just looking for a suggestions, reviews, or recommendations. cant decide which program to purchase.


thanks

I am sure both have their fans. I do know support can be helpful and with Visual Weave you have a company that is not only a sponsor here but which I believe is sold both by Mud Hole and Billy Vivona. So help is only a mouse click away. They were also at one of the big rod Expos a year or so ago. They may be there again. You would have to check the list of exhibitors on the event website for 2010.

I was also told that Visual Weave is written from scratch and not adopted from any other software so it is easier to update or add new features to. But I really do not now for sure. I think it has been around longer than @#$%&. Again not totally sure.

I am familar with VizWeave only. I just posted 4 photos with a brief description of how VisualWeave works.
[www.rodbuilding.org]
[www.rodbuilding.org]
[www.rodbuilding.org]
[www.rodbuilding.org]

I did not do this weave, another NERB Ken Bonneau did. I asked him to post photos of the weave. The program is extremely easy to use, and has some powerful features with teh sizing and loading a grid feature.

KEn just posted the finishd results of that NY Yankees weave (rod looks great, hate the Yankees though)
[www.rodbuilding.org]
[www.rodbuilding.org]
[www.rodbuilding.org]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2009 03:09PM by Billy Vivona.

Ihave bpth and I think both are great. They both do basically the same thing, each in a little different way. The results are basically the same.

thank you for all the feedback. i vaguely remember maybe testing out pic to weave and remember something about having to click each box on a grid. i think it was that you had to upload an image than the graph lays over it and you click each box with a color to make the pattern? if i remember correctly does visual weave work the same way?

VisualWeave works 2 ways. You can fill in each pixel one by one, color by color, for the entire pattern yourself. Or you can have VizWeave fill in all the boxes for you, and you just go in and clean up the image. So you have a choice as to how you utilize VizWeave to fill the grid in.

PS/Edit - I forgot that I had put this tutorial together before VWV was released. [northeastrodbuilders.com] < VWV Tutorial, similar ot teh pics I put up on teh phtoto page.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2009 06:30PM by Billy Vivona.

Thanks Billy. you have been very helpful.

Grant, great piece of software. I've been using Visual Weave for a year or so. When I first started weaving, velum graph paper was the accepted design tool. Then I graduated to PCStich which Jim Upton and others were using, which was a big improvement for someone like me with limited artistic talent. Then Visual Weave came along and I haven't looked back. I'm so comfortable with the sotware now that I often think that almost anything can be designed and woven on a rod, as long as you have enough room on the blank. Simply import a jpg or bmp file, size the photo, do a little clean up on the image, let the software build the left list and start weaving. It reallly is that simple. Try it, I think you'll like it.