Medrod
PRO Member
Hi everyone. My name's Rich and I split my living between Mesa, AZ and Everett, WA. Fortunately, I'm retired so it makes for a fun life. I've been wood turning for just the past four or five years. I've been making mostly segmented travel mugs and bowls, but about six months ago I started with open segmented bowls. My personal lathe is a Delta midi and when in AZ I have access to a shop that has about ten lathes. The largest thing I've made is a 12" salad bowl that I finished last week.
My interests are peaked by patterns and designs so I found the Lamination and Woodturner Pro s/w to be of interest. I've been trying one program for several days to begin learning it, then activating another and doing the same thing.
Three or four days ago I activated WTP and that's where I'm have a problem. Hopefully, someone will understand what I'm trying to describe and be able to help. Remember, I'm just trying to learn the software and there is nothing important about the number of rings, the profile, wood thickenss or height. Here goes.
I start with default values and a maple disk. To better see what's happening, I start with maple, redheart, and walnut in a 12 segment bowl and Paint Repeats checked and set to 4 per row. I add a row and in Ring View, starting at position 1, I don't need to do anything on this ring since all segments are set to maple. I select position 2, right click and select redheart, then go to position 3, select, right click and choose walnut. I go to vessel view and everything looks correct. Back in ring view, I add the third row, put redheart in position one, walnut at position 2, and maple is in position 3. Again, in vessel view, everything is great.
I now add a 3rd ring (I now have the disk plus three rings for a total of four rows). Keeping the same rotation, I put walnut in pos 1, maple at 2, and redheart at 3. In vessel view things are not right so back in ring view & step through the rings. Ring 3 is correct but ring 2, starting at pos 1, I now have displayed redheart, redheart, maple (the pattern is repeated around the ring, of course.) Ring 1 is now maple, redheart, redheart. If I change Ring 1 back to what I want, rings 2 & 3 shift.
What am I missing??? Thanks for any help you can give me.
My interests are peaked by patterns and designs so I found the Lamination and Woodturner Pro s/w to be of interest. I've been trying one program for several days to begin learning it, then activating another and doing the same thing.
Three or four days ago I activated WTP and that's where I'm have a problem. Hopefully, someone will understand what I'm trying to describe and be able to help. Remember, I'm just trying to learn the software and there is nothing important about the number of rings, the profile, wood thickenss or height. Here goes.
I start with default values and a maple disk. To better see what's happening, I start with maple, redheart, and walnut in a 12 segment bowl and Paint Repeats checked and set to 4 per row. I add a row and in Ring View, starting at position 1, I don't need to do anything on this ring since all segments are set to maple. I select position 2, right click and select redheart, then go to position 3, select, right click and choose walnut. I go to vessel view and everything looks correct. Back in ring view, I add the third row, put redheart in position one, walnut at position 2, and maple is in position 3. Again, in vessel view, everything is great.
I now add a 3rd ring (I now have the disk plus three rings for a total of four rows). Keeping the same rotation, I put walnut in pos 1, maple at 2, and redheart at 3. In vessel view things are not right so back in ring view & step through the rings. Ring 3 is correct but ring 2, starting at pos 1, I now have displayed redheart, redheart, maple (the pattern is repeated around the ring, of course.) Ring 1 is now maple, redheart, redheart. If I change Ring 1 back to what I want, rings 2 & 3 shift.
What am I missing??? Thanks for any help you can give me.