[a123bonnie]

Help! I am trying to cut a design that I created in Corel X3. The design is a Triangle with an open area in the shape of a small circle, inside the triangle. When making transfers I would simply make the circle white and it would automatically be an open area. The cutter however, will see this as 2 different objects. Can someone instruct me on how to eliminate this problem. I am new to vinyl cutting, using US Cutter Laserpoint 24, and am kinda familiar with Corel. Sooooo....... any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch
Bonnie Williams
Embroidery Art Service
Kansas City, MO
[email protected]

 

[joeshaul]

If you're looking for something like what I have attached (assuming that say the shirt is black, your t-shirt vinyl is red), then you would cut two objects, the triangle and the circle. You would then weed the outside of the triangle, so you're left with the triangle and circle both inside. Then you would weed out the circle that's inside, which should leave you with the resultant photo when placed on a garment.

 

[a123bonnie]

Joe, Thank you for going to the trouble to creat the example.
While it seemed to me like that should work, I guess I thought that my cutter software would want to stop after the first color then go back to cut the second color which would require setting up the registration marks, etc. But I sure will try it like you have shown here and see if it is not the big problem I thought it was going to be. LOL...Duhhhhh. I feel so scrambled sometimes.
Thanks a bunch Joe,
Bonnie

 

[LineStretch]

Also If Joe had the design correct, you would make it one object instead of two in Corel, by either 'welding' your circle to your triangle or 'trimming' the triangle with the circle (using the 'Shape' function in Corel.

 

[Bellgraphics]

Ok, I follow the posts to a123bonnie, but like on a sports cut where you have a team name, like say : Slippery Rock : in red and want a 1/8" white border showing around the out side and inside of the letters. Two cuts? Outline cut? Help---poor richard

 

[joeshaul]

Ok, I follow the posts to a123bonnie, but like on a sports cut where you have a team name, like say : Slippery Rock : in red and want a 1/8" white border showing around the out side and inside of the letters. Two cuts? Outline cut? Help---poor richard

Are you refering to two color'ed vinyls applied on a garment that makes up a third color?
IE: black shirt, red letters, white outline (left sample)
Or do you mean like a white shirt, with red lettering, a white outline, then a red outline? (right sample)

The left sample would best be done by layering the red overtop the white after applying a contour.

The right sample would best be done by using two contours, then weeding out the middle/first created contour