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LESSON 4: DIRECTORY PLATE WITH TEXT IN COLUMNS In this lesson we’ll learn how to use GravoStyle’s ability to automate the setup of text that we wish to enter in columns. We’ll design a 6 inch wide by 8 inch long directory for a small medical office building. Our finished plate is shown in Figure 4-1. The concepts we’ll learn are how to: Setup baselines for text to be entered in col-umns How to select more than one object at a time and move them together How to fine tune the placement of objects by eye Our job’s design specifications are: Filename: Medical Directory.gnh Plate: 6 inch by 8 inch with a 0.1 inch margin all around Material: Gravoply 2, white core with a dark red/brown cap Text: US Block 1L, 0.3 inches high for directory entries, 0.4 inches high for all other text Figure 4-1 Finished Directory Plate Text Placement: Building name at the top margin Building address ½ inch above the bottom of the plate Directory: vertically centered on the plate Accuracy of Text Placement: visual accuracy acceptable Our job plan is to: Open a new file in GravoStyle 5, then Define our plate size as 6 by 8 with a 0.1 inch margin Enter our building text in the default mode of automatic text entry with its default center justification, then Change the font of the building name to US Block 1L with a height of 0.4 inches and place this text at the top margin, then Specify the baselines and text characteristics ...

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• Langue: English

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In this lesson we’ll learn how to use GravoStyle’s ability to automate the setup of text that

we wish to enter in columns.

We’ll design a 6 inch wide by 8 inch long directory for a small

medical office building.

Our finished plate is shown in Figure 4-1.

The concepts we’ll learn are how to:

•

Setup baselines for text to be entered in col-

umns

•

How to select more than one object at a time

and move them together

•

How to fine tune the placement of objects by eye

Our job’s design specifications are:

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Filename: Medical Directory.gnh

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Plate: 6 inch by 8 inch with a 0.1 inch margin all

around

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Material: Gravoply 2, white core with a dark red/

brown cap

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Text: US Block 1L, 0.3 inches high for directory

entries, 0.4 inches high for all other text

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Text Placement:

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Building name at the top margin

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Building address ½ inch above the bottom of the plate

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Directory: vertically centered on the plate

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Accuracy of Text Placement: visual accuracy acceptable

Our job plan is to:

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Open a new file in GravoStyle 5, then

•

Define our plate size as 6 by

8 with a 0.1 inch margin

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Enter our building text in the default mode of automatic text entry with its default

center justification, then

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Change the font of the building name to US Block 1L with a height of 0.4 inches

and place this text at the top margin, then

•

Specify the baselines and text characteristics for the columnar text, then

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Enter the directory text, then

LESSON 4:

DIRECTORY PLATE WITH TEXT IN COLUMNS

Figure 4-1 Finished Directory Plate

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Place the directory in the middle of the plate, then

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Enter the address and position it ½ inch above the bottom of the plate, then

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Select our cutting tool size, then

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Enter the WYSIWYRE screen to view a simulation of our finished directory plate.

STEP 1: OPEN A NEW JOB AND SET THE MATE-

RIAL DIMENSIONS

We’ll begin by opening a new job in GravoStyle and defining a

6 inch wide by 8 inch high plate with a 0.1 inch margin all

around.

STEP 2: ENTERING BUILDING NAME TEXT

After we accept the definition of our plate size and margin,

GravoStyle will be in its Automatic Text mode.

We’ll type in

the building name on two lines and change the text height to

0.4 inches and the font to US Block 1L.

Note that we can change the height and the font before we type

or after we type - the sequence isn’t important.

We’ll change to Manual Text mode, re-establish our 0.1 inch margin and drag the text to the

top border.

To do this, we’ll first click on the toolbars selection arrow to enter the selection

mode and we’ll click on either line of our text.

We’ll add the second line by holding down the

control key, with the first line still selected, and then click on the second line of text.

We’ll

then drag the text to the

top margin and our job will look as it appears in Figure 4-2.

STEP 3: USING THE “TEXT IN COLUMNS” TOOL

Part of the power that GravoStyle provides is a number of tools that are dedicated to tasks

Figure 4-2 Building Name

Positioned at Top Margin

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We could also select both lines of text by dragging a rectangle with the mouse cursor

completely around both lines of text.

This is, more or less, a Windows convention

that works with most graphics programs.

It works for selecting any number of sepa-

rate objects at one time as long as all of each desired object is totally enclosed by the

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We’ll find it by clicking on the “Text tools” icon on the left toolbar

(Figure 4-3).

