes with the Portrait 3 you can now import pictures and trace them. I'm making masks for the registration letters for a model of a Dutch civil general aviation plane (1/20 Fuji FA-200). On the dutch government website, articles about the prescribed letter font and -distance can be found. These include pictures of very crappy scans of the letters and numbers on grid. So I'm learning the software by tracing the required letters. Like everybody else, I found out that you cannot weld different lines and curves together to get a closed shape for cutting. What I found out is that the point editor is a very powerful editing tool. This is my approach: - import the picture - enlarge it to obtain a very large letter, conform the recommendation of Max - in the line editor, select a closed polygon or closed curved shape: - trace the curved sections with many points cf. the recommendation of Max - trace the straight sections with only two points, from edge to edge. - if a curved closed shape is selected, ignore the deformation over the straight segments, this will be dealt with later with the point editor! - close the shape Now the point editor. If you have enabled the point editor, and selected a point with your mouse, you can open a submenu by clicking the right mouse button: Apologies about the Dutch language in the submenu. In this picture, I have selected a point somewhere in the curved section of a "P" What it says, you can select: - For the highlighted (bold) line segment betwee a straight line segment ("Maak recht") or a curved line segment ("Maak krom") This means you can make a curved line segment straight or vice versa. - Between a corner point ("hoek") or a smooth? point ("soepel"); corner point selected. With a corner point, you can alter the corner between two line segments. Therefore, you use the two "arms" connected to the point, and ending in the blue squares. In this picture, the "arms are directed to the right, disturbing the shape of the curve: You can move the arms by hovering the mouse over the blue squares and left mouse button pressed. Note that the arms can vary inlength! And align the arms in the desired direction of the line: Job done! Play with it, I hope this helps! Cheers, Peter
  3. Thanks, Max!πŸ˜€ Yes indeed, I already read some useful stuff which helped with my purchase. A Silhouette Portrait 3 is on its way, with the standard software which should be able to import and trace pictures. We'll see. I foresee a need to import drawings as well, that's probably for the designers edition of the software. A 20cm wide roll of Oramask 810 is on its way too. When I have the cutter at home, I want to order a spare knive and a heavy duty knive. If I've understood correct, the Portrait 3 and the Cameo 4 should use the same knives but I want to see what they look like before I order them. πŸ˜‰ Cheers, Peter
  4. Hi guys, A few days ago I signed up on the forum. Modelling for more than 47 years now, I'm a member of LSP and also build planes in 172 scale and sometimes smaller. Occasionally a car finds its way to my workbench. Seeing on LSP what is possible with a cutter, now it's the time to buy one! It will be a Silhouette Portrait, its relatively small size is very convenient for me. Thanks Kev for letting me join the forum! Cheers, Peter
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