denders Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Does anyone have any 'words of wisdom' about creating canopy masks? I do have AutoCAD to use and calipers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Futter Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 That's a tricky one, and I'd love to hear more about it myself! Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denders Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 Okay.... Well, so far it doesn't look like dxf is opened/imported to scale. It started out smaller and I had to scale it up, which doesn't sound good. I'll have to do some research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denders Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 Okay, well, it seems that perhaps Limits needs to be set in the AutoCAD file and the Import Settings in Studio need to be set to Centered and the two check boxes set to off. I'm not sure about the check boxes but I turned them off and it appears to come in at the proper scale. I also appears that the dxf file needs to be imported into the Library but I'll try a bit more o that too. I had also tried importing the dxf file into AI and then exporting an svg file from AI and that seemed to work properly. Note, I have a CS6 copy of AI for reference. The mask for the flat windscreen piece seems to have come out okay and is limited by my shaky hands getting located correctly. 😬 The side pieces for the windscreen are something else, I'll have to work on them. One piece down and 4 to go. Although two of the 4 are mirrored pieces, so 3 to figure out. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Futter Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Sounds like you're making some good progress. It also sounds like it's quite a tricky operation! Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozart Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I’m afraid I did mine very much “old school”, neolithic even! I taped the area to be masked on the canopy then drew around the outline as exactly as I could. Then I took the tape off the canopy and laid it flat on the bench, photographed it and imported that into Silhouette, then drew it out. I needed to tweak it a little in places and on the more severe curves on the internal masks added a “cut line” to accommodate the curvature. It might seem long-winded but it works and of course it’s easy to duplicate for both sides of the outer canopy, AND by reducing the size slightly you’ve got the internal masking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denders Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 Thanks Max. I thought about that too, but being a retired engineer........... I thought I'd try to make it harder. 🤪 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denders Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 Second pass on the right and left parts of the windscreen portion. It looks pretty good, I just need the hands to be steadier for applying the masks. On to the next parts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozart Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 14 hours ago, denders said: Thanks Max. I thought about that too, but being a retired engineer........... I thought I'd try to make it harder. 🤪 Ha, well I’m a retired art teacher Dave, so everything is “visual” for me! 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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