Gun stock Checkering Laser patterns/other laser vector Art

[Timothy J Ziegler]

Goodafternoon all,

I am looking for a good source of Laser Engraving patterns for both Gun stock scenes, checkering and other Vector Art available out there.
I have done several web searches but have not come up with any real solid leads. Epilog only has one very plain pattern that I've found.
I have a book too but really would prefer to down load and not have to scan and tweak every drawing.
any help would be great.



Kind regards,

Tim J. Ziegler
Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty

[Mike Null]

Tim

Welcome to SMC. Here is a link to an old thread on this topic. https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?215021-Laser-Checkering

CorelDraw is your friend.

[Timothy J Ziegler]

Tim

Welcome to SMC. Here is a link to an old thread on this topic. https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?215021-Laser-Checkering

CorelDraw is your friend.



Thanks Mike,

It kicked me out when I tried to go those threads?

Tim

[Keith Outten]

Tim,

The thread is fine, however you cannot see pictures here until you become a Contributor.

[John Lifer]

There is a guy that is creating artwork for sale that I have purchased from, https://www.fragoutdesign.com/ is his website.
He's got a bunch of various items.....

[Timothy J Ziegler]

Thanks Keith, I contributed last night. So I should be good to go?
Where do I see that I've been accepted as a contributor Keith?

[Timothy J Ziegler]

So I am working on trying to get the checkering or texturing in Bitmaps however I can not get the feature to ungray? I have a box selected just for a test and was going to texture it and it will not let me? I have Corel Draw 2018 version?
should I add that to my original post?

[Timothy J Ziegler]

Ok so I found I have to convert to a Bitmap then the texture along with several other features are active. Guess I just need to keep digging.

[Kev Williams]

hell, make your own in Corel-- quickie lesson to make a basic knurled pattern--

I drew a long vertical line, then made 20 copies 1/8" apart--
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I want a 35° crosshatch, so I group them, copy them, then rotate the copy 70°, then group it all and rotate it back 35°--
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Now I draw an oval shape within the grid (it can be ANY shape) and then using 'power clip' I removed everything around the oval,
then enlarged the oval (it's over 8" tall now)
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I'm not all that familiar with power clipping, and found that the grid within the oval was somehow 'locked',
and wouldn't ungroup from the oval, nor could I thicken the outline of the grid. So what I did was export the
set as a DXF, then just imported it back, and that took care of it, and I was able to add thickness to the outlines
to suit me-
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from here I boxed it all and COMBINED it, then clicked on 'convert outline to object', which created an
engraveable closed object from my single outlines, so I went from single lines to a closed object:
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NOTE that you don't HAVE to convert to object if using a C02 laser, you can just thicken up single lines with the outline tool and a C02 laser will raster them the same way-
but for a fiber, you need to change it to a closed object.

[Timothy J Ziegler]

Thanks Kevin, Great information. We are extremely new to Corel Draw and need all the guidance we can get.
I'm a woodworker by trade so learning how to draw is going to be a challenge.