armaleim Posted October 29, 2021 Posted October 29, 2021 hello! trying to make a pattern and want to delete everything that exists outside of a chosen section of a shape/mask. it's easy to do visually but then when exported the hidden lines remain part of the file. it's going into a laser cutter so i need to keep it as vectors (can't flatten) but also for everything outside of the shape to be gone gone gone! sorry if this is a really nooby question i just cant quite figure it out! so far i'm just having to go line by line cutting it at the right point, which is just rather time consuming. file attatched :) basically i have this: and need to turn it into this: pattern one.afdesign Quote
GarryP Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 Welcome to the forums @armaleim As far as I know, if you want the output to be exactly what you see – with no hidden lines/curves – then you will have to use the various Geometry functionalities and the Node Tool – and maybe some other things – to manually break the shapes apart and delete what is not wanted. (Keep the original so you can make modifications more easily in the future.) Do a forum search for “laser cutter” (without the quotes) and see if anyone has posted any better advice or tips on this - it comes up frequently. Quote
armaleim Posted October 30, 2021 Author Posted October 30, 2021 4 hours ago, GarryP said: Welcome to the forums @armaleim As far as I know, if you want the output to be exactly what you see – with no hidden lines/curves – then you will have to use the various Geometry functionalities and the Node Tool – and maybe some other things – to manually break the shapes apart and delete what is not wanted. (Keep the original so you can make modifications more easily in the future.) Do a forum search for “laser cutter” (without the quotes) and see if anyone has posted any better advice or tips on this - it comes up frequently. yeah, thats what ive been doing so far, ends up super neat but a bit of a pain when masking to complex shapes haha thanks for the tips! james x Quote
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