Create a white outline ...

[Eagle Works]

Hello all ...

I have several vector graphics stacked up on top of each other.

They are not lined up but spread out a bit.

I want to make a border around the outline of the combined graphics.

I don't know if I would use stroke or Boolean or what?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks ...

Salmon School Border.afdesign

[G13RL]

Hello Eagle Works,

If I understood the question correctly, one way to do this could be to copy all the general salmon shapes (all paths 4993 and 7623), do an "Add" boolean operation with them, remove the fill and paste the result at the bottom of the layers.
With this shape selected, go to the "Appearance" tab of the studio, set the stroke to white, adjust the thickness and set it to "Outside". Still in "Appearance", add a green stroke thicker than the white one, also on "Outside" and put it under the white stroke.
I put a link to the modified file:
https://www.cjoint.com/c/JLgiLVvPUwq
Someone else may have a better solution for you.

 

[GarryP]

In addition to the advice above, I have a few questions:
1. Do you need the result to be purely vector or would you be happy with a rasterised version?
2. Do you want the border to be around just the combined fish, or the whole artwork including the outer green curve, or just the outer green curve?
3. If you want to include the outer green curve, do you want the border to just go outside that curve or inside as well?
I’ve attached an example where I have simply added an Outline Effect to the whole group (which would cause rasterisation). If you can annotate it with which parts you want and which you don’t want then someone can probably help further.

[firstdefence]

1. Select the Green outline curve
2. Duplicate it
3. Place the duplicate to the bottom of the layer stack
4. Increase the stroke width to 48 pt (18pt = .25 inch) the stroke is centre aligned so add 36 pt to the 12pt = 48pt
5. Expand Stroke
6. Boolean Divide
7. Boolean Add
8. Colour shape to white.

You have a few small flecks of black near the fishes snouts, select the node tool and Cmd/Ctrl clicking on them will allow you to delete them. The top fleck is duplicated so you will need to delete twice.

If you want the internal background to be transparent, you can flip the fill to the stroke, set the stroke alignment to: Inside and make the stroke width 19pt

[Eagle Works]

Thanks for the responses ...

To clear up what I meant ....  Sorry for the confusion.

The green line was just meant to show where I wanted the outline.

I do want a white outline the hugs the school of ss

I meant to post the following .jpg to show what I meant.  After I posted the .afd file, I forgot to post the .jpg..

It's called old age!

Now you can see what I am trying to do.

Thanks for listening ...

[G13RL]

Thanks for the precision, the principle remains the same as for my first message, with a small change: duplicate all the tongues, place them at the very bottom of the layers and do a boolean operation "Add" (the tongues) and the general shape which is already in bs of the layers.

[v_kyr]

• Salmon_Outline.afdesign

You can also remove the setup "white fill" I used for the white path4993 combound layer, in order to have just white stroke outlines then. - The purple rect background layer is only there to showup the applied outlines better for you, remove it!

[Eagle Works]

OK, thanks to all for your help.

I need to do more practice with Boolean.

Watch a few tutorials.

I got what I was looking for.

Thanks to G13RL for the tip on dealing with the tongues and to the rest of you for your thoughts ...

Be safe ...