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You may have allready found this site, but here's a site for outer soles. Harold

Just press the control and print screen button at the same time, open paint, paste (or Control V) the image, and manipulate the image as you like. You can mirror it, add to it, or erase part of it, and print it all using Microsoft paint or another similar program. Be sure to save it for future use. Harold

Autocad is very accurate for sheetmetal layouts. Leather should be much easier (forgiving) than sheetmetal to work with because it's flexable. The patterns would be developed in 2D Autocad. The operator would have to make allowance for material thickness and bend radii. The Sig was scanned, digitized, and "tweaked" to be dimensionally accurate. It took about ten minutes to scan, digitize, and "tweak" the Sig. It took another ten minutes to layout the first holster and about two minutes each for each additional version. I believe Autocad can be valuable in this application for full size patterns. My problem is that my leatherworking skills lag far behind my Autocad skills. 2008_SIG_p220_002.bmp 2008_SIG_p220_002.bmp

This is a holster design I'm working on using Autocad. Are any of you using Autocad and, if so, would you like to show us your efforts? 2008_SIG_p220_001.bmp 2008_SIG_p220_001.bmp