A pallet of twelve tools will open and we’ll see the

“Text in columns” positioned at the left, two up from the bottom.

(

We can look at some of the others, and see that their icons clearly

identify most of the others, such as text on an arc, text at an angle,

vertical text, text within a rectangle, etc

.)

We’ll click on the “Text in columns” tool and …

Nothing happened!

Why? Because we’re not in Text mode - we’re in selection mode.

We have to be in Text mode to invoke the “Text in Column” tool!

We’ll recover by clicking on the Text icon,

and we’ll now be in text mode.

When we

enter text mode, we’ll see that one line of

our building name is highlighted as se-

lected.

Make it a matter of good practice

to unselect this text by clicking anywhere

else on-screen.

Proceeding with other

non-related tasks could have unexpected

results if you have some of your work al-

ready selected.

We’ll open the “Text in columns” tool by

clicking on it and the first of several suc-

cessive interactive dialog windows will

open (Figure 4-4).

It’s graphics hint at this tool’s ability to let

us enter the parameters needed to fully

define how the baselines for our text will

be positioned and spaced.

This particu-

lar window, however, is limited to specify-

ing only the text height and either one of two methods for proceeding.

We can elect a method where we specify the baselines of each column of text directly or we

can choose a method that lets us proceed as though we were entering text in a table, which,

of course, we really are.

For this job we’ll chose to continue by selecting “Setting on base-

line”.

We’ll next click on “Next” and our second dialog window will open Figure 4-5)

Figure 4-3 Text Tools

Figure 4-4 First Text-In-Column Screen

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Let’s make the settings in this

window in the order of the red

numbers shown in Figure 4-5:

1. Here, we’ll enter the

number of rows (6) and

colums (2).

2. At this location we’ll

specify whether or not

to have all of the col-

umns be the same

width.

We’ll elect not to

by un-checking the box.

3. We’ll tell GravoStyle

that we want a 4 inch

width for the first col-

umn.

4. We’ll tell GravoStyle

that we’ll use the entire 4 inches available

for this column.

5. We’ll enter 0.45 inches as the spacing between rows.

6. We’ll choose to have the first column left-justified.

7. Since we want to use the entire 4 inches available on the first column’s baseline,

we can’t have any left margin, so we’ll enter “0” here.

8. This dialog area lets us locate the first baseline on the screen with precision.

Since

our job specifications allow for visual accuracy, however, we don’t have to enter

anything in this area.

We’ll accept the defaults and drag our baseline pattern into

position later.

This saves doing some arithmetic and speeds up our work.

9. We might be tempted to click on the “Next” button now but we’re not through.

We’ve only specified the first of two columns which differ in width and we now have

to specify column 2.

We’ll do this by clicking in the right space in the scrollbar at

area 9 and move on to the screen for the second column (Figure 4-6).

Figure 4-5 Settings for Our First Column

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We’ll now enter our settings for

the second column.

We’ll specify

a column width of 1.8 inches with

a usable text width of 1.4 inches.

This means that we enter 0.4

inches for the left margin of this

column to ensure this value as a

minimum space between the two

columns of text.

Our line spacing

will be the same as column one -

0.45 inches - and we’ll right-justify

column 2.

We’ve finished specifying the col-

umns and we’ll now click on the

“Next” button.

This will bring us to

the next and final dialog window.

It’s titled “Strokes and bor-

ders” (Figure 4-7).

The “Strokes and borders” window lets us en-

grave:

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A line between the columns, or

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Lines between the rows, or

•

A line between the columns

and

lines between the rows, or

•

Borders around all the rows and

columns

We’ll elect not to have any separator lines or

borders engraved.

This screen also lets us select a tool color for

lines and borders.

We’ll accept the default

(black); we don’t have any lines or borders

anyway.

Figure 4-6

Specifying Settings for the Second Column

Figure 4-7 “Lines and borders” Dialog Windoe

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We’ll now click on “Finish” and our GravoStyle screen may look as shown in Figure 4-8.

Oh-oh!

Where are our baselines?

They’re there - they’re just not in the visible part of the screen.

We could hold down the

control key while we click on our right mouse button,

but we’ll try a powerful shortcut.

We’ll just double-click our right mouse button (no control key) and our screen will zoom

to the size needed

to show

all

items.

Our screen will now

look like Figure 4-9.

Figure 4-8 “Text in columns” Finished Figure 4-10 Screen Zoomed to Show All Items

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STEP 4: POSITION COLUMNAR TEXT BASELINES

We can now see our text baselines.

