Art File

[Jerome]

I downloaded a zip file last year that contained a Dxf of Santa. It also contained a file named "Santa.Art". I cut the santa out and now my wife wants to paint it. I am thinking the art file is a graphic that will give her some help in painting the cutout.

I read that .art files can be opened in AOL and converted to Jpeg. I am hoping somebody on the forum could open and convert this file.

Thank You

[adrianm]

It's an Artcam relief file not a picture. The only program I'm aware of that can open those is Artcam itself.

[Jerome]

Thanks for the response. I was hoping it was a picture but now I know better.

Jerome

[myxpykalix]

I think that is the cutout of the parts, a dxf vectors. I think i can give you a tip on the paint......try RED and WHITE lol:D

[Jerome]

I'll pass that on to the wife. She was stumped on the colors so that will help. Now if we can find out what color to paint the black boots.

[myxpykalix]

OUCH...ZING...good one Jerome that made me laugh:D lol

[genek]

Almost all santa's are going to be the same... Go to www.thewinfieldcollection.com they have that santa.... You can copy the picture and paint from it...

[Jerome]

Eugene

Thanks for the link. I will show these to my wife.

Jack

Forgot to put a smiley face with my little joke.

[genek]

By the way guys and gals that have corel draw... You can buy patterns from winfield collections take them to a photo copier place that can do large formats have it put on a disk open with corel draw, put them together and trace... Then export and cut on the cnc....

[twelchPTM]

.art is also an AOL picture format as well as MAC picture format. File extensions can be deceiving. Also since win98 a file can be named whatever.xxx with its true file type unknown

[adrianm]

.art is also an AOL picture format as well as MAC picture format. File extensions can be deceiving. Also since win98 a file can be named whatever.xxx with its true file type unknown

That's why I always edit a file with Notepad++ to see what format it really is. In the case of this one I found this along with lots of other text about end mills and vector nodes:


RELIEF FILE ArtCAM Relief 17 OCT 2002 00.19.58
Relief is 1414 pixels wide by 707 pixels high
In real units the relief is 96.00" wide by 48.00" high
Maximum height in the relief is 0.00", minimum height is 0.00"
Position of the relief is X:0.000" Y:0.000" Z:0.000"
Vertical resolution for points in the relief is 0.0000"
Maximum height range which can be represented in the relief is +/- 1.000"

[Jerome]

I didn't know you could open an artcam file in Notepad. That is good information to have.

I did find a Santa on the link Eugene gave me that is almost identical to the profile I cut out. Thanks Eugene

Jerome

[adrianm]

I didn't know you could open an artcam file in Notepad. That is good information to have.

I did find a Santa on the link Eugene gave me that is almost identical to the profile I cut out. Thanks Eugene

Jerome

Notepad++ which is a different thing to Notepad that comes with Windows.

Opening binary type files in Notepad can cause it to crash. Notepad++ is fine with them.