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Removing bounding boxes/lines
Hi, I am new to the vinyl sign trade, but have been in the silk screen printing trade for 15 years. I am looking for help with making shapes to cut, i am trying to make a logo of a sought of half moon shape. I have tried doing this by over lapping two circles, then coloring one black and one white. On the monitor all looks fine but when i send it to my cutting program it has both circles there. I am using illustrator cs3 and sign cut. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Terry -
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Hi Terry
1st you should do a little "say hello" post in the "say hello" forum, we’re a friendly helpful bunch here and also like to know who we are helping 😉
For your current problem do the following;
select both circles and in the pathfinder options click "divide", then delete the lines you no longer want which will leave you with the shape you need cut. I suggest turning all the fills off and add a hairline stroke, this will enable you to see what you are creating and will eventually cut.
hope that helps
cheers
Warren
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Welcome to the world of Signmaking Terry…This is when all of your designing will have to change if you intend to cut from it.
Anyone on here will tell you this is the biggest problem we come across when getting artwork from other designers that are only used to printing. Just because its Vector does not mean its ready to cut. Remember "What you see is what you get". Printing is different from cutting, you can not "Mask" things out. The machine will cut what is there not just what you see on screen. A crescent shape must be a crescent shape not two circles. If you not sure then change the view to Wireframe this is what will be cut.
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