how to make rhinestone templates with sure cuts a lot 2

If I don't limit myself to one supplier, there is a good chance there are going to be size differences. Rinse, brush repeat until I find the right cutting size. It is looking like in the end I am going to have to cut test templates for each batch of stones I get and do a brush test. When I design I use 3.49mm to cut my circles and have no problems.'Īll this just leaves me more confused. ' HIya,I have been using SS10 stones from shine art.According to thier catalog they are 2.7mm-2.9mm. So for 6SS I design and cut 9SS and 10SS I use 13SS.' 'As a general rule of thumb, I use 3 sizes up to cut my templates. Not that I am far enough along to use many of them yet, but I thought I'd pass it along.Īfter dickering around some I've found some suggestions: I have it as a notice in google calendar. On a side note, this site: offers a free rhinestone font on the 17th of each month. My test cuts suggested growing them a micro amount helped in brushing. I am also not sure if I should set the vector circles to those exact sizes, or grow them a tiny amount to allow for the stones to drop in easier when brushing. I also have a limited amount of stones for trial. Errors happen when cutting, but it makes me want to pull my hair out. But like a carpenter I want to measure twice cut once. Various sources differ sligtly in the stones sizes, like here: It does help to illustrate the problem I find. Equating those sizes to the ss numbering of stones is missing. SeeJaysPlace, that is close too the information I seek.

As this is all just testing, and I can do the designs manually, the fancy software can wait awhile. But for now I can do them by hand in CorelDraw with heavy use of Blend along path and duplicate and repeat. I've been looking at rstones and drawstones macros for CorelDraw.

How to make rhinestone templates with sure cuts a lot 2