Help With checkered Roof

[SteveGSI 1]

im using sign blazer and want to do cut a line of checkers 50x50mm each sqare, 550 wide and 1750 long.

what is the aasiest way to do it? thanks

[Jay2703 704]

Set your units to mm if not already

Set your grid to 50mm x 50mm.

Turn on Snap to Grid

Create a square

Set your vertical dupliacte to 100mm

Duplicate your square until you have 550mm width

Set your duplicate to 50mm vertical and 50mm horizontal

Select and duplicate the column of squares

Set your vertical duplicate to 0 and the horizontal to 100mm

Duplicate the 2 columns until you have 1750mm length.

http://screencast.com/t/Vtlou1s6fn

Jay

[SteveGSI 1]

cheers bud gona try it now, soudns com[plicated but im sure its not from that video haha

[Dr12volt1338 116]

Good job Jay!!!! I had no idea how to do it in SB so I made this real quick in Flexi.... Much fewer steps LOL

Checkered.eps

[Jay2703 704]

Ctrl + D will duplicate what you have selected. It's faster than using the menu.

[SteveGSI 1]

my signblazer keeps crashing:( how do a do a video like you have there?

[Jay2703 704]

Good job Jay!!!! I had no idea how to do it in SB so I made this real quick in Flexi.... Much fewer steps LOL

What are the steps in Flexi?

[Jay2703 704]

my signblazer keeps crashing:( how do a do a video like you have there?

I use Jing.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

[SteveGSI 1]

im gettin it now and going to do a clip, and see if someone can help why its crashign

[SteveGSI 1]

http://screencast.com/t/egWFV9vCsFZS

[SteveGSI 1]

cheers bud your video helped loads, is there a way i can save it ?

[Jay2703 704]

I would un-install it and re-install it again.

cheers bud your video helped loads, is there a way i can save it ?

Just bookmark the link.

[SteveGSI 1]

ok mate,

if i do that will it delete all my templates already made?

[Dr12volt1338 116]

What are the steps in Flexi?

created a square 50mm by 50mm arrange> step and repeat, select the height by width # of squares. I just did 4x4. Hold shift select the ones I want white, select all, save as a pattern. Now I have a checkered pattern I can create any shape and fill it with that pattern. Have to export it as a .eps to get it to cut for some reason, I'm looking into that now.

[Jay2703 704]

created a square 50mm by 50mm arrange> step and repeat, select the height by width # of squares. I just did 4x4. Hold shift select the ones I want white, select all, save as a pattern. Now I have a checkered pattern I can create any shape and fill it with that pattern. Have to export it as a .eps to get it to cut for some reason, I'm looking into that now.

thanks.

there's an Array function in SignBlazer that sound similar to how Flexi works but to me it's harder to figure out the math behind the array than it is to set the duplicate distance. I like filling any shape with a pattern. That sounds cool.

[Dr12volt1338 116]

Its a really nice feature...... and you can set the spacing between each square has A LOT of options.

[SteveGSI 1]

hey jay, if i have a picture or a name and i cut it in one colour, i then want it in a different colour but slightly smalled so i can put it inside of the first one i cut, how would i do this?

thanks

[Jay2703 704]

Under Manipulate use Expand/Outline/Inline:

http://screencast.com/t/X8BALynH

Jay