Ten Skills for Designing Multilayer Mandalas for Laser Cutting 

I'm glad I could help!!

Thanks, inscrutable! Another kind viewer told me about paste in place too, and it really speeds things up! I love how the Internet helps us all help each other. It makes learning new things so much easier!!

Andy, I love the phrase "Maker Mentality", I hope you don't mind if I adopt it!

@@GreylightMay It is not mine, but it is in "common" use among some other maker educators. You are well qualified and therefore welcome to use it! It may have come from the book "The Maker Manifesto"

Andy, I read that book a long time ago because I started at TechShop, which Mark Hatch founded. It's in my library somewhere, it will be fun to take another look at it. After 6 years of making, it will probably resonate even more!

Thanks, James, glad it was helpful!

Excellent tip, GOTC, thank you!!

Thanks, you too!

Thanks for watching, Ron!

Wow, I didn't know Photoshop had a mandala tool! I'm going to start by checking that out. One of my goals is to teach Dalle 3 to draw the layers of a mandala. It's great at doing a 3d isometric image of the whole mandala, but currently seems incapable of breaking that down into flat single layers. Thanks for the info!!

Here's the next video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OTb-_YVYuzE.html I'm so glad this series is helpful to you!!

Thanks, Bryn, I really appreciate you letting me know!

Drurigney, a swatch traditionally is a small square of fabric cut from a bolt of cloth that acts as a sample. THESE squares are samples of strokes that are used repeatedly in the mandala. A little later in the video you see how they are used because the eyedropper picks up the properties of a swatch and applies them to the active path you are drawing. The squares/swatches start out with two obvious properties: a color and a thickness. Different colors and thicknesses are used for each layer. I show adding the third property, which is how the stroke is aligned with the path: centered, on the inside and on the outside. Which of these you will use is based on the shape and the effect you want. The advantage of this setup is when you use a shape tool to draw a path it will start with a default color, thickness and alignment. While it is selected you can use the eyedropper to set the appropriate color and thickness for the layer and your preferred alignment with one click. It is a real productivity tool.

Thanks, onjofilms, I'm glad I can help!

John, one of my nicest comments ever! I'm not an official teacher, but helping others learn things is what really motivates me to make videos, so this really makes my day, thank you!!

@@GreylightMay So happy to hear! Looking forward to more great content, best of luck with your channel!

Well, Randolph, sometimes you just have to speak the truth!

Wouldn't it be eclair gris, Fuzzy??

And it was very helpful too!!