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Hello All. While using SegPro I was trying to get a view of the Urn using the 'Rings' tab and get the following message: "The Ring View is not available for Feature Ring Bowls." Is this proper app behaviour or user error? Thx
 
It is normal. The reason is a featured ring is not normally made up like the rest of the bowls segments. Ring view for non featured ring rings will create a pdf file for you. This file is used to show the layout of the segments in making a ring. It is most useful when you have created a pattern using various wood. Take a look at the vid Lloyd created. It goes over the Summary View and Ring view in SP. The ring view starts about the 5:35 time mark.


You might want to review the thread discussion at

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks for the info. I have reviewed the vid but it doesn't cover the Urn part. I was simply wondering if I was doing something wrong or if the app simply will not show the rings of an urn.
Thanks again.
 
Thanks for the info. I have reviewed the vid but it doesn't cover the Urn part. I was simply wondering if I was doing something wrong or if the app simply will not show the rings of an urn.
Thanks again.

The problem is all of the segments are of the same wood (color). Remember the ring view is for layout only. So it makes sense that if all of the rings are the same wood you have no need for a guide.

Go in and select tornado bowl, then ring view. You should get a pop up window asking for a pdf file name. Enter a name and select ok.
(if you don't have acrobat reader (which is free ) you may want to load that on your pc.
You will get the same results if you pick "paint". You will have to "paint" a ring. Then the pdf file can be created.

Here is a screen shot of the Rings view
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Nacho,

The reasoning behind this is that every ring of a Painted Segment Bowl is going to be made up of a number of species and it is necessary to see the layout to avoid errors. All of the ‘field’ rings of a Feature Ring Bowl are made from a single species so there is no reason to have a ring view.

Likewise, every ring of a Tornado Bowl is identical. To make a PDF file where every page is identical is also meaningless.

If you you want to make an urn that is a feature ring bowl but you also want to paint the field rings using different species, this is not a standard procedure which means that you should use Woodturner PRO to design the vessel because you can do whatever you want to do because you are in charge down to the segment level. It takes longer to design, obviously, because in Segment PRO, the software does all the work for you.

As an option, you can design an urn in Segment PRO as a feature ring bowl for the feature group and as a painted segment bowl for the field rings so it is something you can do without leaving Segment PRO. As Mike would tell, you, though - Woodturner PRO is the best solution whenever you want to do anything that is non-standard. He even uses it to design his standard bowls because once you get used to using it, you can become very fast at it.

Lloyd
 
Thank you Lloyd. All this info makes alot of sense now.
I just wantedto make sure I wasn't missing anything or in error.
Nacho
 
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