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

[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]

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]

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]

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

[Bert Kemp]

AZPGR XMAS ORD.cdrok 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

[John Lifer]

AZPGR XMAS ORD.cdr

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

[Bert Kemp]

Backup_of_AZPGR XMAS ORD.cdr
hope this is in a lower version

[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