Email from Dick

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Hi Steve,

Attached is a pattern I made that builds off one that you put on the web. A family member loves West Highland White Terriers so that is what I hope the dog looks like. I made it using Autodesk AutoSketch. It was not easy or fast like I see you do with CorelDraw X3. I tried using InkScape and was almost done after about 1 hour of trial and error. Unfortunately I forgot what I used to preach to my drafters.......save your drawing frequently. InkScape developed a fatal error and shut down and I lost everything. I tried to recreate it and InkScape shut down 2 more times. I decided it is too unstable to use.

I manually traced a photo of the dog in AutoSketch and then drew the rest of the pattern around the trace. I think it took me a couple of hours. Way too much effort compared to what I think you would be able to do in Corel.

Consequently I went out and bought CorelDraw X3 Student and Teachers and paid $129.00 plus tax at Fry's Electronics; there is a store in Phoenix. They don't require verification of student or teacher status. It is available for the same price on www.frys.com .

I haven't broken the shrink-wrap yet but the box reads just like the upgrade version so I believe it is the full version. I'll let you know if it is a reduced version. Your audience may be interested. The salesman says everybody buys the student version. Go figure.

I enjoyed your last tutorial and hope to be able to duplicate it soon.

Regards,

Dick

Thanks Dick. Great info about Frys. Keep us posted on your experience with the student teacher version.