Drawing Rosette Patterns

[faeb]

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.

[jclements]

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

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

[Luciano]

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

[a4hire]

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

[stygg2003]

Originally Posted by faeb

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

[Egg Bramhill]

Stygg,

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

[faeb]

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

[handrawn]

Hi Faye

hopefully this will help

[Egg Bramhill]

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.

[handrawn]

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