Jason Saul
03-21-2011, 7:05 PM
Hi all - Looking to slice out a world map to use as a stencil (cutting some birch wood) but I need there to be space between each country. Wondering if there's a quick way to do this in Illustrator which will result in hairlines on the inside of the countries that the laser can read. I'm using an Epilog Helix 24.
I've already tried to:
- "transform each" to scale them down - unfortunately the space between the countries is entirely uneven after this
- use 2 stokes: a middle white stroke and inner black stroke, which seemed like it was going to work but i believe the laser only sees one stroke and ignores the fact there's an "inner" and "middle" to the stroke itself
I've attached an .eps and a detail .png to give a better understanding of what I'm looking to do - thanks for any and all suggestions!
I've already tried to:
- "transform each" to scale them down - unfortunately the space between the countries is entirely uneven after this
- use 2 stokes: a middle white stroke and inner black stroke, which seemed like it was going to work but i believe the laser only sees one stroke and ignores the fact there's an "inner" and "middle" to the stroke itself
I've attached an .eps and a detail .png to give a better understanding of what I'm looking to do - thanks for any and all suggestions!