Importing a design

[Gary Weichert]

I seem to remember mention of being able to import a picture of a completed project, and having one of the three programs be able to trace the exterior lines. Am I losing my mind? Or does such a feature exist?

My wife loves my first segmented project and wants me to duplicate it (sans all the mistakes that only I am woefully aware of). I have found a SP "canned" urn design that is quite close, and if I have to, I will start with that. But I really like the ultra-flexibility of WTP and would like to be able to take a snapshot of my design (or the SP urn design), duplicate it in 3DDP, and import it to WTP. Perhaps I'm asking too much.

 

[mfisher]

Like the Santa M&M commercial, It does exist. The image import is in 3DDP Tools menu.

In 3DDP
- Tools / Background Photo / Add Replace
- In the pop up box go to location of the image you want to use
- Adjust the aspect ratio
- move image to the left edge to show 1/2 the image
- trace outline
-start WTP and import the 3DDP profile.

You can take a photo straight on of your vessel and save the image as a jpeg or bmp. I prefer jpeg format.
Here is one of Lloyd's videos. At around the 2:00 minute mark it is showing importing an image into 3DDP.

 

[Gary Weichert]

Like the Santa M&M commercial, It does exist. The image import is in 3DDP Tools menu.

In 3DDP
- Tools / Background Photo / Add Replace
- In the pop up box go to location of the image you want to use
- Adjust the aspect ratio
- move image to the left edge to show 1/2 the image
- trace outline
-start WTP and import the 3DDP profile.

You can take a photo straight on of your vessel and save the image as a jpeg or bmp. I prefer jpeg format.
Here is one of Lloyd's videos. At around the 2:00 minute mark it is showing importing an image into 3DDP.

Thanks Mike! That was exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try this evening.