Hexes
According to the CC3 websiet......"To make the creation of walls and other constructions simple, CC3 lets you snap your cursor to a pre-defined grid. You can turn this on or off at any time, even in the middle of drawing, and define your own grids. Grids can be rectangular or hexagonal."
I can't find anything that tells me how to do this. Not on the Adobe User Manual or my CC3 booklet,the Essentials.
Can anyone help. I only got this program to make hexes for a game.
Thanks in advance and a reply to my email would be most helpful.
paul
sleeplessinyak@yahoo.com
I can't find anything that tells me how to do this. Not on the Adobe User Manual or my CC3 booklet,the Essentials.
Can anyone help. I only got this program to make hexes for a game.
Thanks in advance and a reply to my email would be most helpful.
paul
sleeplessinyak@yahoo.com
Comments
To set the Grid you snap to, on the bottom right of the CC3 window, there is a grid button. If it's "depressed", the Grid will be on. If it's up, it will not be. (Snap must be "depressed" for Snap to work). Anyway, right click on that button to set your grid options.
To draw a grid over the top of your drawing, in the upper left corner of the tool bar (I think, my copy may not have the toolbars in the default positions anymore), there is a little button that looks like a tic-tac-toe board - this is the grid tool - click it to bring up your grid options.
Finally, if you're just drawing single hexes, you can right click on the polygon tool in the right had tool par nd select regular polygon, or you can select poloygon from the draw menu.
If that's clear as mud (and it probably is - I'm terrible at imparting my CC3 knowledge over a written form), someone else will be along to help clarify eventually, I'm sure
In the "Grid Overlay" dialog, you set the size of your hexes, in these drawing units. The "Grid spacing" field contains the size, so if you enter "50" here, your hexes will be 50 miles across, from center to center.
All of this does not define the print size yet, as we are working with virtual drawing units which can be scaled to any size. This happens in the print dialog.
Click the Print button and in the dialog, see the "Scaling" options. Choose "Scale factor" and set the scale you want to print at. Say your hexes are 50 units (miles) across, that's what you put in "Drawing distance". in "Paper distance" fill in what print size one of your hexes should be, e.g. 3" or 8cm - make sure to include the " or cm. CC3 will print the map so that one hex exactly is that size on paper.
I hope that clarifies the scaling.
I haven't used it much, but it gives you options about which way the hexes run, their size, snaps, and numbering.
Hopefully that gets you where you want to be.