GeneK

Many thanks for the well thought out conversion, and for the outstanding Studio cut files. I've really enjoyed watching your progress on Large Scale Planes.

I'll follow the steps you presented in LSP to lay out a 1/72 conversion for the the new FineMolds kits. In that regard, I've scaled down and cut your patterns, and it looks promising, but will take a lot of adjustments since Tamiya and FineMolds obviously used different reference drawings.  

Thanks again for the impressively drawn file!

Gene K

On 2/2/2021 at 2:28 PM, Gruson Michel said:

Hello, my first contribution.

Thanks much, Michel! Could you post a link to the above picture, please? Is it a model or the real thing?

Gene K

On 2/3/2021 at 1:40 PM, Mozart said:

Scale of these masks shouldn’t matter, once downloaded you can adjust to any scale to suit.

Matters to me since I appreciate the effort and precise work Michel expended to produce those accurate masks. I assume his leaving off the scale was a slight oversight.

Hannover - the masks scale out to exactly 1/48 according to my reference. Thus it would be easy to go, for example, to 1/72 (66.6%) or 1/32 (150%) using the Transform/Scale feature in Studio (upper right panel in illustration below) :

There are many Google references for mask placement, including this excellent VF-161 web site.

Gene K

On 8/6/2020 at 8:59 AM, Out2gtcha said:

Good stuff! I have a Silouhette, but glad to know those files can be converted back to Vector

Following MicroMiGMan's link in post #1, I used the on-line converter to get an svg from a studio3 file. Worked fine, but there are some limitations noted here.  

The linked site isn't the easiest to navigate, for example to find the cost of the various "products" ... but as concerns free studio to svg conversions, looks like there is a limit of 10 per day. Good deal!! I'll check tomorrow to see if my nine remaining goes back to 10.

The Business version of Silhouette Studio has such a conversion feature (among other things), but that upgrade costs $100.

Gene K

On 10/26/2020 at 7:00 PM, AlbertD said:

I don't have my cutter yet but have been playing with the software. I have Design CAD and have been making drawings in that and exporting them as JPG files which open right up in the free Silouette program with no upgrades. I used to work with AutoCAD but don't remember if it will export JPG.

This is in response to an old post, so may have already been addressed elsewhere. You can open jpg as well as other raster files in Silhouette Studio, but you will then have to use the Trace portion of the program to make cut lines -- which you'll have to refine. Better to export a vector file from your CAD program and insert into Studio to get perfect cut lines without tracing. See here for file info as regards Studio.

Gene K

On 7/24/2020 at 4:16 AM, Rainer Hoffmann said:

.  ... so I think [EPS-files] should be a good choice here as well.

 

I don't (necessarily) agree -- Silhouette Studio software comes in three versions - Basic, Designer, and Professional with prices of free, $50, and $100 respectively. Going by what I've seen on various forums over the past years, the Designer Edition is the most popular, being considered the best trade off between price and features.  The free edition can import ready to cut (no tracing required)  Studio/Studio3, GSD/GSD, and DXF files. The Designer Edition adds SVG and PDF (vector), while the Business Edition adds Ai, EPS, and CDR.  So I would say SVG (and PDF) would be better choices here than EPS. 

As with Out2gtcha's experience, the vast majority of modeling folks I've met use Silhouette cutters, and in that regard, the best file format of course would be Studio/Studio3 files since these would include blade depth, force, material settings, etc. Unfortunately, the file creator would need the Business edition to export vector SVG and PDF files for use in other software.

I agree that A FAQ/pin is a great idea ... it could include info like this on the Silhouette software.

Gene K