The Flaming Eyeball 4 Posted October 22, 2020 I had a decal I made previously. I added an outline and was able to cut it just like I wanted: an outline. Now, I'm trying to create a new decal and do the same effect....but now I keep getting the outline in all the holes (and yes, I've tried both with keeping the holes and without) And I get these weird anomalies in the small holes of the graphic. So these are the two graphics. The one on the left is the one I've done previously, the right is the current project. Red circles are the weird outlines that show better in the wire frame in the next pic. Left pic is how I want it to cut, I suppose I could cut it like the right and weed it all out, but why waste even the smallest amount of cutting with my blade, and shorten the life unnecessarily. I'm using Vinyl Master LTR, and was able to do this just fine previously, but different day, no joy. Any guesses? TIA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kainth.c.s 53 Posted October 22, 2020 HI I would like to have a look at the file you are using. Would you mind saving it as a pdf or an ai file and uploading it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slice&dice 2,450 Posted October 22, 2020 Two things -- 1. You noted " why waste even the smallest amount of cutting with my blade, and shorten the life unnecessarily. " Not a realistic fear, blades will last for years & replacements are cheap anyway. Just cut those extra little shapes and weed 'em. or 2. Node Edit and remove the extra stuff you don't want. Do you know how to do that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haumana 1,220 Posted October 22, 2020 Umm... if you're just cutting regular vinyl and your blades are dulling quickly, you need to buy better blades. I have a 60* Clean Cut blade that I've been using for 10+ years, even cutting reflective once in a while. Creating outlines don't always work ideally for me, so that's when I just delete the nodes that I don't need. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Flaming Eyeball 4 Posted October 22, 2020 OK, all thanks for the advice. Sleep helped, as usual it came to me as I was just drifting off......what if I punched it out....? zzzzzzzzzz......... So this morning tried again. Used the Outline module, which makes it a separate graphic, so to speak. Did that twice, and punched it out from the second one, which was a bit smaller. Viola! I now have an outline that I can resize and no extra stuff in the middle! As for the blades dulling, that was a theoretical statement to avoid extra cutting, this is still my first blade, and I've cut a lot of stuff with it over the past year+ and I don't see any signs of it stopping yet. I now have a clean outline that I can change colors on and have it separate from the graphic so it will all be one layer, with no weird cutting lines in the middle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Flaming Eyeball 4 Posted October 22, 2020 8 hours ago, slice&dice said: 2. Node Edit and remove the extra stuff you don't want. Do you know how to do that? I do know how to node edit, but when using the outline effect vs. the outline module you can't edit the nodes from what I can tell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haumana 1,220 Posted October 23, 2020 I highly recommend you get to know how to do node edits. It's going to be your best friend. It's a simple, but very power skill to have. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites