[TheForge] Design Software

Mon Dec 10 07:09:41 2001

The "flair" tablet is an input device for sketching into the puter with a
pen, works pretty good. Really when it comes down to it, I think a pencil
and paper is the best way to form ideas and see how things will look, next
step can be chaulk and the floor or a blackboard or metal table top, gives
room for life size plans that you can layout against. Computers are good for
symetrical work like formal gates etc which are hard to do by hand, or for
spending time getting a photolike impression for a client before the piece
is started. The other use is the collage of cutouts of leaves ,scrolls etc
on the screen to form what you are making, this takes a lot of time to setup
at the start but then its fairly easy to arrange and rearrange different
components to render a gate or similar.
----- Original Message -----
From: "RW" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Design Software


> 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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