COW Tutorials: Zaxwerks Understanding Custom Edges

[John Cuevas]

Wow, Serge!!! Thank You. Have used Zax for a few years now for different applications and had no clue you could do that! Great tutorial, thank you very much!!!!

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Ken Latman]

This is a great tutorial. I know you could use custom shapes but I didn’t quite understand how. Great job Serge! When will this DVD be available?

[Serge Hamad]

Thanks John, Ken,

Glad you find the tut useful. I think the DVD should be available the next two weeks as it only needs to be printed by the Cow.

Salut.
Serge

INVIGORATOR-TRAINING VOL.1 soon available here: https://www.nyc-visual.com

[John Cuevas]

Awesome news on the DVD. Did the tutorial then ran over to your site, started searching everywhere trying to find the DVD so I could get a copy. Took me a bit to figure out it wasn’t out yet, but I’m a bit slow, if I was smarter I’d be a producer instead of editor.

Salut.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Nick Ito]

what i dont understand is where did that little circle that you began the tutorial with… where did that come from?
did you custom make that?

my shapes come out 1000X different with other cirle shapes ive created.

where do i find circle_sphere?????

[Jon Okerstrom]

Hi shogun,

custom edges are often applied to a very small filled circle you create in an Illustrator document. Make it very small.

Bring that circle into Invigorator and apply the custom edge to it.

Does this help?

Jon

[Serge Hamad]

Jon, thanks for answering this one. It’s weird but I answered the same 2H ago and can’t see my post.
Anyway, adding to Jon’s explanation, you can find the Circle_Sphere file in the ai subfolder once you download the project files.

Salut.
Serge

INVIGORATOR-TRAINING VOL.1 soon available here: https://www.nyc-visual.com

[Nick Ito]

ahh ok. awesome.
thanks for the quick response fellas

[Cory Travalena]

I have created a custom edge in illustrator, then save the project. When I click the reload custom edges button, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong. My custom edge won’t come up. I even saved a new project, and moved the old one to a different location, and Zaxwerks still reads the old one. Then I purged the RAM, that didn’t help either. Help!!!

[Serge Hamad]

Hi,

You must be using Invigorator 4.5.

Make sure you’re modifying the Custom Edges folder in the
My Documents/Zaxwerks/Invigorator” folder, not the installation folder as it used to be.

Salut,
Serge

Invigorator/Proanimator Training: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hamad_serge/invig_training.php