Landon Blake’s Post

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Hey guys, it's Landon with RH. In this video. In theory. I'm going to show you how to build a compass style, a Cobio compass style. If you're not a surveyor, you may not know what Coco is. Coco's coordinate geometry. I need to do some KOGO tutorials in CAD and I thought it would be helpful if we had it compass dial for that so. I'm going to do that in Escape. We need to get Miriam some more training on escape, so I thought this would be. You could wait to get her another little tutorial video so you can escape open. This is version 1.4. And what I've done is I've just gone in and created some new layers. So I've got 3 layers here, text layer, layer for my shapes in a base layer that's just kind of like my layer 0 if you're coming from CAD. So I'll close that if you don't know where to get to that. It's under layers in the menu Layers and Objects. And I'm working in my standard template here. So the first thing I'm going to do is just create some basic shapes for my dial. So I'm going to come over here, we're going to pick the circle tool. And I'm going to just go ahead and draw a circle here, roughly the size I want. And then we'll move it over to the center of the page. And I don't think I'll end up using this. I don't think I'll end up using this page. In fact, let's go ahead. Let's go in and justice page or change our page setting real quick. So under document properties, we're going to make this square. So I'm going to make it 6 inches by 6 inches. I think that'll work. And then we'll put this in the center. OK, so I want a kind of a ring shape. So I'm actually going to make another circle. And what I'm going to do on both of these is we'll get rid of the stroke. Come over here to my fill and stroke dialog. We're going to get rid of that stroke and then I'm going to make this one white. And then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to make it a little bigger. So I've now I've got my ring there. I think what I'm going to do though is I'm going to grab these two shapes and we're going, we're going to go to path. I can never remember which one I want. So if we do division there and then now we actually have a ring shape. So there's nothing here in the middle. OK, now I want this to be split up into quadrants. So to do that. I'm going to draw a square now. You want to make sure that you get the square. Take cover just one quadrant. And then we'll do the same thing. We're going to try this again. We're going to say path. You know what I think we can do? A union. Nope, that's not what I wanted. Edit Undo Let's try this again. We can do division again I think. OK, so now I've got one piece there. And So what we can do is actually get rid of this ring now, and we can duplicate this a few times and then flip it. And we can actually come up with our parts of our ring that way. So I'm just hitting the control D key there to duplicate guys. And I'm just snapping in my cusp there. So now I have these pieces. And we're going to go ahead and use our RH colors. For our diagram there, So I'm going to grab these two pieces of the ring in the opposing quadrants there. We're going to come over to fill and we're going to make those rough green. And then we'll grab these and whoop, we'll grab these and make these RH purple. Sometimes they don't remember the RH. Football code. There we go. So now I've got my basic ring setup. What I want to do now is just put some little tick marks on here. So let's do that. I'm going to go ahead and grab my tool here to draw path and we're just going to draw. We're just going to draw a path like that and then we're going to come over to the stroke. And we're going to give that a stroke. I'm going to make it black. But we're going to give it a width. I'm in inches here. I'm going to go 0.04 inches. So now I've got this little tick. Now what we're going to do is we're actually going to send that to the bottom of the display order. And I'm going to duplicate it. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to double click on that because I want to pull the rotation center down here to the center of the dial. And now when we come into the transform tool. We can rotate that by 45�� and it's going to rotate around the center of the dial. Do you see how that how that worked? We're going to duplicate it again. Edit, duplicate, rotate again. And we can just repeat that. Till we get those lines. All the way around our shape. There's probably an easier way to do that with, like an array, but this is going to work for us because we don't need very many. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put all these on a layer. So let's make a new layer and we're going to call this. So I've got everything on the text layer, which is not what I want. I'm gonna drop those down to the shapes layer. And then make a new layer. I'm going to call it lines. Dial ticks. And we'll put those underneath the dial layer. And you're going to see when I move these ticks now to the layer, they're going to go underneath the other parts of the dial, which is what we want. So we're going to say layer, move selection to layer, and we're going to put those on the tick. You can see how they went underneath. Now, just a little aesthetic thing. I'm going to grab these ticks on the cardinal directions and we're just going to widen that stroke a little bit. So that stands out a little more now. I think the last thing I want to do is I want to add some compass directions here. And. I want to number my quadrants. Let's number the quadrants first because that'll be that'll be a little bit easier. So let's go ahead and grab our text tool. And. We're just going to go ahead and draw a text here and we're going to just label that number one. Now I'm going to go ahead and kill that stroke. So there's my number one. And let's see what font we have. It's on Oswald. That's our font, our standard font. All right, so I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this U here. Actually, what we're going to do is we're going to make this synergy justified. And then we're going to just pull it over here. And we're going to duplicate it, and we're going to move that over to the same spot and we'll make that. That's quadrant. Actually, this is quadrant rule one. This is quadrant 4 on the compass dial. That's quadrant 3. That's quadrant 2. And we're going to make those black, I think. And we're going to move them to the text layer. Now I think it would help if we had these quadrants on the inside of the circle shaded also. So let's let's try and do that. So I'm going to grab a square here and I'm going to just drop up. To there and all we're going to do is change that to a shade of Gray, drop it to the back. Ohh, it's gotta be. Let's put that on the shapes dial layer. I think I want a little lighter Gray. Umm. That's probably good. And then we'll just duplicate that and pull it down, do the same thing. OK, so that looks pretty good to me. Now what I want to do. Now what we could do? It might look better if these numbers were centered in these shapes. Let me think about how I want to do that. Ah, so if we grab these two and go to. Path. Let's try division. No, that's not what I want. Let's duplicate these and move them over here. See if we can figure out how to do this. I can never remember which one of these I need. OK, so it was different. So now I have this shape so we can actually get rid of these. So I have this shape. Now we can drop in and then what we can do is we can select the text 1st and then the shape and go over to our line and distribute. And we're going to say relative to the last selected. And we're just going to center it now, the numbers centered in this square. Are centered in this shape. It still looks a little bit off because of the way it does that calculation with the bounding box. Umm. So we might just have to visually drop this in where we think it goes, probably there. So let's try that. I feel like these need to be. Let's see here. Um. Up for I'm up for and over 4 from the center. So that would be. I don't know why it's doing that to me. There we go. OK, so we'll. Rotate that. Alright, so now we want to put in our text. So I'm going to actually do that in a separate video. I want to stop this one. I'll do a separate video. We'll wrap this U with the with the compass bearings around the outside here.