Rigging? Rope? Please help!

[ibewiggin]

Ok, so with the hopes of my machines being fixed soon, I am working on a project for a friend. I was thinking a crib board. Does anyone have any ideas on what would be a good pattern or idea for a "rigger" He just graduated his four year apprentice with the ship yard as a rigger. His dad sent me a picture of rope spliced into its self making a loop at the end of a rope. He called it a lanyard, but it does not seem like it would be very nice looking. Any ideas would be appreciated. I have several cribbage board patterns, and am just looking for an idea that is related to rigging.

[lawrence]

http://www.flypig.co.uk/?page=celtic

This program lets you make your own celtic knots-- with some messing around you can get a pretty good looking pattern- this was about 30 seconds of work and can obviously be made better

[lawrence]

and one more... I'm really liking this faux 3d thing (2.5d)

Lawrence

[ibewiggin]

OOOH, that is very similar to the picture he sent me! That could help. Thanks.

[edzbaker]

Lawrence, I have no Idea how you are doing it,,but that rope looks Great. !

Thanks..

Ed

[ibewiggin]

I know huh? Amazing!

[dbfletcher]

Damn.. now im jealous. I worked for weeks trying to find a good way to model rope in 3d... i never found anything that I thought was easy enough to make the process worthwhile. Of course I totally skipped the 2.5D stuff in favor of 3d solids log ago so maybe each tool has it own specialty.

[DickB]

and one more... I'm really liking this faux 3d thing (2.5d)

Lawrence

What software are you using for this?

[lawrence]

a combination of artcam (30 day trial), coreldraw, and the pattern editor software. Google sketchup warehouse has lots of places to start and you can export stl with a plugin and then play with it. The eagle I did recently was a from "scratch" (from a picture) 3d generation using artcam. The rope took about 5 minutes to make from an STL, and I think I'll probably be buying an old copy of artcam or one of the cheaper versions soon (or aspire). The newest version is $8000 so I don't think I'll be buying that one. My buddy doesn't use his account very much (and he writes his annual fees off with his business) and has told me I can borrow it (his dongle, which you need to use artcam) whenever I'd like; I'll probably be carving him a sign or two in return, which I think is more than fair.

Lawrence

[GrammaPam]

IB,
Find out if they use regular nylon rope or wire on the docks. In logging they use wire rope, very stiff, looks a bit different, too. If you come to Wednesday's gathering I can show you some. Also, I have extra cribbage pegs if you need some. My crib board pattern is wrong. I probably made a dozen or so for people before I started learning to play and found out I have a few errors no on ever mentioned. Oh, for a logo? If it's union work, and I think most dock work is, that's what they are most proud of.
G.P.