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Hi Dave, When I need to make a dingbat like yours is I start by making a good clean pencil sketch to which I apply an overlay of Rubylith and then cut with an E-Acto knife. Scan and clean it up a little. Making this stuff by computer alone just doesn't work for me, it always looks to mechanical.
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Yo, Davey......I have a weird way of doing this one. I'm pretty true with film bending, so I take a length of 1/8" vinyl film and turn the spiral on a piece of 2mm Sintra (for rigidity), scan it in and add the center flare last with the gerber plotter. Gives you an exact width the whole way. :^)
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Is this a little closer Dave? I drew and digitized a line in SignLab and then outlined it. Added a circle, welded 'em and then cleaned up. I'll send you an EPS if you want.
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Lee Hulick called me to ask me why I just didn't use the SPIRAL feature in Corel Draw?
"Because I didn't know they had a SPIRAL drawing feature in Corel Draw!" was my reply! hahhahahahh
Well its there and its easy! So after getting what I needed in Corel, I exported as an .eps file into Omega and finished my ornamental pattern ( upcoming Cathedral job )
BINGO....
Thanks again, and I hope this helps everyone who needs to use it sometime!
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