Help with breaking up a logo

[VINYLSLICER 0]

I have designed a logo that is to large for the vinyl I have on hand.

It could be cut in 3 separate pieces, the top arc, the middle band and the bottom arc.

I have VM LTR and cannot figure out how to devide the top and bottom arcs. 

I have attached the file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Logo.vDoc

[slice&dice 2,450]

What program is native for a vDoc file?  Google says Superior SQL Builder.

EDIT -- nevermind, it's a VinylMaster proprietary file format.

 

[ShaneGreen 131]

If you make the lower arc a different color, say yellow, and the middle section red, you can cut them separately. When you send it to the cutter choose "separate by color".  It will want to do the top arc in black. Then it will want to do the bottom yellow arc, but leave the black vinyl loaded.  Follow the same steps for the middle.   You'll need to do the same sort of thing for the blue outlines, only using 3 different colors.  It's not the prettiest way of doing it, but it gets the job done in a hurry.

 

[VINYLSLICER 0]

The issue I am having is the 2 arcs were originally 1 circle that I punched out the block for the center bar. I need to be able to separate the 2 arcs to be able to change the color of 1 of them. I cannot figure out how to break the 2 arcs apart.

[VINYLSLICER 0]

I think I have it figured out. I had to convert to curves, then break the curves apart. I knew it had to be possible.

 

[dcbevins 340]

Just for the future, in case you run into it, break apart only does something when there are subpaths.  If the art had ever been welded, or unioned or what ever VinylMaster calls it, there would be no subpaths.  You would have to use some boolean operation like intersect or difference, and possible another shape, to slice up the art.