Hey guys. Steve Good here. Sorry, I came to this topic late. I use AI for 99% of the patterns I have created over the last two years, but there is a big catch. The big catch is that AI will very rarely generate a scroll saw pattern that can be cut on the scroll saw. I do not use it for that; I use it to generate copyright-free source images. Then I use those source images to generate the actual pattern by hand in CorelDRAW. Before AI, I had to scour the internet for copyright-free material that I could use in a pattern. For example, if I were designing a western cowboy scene, I would use AI to generate the horse, cowboy, and whatever else I needed. Then I take those parts and use them after they have been modified to work in my pattern to design the complete pattern. I'm not saying that AI is incapable of designing a complete, ready-to-cut scroll saw pattern but it would require considerable training for it to be consistent. Also, keep in mind that I have generated a new pattern almost every day for 17 years. I have to find ways to save time. AI saves me hours a day of searching and tracing work. I also spent a couple of months working on the AI prompt to generate detailed silhouette-type images that I can use. The whole process is way more involved than the media lets on. AI still takes time and does not often give you wat you need without lots of effort.
