LD Pattern Creator Help - Template creation

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Hi Adam,

To generate your own templates, I generally use the following steps:

• Open the part in LDPE (Part Editor)
  
• Select the surface(s) you want to have as a template and save it as a new file, e.g. 59349_pattarea.dat
  
• Import the file into 59349_pattarea.dat LDPC (Pattern Creator),
  - observe the correct plane (XY)
  - In the import dialogue, select "Overwrite and Import Projection Data"
  
• You could start now, but to use it for later save the Template in LDPC
  - File > Projection Data -> Template
  This wil give it an arbitrary name "New..."
  
• Rename the Template in the Editor
  - File > Load Template > Edit/Delete
  - In the Dialogue: Select the last template called "New..." (That should be the one you converted last) and Click "Edit"
  - IF there is pattern-less a sub-file available, you can immediately add it in the export from LDPC, so you can add in the "Additional Lines" area the line "1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s/59349s01.dat"
  -> NOTE: the file s/59349s01.dat is not yet existing! I will upload this in a few moments
  

Now go ahead as usual

Gerald

EDIT: I can only find on promotional print of this part (59349pb095), is it this one you want to do?

Thanks Gerald,
That's great help, I'm about to spend some time working my way through it.
Any patterns I design are usually custom ones for my own MOC's although I have done a few official ones I could never find like the recent Fergusson Tractor tiles.
I'll keep this thread posted on my success (or failure).
Cheers
Adam