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Old 08-27-2011, 08:06 PM   #6 (permalink)
brucepick
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Originally Posted by ChazInMT View Post
... I use MS Word BTW and I use the draw function to make a template shape by tracing the template. Once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy and very accurate. I designed parts for a truck cap using it, and when I scaled up the printing and had it made in lifesize, I was only off by 1/8" with 63" parts...
Can you say more about how you do it? I have MS Word, have done some work with pics in Word, but not this yet.

Do you paste the two images on top of each other?? Set one pic as some % transparent so you can see through it?? Then trace the template with the mouse? That part seems tricky but you seem to get a nice smooth curve.

If more of us can learn how it's done that's better than a small number of people drawing up templates for everyone here, imho.

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