I have a customer that wants me to cut vinyl lettering for her daughters bedroom ceiling in a spiral around her light fixture. The lettering will be big enough that it will make 3 loops or so. I run Flex-Sign Pro and don't know how to get it to do that. Does anybody know how to accomplish this?
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
can do it with paint and a brush......
Posted by goddinfla (Member # 1502) on :
OP, I think he means to do it on purpose without medication.
Posted by Susan Banasky (Member # 1164) on :
Hi Donald...nice to see you are still around. If you must do it in vinyl....I would lay it all out to scale on my computer, then cut it in sections, tile it....just like any other large decal (you can decide to cut through or around selected letters as the pattern allows, you can cut through a letter for overlapping or , plan it better so there is no overlapping by cutting those select few letters separately.
Gravity will suck to install, but I would tape it in place, peel and stick, then take some aspirin for a sore neck!!!...but then what do I know??? Good Luck.
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Be sure to add the cost of a trip to your Chiropractor to the price!
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Donald...I think Susan's suggestion is the best way to get the job done easily...You could spend hours doing a spiral layout on the computer...or use Susan's easy way solution.
3 loops of the spiral will involve cutting elements apart, so just lay it out in a straight line and manually install.
Posted by Lori Wilcox (Member # 8042) on :
Use the pen tool to make the spirals, then the type on a path tool.
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
Lori wins!!! That was going to be my suggestion.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
I would do it like Lori suggested. But illustrator has a spiral tool that I would use. Does Flexi have something like that? If so, you should be able to lay it out as fast as you can type.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Like this.
[ September 14, 2013, 11:06 AM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
I would not know how to alter the letter hieght to compensate for the line distance that makes a spiral a spiral though. What a conundrum. That could look wierd as well now that I am thinking it through. Thanks for getting this "Tune" stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend:)
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
Thanks for the advice. I will try to find the pen tool and path tool that Lori talks about. I am not installing this as far as I know. That is why I wanted to give it to the ladt in a spiral, but we both understand that it will be in multiple pieces. Don, the example of what you did is exactly what she wants it to look like. I've just got to figure out how to do it now.
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
Lori or either Don Where do I find those tools in Flexi?
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Donald, I wouldn't have a clue. I can send you a vector spiral, but that won't do you much good unless you can type on a path. Email me if that helps. I'm not on this site every day.
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
After playing around with Flexi, I think I may have figured it out. Thanks everybody.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Donald, typing on the path is just a click in Flexi, but I don't know of a spiral tool other than freehand drawing and cleaning it up. Tell us what you found?
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Seems like a no brainer to me!
Send the text to Don, have him lay it out, and change to curves in a format that you can use.
Whatever he would charge would be worth it.
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
What I did is to take the pencil icon and draw the spiral. Use the node tool to smooth them out and in the text line there is the "AB" on a sqiggly line which I figured out will type on the line. It starts typing where you start drawing so take that in to consideration of how the customer wants to read the text whether it goes from the inside out or the outside in.
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
I don't know how to post a picture like Don did or I would show you what mine looks like. I'm a computer moron.
