compatibility with 2D &3D Design Suites

[cestout]

Is there any way a design can be imported into 2D, traced, then shaped with 3D and then enhanced with Pattern Sculptor?
Clint

[fwharris]

Start with the "import image for tracing", after tracing you can then use the 3D tools to build up the areas you want. When you feel you have it then do the group to make the pattern. After you have the pattern made you can then take it into Sculptor or the Pattern Editor to work with.

[cestout]

How about if Sculptor is stand alone? I am running 2.07.
Clint

[CW-HAL9000]

How about if Sculptor is stand alone? I am running 2.07.
Clint

Then its a $200 pattern.

Because you have to upgrade to 3.0

[ktjwilliams]

Well Connie you don't see the PM's and E-Mails ... There are a few whom post their gripes here which generates numerous PM's n E-mails from others ,, Many are Senior Members and or Testers .. There are several other concerns with other software also ... Like MPC's,,, if you get one from 3.xx and you only have 2.XX you can't open it ... An MPC is an MPC ,, so basically there are 3 versions of designer, one not compatiable with the other although they all use MPC's .. If someone shares an MPC ,folks should be able to open and use em ... If there are features used that the receiver don't have like maybe center line, then he couldn't use the Centerline but could edit text to raster Etc ...

[Chris77089]

Well Connie you don't see the PM's and E-Mails ... There are a few whom post their gripes here which generates numerous PM's n E-mails from others ,, Many are Senior Members and or Testers .. There are several other concerns with other software also ... Like MPC's,,, if you get one from 3.xx and you only have 2.XX you can't open it ... An MPC is an MPC ,, so basically there are 3 versions of designer, one not compatiable with the other although they all use MPC's .. If someone shares an MPC ,folks should be able to open and use em ... If there are features used that the receiver don't have like maybe center line, then he couldn't use the Centerline but could edit text to raster Etc ...

The reason that the files are not backwards compatible is because there are new features added that were not in the original code and the older version will not know what to do with the new instructions. An MPC is the the storage container for the instructions and code and each version of designer has different tools that can be used to fill that file. There are similar things happening in the cell phone world where apps can be updated or upgraded to not function on an older firmware version of some phones but will work on newer ones. The file type remain the same yet it is the instructions and code that have to be interpreted that change. Many other programs limit what versions of Windows they can run on yet they are still EXE files.

[DickB]

Like MPC's,,, if you get one from 3.xx and you only have 2.XX you can't open it ... An MPC is an MPC ,, so basically there are 3 versions of designer, one not compatiable with the other although they all use MPC's .. If someone shares an MPC ,folks should be able to open and use em ... If there are features used that the receiver don't have like maybe center line, then he couldn't use the Centerline but could edit text to raster Etc ...

I guess I don't see how that could work. What for example would Designer 1 do with a Designer 2 mpc that used Decorate With Text? Flatten it out? Throw it away? Or what about the v-carve feature Designer 3? In many cases I think there wouldn't be much of an mpc left.

This type of software behaviour is not uncommon in the software industry. The software versions are upward compatible - you can open a Designer 1 project in Designer 3, you can open a Word 2003 document in Word 2007. But you are correct in that they are not backwards compatible. When you use a feature in the later version that is not in the earlier version, it's pretty tough to do.

[CW-HAL9000]

you can open a Word 2003 document in Word 2007. But you are correct in that they are not backwards compatible. When you use a feature in the later version that is not in the earlier version, it's pretty tough to do.

Not so, all versions of word have a save as feature that allows you to save it in the older formats. I fully understand mpc's not being backwards compatible but the modules should at least work with out additional modules necessary and should work with at least the last few versions of basic designer, version 2 was a year old to the month when version 3 came out and there really was not enough new stuff to not qualify as more than just an update to 2 rather than a whole new version. The big problem really is sculptor being called a stand alone when it really is not. It requires either version 3, or stl importer and pattern editor to be fully useful.

[lynnfrwd]

No. Not if you have STL importer.

[cestout]

Connie, is that no it is not a $200 pattern and I can use Sculptor to touch up patterns I create in 2.07 designer, or no I can't import my patterns into sculptor?
Clint