

We recommend exploring these commandsIn more depth on your own when you’ve finished this tutorial.This is best explained by example. Method to convert fonts into curves and outlines using Adobe Illustrator.Menu, you’ll be able to combine shapes and cut holes in your shapes –Resulting in clean, closed paths. Using the Boolean Operations in the PathWith Sonix, you can automatically transcribe your videos to text in minutes. Making sure your objects are combined correctly is important for laser cutting.
I’ll to need toFix those issues before I send this file to the laser. I also see a couple strayPoints, an open contour and a line that isn’t connected. I suggest doing this numerous times as you’re designing.Uh oh, see all those overlapping lines? I see that I have multipleObjects all piled on top of one another. You’d start withLooks pretty good, right? Well, before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s view our design in Outline display mode.
This will merge all my shapes into one. In the Path menu, I’ll select Union. Using the Edit path by nodes tool (F2) again, I’ll select all the shapes. Merging shapesNow that I have a continuous path I can merge my shapes. In the top tool bar I’ll click the Join selected nodes button. Using the Edit path by nodes tool (F2), I will select the two nodes that I want to join.
If I select all and apply black,You’ll see that I don’t really have holes. For this example we’ll just look at the only the laser gun.To start I basically have one gray shape, with white shapes layeredOn top, where the holes should be. The Division and ExcludeTools tool let you reverse one shape out of another while making it allOne object. It seems like a good time to talk about that.

