Drawing a spiral

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vfauto
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Drawing a spiral

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Is there a easy way to draw a spiral ? Like a dot in the middle and then just keep going around until desired size.
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Re: Drawing a spiral

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You can download a free program, Inkscape; it has a spiral tool. You can save the file as an *.eps or *.pdf and import it into Vectric. Can't get much easier
Here are a couple pics, the spiral created in Inkscape and imported into Vcarve, shown in node edit mode.

http://www.inkscape.org/download/

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Re: Drawing a spiral

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WOW! That's great,looks pretty easy I willgive it a try.This forum and the members are invaluable.


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Frank
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Frank

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Re: Drawing a spiral

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I have played with this for a little bit but I thought instead of waisting time I would just ask.I drew a spiral in inscape saved it as a pdf and png. When I imported it to Aspire there are two lines or alot of individual pieces.When I hit node editing there are tons of nodes????
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Re: Drawing a spiral

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Save it as an .eps file and it will be much better.




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Re: Drawing a spiral

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That worked great!!!

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Frank
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