creating a rhinestone template

[artswear]

Does anyone know if there is an ability/plug-in for illustrator cs5 to allow for creating a rhinestone template?  I make custom apparel and use illustrator to create the vector artwork.  When I need a design in rhinestones, I have to send out the art to have the template created (the template is the material with the holes in it where the rhinestones will be placed.) Rhinestone creation software lets you "place" the stones in the on screen design, choosing size of stone, etc.  and then allows that design to be sent to a cutter to cut the holes in the template. If I could do it in-house, it would save me some money.  I know there are plug ins that are compatible with CorelDraw, and there is stand alone software out there for apparel decorators, but I would rather not invest in more software if I could accomplish it in illustrator.

[Jesslc08]

Hi, if you ever need to do rihinestone letters, google dotted fonts.  I came across the fonts by accident while  looking for marquee letterrs for an invitation i was making for a hollywood theme party . I found a bunch that were free to download.  I  used my Cricut design space program to figure out the stone size. I just uploaded a circle and sized it to whatever stone size i was using. 

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