Removing Double Lines or Converting to Single Lines

[KelRao]

Greetings again to the most fabulous support team ever!  I have yet another challenge and wonder if there is a solution beyond redrawing or tracing.

1.  See attached image.  If you zoom in very close, you will see it is more of a tube shape than a single line.

2.  I've tried to select the nodes from the top of the piece, but you have to be zoomed in so close to grab them, and then it's hard to manipulate on the canvas.

3.  My goal is to have this piece be a single line so that I can convert to SVG and use in a cutting system.  If I export as is now, the cutting machine will cut these lines twice (I can stop that second cut most of the time but it's cumbersome).

doble-lines-pattern.afdesign

[Alfred]

58 minutes ago, KelRao said:

If you zoom in very close, you will see it is more of a tube shape than a single line.

It’s not only a sort of tube shape, but it’s also one where each ‘node’ is actually a bazillion (technical term™) almost coincident nodes.

58 minutes ago, KelRao said:

wonder if there is a solution beyond redrawing or tracing

There may be, but since it’s easily redrawn with just a few clicks I would recommend doing it that way. Deleting the redundant stuff would be much more time-consuming — and much more tedious, too!

[KelRao]

8 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It’s not only a sort of tube shape, but it’s also one where each ‘node’ is actually a bazillion (technical term™) almost coincident nodes.

There may be, but since it’s easily redrawn with just a few clicks I would recommend doing it that way. Deleting the redundant stuff would be much more time-consuming — and much more tedious, too!

I will need to learn to redraw it seems!  

[Alfred]

30 minutes ago, KelRao said:

I will need to learn to redraw it seems!  

It’s just four clicks (or taps on iPad) with the Pen Tool to make three straight sides, and then a fifth click on the start node to create a closed quadrilateral. Switch to the Node Tool and drag on the middle of the left and right sides to make them curved.

double-lines-pattern-redux.afdesign

[KelRao]

19 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It’s just four clicks (or taps on iPad) with the Pen Tool to make three straight sides, and then a fifth click on the start node to create a closed quadrilateral. Switch to the Node Tool and drag on the middle of the left and right sides to make them curved.

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Thank you.  I did try myself and it was not too bad.  Not as nice as yours, but I can perfect.

[R C-R]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It’s just four clicks (or taps on iPad) with the Pen Tool to make three straight sides, and then a fifth click on the start node to create a closed quadrilateral. Switch to the Node Tool and drag on the middle of the left and right sides to make them curved.

To closely match the shape of the original, I had to do a lot more tweaking of each of the 4 corner nodes after dragging the left & right sides. doble-lines-pattern tweaked.afdesign  shows my best match using just 4 nodes, with a red outline for the original & a cyan one for the simplified version.

It's very close but not a perfect match.

[KelRao]

Appreciate everyone's replies!  Taking a couple of Udemy courses to master the node/pen tool!