We’ll click on them

with our selection tool arrow and we’ll find that one click

selects

all

of them.

They behave as one object.

We’ll click and drag towards

the desired position, centered on the plate.

As we drag,

the cursor changes to the four-arrowed cross, signifying

that we’re moving.

We’ll roughly position the text base-

lines.

We’ll next drag a horizontal guide line from the top ruler

bar and place it at the middle of the plate - 4 inches on the

left ruler bar.

Well then again grab the text baselines with

the mouse and drag them into position.

It can sometimes be difficult to position items with preci-

sion with a mouse.

There is another way.

When we get

close enough, we can release the mouse and use the key-

board’s arrow keys to nudge an item into position.

We’ll

do this and when we’re done our screen should appear

as shown in Figure 4-11, with the box (it’s called a

“handle”) at the center of the selection centered on the

guide line and the text baselines centered left-to-right on

the plate.

We’ll now delete the guide line (“Modify” menu, then

“Guide lines” submenu) to reduce screen clutter, and

we’re ready to enter our columnar text.

Figure 4-10 Moving

Text Baselines

Figure 4-11 Centering

Text Baselines

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STEP 5: ENTERING TEXT INTO COLUMNS

We’ll go into text mode and click on text

placement cursor on the top-left baseline.

We’ll then enter all of the names and

room numbers in their appropriate posi-

tions.

When we finish typing on any

baseline, we’ll find that we can move to

the next baseline by using either the key-

board’s “tab” key or its “enter” key.

If we use the “enter” key, the cursor will

move down one baseline with each key

press until we reach the bottom row.

The

next press of the “enter” key will then

move us to the top of the next column

and we’ll again move down one row per

press.

If we use the “tab” key, the cursor move-

ment will be different.

Each press of the

key will move to the baseline in the next

column of the same row, until we reach

the end of that row.

When we reach the

last column in a row, the next “tab” key

press will move the cursor to the first column of the next row.

In summary, the “enter” key moves the text cursor down rows in a column, and the “tab” key

moves the cursor across columns in a row.

When we enter the last name on the list (M. Jorgenson, DDS) we’ll find that we’ve filled that

baseline and the text will compress as we type more.

For this job, we’ll judge that the com-

pression is minor and acceptable (Figure 4-12).

STEP 6: ENTERING THE ADDRESS LINE

We’re now ready to type the address line.

We’re still in text mode.

We’ll change to center-

justification, make sure that the text height is set at the specified height of .4 inches and that

our font is US Block 1Line.

We’ll type the address, drag a horizontal guide line from the top

ruler and position it 0.5 inches above the bottom of our plate.

We’ll then move the address

Figure 4-12

Column Text and Address Text Enterer

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line to this guide line, and our job will now look

as it appears in Figure 4-12.

We’ll next delete the guide line and we’re done

with our plate design.

It will look as it appears

in Figure 4-13.

STEP 7: SELECT THE CUTTING

TOOL

We’re ready to select our cutting tool.

We’ll

click on the “Color” icon on the left toolbar, se-

lect tool “0” (black color to match our job) on

the “Machining tools” window that then opens,

click “Properties” and enter the “Tool Proper-

ties” window.

Figure 4-14 shows the “Tool Properties” win-

dow with the parameters entered for this job.

We’ve specified “plotting” for the type of en-

graving, a cutting depth of .003 inches and a #42007040 tool.

This tool has a .040 inch di-

ameter tip.

How did we guess .040?

We really didn’t.

The New Hermes tool catalog and the

Figure 4-13

Finished Job

Figure 4-14

Tool Properties Window

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New Hermes materials catalogs each have a handy chart to help us select a tool for various

letter sizes.

This chart is reproduced below in figure 4-15 and it suggests a .040 diameter tool

for the size of lettering in our job.

STEP 8: THE WYSIWYRE SCREEN

Our last step before entering the machining window and sending our job to the table is to en-

ter the WYSIWYRE screen.

There, we’ll see that our selection of a .040 diameter cutter will

give a good appearance.

We’ll select a GravoPly 2 #381 material to view the plate in the

specified colors and the result will be as shown in Figure 4-1.

Make sure to save your finished job!

It’s good practice that can often save

you a lot of

grief should you need to re-do it or refer to it later.

In this

case, we’ll be using this job as a starting point for another lesson.

Figure 4-15

New Hermes Cutting Tool Size Chart

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WHAT WE’VE LEARNED:

In this lesson we’ve learned how to:

•

Select more than one object at a time

•

Design text in columns

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Quickly zoom to all objects

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Select the right size cutting tool for our job