Some of you may have seen the beginnings of our Design Elements library at:
https://launch.carbide3d.com/elements
It’s a collection of SVG files that you can incorporate into your designs. (Login required but otherwise free)
Tracy, our graphic artist, has been cranking through the initial to-do list we’d like to get some feedback from the community.
What would you like to see in there? What would be helpful to you?
@robgrz What is already on the plate? I assume basic shapes, stars, animals, buildings, maps, states, banners, etc?
A lot of that is on the list, but we’re not sure what people are actually looking for so we’d like all the feedback we can get so we don’t go blindly down a path that won’t immediately help anyone.
I noticed the current elements are a little bit “American-centric” (which makes a lot of sense, a very large part of the users are American and will like to find e.g. flag elements or Thanksgiving-themed vectors), so maybe diversify the library?
Absolutely. We started with some of the most popular items like flags and holidays.
Is there anything we could add that would be of use to you in particular?
I find myself going to Etsy for things like vines, floral patterns, mandala-style, and generally for “abstract” vectors, so it would be great to have this type of vectors in the library.
I’ve made boxes etc for various nieces and nephews with cut-outs of, unicorns, tractors, etc., so stuff like that would be interesting. Ditto on things like flourishes, repeating patterns (Celtic weaves etc)
one of the “workable” things might be to also work on seasonal things… so 2 months before christmas, add a set of basic christmas items etc… throughout the year.
I would like states/countries/regions since they often are a base for other things for me…
Any kind of seamless step and repeat patterns…things that can be tiled and will match continuously.
I get a lot of ideas (not to mention files) from Scan2CAD. (They say they will change their name to ‘Maker Union’ soon.)
Panels, tiles and designs for backgrounds to place 3D objects with/on.
Images/objects that can be cut into/onto frames.
I definitely second this from @Julien
More scroll type decorative art.
What a great idea,themes like animals is always a want,cats dogs,horses,llamas etc.The other one would be sporting themes a good one is water skiing,sailing and so on.
I like everything in there so far. Except the Ohio state shape is wrong, I believe it might be nevada at this time.
I was able to make my own Ohio svg, but others may need it.
I didn’t even know Carbide Elements existed till just now… love it
Simple animals
Monograms
cake toppers
cutting board shapes
clock blanks
what about some more decorative stuff? like some simple flourishes and ‘floral corners’.
These are great. Looking forward to using them with my xxl. Is this something we will later have to pay to use? Or is it now included in the cc software?
Thank you CC is what I use and have been using since I purchased my xxl from carbide 3 d. However, I haven’t upgraded yet and still using one of the order versions
It’s surprising what people make, or draw, with these… Been making a ‘ShapeOKO for Glass’, size adjustable, ‘hang on the glass/window with suckers’ machine. Why? Can’t answer that, aside from ‘Covid Lock-Down’. Parts designed in OnShape, STLs pulled into Vectrics, cut from cast acrylic on my 3XLHDZ. Took standard GRBL on ATMega380/Uno and re-wrote parts of it to do Core-XY with Pen up/down rather than true Z. Drive it with Universal GRBL Sender, or any of the usual sender tools. Now working on software to take images and create the Single Line art (travelling salesman technique) and output them directly as GCODE. Good fun!! Lots of refinement yet to come, but it works brilliantly!!
As a non American (British), it would be nice to see other design elements that are related to other countries, like a map of the UK a British flag, or even the British Royal Family, British cars, European cars or anything else that could be thought about dare I say it, non American
I would like to see a Colorado Simplified svg in the United States Outlines folder
