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So since the OP designs basic - flat promotional signage with the use of a space bar, shortcuts, basic dimension and drop shadows, he now needs to use a propagation-based system that computes from known to unknowns with a dataflow model or maybe use a constraint system which solve sets of...

Are you gonna print this, or cut it... Your terminology might be an issue, do you want to place your graphic within your shape and that it follows your template? If that is what you do and you want to print it, you want to group your design, make the the outer shape of your template, place it...

So your telling me Corel has turbo boost?

Ummm, there is a lot of cr@p on this thread, Hey Cameron I see you already have a business up and running, what are you using right now and how is it working for you... any issues with the software you are already using? Now how is Corel 100 times faster than Illustrator... you can design 100...

You are incorrect... You are also incorrect about changing keyboard shortcuts. You can do it, but you have to reassign shortcuts to the tools you want to write over and save your keyboard shortcut preferences. I deal with sign shops all the time, many times I have had to deal with software...

Very nice...

I agree with jfiscus... Hey, where can I get cheap wholesale printing and install by third world help... I hear bitch!ng all the time about low ball printers and installers yet some shops send your design work to undercutting third world designers. Even Graphics Zoo - based in Texas, uses third...

The yellow is very harsh, I would stay away from primary colors. When it comes to apartment logo/layout, most client want to give the impression or luxury, comfort or home, your color choices are a punch in the gut, legible yes, but like a hazard sign, not comfortable living. When I do a...

I started with Corel/Gerber GA/Flexi, then went to Corel/Gerber GA/Cas-Mate - designing and outputting mostly promotional signs and vehicle graphics. As I slowly worked my way up in the business I had to switch to Adobe Illustrator and started specializing in architectural signs and...

There are a few ways I could do it. I was thinking wood on this. I avoid attachments on a sign face at all cost, if I had to have a face attachment, I would incorporate it into the design so it is deliberate...

And if it absolutely had to be flat.... this way you can screw it into the side of the panel and not the face....

Some really good ideas on layout of all that information. I can't add anymore to the ideas shown, but I've done hundreds of post and panel apartment signs, with the big apartment boom going on here, more and more want something more substantial... obviously this is overkill for a 36 unit...

Not on the west coast but I've had the best luck with Steel Art for dimensional, Matthews for etched...

I have had the same experience with quite a few sales people... the ones I enjoyed working with have experience working their way through a sign shop, will go to bat for your design work, and can direct me without getting their design stamp of approval all the time. I was recently working with...

What would be your dream job? I pretty much did the same as you, worked at 8 shops gathering experience from digging post holes to running the machines, but the whole time I had a goal of where I wanted to be... and I got there. In my work experience, I would have stayed at any of those shops...

So most people do not know what I do, I design sign packages for larger multi property clients most in the US, some all over the world, and they go out to bid, we have all the colors called out, materials, method of construction, we have the signs located and a message schedule... in most...

Phooey on circles, I'm into Enneadecagons... hack off 15 more facets and boom! Bobs yer Uncle...

That's a stretch... okay, in turn... if you hate employees so much, why hire them...

Some of the worst construction documents I get are from sign shops - pretty scary when they are the ones building and installing it... usually using the wrong typeface, not wanting to use a concrete base even though they bid on it, bad material substitutions, cheaping out...

I always ask myself when I think I'm good at this... "Are you sure?" This isn't the first time you said this - I always ask my designer friends who are better than me if I still got it, I'm not always happy with their answer...