Stained Glass Photo Software3/24/2021
At Joseph 2bears Art Glass Studio the design is edited in Glass Eye 2000.I am an independent studio, not an employee of Dragonfly Software, the company that makes Glass Eye 2000.Fear not I will do my best to avoid technical gibberish and present this review in plain English.
I often hear comments such as, Im not very computer literate. I can draw my patterns with pencil and paper as Ive always done, so why should I try to use a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program like Glass Eye 2000 If you can point, click and drag with a mouse, you can draw stained glass patterns with Glass Eye 2000. Although the program has hundreds of features, the novice can draw a stained glass pattern with only a few simple commands: just point and click. In this article I will give you an overview of what Glass Eye 2000 can do for you. If you havent considered CAD in your stained glass hobby or business, I think you will see that it is an invaluable tool that will pay for itself in the first few patterns you develop. One of the most basic pattern manipulations we perform is resizing an existing pattern. For example, we have a panel design that is 18x24, and a customer wants that panel to fit into a 24x36 window opening. In the Medieval Glass Studio they get out the projector, pantograph, or heaven forbid, the 1-grid graph paper, and start tracing. Now they spend another half-hour with their colored pencils or crayons putting in some semblance of the glass color. Call the customer, leave messages, and try to schedule a review for approval of the finished design. Then they stack two more sheets of paper with carbon paper in between, tape them in place, and retrace their drawing to make the lay-up pattern and piece pattern to be cut with pattern shears. They now have 3 to 4 hours of labor in the simplest of tasks. Has he returned our calls yet At Joseph 2bears Art Glass Studio I open Glass Eye 2000, and open the pattern file from the design library. The customer gets a very realistic picture of what his finished panel will look like, moments after his selection, not a colored cartoon that my Medieval competitor hasnt even started drawing. Work on the panel continues, without delay, pulling the glass from inventory, or getting an order out to my supplier as the customer leaves the studio. How much longer do you think they will last The next day the customer calls and wants the butterfly moved from the flower on the right to a flower on the left side of the panel. He also asks if a caterpillar can be added to the flower where the butterfly was originally situated. This is the second most common pattern manipulation in a glass shop: minor alterations to an existing pattern. They have to call the customer and schedule an appointment for review and final approval of the alterations.
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