cannot select the inside of a scanned drawing

[mikeomatic 0]

Hi All,

Have had our creation pcut for about two weeks now. I have done really well so far by reading the forum and the sign blazer book which I downloaded and printed.We are working in signblazer.

Here is my problem.

Wife draws outline of what she wants for an airbrush mask.We scan it in,monochrome it, then vectorize it and wow, I think this is really great.....nothing to it....only problem is the cutter is seeing only the pencil line and thinks that is what we want to cut. The cutter then proceeds to cut the pencil line both sides :-( She needs to use both parts of the mask (outside and inside) so the cutting of the pencil line wont work (it really is an amazing machine).

Can some one walk me through how to make the center of the object become one with everything, or is there a way to erase just the inside of the line? I have researched the forum archives and read the book and just can't seem to find out how to do it

thanks in advance.

Mike

[mikeomatic 0]

Never mind :-)

found it.....split object  duh :-)

mike