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Joining Vector Lines
Hi,
So about 2 months into the cnc router world and most of my hair is gone. I created this file and really struggling to get lines joined. I've watched as many videos as I can find, read every post I was able to find, and still when I try to fix intersection issues I'm able to fix about 10%, then work for hours to get the rest. I work in node editing, cutting lines, pulling nodes over the lines I'm trying to join. I'm just not getting anywhere with it. I added an image of what I'm dealing with. Any help might just save the rest of my hair.
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Hi Mark,
There is nothing wrong with your design. Every green mark shows where the vectors intersect with each other. It makes sense that they cannot be joined as one continuous closed vector. In case you need to have only closed vectors, then you should trim some parts and join with others in order to end up with closed shapes...
Also, dragging nodes to touch each other doesn't mean the vector is joined.. so don't forget to use the Join command.
Hope that makes sense and might helped a bit!
Elina.
Thank you Elina,
I just assumed everything that wasn't an island should be connected, but it does make sense since the pieces that intersect will have different depths.
Pretty complicated for a complete novice, but I'll keep working on it.
Mark
Mark,
Some pics for you, I had to find out what was available in maker and maker plus before I said anything (I liked the way Elina said it) a pic is worth a 1000 words here are a few in case you don't know where the stuff is at (I didn't) so here goes.
It's kind of cool how many tools are available in maker, If you look in the menu bar under vectors you will see join (in the full version there's an icon makes things faster) you will have some nice choices and they work rather slick.
mike
A mess of open vectors, eeeek

Where everything's at.

The joined with a smooth curve, after the fact.

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