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What is a good way to add weed lines to designs within cutting tiles, without using the "weed" (or autoweed) function of the program at the cutting screen?

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Man,

I have added hundreds of weed lines in my old sign blazer files:

1. Select polyline, and draw perpendicular or horizontal lines.

2. Overlap them a little at intersections.

3. Make sure the color is the same as rest of design 

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Sorry, I don't understand what you meant "overlap them" -- the polyline function makes filled-in shapes (you have to close the path, not just draw straight lines from point A-to-B, since you need to create node "C" to join back with point A).

 

Also, why would color be of any consequence? I can assign various portions of the design any colors and then choose them from the cut screen, using the CTRL key.

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7 hours ago, slice&dice said:

the polyline function makes filled-in shapes (you have to close the path, not just draw straight lines from point A-to-B, since you need to create node "C" to join back with point A).

Actually, no, you don't have to close the loop with the polyline.

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3 hours ago, darcshadow said:

Actually, no, you don't have to close the loop with the polyline.

Yeah - out of habit I did draw single lines, and right click - end on the second point- but you can just continue- that would be easy also.

Thanks for the tip above on CTRL key.

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On 9/13/2016 at 3:36 PM, darcshadow said:

Actually, no, you don't have to close the loop with the polyline.

Incredible. Such a plain and simple solution ---  I never realized the polyline would make just a line !!  (holding the SHIFT key to keep it straight)

And that allows me to add the weed lines as desired.

Thank you.

 

 

 

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