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I thought some might have fun with this. Create your own xara fun using the supplied .xar file as your starting point. The file was created by importing the shapes from a 3d program. Have FUN!
Regards, Ross
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Here's something I made with it.
Regards, Ross
Ross: I made your image a little smaller. —Gary
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Christine
Ross
Does this look like the shape?
It was created entirely in Xara. If anyone is interested I can do a mini-tutorial.
Gary
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and I would say a tutorial is a must.
Christine
Christine's vote counts for several dozen :-)I'll create a tutorial for the next Workbook.
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Very nice pattern Gary. I too would be interested in how you went about doing it -- a great tutorial subject.
It differs somewhat from the one created in the 3d program. The 100% xara one appears to be drawn without perspective. Of course 3d modeling programs generate perspective views much easier than can be done manually in xara. With enough skill, time and effort I have no doubt Xara could be used to draw complex geometries in proper perspective.
I haven't done much in Xara with imported geometries. I look forward to doing more.
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Ross....What 3D program did you use and how did you import the file(What file type) into Xara?
MIke
Here's my contribution.
Egg
couldn't resist
Great contributions Xarans!
Mike - The buckyball was exported from SketchUp as a pdf file. That was imported into CorelDraw 10 where it was saved as a .cmx that I was able to import into Xara. The buckyball.xar file is exactly as imported. Unfortunately this process does include lines as well as the shapes.
Creating the buckyball in SketchUp didn't really involve creating anything because it was a 'primative' from the component library. That said, SketchUp actually is a very easy-to-learn 3d modeling program that is fun to use. The training tutorial movies at the SketchUp site are every bit as good as the Xara ones --- helping a new user to be productive very quickly.
I'm looking forward to importing more 3d models into xara for rendering. They seem to be very complementary to each other.
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Wrap it up?
Mickie
Here is mine.
Gary
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Tim...Nice dome home you got there.Kinda looks like my house.
Ross...Thanks.A pdf export from Sketchup has got to be handy.
Good going everyone. It is interesting to see the directions that are taken given only one begining.
Mike