How would you create a .plt file .....

[stitchup]

Here's a very simple image.



Just 2 colours, yellow & black. For most, creating a .plt file is simple and it soon will be for me too

How would you go about creating the .plt file?

Personally, I'd use spot foils and as I have yellow vinyl, only black would be required.

Just interested to know what steps you'd take to produce this on white vinyl. I can do this but, maybe I'm doing it in a long winded way

Thanks

John

 

[Jillbeans]

I would save it as a black & white .bmp then click "Place Image" (F10 under "File") to get it into Composer then click "Raster to Vector" (Ctrl+F8 under "Shape") to trace the image. This is in GA 6.2, haven't figgered out Omega yet.
Then I would clean up any extra nodes, unsquish that awful font, assign vynull colrs and cut.
Love....Jill

 

[mamos]

I would draw a square, round the corners off, turn it through 45 deg, Throw a contour round it, throw a larger contour round it, combine the two smaller ones, manually re-create the kangaroo, find the font, draw a box round it, shape the box to fit the shape. weld it to the larger contour, create a dropshadow

job done

10 minutes tops

mamos

 

[animenick65]

I would draw a square, round the corners off, turn it through 45 deg, Throw a contour round it, throw a larger contour round it, combine the two smaller ones, manually re-create the kangaroo, find the font, draw a box round it, shape the box to fit the shape. weld it to the larger contour, create a dropshadow

job done

10 minutes tops

mamos

Thats pretty much it. If you have streamline or something like that it would make quick work of the kangaroo.

 

[woolly]

I would draw a square, round the corners off, turn it through 45 deg, Throw a contour round it, throw a larger contour round it, combine the two smaller ones, manually re-create the kangaroo, find the font, draw a box round it, shape the box to fit the shape. weld it to the larger contour, create a dropshadow

job done

10 minutes tops

mamos

excellent work flow Paul and the finished result would be nice and crisp

woolly

 

[stitchup]

Thanks for the replies.

I did use your method Mamos and it worked very well. Then I cheated and use vectormagic, saved as a .eps file and imported into Omega - worked a treat.

jillbeans - not the same jillbeans on UKSignboards?

Anyway, with the help I've managed to print & cut a few decals tonight and they look okay . Just need more practice to get my head around the way Omega works.

These are for fun, not to offend


Cheers

John

 

[beckys]

good job John

 

[Jillbeans]

not the same jillbeans on UKSignboards?

Yup! I'm her evil twin.
hahaha
Nice to see you over here too.
Love....Jill

 

[stitchup]

Yup! I'm her evil twin.

Love....Jill

Twin? Not a touch of psyzophrenia!!!!