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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
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      Obviously something is missing from Fredo's plugins (or someother plugin that would be needed). You'd better post this in the Ruby forum because the folks there may know what to do.

      Gai...

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
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        Hm. The image doesn't want to load - I can't really compare. Why don't you attach it to the post instead?

        Gai...

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        • K Offline
          Kus
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          OK... I didn't get it working... so I decided to go another way... Here You see a picture that I have made (the finished project must be clean). But when I compare my birds to the 1 on the picture bellow they are pretty different. How can I make them more alike? The main problem are the visible edges.

          20090416001300_12s.png

          poljane-logotip-rumen.JPG


          poljanci.skp

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          • K Offline
            Kus
            last edited by

            i did that... hope that it is fixed

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              Now this is definitely a question of the segmentation of curves. With more segments, your design would be much more "smooth" and similar to that of the image.

              I saw you post your question in the ruby forum (hope someone will answer - I don't have that plugin currently installed). What exactly did you try to achieve with it?

              Gai...

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              • K Offline
                Kus
                last edited by

                well I wanted to make a school-boy smilie, that would fit in to the context that I need to fill... well I went with the school logo but I don't know how to make it smoother... I heard of CAD importing, but I don't know how...

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                • K Offline
                  Kus
                  last edited by

                  i guess that I need to import a dwg image... but how to I make a jpg file a dwg one??

                  http://www.gimnazija-poljane.com/P/LogoGimp.png?pic=5

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    You can either use software that "converts" raster images to vector images (Google some and find out which suites you) or use curves (arcs, beziers etc.) with higher line segments than what you are currently using when tracing around your image.

                    Gai...

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @kus said:

                      i guess that I need to import a dwg image... but how to I make a jpg file a dwg one??

                      http://www.gimnazija-poljane.com/P/LogoGimp.png?pic=5

                      wintopo free did this quickly - you'll see it's all 'steppy' because of the raster pixels becoming lines... You could quickly redraw over it to improve it before importing to SUp...Image of DWG convertionImage of DWG imported into SKP pushpulledDWG inside zip fileSKP with DWG imported

                      TIG

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                      • K Offline
                        Kus
                        last edited by

                        great... it looks great from far... but up close you can see the "steppyness"... I am on a mac... can't find a program that can open dwg files... can some1 tell me if there is a free 1??

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                        • TIGT Offline
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                          @kus said:

                          great... it looks great from far... but up close you can see the "steppyness"... I am on a mac... can't find a program that can open dwg files... can some1 tell me if there is a free 1??

                          A Mac limits you a bit, but try this site http://www.lemkesoft.com/lemkesoft.html
                          If you are on a budget this site has 'free' shareware ($30/35 each) (I think with unlimited use - it's up to you to be honest) for 2d-CAD and Image manipulation - including GraphicConverter which can change virtually any raster-image into many other raster-formats and also vectorize them too... I think that CADintosh only exports as DXF [that can be used in SUp], but it can import other file formats that you can first vectorize from raster-images with GraphicConverter [like HPGL and PICT]... If you have a DWG you can always import a DWG into SUp, and if the 2d drawing is too intense with that then export it as JPG or DXF into GCon' or CADin' etc...

                          TIG

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                          • K Offline
                            Kus
                            last edited by

                            well I have downloaded the GraphicConverter but don't know how to change it to be able to change in SU...

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                            • K Offline
                              Kus
                              last edited by

                              No problem... I have corrected it in SU... it turned out great!!! 😍

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                              • K Offline
                                Kus
                                last edited by

                                well here is the picture I have made:

                                20090417181620_49s.png

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
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                                  @kus said:

                                  well I have downloaded the GraphicConverter but don't know how to change it to be able to change in SU...

                                  Open the PNG file in GraphicConverter.
                                  Make/convert it into a vector format - like HPGL ?
                                  Import that format file into CADintosh and edit it as desired.
                                  Then export its as a DXF file which can be imported into SUp as geometry...

                                  TIG

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
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                                    @kus said:

                                    well here is the picture I have made:

                                    Well done !

                                    TIG

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                                    • K Offline
                                      Kus
                                      last edited by

                                      one more thing... I am using podium and I set the reflection to 10 but I did not like it... now I cant set it to 0... why???

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                                      • R Offline
                                        remus
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                                        make sure youve only got faces selected when your setting reflection (or light). Podium doesnt like it if you try and give reflection to groups.

                                        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          Now those birds do really look fine (to me at least).
                                          So is it your school's logo?

                                          Gai...

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                                          • K Offline
                                            Kus
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                                            TY... Well last week I got an F for not doing my homework at the art class... And now I am trying to get it to vanish πŸ˜„ ... That is why I will probably soon make something new and ask you how to make it better πŸ˜‰ ... And If you have some ideas plz tell πŸ˜„

                                            BTW: I fixed the problem with Podium

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