How do you folks use this program to design you boards. Do you just get the design you want and transfer it on to the blank? Or do you some how print out an actual size template from adobe?, if so how? Also what do you think of this design I have, will it work for someone who is 6’2" 195lbs, Ive tried to make it wider and thicker than my normal boards, but about 4 inches shorter. Any suggestions will help out alot, thankyou in advance for all your help
just take a screenshot of the board and paste it into Adobe or some other picture editing software. blow it up to full size, and you can print it.
Word like soulstice said, I just did this to copy a disk template and it worked great. After you are done getting the outline go to the show/hide menu at the top and remove all points, lines, ghost boards etc, and change the background color to white to save your printer. then take a screen shot by hitting Ctrl and the Print Screen button. Open up Adobe or whatever and paste it in there, cut out what you don’t need, and blow it up. Print that baby out and then cut it out and tape together on your floor and transfer to cardboard or whatever you want. It works great, I double checked my nose, tail and center and all were within 1/16 of what they should be.
Good luck
I have done this for a couple of my boards. After designing a board, I import the picture into Adobe Photoshop and crop it so that the image goes exactly from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail and right to the edge of the rails. I then crop the board in half length-wise so the board is bisected down the middle of the stringer (When you print out the full size image you only need half of the template since you can just flip it over to the other side of the blank. This also saves paper). Anyways, change the image size so that it is the exact size you want length and width-wise. Remeber to do half of the width you want because you are only printing half of the board. Once the image is saved, import it into Adobe Ilustrator. Make a new project and make the size 12 inches larger than your image in both directions. Change the setting so that it displays the paper grid. Import the picture and center it over the respective pages. Print out the pages. Cut out your design. Tape the pages together. Viola…you have a full sized template of board design.
-Ben
I do the same thing as bwinterroth. However I find that the image quality of capturing the screen is poor since windows seems to save it as a .bmp file. So in the ASP program I convert my board into the standard PDF that it allows you to under the file menu. I open up the PDF and grab the outline from that file and copy that into a new Photoshop file. This way I don’t loose any resolution. Also if you like, you can just save the photo of the template, take it to kinko’s and have them print it up on their oversized printer for around 3 bucks. Oh yeah, convert that large photo into a PDF if you take it Kinko’s because they will only print from a PDF file and if you bring in a jpeg file they will charge you 5 dollars to convert it there.
Cool. I will keep that in mind. Sounds a lot easier than what I did. You could also try saving it as a TIFF file. No compression = better image
Is it just my lack of experience with APS3000 or is it difficult to do Fish tails with APS3000, I have no problems with Shape 3D. Any tips ?
Yes, it indeed is difficult since the blue design node is locked at the length of the board. What I just did was pull the red tangency point associated with that node towards the nose. Then I just put a design node at the tip of the swallow tail and adjusted as necessary. Doing this gives you a crossed line that extends from the tail node to the apex of the inside of the tail curve, but I just ignore it.
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you can just save the photo of the template, take it to kinko’s and have them print it up on their oversized printer for around 3 bucks.
have you done it? because last time i tried that they quoted me $1.50 per square foot. printing four 9’6" templates would’ve cost me over $50…wasn’t happenin’!
Hey thanks everyone, I ended up just chopping it and making a template of the nose and tail. I called kinkos to ask how much it cost the told me 0.50 for a square foot, not to bad, it would be about $6.50 if I wanted to do the whole board, but theres a $10 if they convert it to pdf for you. I tried to do it myself but when I did it and tried to open it with adobe it shrank back down, dont know what went wrong. So to end this long rant thats why I just printed the nose and tail at home from the full scale format that I made.
the techniques described to print out outline and profile are quite good, you can use a little program called “PRINTKEY” to make the screenshot. there is a free version at
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,5144,00.asp
many standard A4 printers can print outline and profile in what is called BANNER MODE, see the manuals. you get excellent results when you print it on architect plan paper which is sold on rolls (in different weights too) and can easily be cut to the required width with a saw. but cut the length before you put it in the printer otherwise it will pull the whole length through. drawing paper for kids is also sold on rolls cheaply and can be used too but it tends to distort a bit.
I just went there two weeks ago and I can tell you it definitely wasn’t 1.50 a square foot. I think it was somthing like $.36 a square foot. I have learned to have quite a bit a patience with the people at Kinkos since most people will give you two different answers for every question that you ask. Keep working up their food chain unitl you get someone who knows what they are talking about. Someone was yanking your chain for sure. Good luck.
***Ask for the work on the oversive printer in black and white on the rolled paper they have in the machine.
i think every kinkos is different…i went to another one the other day and asked them, and they quoted me $2.50 / sq. ft…i guess Boca Raton kinkos have Boca Raton prices…damnit, i gotta get outta this town.