Jeez–I don’t know why it took me so long to figure this out, but it’s super-easy to print templates from APS3000 (APS3000.com) and not save temps to PDF and have to go to Kinkos. You just FILE > PRINT> PRINT OUTLINE FULL SIZE then PRINT PROFILE FULL SIZED.
Tape the pieces together–they’re formatted so that it’s so friggin easy, almost fun.
I’ve seen other people mention Kinkos too, but it’s just not necessary to pay for, drive, etc
Now I think I’ll ride my bike to the pawn shop and see about a battery charger.
It’s so easy. I have been going a bit nuts on APS3000 lately. Doing rocker templetes is great as you can really get
a good idea of how the rocker will turn out. I have been transfering the print outs on to MDF to use for hotwiring.
After I cut out and sanded the MDF I put may hands where my feet would go and you can feel how the rocker should ride. I haven’t hotwired any EPS yet but it should be soon. In the meantime the APS3000 software is keeping me amped.
I wish there was a way to print the help files so you could read them while doing the learning (and still have a full screen).
I’m just getting the intro down. I made a jpeg of a board outline I like and I want to import it. (?file-import?) Then trace the outline with the mouse (?what?). HEY! HEY! No snickering out there! Give the old guy a chance.
No snickering–edit your JPEG so that the board is roughly the right size for your screen, horizontal and the nose is pointing right
Go to FILE>IMAGE BOARD>OUTLINE–find your JPEG wherever it is and double click on it
Go to the gray button to set the length (and width) you want
Follow the instructions that pop up to set the nose and tail location–ballpark the end of the tail and center of board for swallows, and mess with it until the stringer is matching the centerline
Drag the blue point at the wide point to set WP
Drag the blue point to set the tail corner
Drag the reds and yellows around to set the curves
You can do all this for the rocker shot too–just choose the TOP and BOTTOM tabs
Then you set the blue points to where you want the deck to transition to the tip of the nose and the tail and mess with the red and yellows until you have the tip profiles you want
You can figure out your concaves and rail profiles, vee, flow and etc on SLICES the same way–the blue points are the ones to drag and set first
I love drawing temps on this thing–mine are all wide and thick
not familiar with APS print outs, however I use a cheap $40 lexmark 810 series printer to print full size rocker temps.
File;
Page set up; zero all margins
then go backt to,
File;
print;
Preferences, click paper setup…select banner…letter or A4
save the settings for future use.
You can puy rolls of paper from staples for $10 just cut off what you need and put them through the printer.
I dont bother with outline temps, just pick the numbers off the program every 6 inches and transfer to the blank. Use any temp laying around and blend through the marks…it will work out ok.
Nice set off instructions. One thing you might not realise that I discovered by accident.
You don’t have to resize your image to fit on the screen.
You don’t even have to have the image facing in the right direction.
If you have an image that is way to big for the size of the screen all you do is set your nose or tail roughly in the right direction and then keep on clicking away until you finally reach the nose or tail. By doing this the image actually shrinks itself on the screen. I usually do the nose first, use the stringer as a reference, click on the screen as close to the nose as I can get then keep on clicking until I finally reach the nose then do the tail.
Sometimes it is actually better to have a larger image as when it shrinks you have a sharper image to work off.
not familiar with APS print outs, however I use a cheap $40 lexmark 810 series printer to print full size rocker temps.
File;
Page set up; zero all margins
then go backt to,
File;
print;
Preferences, click paper setup…select banner…letter or A4
save the settings for future use.
You can puy rolls of paper from staples for $10 just cut off what you need and put them through the printer.
I dont bother with outline temps, just pick the numbers off the program every 6 inches and transfer to the blank. Use any temp laying around and blend through the marks…it will work out ok.
nik
NOW THAT IS A KICKASS TIP, BRO
Thanks you very much–that’s a stoker–hope I can use mine
OK!!!. Making progress. One kilobite at a time. Two followup questions. I have my copied picture brought into APS, and I have a refernce shape showing as an overlay on the pic. Now I want to manipulate the reference shape to the outline of the copied pic. (Right? OK 3 questions. Ha). Do I move the ref shape? or Move the copied pic onto the ref shape? and how? (Oops 5 questions)
When you use the rolls of paper for outline templates, aren’t you limiting yourself to boards that are only two times 8 1/2 inches wide? (Last one)