Help with Overlaps

[Andy Gorman]

It would take me an hour to explain all that needs to be done. In short, you need to do a bit of practice with the WELD and TRIM tools.

[Paul Humble]

Cheers Andy,

ive been playing around with the weld and trim buttons and im quite used to them but I cant get my head round the under and overlaps. Ill keep bashing on.

[Lorraine Clinch]

That’s why I don’t get on with Corel-all those layers!
I had a bash in Signlab, it is complicated, but do-able, although it would take a while. I think you’ll need to make lots of copies, and weld bits individually, starting to weld more as it gets less complicated. Presumably this will be in just 2 colours, grey & black?

[Peter Normington]

A quick 5 minutes in signlab, it should be ok but no bleed added
I wouldnt have a clue how to do it in corel,
Peter

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Attachments:

welded.ai

[Tim Painter]

The file looks a bit lousy in places where it has been created.

I sometimes find it easier to change the colour of an object just to make it more visible while welding etc.

[Peter Normington]

Well Paul
25 people have downloaded your file,
you must have got them all thinking?

Peter

[Glenn Sharp]

I looked at in corel and got a headache 😮

[Glenn Sharp]

for what it’s worth I think it’s a nice idea but it doesn’t work too well…..I think it’s too busy and not enough contrast in the colours

[Nicholas Gormley]

Hope this helps??

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Attachments:

Helen Russell.cdr

[Peter Normington]

quote Nicholas.Gormley:

Hope this helps??

not really Nicholas, nothing there when I open it!
have you saved it correctly?

Peter

[Earl Smith]

Hi Paul, I tried it a different way.
Convert the design to a jpeg. Then do a trace. While you are in the trace program combine all the same colours. When you bring it back into draw you will have all the black , grey and white grouped together in their own colour groups. Ie; colour separated for your cutter. You will have to do some node elimination around some of the letters but it works pretty well.
Earl

[Paul Humble]

Thanks everyone, superb as ever. I tried altering the colours to weld but just couldnt get my head around it. Im seriously considering investing in Signlab.

[Alan Drury]

Looks like the grey and black is already trimmed so has but joints so even SL would be a struggle, that said if you were to expand one colour just be a fraction SL could use one of its very good weld options to to extend only bits that everlapped. This is not possible in Draw at the moment. I’ve attached a SL welded effort
Alan D

[Alan Drury]

Or maybe not

[Alan Drury]

Struggling with attaching files, email me and I’ll send it direct

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Attachments:

WeldedAD.cdr

[Peter Normington]

I thought maybe 2 layers would be neater, without but joints
peter

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Attachments:

2 layers.zip