Help Please

[Bert Kemp]

I designed a Christmas ornament and during that process I had to convert the design to an object so I could use the eraser feature as the virtual delete tool was not working right. It would take out more then what was needed.
Anyway when I cut the design it cuts it twice, once for the hairline design and again for the object. I don't know how to get rid of the object part of it. Can anyone tell me how. Thanks (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=tus&q=christmas+ornaments&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTzL7w6ZHkAhUQuZ4KHUINCG0QkeECCC4oAA)

[Mike Null]

Bert

In over 20 years I've never had the need to convert a drawing to an object but if you post the drawing I'm sure we'll figure a way.

[Bert Kemp]

Bert

In over 20 years I've never had the need to convert a drawing to an object but if you post the drawing I'm sure we'll figure a way.

I have attached many cdr files but now its not working did the way to attach a file change

[Bert Kemp]

this is crazy I see noway to attach a cdr file ive done this a dozen times whaqt has changed

[Ralph Undis]

I hope I was able to attach a JPG that shows the basic steps.

Ralph

[Bert Kemp]

414726ok don't know what happene but know it works heres my file

[Kev Williams]

What version corel did you save as, my x4 won't open it-

[Bert Kemp]

x5 was my version

[Bert Kemp]

414729
hope this is in a lower version

[John Lifer]

414730

Here you go. I used the virtual segment delete to remove the second pass.

[Bert Kemp]

Thanks John but how did you do it. all I see was 1 hairline and an object below it. Didn't see anyway to separate them

[John Lifer]

I could see that there was two outlines, tried to just do smart fill, but it left odd tabs at overlap. Then just selected item and then clicked on the VS delete and used it to delete parts. Had to do about 7-8 separate deletes. If you snuck up on segment from above or from side, you could select only one pass.

[Bert Kemp]

Virtual delete wouldn't work for me kept taking out more then what I needed making it un usable thats why I made it an object to use the eraser which will not work with curves

[Mike Null]

Bert
I decided to re-draw it but got way-layed by some orders. I had planned to fit text to a path for the AZ and change the size of the "9" in 2019. At that point I would have used weld on all the text.

I don't know if that would have achieved your objective but that was my plan.

[Ralph Undis]

Bert,

I cleaned it up so that it would hold together better. Kept the gaps and lengths to be about 0.050" The "9" is somewhat problematic, so use it if you want.

Ralph

[Glen Monaghan]

You can select your doubled/overlapping design, hit Ctl-K or Arrange/Break Curve Apart (it will become 20 curves), and then click on each of the 10 duplicates and delete. Finally, select the 10 remaining curves that make up your design, and Ctl-L or Arrange/Combine to make a single curve again.

[Bert Kemp]

Thanks for all the help. Glen thanks for that explanation I wanted to know what to do :)

[John Lifer]

Interesting, I didn't have to break curve apart to delete anything. May be x7 works a bit differently.

[Kev Williams]

that thing was weird, almost like someone else was working on it while I was working on it!

first, virtual delete wouldn't work right, it kept deleting pieces of the outlines instead of whole outlines, even though there didn't seem to be pieces--

outline tool wouldn't work right, it kept creating duplicate outlines, which it's never done before?

I finally un-grouped and un-combined the whole thing, then individually picked sections with the mouse and moved them until I had a complete, single set of outlines... or so I thought! Each time I'd move a single set of lines, then combine them, they wouldn't paint right. When I'd un-combined it, I found about half the pieces were duplicates- ?

Even after I finally verified each outline was only ONE piece, it still wouldn't paint correctly. Everything painted black except the centers of the letters. All lines outward from there were ignored. SO I exported, then imported back the graphic, and THEN it painted correctly.

I eventually found out there was one set of 'correct' pieces that when combined would paint correctly without exporting, but it was hunt & peck to find them! I've had that happen before, and I understand how it can happen with connected shapes, but why with circles? The 2 inner circles in the top loop looked identical in wireframe and in node-edit mode, but only one would be 'seen' when combined with the outline and create a hollow hole rather than a filled hole after combining and painting. I don't get it. I've found sometimes just copy and pasting a graphic that doesn't work right into a new Corel window will fix it. But almost always, exporting as a DXF and then importing it back will fix it.

Newer versions of Corel likely deal with this issue better than mine :)

[Bert Kemp]

That was my problem Kev the VD tool didn't work right and that crated all the problems