Does anybody know how to draw this line in Illustrator?

[David Hammond]

Are you using Cutting Master?

If so would the Auto Weld function not do this, if the text and line were the same colour??

[Lionel Hermans]

Try with the "Pathfinder" tool in Illustrator. Unite option should made the trick.

[Simon Worrall]

Nope David I have roland cut choice and a roland cx500 plotter.

[Simon Worrall]

Unite doesnt do it Lionel.

[Robert Walker]

Use the pathfinder tool,

Select the outlined txt and the line,
Click the Outline tool in pathfinder,
re colour your outline,
Ungroup
manualy delete all the bits you dont want
select all and unite or make compound path

if theres a quicker way i would love to here it

Robert

[Chris Wool]

Sorry can’t see the point of it what’s the problem
I can understand wanting to put a line between the text to aid weeding

For what you ask in corel I would try to trim the letters from the line. Illyfrustrator have not a clue

[Simon Worrall]

Chris this video demonstrates the point of my original post.

That line down the middle makes weeding more than twice as fast, and the letters are much less likely to lift because you are weeding from the middle – outwards.
I thought of this because I had five square meters of 20mm thin vinyl letters to do for an opening of our new art gallery in town for the following day, and found I couldn’t weed the letters of the silicone with removable vinyl and had to do it on the wall because it stuck better.
With the weeding line down the middle, it would have been a piece of cake. and the extra effort worth it.

If anyone is interested, I have found a fairly quick way to get the line down the middle of the letters in Illustrator.

1. Select and COPY the line of letters.
2. Draw a box with one edge cutting right through the middle of the letters.
3. Select all… Pathfinder… Minus back.
4. With the WHITE arrow, select all the points except those on the line you want to keep. You can do this in one movement.
5. Delete those points. You are left with the line in the middle of the text.
6. Paste in place, and draw a box around the letters and the line.
Now they can be plotted, and the weeding line down the middle will not cut through the letters.

Simon

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[cbc-vinyl]

I would have the text
Copy it to clip board
Highlight it
Right click
Create outlines
Then draw line
Expand the stroke
Send line to back
Highlight all
Use the second icon on the pathfinder (subtract if I remember right)
Then command and paste it.
Highlight all and merge

[cbc-vinyl]

Or you could try draw it out as shown in pic with line behind it
Highlight all and expand stroke