Bill Nuzzo
PRO Member
For the past several days I have been spending hours learning how LP works and getting myself into the minds of the programmers. This program is a geometric tour de force that boggles my mind. To learn how to actually build the SW designs, I kept revising the designs and reading the assembly instructions (click ‘file/print preview’). I even built some strips on paper and cut them out and reassembled them. In the process, I developed a few questions and comments:
• Under File/Options why not be able to specify decimal inches rather than fractional? Laminate strip widths and Laminate Cut Widths are always shown in fractional and cannot be entered as decimal.
• For SW designs, why would anyone want to make the center cut wider than their saw kerf (which would require multiple cuts) when so many great designs can be made with a single cut down the centerline. The adjacent cuts are, by default, always the saw kerf width.
• Why not allow user to specify exact saw blade width in decimal inches instead of only 1/8”, 3/32” or no kerf? (The no kerf works well when using scissors to cut the pattern out of paper.)
• Why use fractional inches for saw blade, strip width and laminate cut width and decimal inches for height and for SW design strip width and center kerf width?
Comment:
The SW patterns generated by LP for a feature ring are for a vertical orientation of the ring and only for the outside. The pattern for a sloping ring or for the inside of the vessel would look different. Also the shape of the SW patterns get very interesting if the vessel has a significant vertical curve to it!
This is a fantastic and fun program to use.
Bill Nuzzo
• Under File/Options why not be able to specify decimal inches rather than fractional? Laminate strip widths and Laminate Cut Widths are always shown in fractional and cannot be entered as decimal.
• For SW designs, why would anyone want to make the center cut wider than their saw kerf (which would require multiple cuts) when so many great designs can be made with a single cut down the centerline. The adjacent cuts are, by default, always the saw kerf width.
• Why not allow user to specify exact saw blade width in decimal inches instead of only 1/8”, 3/32” or no kerf? (The no kerf works well when using scissors to cut the pattern out of paper.)
• Why use fractional inches for saw blade, strip width and laminate cut width and decimal inches for height and for SW design strip width and center kerf width?
Comment:
The SW patterns generated by LP for a feature ring are for a vertical orientation of the ring and only for the outside. The pattern for a sloping ring or for the inside of the vessel would look different. Also the shape of the SW patterns get very interesting if the vessel has a significant vertical curve to it!
This is a fantastic and fun program to use.
Bill Nuzzo