Hi gang,
I'm new here and a traditional Stained Glass Artist. I'm just adopting this software, rather than drawing my designs by hand.
Love it and just feeling my way through. I have one key question...
My designs are simply lines and shapes, with colour renderings once I get the glass stock catalogue in order.
Forgive me if you know how stained glass is built but for those who don't, it comprises of glass and lead soldered around the glass. The drawing is the first step and it shows typically 2# lines, one on top of each other. The lead is an H-section on it's side and the glass slides into each side. So, the drawing gives you two elements, a 6 or 8 mm line (lead line) with a 2mm line centered on top of that 6 or 8mm line. (heart of the lead and your glass cut-line.
I know I can simply pinpoint which lines use which leads and then layer, but is there a way of easily setting a line to show the 2mm line in black with the 6m or whichever thickness of lead line underneath in grey?
Each particular design will be filed away as a template and hold the appropriate settings 6mm lead, 10mm etc. Please note, the heart of the lead, the other line, is always 2mm.
Please note, I'm a blithering idiot so you'll need to explain with that in mind.
Thanks in advance all for the assistance and for the accumulation of some great historical information.
Cheers.
Glasshock.