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Post by trixiecat on Feb 4, 2021 0:27:11 GMT
I am so frustrated. I have a hexagon shape that I duplicated side by side 4 times. I want it to be one design so there are no cut lines in between the hexagons. I have "The Ultimate Silhouette Guide" and can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone help with this? Thanks.
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Post by wendifful on Feb 4, 2021 0:57:56 GMT
Not sure what you've tried, so apologies if this is super obvious...but you should be able to weld the shapes together. Select the two shapes, then open the Modify panel (which you can access by selecting Panels>Modify from the menu), and click the "weld" option.
Sometimes I've had issues where even when the shapes are overlapping, the software refuses to weld them. I'm not sure why it does that, so if you're having the problem, hopefully someone else can help!
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Post by wendifful on Feb 4, 2021 1:00:20 GMT
Here's a quick video about welding I found on YouTube. I didn't watch it because I have to go run an errand right now, but if this doesn't answer your question, just search "weld in Silhouette Studio" and see if you find a video that helps. I'll check in after I get home to see if this helped! |
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Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on Feb 4, 2021 1:16:08 GMT
Have you tried duplicating in rows?
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Post by cmpeter on Feb 4, 2021 1:17:17 GMT
Use Ctrl+A to select it all. Then weld it together. That should remove the internal cut lines.
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Post by trixiecat on Feb 4, 2021 2:44:57 GMT
I will try your suggestions tomorrow. I thought with weld that I had to overlap the shapes slightly to make weld work.
I have duplicated my shapes, but there is a cut line between them that I want removed.
I will let you know what luck I have tomorrow. Thank you in advance.
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Post by scrapnnana on Feb 4, 2021 2:47:22 GMT
Use Ctrl+A to select it all. Then weld it together. That should remove the internal cut lines. Yes, but the internal cut lines need to overlap each other at least a tiny bit. You may have to zoom in to see close enough to make sure they overlap enough, without being too much. |
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Post by powderhorngreen on Feb 4, 2021 6:54:52 GMT
If it is important that they not overlap (ie. the measurements must remain exact), you can use point editing. Double click on your first hexagon and a grey dot will appear at each corner. Then click on a corner at the end of a line you want removed. Break that path and pull that dot out and then delete that dot to get rid of that line segment. You do that for each hexagon. then select all of them and make a compound path. Now, go back into point editing and you will see that all the open paths end with red dots. Just click on them to make them grey again (conned the two segments). After all the red dots are grey, you will have exactly what you are looking for. Hope that makes sense. I do this all the time when designing mini albums. I need to keep my sizing exact and sometimes point editing is the way to go.
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Post by trixiecat on Feb 4, 2021 13:17:30 GMT
If it is important that they not overlap (ie. the measurements must remain exact), you can use point editing. Double click on your first hexagon and a grey dot will appear at each corner. Then click on a corner at the end of a line you want removed. Break that path and pull that dot out and then delete that dot to get rid of that line segment. You do that for each hexagon. then select all of them and make a compound path. Now, go back into point editing and you will see that all the open paths end with red dots. Just click on them to make them grey again (conned the two segments). After all the red dots are grey, you will have exactly what you are looking for. Hope that makes sense. I do this all the time when designing mini albums. I need to keep my sizing exact and sometimes point editing is the way to go. Powderhorngreen, yes I need the exact size so welding will not be an option. So I need more instruction. I have double clicked on the first hexagon and see the grey dots. When I click at the end of the line I want removed the line turns red and the dot turns red. The I click break the path. When I go to pull the red dot away it opens up the hexagon and one of the lines move up to expose the inner line. I think I am missing something or doing it wrong. Thanks. |
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barbara32ca
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Post by barbara32ca on Feb 4, 2021 15:17:11 GMT
How about tracing? You can trace just the outline and all of the measurements will remain intact.
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Post by trixiecat on Feb 4, 2021 16:14:00 GMT
barbara32ca (I don't know how to tag people). It worked!! And the tracing was so easy. I am a little rusty with my Cameo since I took a break scrapbooking for 3 years. Thank you so much.
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Post by barbara32ca on Feb 4, 2021 16:23:41 GMT
barbara32ca (I don't know how to tag people). It worked!! And the tracing was so easy. I am a little rusty with my Cameo since I took a break scrapbooking for 3 years. Thank you so much. That's awesome, I'm so glad that it worked. :-) |
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Post by Elsabelle on Feb 4, 2021 18:02:34 GMT
barbara32ca (I don't know how to tag people). It worked!! And the tracing was so easy. I am a little rusty with my Cameo since I took a break scrapbooking for 3 years. Thank you so much. I’m glad you solved your problem. I clearly had no idea what you meant 😆 but I’m glad someone else did. |
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Post by powderhorngreen on Feb 6, 2021 16:45:42 GMT
OK, lets see if I can help a bit. When the dot turns red, you then need to actually take the red dot and drag it apart. Once apart, you can then delete the dot. Hard to put into words. I have done some videos on creating mini albums in Silhouette Studio. Let me see if one of those videos will detail dealing with point editing.
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Post by powderhorngreen on Feb 6, 2021 16:59:52 GMT
OK, I have a video that talks about point editing a bit. In the video, I adding an open shape to the top of a pocket. Not exactly what you are doing, but it explains the basics of how to work with point editing. The guts of it start at about the 21 minute mark. You will see what I mean by separating the points. To separate, you select the point but do not release the selection keep dragging. If you release the point, the two open ends will snap back together. Here is the link: link |
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Post by nicolep on Feb 6, 2021 17:40:38 GMT
trixiecat For straight lines like that you can also just use the eraser tool to erase the middle cut lines. I replicated a hexagon into a row of 4 and the used the eraser tool.  
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Post by powderhorngreen on Feb 7, 2021 2:38:20 GMT
After you erase, you might want to just check the lines because you are likely to end up with lots of line segments. Just creat compound path and then close any open segments (red dots).
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