[TheForge] Design Software

Sun Dec 9 23:52:01 2001

Shannell, Vega's article is very interesting and helpful for communicating
with clients.
I'm more interested in the initial design process itself.  I would like to
development
more approaches to design.  I mostly just sketch and experiment with the
metal itself.  This approach is extremely time consuming .  There must be
some better and quicker ways to generate and manipulate designs in metal.

What shareware do you use?  How does one use a "flair" table?
RW
----- Original Message -----
From: Shannell <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Design Software

> Yeah I do this with nearly every big job I get. Ive got a wide range of
> software that I use. Its great to be able to show a customer what a job
> could look like when setting up a job. Can take a lot of time though but
its
> kind of fun. Photoshop is great but there are a multitude of shareware
> programs that you can use. I bought myself a "flair" tablet which is handy
> for sketching stuff into the puter also. I photograph all my work with the
> digicam and have grabbed a few shots of stuff I like from the web and can
> cut parts out of either to place into a design Im working on. There was
one
> Italian site I went to that make forged components, they had hundreds of
> photos of their stuff up, all cut out and simple to use, they were kind of
> generic looking things that I could make and photo myself, scrolls,
leaves,
> flowers etc so I didnt feel like I was really plagerising? Artmetal.com
has
> an article at
> http://www.artmetal.com/enrique/designer/railings/jessie/index.htm
> which is pretty good too.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RW" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 6:17 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Design Software
>
>
> > Does anyone use computer software to create and explore designs?
> > What are the pros and cons?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input.
> > RW
> >
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