JohnBarton Report post Posted January 14, 2008 Hi all, A while back we promised to share our digital stamping tools with you all if we did them. We did them. right here - www.jbcases.com/leathertools.html These are graphic representations of common stamping tools. We just did all the tools in Tandy's catalog to get started. The shaders and such probably won't be of much use - at least they haven't been to us yet. But the geometric elements have allowed us to come up with some nice patterns to tool. The images are all done to the size quoted in the Tandy catalog. If you use Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Xara or some other vector graphics program then you want the CMX files which can be imported to all those programs I mentioned. The direct link to download the zip file is here Leather Tools Zip or also on this page. CMX stands for Corel Exchange Format which is what Corel Cliparts are formated in. All I know is that .cmx files can be imported in any of the above programs. Do not resize the pictures in your drawings as they will not correspond to the actual size of the tool then. Unless of course you want to carve the shapes or patterns. Okay well that's enough words - hope these are useful to you all. John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beaverslayer Report post Posted January 14, 2008 WOW, lots of work there, thanks John for putting this together. Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leatheroo Report post Posted January 14, 2008 that is soo helpful thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cem Report post Posted January 14, 2008 Yes a big thankyou for putting all these together I was thinking of doing this myself for using as Alphas (Digital Stamps) in ZBrush and it looks like you have saved me a big job. Cheers, Clair Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cem Report post Posted January 14, 2008 Hi John, I just had a quick look at the files and are you sure you can import that format into Adobe Illustrator I have CS3 and it won't let me. The only Corel format I could find for importing is CDR for versions 5 to 10. Would it be at all possible to put them into another format like eps as I would dearly love to try them in ZBrush. Thankyou for your help Kind regards, Clair Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnBarton Report post Posted January 14, 2008 Hi John, I just had a quick look at the files and are you sure you can import that format into Adobe Illustrator I have CS3 and it won't let me. The only Corel format I could find for importing is CDR for versions 5 to 10. Would it be at all possible to put them into another format like eps as I would dearly love to try them in ZBrush. Thankyou for your help Kind regards, Clair I thought I tried to import the cmx to illustrator but I can't remember if remember it right - must be a sign of getting old (just turned 40) - I probably had converted some to AI. I am downloading a batch converter that I hope will work to convert the files to eps and ai - will post the results shortly No good on the batch conversion - tomorrow I will have one of our interns do it file by file and post the eps and ai files to the library page - very sorry for the misinformation on the cmx importing to Adobe Illustrator. John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnBarton Report post Posted January 28, 2008 Update: I have added the AI - Adobe Illustrator Files to the ZIP File So now the file includes all the stamping tools from the Tandy Catalog in both CMX and AI format. That should be pretty good for most graphics programs. Here is is - Stamping Tools Zip File - click to download then open with your favorite unzip program. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
