Can anyone tell me how to create a vanishing point to assist in a drawing i'm working on.
Thanks, Ken.
Can anyone tell me how to create a vanishing point to assist in a drawing i'm working on.
Thanks, Ken.
Are you wanting to do it with your Xara program or hand draw it? I can help.
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Tell us more about what you are trying to draw.
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I am using Zara 11 and I'm trying to draw a view down a street with homes on both sides of street.
I use a little utility called Carapace that can save a lot of time in producing a perspective grid https://www.epicgames.com/community/...o-epic-friday/ And it's free
You can just hit the number keys 1 - 9 to drop up to 9 vanishing points to create a grid. (hit the F1 key to get a help lis)t Then just copy and paste the grid into your Xara document. It produces a bitmap so you can adjust the brightness if you need to and then just right click it and choose lock photo to lock it down. You can also use the straight line tool to trace the grid and once you have traced it all you could delete the photo group your lines and put them on a guides layer.
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Thank you for your help. I'll give it a try.
Here's the way I'd do it in Xara:
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 02 February 2016 at 02:51 AM.
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I use Illy's perspective grids in CS4 which were stolen I think from Freehand. They use the symbol, draw a graphics in 2D, make it a symbol then place it on the grid and it conforms to what ever perspective grid you are using. It works well but like Egg I can get confused with the complex default grid which by the way can be edited.
In Xara I have used the Blend Tool to make the grid they way I want it, I count the number of guide lines required in each plane do a blend then arrange out the lines. This keeps things simple although getting the proportions of the height is looking at heights on the "X plane".
If you have tine to look at another piece of software have a look at "Sketchup" just about the easiest way of drawing perspective through a 2D orthographic projection or even the 3D mode.
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You can also go to http://www.printablepaper.net/category/perspective and look at their grids. The nice thing about this site is you download the grid that you want in PDF format. Because the grid is PDF, you can bring the grid into Xara and place it on the guides layer and erase the parts that you do not want, that way you are good to go.
Just another idea.
Ray
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