Vehicle Templates

[D2S]

For the last year I have used Mr-Clip Art for all my car outlines and designs I like them because WrapVox imports easily and can give me accurate measurements. However with that said I am not open to other options, what do you guys recommend for a template service?

 

[jfiscus]

I have always use ProVehicleOutlines and I love the service.

 

[myront]

We do wraps all the time. Never use templates. Way too many variances with body moldings and such. We require that the vehicle be brought to us for a complete survey. We take photos and several measurements and design to full scale.

 

[JoeBoomer]

Pro Vehicle Outlines is great. They are very accurate and easy to use. I've used them for about 5 years.

I used to have to print all kinds of trucks and cars without ever being able to measure the actual vehicle and was very successful with it. (Obviously, measuring in addition to using the template is preferred.)

 

[Kentucky Wraps]

Both: Pro Vehicle Outlines AND Photos with survey to verify moldings, measurements, obstructions etc.

 

[scott pagan]

i use Mr Clipart and PVO for templates, but always try to get real tape measurements and photos. body lines, hardware, and compound curves will fool you and can make for headaches on your installers.

 

[Pippin Decals]

For the last year I have used Mr-Clip Art for all my car outlines and designs I like them because WrapVox imports easily and can give me accurate measurements. However with that said I am not open to other options, what do you guys recommend for a template service?

I have the 2016 collection of Pro Vehicle Outlines and they are accurate to 1/4".

 

[T_K]

We always used photos and measurements by hand. But you've got to get the customer to come to you for a survey AND install. Some of them don't have the time of day to do things properly.

 

[bob]

Photos with a 16"x24" framing square smack in the center of each picture square to the vehicle. Import the photo, draw a rectangle around the framing square distorting it with rotate and skew if necessary, map the photo into the rectangle, remove any rotate or skew, make the rectangle 16"x24", unmap the photo from the rectangle. Now you have an actual size image of the vehicle with which to work. Doing it this way has never been off by a 1/4" either. And you don't have to wrangle a bunch of dubious line drawings of questionable provenance.

 

[mnapuran]

We do wraps all the time. Never use templates. Way too many variances with body moldings and such. We require that the vehicle be brought to us for a complete survey. We take photos and several measurements and design to full scale.

Same here... customers like seeing the design on their car too. Especially on partials, etc.

 

[clarizeyale]

We use Pro Vehicle Outlines and on rare occasions, Bad Wraps.

PVO - They're great, easy to use and mask in illustrator, and only rarely do I have an issue with measurements. If they don't have an outline of a vehicle online, they're super speedy in getting you an outline so great customer service with that!

We push our clients to give us photos of all sides of the vehicles as the usual "year, make, and model" question doesn't give you all the details. With photos or them coming to our shop for us to measure, take photos, and talk design, we can be sure that the layout matches the clients vehicle.

Bad Wraps - We use this if we absolutely cannot find the vehicle outline on PVO (even after contacting PVO in my experience). Cons for this is the use of photoshop and really longggg loading times (maybe it's just our computers). Overall, the file for these guys are too large for us to handle so we don't favor it though the layouts look really good and realistic.

I think they have a limited selection compared to PVO. I've seen that PVO has lately, included a lot more categories in their library..