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Does anyone know what S/W companies like TAOD use for the renderings?

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CorelDraw is what i use but as with most software that all the graphics guys use you have to generate all your templates and any graphics yourself. i have a large archive of files with all my line drawings and graphics for future use. most renderings are protected and not avaliable. what are you trying to do? i have line templates for several boats if that helps

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I may be buying an older boat that needs updating, instead of getting out a sheet of notebook paper I thought I might go try this first. It would also be nice to cut some templates as well.

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what kind of boat is it? i may have something you can use. i have converted some to a file you can open in WORD and make hard copies. you would have to do the graphics the old fasioned way but atleast it gets ya started :D.

heres one i did of the 49 Ocean Express. its a perspective 3/4 rear view but most of the ones i have are straight on top and side templates. makes laying out graphics easier. they are generally fit to a standard size sheet of paper but for some reason i resized this one to small. let me know what you are looking at and i will see if i have anything that might work.

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I'm looking for one of a 30 AMT.

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LOL . . . i will need side and top photos of the boat :D. . . nice avitar :evilb:

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Give me an email and I'll send you the 30' AMT

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Both TAOD and myself use Adobe Illustrator. It's a really powerful program, and very similar to GlassDave's Corel Draw.

Fair warning......I thought that i could just buy these programs and start using them immediately. I could make brochures, and do renderings, and cards, and all sorts o' neat stuff. IT TOOK ME AYEAR BEFORE I WAS PROFICIENT IN THESE PROGRAMS!

My warning to you is to be cautious with your money. Adobe Illustrator is a $500 program, I believe, and you can't just go in and make magic happen. It takes a lot of time to learn these programs. Keylines are a big challenge for a novice, and doing a design...especially an intricate design, may be futile and frustrating. If you don't intend to utilize these programs to a point of satisfaction, it would be best to call upon someone with enough experience to help you.

Dave, do you use your CorelDraw to interface with any type of Cad plotting program to cut vinyl? If so, do you like It? i use Signlab, and it works great.It also interfaces well with AI, but i don't believe I can use AI as a cutting program. Just curious.

MT

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I can import any progam into my SignLab program but I use Adobe Illustrator, Like TAOD and Mitcher T. I like SignLab for my cut files as it is easy to learn and use when I first got into it.

Just my 2 cents

Good luck!

Chris Diamond

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Hey Mitch, hows it going? Good advice on using these programs and very true. I have been using Corel for several years and i think i learn somthing new everytime i fire it up. They are very powerful utilities but require a fair amount of input. I will probably swich to AI at some point but for now Corel fill all my needs, its the first graphics program i got and old habits die hard :D . Havent really used it with any plotters, most of the time when i need logo die cuts i just contact Mr.Beckley. My graphics are still largely free taped with the occasional spray mask thrown in. Mostly i use Corel to develop a visual for customers. :cool:

Happy Birthday by the way :drink:

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tssteph- you got all the graphics advice and offers to help that you will ever need right there in less than 12 hours! MitcherT hit it right on the head- dont frustrate yourself, you may lose your focus and enthusiasm for the project. Get some colored pencils to do your sketches on xerox copies of the template and develop your idea the old fashioned way.

MT, fwiw, the later versions of Corel have a feature that allows you to cut direct to plotter. Although I invested a lot of time learning it, I prefer Illustrator now because it works so seamlessly with Photoshop, which I am officially addicted to.

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Yeah, I agree witht he compatibility issue between AI, Signlab and Photoshop. I can design my graphics for the visual, isolate it in a layer, and import it into signlab and make it 50 ft long and i've got the plot for the boat.

Powerful, powerful programs...with a high learning curve.

I believe that Rodney at Raticle Graphics also uses AI.

Thanks Guy for chipping in on this on.

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Geographics I have been looking for a font for quite some time that was done for me on signlab called atomicag or something similar do you know if your version has this and can the font be used with other software?

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rbr- can you post an image of the font? I have over 30,000 fonts in my library- if I don't have it, I can usually figure out where to find it.

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My 90 28 Apache fresh out of the factory.Graphics added over the last 16 years.

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heres a a cool video that shows some of the effort involved in generating a rendering from scratch.

http://www.idleriot.com/media/videos/Cool/3696/Amazing_MS_Paint_Artist.html

you need a high level of artistic ability and vision from the minds eye to do some of the more involved projects. :cool:

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here is the logo with the font

Just what is in red!

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Yes, I have that font in my version.

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anybody having trouble with that link i put above? i tried it a few times and it wouldnt work. you have to cut and paste it for some reason. its a pretty cool clip that gives you an idea of some of the basics of digital rendering. :cool:

http://www.idleriot.com/media/videos...nt_Artist.html

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Hey Glassdave do you have a line drawing for a 46 Skater?

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no but if ya get me a straight side shot and an straight shot down on top of it i can possibly whip one up :cool:

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too bad that guy that did the ms paint drawing is not good at softimage XSI. that is what this was done with.

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nice real nice

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i think that image may me a little more involved than the MS Paint guy :D

damn i never thought about it but i was under the impression that pic was a scale model. Pretty nice work. i use a program called Rhino for 3D modeling. way cool stuff. how is that project coming Tyson?

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rhino is pretty cool too. we do have a model of it but never painted it so the pics are just renderings. dont have enough money to build it.

Dave.....You have one of those for a 1984 Formula 302 so I can experiment on??