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Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: iMav on Fri, 19 August 2011, 03:04:02

Anyone know if this SVG (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Square_compasses.svg) would be doable by SP?? (or is there too much fine detail?)

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: gilgam on Fri, 19 August 2011, 07:19:49

plain color maybe, but the lines are too thin i think, even if some line on soe characters are as thin as these.
It is better to ask them :-)

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: Findecanor on Fri, 19 August 2011, 07:52:07

Bah. Hardcore freemasons don´t use keyboards. They use Kinect and secret handshakes ... :-P

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: the_buff on Fri, 19 August 2011, 09:42:45

Now it makes sense, they run world AND this website.

I heard from 7_bit that the lines must be at least 0.2mm thick with the gaps between each line at least 0.5mm thick.

Also, the graphic can only be 9.04mm wide and 10.84mm tall, or vice-versa--I'm not sure.  

If no one has opened your SVG in a vector graphics editor and measured it by this evening then I'll take a look.

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: the_buff on Sat, 20 August 2011, 00:47:10

Well, if you scale it down proportionally it should work.  The measuring ticks are about 0.6mm apart, but a few would have to go.  Also, not sure if the angles would end up sharp or be sort of rounded.  I'll post the shrunken version tomorrow so you can see for yourself.

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: aggiejy on Mon, 22 August 2011, 17:04:06

Sounds like you got the answer, but just to follow up:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]24872[/ATTACH]

Left is your original (at the keycap size) and right is (quickly) adjusted to their min line thickness of 0.012".  But as you can see, your islands are smaller than the 0.020" min island thickness in several places, most notably around the G.  You could simplify it more and get close, but it's a crapshoot on how clean they'll be able to keep the plastic.  The edges, corners, and lines will look good I'd guess, but you certainly don't want the G bleeding into the lines.  And it's hard to make it much smaller without collapsing on itself.

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: the_buff on Mon, 22 August 2011, 17:18:57

Thanks aggiejy, I got sidetracked.

Title: Square and Compass key
Post by: Izza on Wed, 31 August 2011, 23:35:02

Could we possibly add a Moose Lodge key to this?