[jmueller7]

New to the cutting of a corel design with my roland. I have letters that consist of a block letter with an 8 pt black outline as the back layer with a block letter and a 4 pt white outline as the top layer, making the shadow effect.

I convert curves and add my countour cut line, but it keeps appearing INSIDE the black outline and cuts the black out.

I've tried boundary and countouring every way I can figure. Obviously there is a setting/trick I don't know that someone does.

Please HELP!

 

[jmueller7]

We are using Corel X5.

 

[spiderx1]

Try turning view to wire frame to get a better idea of where all the lines are. Also sometimes I turn an outline to object then stroke it with the contour cut color and delete the old outline which is now an object. It seems it is a fight sometimes. Especially when dealing with shadows. Sometime quicker to draw by hand or use the contour object tool. Yesterday I had one that I duplicated filled all same color then welded the objects. Then outlined. Converted to outline to object. Deleted center except outline moved to the original art.

 

[Corel Whisperer]

The cutter will not cut outlines you will need to use the contour tool to make the exrta cutting lines you need.