Slitherine

In many posts, it is useful to show figure positions.

ASCII art is worthless.

I notice that many people include some nice images with basic shapes to show positions.

What software works for this? I hope that it is something much simpler and readily available than a CAD program. Perhaps even something available over the web that could be linked here.

Any ideas?

The artist currently known as Spike

MS word, ppt or similar. Save as bit map, upload to photobucket. Hammy has written on the Modelling page sticky about this.

Starting with what's free: For Windows, Paint will do what you need. If you want a bit more choice Gimp is free for Windows or Mac:
http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html http://www.gimp.org/

I use Photoshop--because I have it and am familiar with it. Photoshop Elements will do, and costs much less, but you can do just as well with the free programs.

If you're using a Mac, Pages has a very nice shape editor.

I second Phil: definitely check out Hammy's post about how to post photos/diagrams, once you have them made-- it's here: viewtopic.php?t=5426

Paint.NET is also free and about ten times better than Paint. Also OpenOffice Draw.

If you're on a Mac, OmniGraffle.


But there are many others. Search for diagramming program or vector graphics editor.

Or just lay out your bases on the table and take a digital photo.

Thanks for the replies.

I will fiddle around with MS Paint.

A useful resource for the forum might be to make a basic MS Paint file with various BGs already drawn out (e.g., a 4xCv, a 6xMF, etc.) and some pre-scaled and labeled line segments (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, MU).

That way people could use it as a basic pallet and just drag/rotate the items to a new MS Paint file to create an image for posting.

I can take a stab at it, but my skillz are weak . . . MLMP.

Spike