Hi,
anyone,
I cannot find a video on how to draw the artwork for a custom button anywhere on the internet.
I could do this almost blindfold in V5, with a grid and bitmap mode, but alas things have changed again.
Where can I view a video all about the new button drawing thing ?
how do I get the grid to show in the button drawing thing, ESSENTIAL for drawing.
and where is the actual size preview as I draw, without which this is useless. I might be drawing too thin an item.
prefer the bitmap as it showed what was actually allowed. it stopped you from making something too thin or small !
How does one draw then move an item ?
how does one draw a circle and make it thicker line weight.
Strewth not intuitive.
V8 one struggle after another.
Steve
What is the quickest way of getting my custom toolbar button drawn ?
Can I use photoshop and make a grid thing same row and column count as V5 editor.
then make a raster one, then import it , ?
or can I use V5 then save the button there, and get it into V7, then from there make a rui of it and get it into V8.
I think a means of importing a bitmap into V8 is quickest.
This is not happening, surely V8 has a button editor, need to be able to make a custom button and give it an image.
ship has launched and someone is still rivetting the hull.
I am trying not to have to go back to V5
1 week overcoming one thing after another in V8. not good.
Photoshop is the Adobe tool you would use if you were making bitmaps, as I understand it. If you are making an SVG I believe Illustrator is what you’d use. That is, if Rhino’s tool isn’t good enough. There are probably a number of other SVG editors available, but I’m not the expert to know about them.
Yes, I did all mine that way, drawn in Rhino and exported as .svg. The button editor SVG import has also been improved since I did this many months ago. Note also, if I understood correctly you can now import bitmap images into the button editor and use them.
Hi,
so is the following the correct steps to take ?
Rhino new file, small items cm
make a square using square tool
draw a circle using circle tool
thickness of line, use layer palette, which makes lines in print preview a lot thicker than I was used to.
colour background use hatch on a layer, use layers to create colours.
any colour is ok.
for dots use circle and hatch fill.
use hatch for all colour fills.
BringToFront to sort out layer order and items obscured etc.
save as .svg
edit toolbar button and import that svg.
Jobs a good 'un
I wouldn’t rely on line weight. I drew all my stuff as simple curves, then used offsets of those to create the width I wanted, then hatched the result to make “thicker” looking curves. I then basically exported only the hatches in the SVG file. That turned out to be very reliable, although time consuming of course.
My SVG template was a mm file with a reference square 48mm x 48mm, the upper left corner at world 0. Everything drawn inside the square.
@Helvetosaur
Thanks,
I will give that a go.
I liked the fact that with the bitmap editor you saw how it would look as you drew it, thats important,
how can that be in V8 and drawing it as 48 x 48mm.
Can the button on the toolbar be linked to the file creating the svg, so changes are seen on the toolbar ?
What car are you working on ?
I had noticed a lesser presence of late
Hi,
I have created a 48x48mm artwork, cannot see what it will look like until in place,
toop left 0,0
save as .svg just the hatches.
import the artwork, and see nothing.
I used the setting image only.
ok,
now 48mm x 48mm and was not in preview box so try for 72dpi and still not in preview box, cant see anything else to try.
so what other ingredients does this cake need ?
the rhino workspace gives me a grid !
I go file open and try for this 48x48 formerly A0 and still blank.
Button making was never like this before.
Hi,
ok sorted,
here for anyone wishing to quickly make a button, is the method !
using Rhino normal workspace
small item millimetres
48x48mm square
use hatches for all, then epxort the hatches.
then right click empty area of toolbar (not the actual button) choose edit toolbar button, and browse to the button.
go to left one of the two top right button tools, file open and bring in the .svg you have just made.
pray and hope it works.
and then discover that because there is no preview as you designm the result is not very good, as I have just discoivered !
If I remember correctly, a few years ago Rhino 8 WIP had much more completed tools to draw SVG lines than the current commercial version of Rhino 8. It’s impossible to draw an icon in V8 now.
