Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )

Excel is a very good host for drawing shapes in a very limited way, if that
makes sense! I'm not aware of a commercial package for your purposes with
Excel but not sure you need one, depending on what you want to do.

I appreciate computers may not be your thing but why not dip your toes in.
First activate Excel's drawing toolbar -

On the main Excel toolbar, View, Toolbars, select 'Drawing'

As well as the rectangle & oval click on Autoshapes basic shapes

After messing around for a while try 'grouping' shapes to make two or more
as a
single shape (hold shift while selecting multiple shapes, right click,
Group). Now you can format (eg colour), move, resize all as one.

Right click on shape's selection handles for other options such as 'Order'

Look at the rotate button, the 3D button (icon like a cube) and other things
on the Drawing toolbar.

Although as I said Excel drawing is limited particularly if you want to
rotate in 3 dimensions, then quite a lot of programming would be required.
However it's surprising what can be done within the limits of one's
imagination!

Regards,
Peter T

PS like your sculptures


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Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )

Hi Peter, I have Excel on my pc so i am going to have a play around
with that and see what I can do, I have only ever used it for spread
sheets and had no idea it had those capabilities many thanks for the
advice and comments. Jake

deadlyartichoke www.llamaseven.com (Stainless Steel Sculptures)

Peter T wrote:

Excel is a very good host for drawing shapes in a very limited way, if that
makes sense! I'm not aware of a commercial package for your purposes with
Excel but not sure you need one, depending on what you want to do.

I appreciate computers may not be your thing but why not dip your toes in.
First activate Excel's drawing toolbar -

On the main Excel toolbar, View, Toolbars, select 'Drawing'

As well as the rectangle & oval click on Autoshapes basic shapes

After messing around for a while try 'grouping' shapes to make two or more
as a
single shape (hold shift while selecting multiple shapes, right click,
Group). Now you can format (eg colour), move, resize all as one.

Right click on shape's selection handles for other options such as 'Order'

Look at the rotate button, the 3D button (icon like a cube) and other things
on the Drawing toolbar.

Although as I said Excel drawing is limited particularly if you want to
rotate in 3 dimensions, then quite a lot of programming would be required.
However it's surprising what can be done within the limits of one's
imagination!

Regards,
Peter T

PS like your sculptures


"deadlyartichoke" wrote in message
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Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )

Depending on how large you are trying to go the limit may actually be
the capability of your printer rather than the capability of the
"drawing" package.If the shape exceeds the size of a single sheet (A4?)
it can be a pain cutting off borders and sticking the bits together ...
a little bit easier if you can print "borderless".

Alan

deadlyartichoke wrote:
Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )

Size does prove to be a problem for me I get my mrs to do something in
paint shop pro but have to always make loads of mistakes before I get
the size I want.

deadlyartichoke www.llamaseven.com ( stainless steel sculptures )

Alan wrote:

Depending on how large you are trying to go the limit may actually be
the capability of your printer rather than the capability of the
"drawing" package.If the shape exceeds the size of a single sheet (A4?)
it can be a pain cutting off borders and sticking the bits together ...
a little bit easier if you can print "borderless".

Alan

deadlyartichoke wrote:
Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )