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    Default Drawing Rosette Patterns

    I am very new to Xtreme (since yesterday) and am trying to learn it. I am trying to do line drawings of rosettes for chip carving patterns. I manually drew a circulral template of degree lines to use as a template when drawing these rosettes. I imported this into Xtreme as a bmp. My big problem with this is I have not found a way to lock this template down and it moves and gets out of proper position constantly. Can this be done?
    I searched the web for months to find a program that I could use to draw this type patterns and thought I had found one but I am really having trouble learning to use it this morning. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html

    Scroll down and look at the Curve Generation utility. Would this help?

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Faeb,

    To avoid moving the bitmap pattern, put it in a layer behind you vector drawing.
    You can set a layer to be visible but "fixed" so you cannot grab objects.

    Luciano

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    There are many tutorials and workbooks that you can read through at Gary's web site, The Xaraxone.
    I would look through the workbooks.
    http://www.xaraxone.com/html/workbook_index.html#L

    Sounds like you need to put your template on a layer and lock it so that it does not move around, Then you can draw your designs on a new layer on top of it.

    http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook22/page_3.htm
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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Quote Originally Posted by faeb View Post
    I am very new to Xtreme (since yesterday) and am trying to learn it. I am trying to do line drawings of rosettes for chip carving patterns. I manually drew a circulral template of degree lines to use as a template when drawing these rosettes. I imported this into Xtreme as a bmp. My big problem with this is I have not found a way to lock this template down and it moves and gets out of proper position constantly. Can this be done?
    I searched the web for months to find a program that I could use to draw this type patterns and thought I had found one but I am really having trouble learning to use it this morning. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
    Just to give you the method I use.

    Stygg2003
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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Stygg,

    Please don't "Quote message in reply" unless it is completely necessary please.
    Egg

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Thanks to all who helped me with the layering. It works wonderful.
    Also, I appreciate all the leads to places where I can find tutor etc.
    There is so many out there. If only I knew what to look for... I am good at
    having problems with no name. :-(
    I have another question that I have searched for and can not find out how it should be done and I am hoping someone will come to my rescue... :-) It is probably so very simple for most of you but I am at my wits end trying to find out how to do this....
    Problem.... How do I draw a square outline, put 4 little wedge shapes inside and seal them to make this all one object that I can copy/paste in several places on my project? I hope this is clearer than mud.
    Any and all help is appreciated.
    Faye

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Hi Faye

    hopefully this will help
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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Hi Faye,

    Like all things Xtreme there are normally numerous ways of creating the same end result. So here's another alternative to Steve's method.
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    Egg

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    Default Re: Drawing Rosette Patterns

    Good one too Egg - anyone would think you'd been doing this for longer than me
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