CarveWright Designer wishlist

[weezimp]

When I use Edit: Board Settings on an existing project, I'd like to see an option to scale ALL or SELECTED or NONE objects in the project. And then, of course, scale said objects proportionately to the change in the dimensions of the board.

There's plenty of room in the Edit: Board Settings: Dimensions tab, at least as I see it on a Mac, so should be no trouble to put those options in there, one could assume...

[mtylerfl]

When I use Edit: Board Settings on an existing project, I'd like to see an option to scale ALL or SELECTED or NONE objects in the project. And then, of course, scale said objects proportionately to the change in the dimensions of the board.

That is a good suggestion. Could come in handy in a number of situations alright. It would make it easy to create a small, medium, and large versions of the same project without having to lay it out all over for differing board sizes.

[AskBud]

When I use Edit: Board Settings on an existing project, I'd like to see an option to scale ALL or SELECTED or NONE objects in the project. And then, of course, scale said objects proportionately to the change in the dimensions of the board.

There's plenty of room in the Edit: Board Settings: Dimensions tab, at least as I see it on a Mac, so should be no trouble to put those options in there, one could assume...

I think that if you display the Carve-List, and hold down CTRL and CLICK on EACH item you can do it now.
The design will have each item active and there are YELLOW Arrows in the corners that will allow you to size the entire design.
Do not use any of the RED Nodes!. I must say that I'm not sure if it also sizes the Cut-Paths as I did not check that aspect.

PS: OOPS
Sizing changed OK, but when I then changed the Board size the individual items did not stay in the same location as on the original.

[weezimp]

Yeah. It's more complicated than it seems at first.

If you use Photoshop or Illustrator, you may be familiar with a little 3x3 grid that shows up during a scaling operation. It allows you to pick a point to anchor and all scaling happens with respect to that point.

That'd be another suggestion to add to the WL...

[cnsranch]

As I was watching my design being cut out yesterday on 40 year old ash (harder than chinese arithmetic), hoping I had made the passes shallow enough to prevent undue stress (i.e., waiting for the bit to explode), it occured to me that if we had the ability to tell Designer the type of wood, hardness, etc., we were working with, it could auto default to a given set of parameters - in other words, give us a warning that we may be telling the machine to do something that may cause problems with that type of wood.

Surely, the bit could plow through balsa faster than ironwood.

Imagine -

Edit: Board Settings:
Length:
Width:
Thickness:
Wood Type:

[AskBud]

As I was watching my design being cut out yesterday on 40 year old ash (harder than chinese arithmetic), hoping I had made the passes shallow enough to prevent undue stress (i.e., waiting for the bit to explode), it occured to me that if we had the ability to tell Designer the type of wood, hardness, etc., we were working with, it could auto default to a given set of parameters - in other words, give us a warning that we may be telling the machine to do something that may cause problems with that type of wood.

Surely, the bit could plow through balsa faster than ironwood.

Imagine -

Edit: Board Settings:
Length:
Width:
Thickness:
Wood Type:

Amen!
AskBud

[ironsides]

When viewing the Dragster Video in the Educational Package, I see that the software will work with the *.stl file format.

What do we need to do to get LWR to make this option avaliable on the CW Designer software?

My solid modeling CAD software (Turbocad) will output .stl files and I would love to use this system for pattern making.

Ironsides

Using 1.133 with a crippled Pattern Editor (hint, Hint)

[CraigR]

I would like the ability to make things bigger such as splitting up lettering or images to multipal boards to make lettering or image to go across 2 or more boards.

[AskBud]

I would like the ability to make things bigger such as splitting up lettering or images to multipal boards to make lettering or image to go across 2 or more boards.

I searched for my old post (pointer) on "Large sign".
http://forum.carvewright.com/showpos...89&postcount=2
AskBud

[cestout]

If we could draw a line and see a cross section view at that point. I found that if I place some patterns on a 0.6 deep cutout, they come out too big. And how high is that dome? With this we could see just how various parts relate.