Hello pals, I'm new here. I am creating a clock face with perfect dials. How do I create the hour and minute marks accurately?
Hi Wilson,
Be aware that you may not get a satisfactory image for a watch dial by using DRAW and Photopaint.DRAW creates vector images which are mathematical descriptions of the image - and so - may be scaled to any size.Photopaint is bit map application. The last I looked, you could only get a maximum of 300 ppi when converting to a Photopaint image from DRAW.
A watch dial can taper down to a hundredth of an inch or so - thus the width would be only a few pixels wide. That's not enough for an offset press either.
I'm not aware how watch people handle this.
Phil
Phil1923 said:The last I looked, you could only get a maximum of 300 ppi when converting to a Photopaint image from DRAW.
I just drew a 1 inch diameter watch face in X7 and exported to .CPT at 12,000 dpi.
Perhaps something has changed since you last looked.