[sdiy] dial graduations

[mark verbos]

I can't speak for Freehand, but Illustrator has rotate tools. What I do 
make a line and copy it 10 times or whatever. The rotate each copy a 
different amount, for instance 30 degrees, then 60 degrees then 90, etc. 
then I align all of them on both axises. Works like a charm.

Am i missing the problem here?

mark

Michael Ruberto wrote:

> unfortunately, I don't have illustrator. besides Photoshop I also have 
> Freehand but even this has no useful tools for this. I find it hard to 
> imagine that these sophisticated and expensive programs don't have a 
> protractor. in freehand I can constrain the rotate tool but it's 
> finest resolution is 45 degrees. to get other angles I have to set an 
> offset value to the constrain angle. this is just plain idiotic.
>
> I have actually saved drawings of the Mercury-2 spacecraft's control 
> panel and copied some dials into photoshop. using the shape tools I 
> can trace the graduations onto another layer and use that layer for my 
> pattern. this still isn't as quick as I'd like it to be but the 
> results are quite acceptable.
>
> please do send me more suggestions though. I appreciate them all!
>
> ~M
>
>
>> From: "Fahl, Romeo" <RFahl at extensis.com>
>> To: 'Michael Ruberto' <frankentron at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: RE: [sdiy] dial graduations
>> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:43:26 -0700
>>
>> I'm thinking  Adobe Illustrator would be a better tool for that kind of
>> thing.  You can put just about anything on a path, so if you want a 
>> circle
>> of outward radiating lines, you just make a custom brush and make a 
>> circle
>> with it.  I haven't used this capability to do exactly what you're doing,
>> but I'm sure it would be easy to set up.
>>
>> Romeo
>>
>> %-----Original Message-----
>> %From: Michael Ruberto [mailto:frankentron at hotmail.com]
>> %Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:46 PM
>> %To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> %Subject: [sdiy] dial graduations
>> %
>> %
>> %hi,
>> %
>> %I am in the process of designing front panel graphics for all
>> %of my modules
>> %so I can have them laser etched. the biggest problem so far is
>> %creating the
>> %tick marks to go around the knobs. I am doing it "by hand" in
>> %photoshop but
>> %it is really quite time consuming. is hand drawing these the
>> %only way to go?
>> %does anybody know a source for premade images of dial graduations?
>> %
>> %thanks.
>> %
>> %~M
>> %
>> %
>> %
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