I am a wooden model ship maker and enthusiast and wish to make accurately scaled parts for my latest scratch built model (Union Army’s Civil War ironclad USS Cairo) project. I have chosen to use CorelDraw to design my custom parts in vector and to scale. Since Corel and most vector programs apply weight to any line 50% on each side of the dimension line, and CW Designer uses the line for cutting, I compensated using a 1point line weight and made sure the dimensions for the parts I need were true INSIDE the line.
Knowing that my wood would be 3/16” think cherry7, 24” long and 3” wide which made the thickness under CW minimums, I cut a pine carrier board ½” thick, 24” long and 3” wide, applied double sided carpet tape to hold my cherry board for cutting. This resulted in a total thickness of 0.710, which is what I set for thickness in Designer.
CorelDraw produced my finished graphic in vector CDR format and then I exported that into a raster JPEG format at 300ppi and highest quality (attached). I inspected this JPEG in Adobe Photoshop to be sure scale and aspect was maintained and found that it was perfect.
In Designer, I created a work piece 0.710 thick, 24” long, and 3” wide, imported my JPEG into Favorites and called upon it to go onto my work piece. Below is how it came in.
The wood is proper size. The JPEG did not come onto the wood piece to the size I created it. I note that the corners probably will enlarge the image in aspect, BUT,once I’ve dragged the corner anchors to fit the wood, how can I establish that my part will remain EXACT in measurements?
I need not explain, probably that I just received my CarveWright and I’m a real novice at both it’s operation and the Designer program.
Bob Hill
Tampa Florida