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Hotfix Era – User Manual
The Rings Pattern box contains a rings list, at the left and a preview pane at the right. A control
named Rings, at the top-left, lets you indicate how many rings you will define.
By default, Rings is set to 1 and the list contains just one row. You may define as many rings as
you want, however:
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If the number of defined rings and their separations produce a pattern that is not enough
large to completelly fill the object, the system will repeat the pattern starting with ring 1.
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If the number of defined rings and their separations produce a pattern that does not fit
inside the object, some rings will be ignored. In this case, the system shows a warning
message and the ignored rings will be marked with * in the list.
The Rings Pattern settings in the picture
at the left was used to fill the star design
shown in the previous page. Seven rings
were defined. The separation between
them was increased from ring to ring to
produce the vanishing effect.
The red line in the Preview panel
indicates the object boundary. The black
background region represents the object
interior.
Observe that the last ring falls outiside
the black region, meaning that it will not fit
and will be ignored. For this reason the
warning message appears at the bottom
and the ring 7 is marked with *
Areas with Hotfix Flexible Fill
Flexible Hotfix is a powerfull fill mode that allows you to create a beads placement that
is guided by an almost arbitraty direction line.
This fill mode requires that a new element be defined, the direction line. It’s a simple,
open line, built from a sequence of nodes (straight and curves).
Basically, the placement is generated using a set of imaginary lines (with the
same shape than the direction line). Beads are then placed along these line in a
row by row basis. So, this fill mode includes properties not only to control beads
spacing along the “imaginary” rows but rows spacing as well.
Once you complete the input of the main reference, look at the Elements group in the area
ribbon and click on the Direction icon. Then just start creating a line that cross the main
reference, like in the picture below
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