Creating a border around clip art

[Magilla122 (James Adamcheck)]

I’m trying to add the USMC Globe and Anchor to the US flag tray. The art work I have doesn’t have a border around it and I want the stripes in the flag to start and stop as shown in the Carbide Create Boolean video. I understand the process of the Boolean, but I’m having big issues with creating a border around the globe and anchor.

Is it possible to create a shape around the globe and anchor and start moving nodes closer into the art work, then doing the Boolean step?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Yes, please see:

Creating designs from elements

If one has a design idea one wants to make, usually it can be shown / mocked up as a pixel image, and put together using some basic elements. For example: [image2] All one should need for that is a portion of a U.S. flag, and the Marine Corps seal — fortunately, both are easily sourced on Wikimedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg

If you’re still having trouble, upload your .c2d file and we will look into it with you.

[Magilla122 (James Adamcheck)]

USMC Globe and Anchor Template_11 NOV 2025.c2d (688 KB)

Here you go, thank you.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

The file imports as:

Not sure what you mean by the “US Flag Tray”.

Placing this design over the Union is shown in the above link.

A similar technique for the Field is:

Boolean subtraction from flag stripes in background

as requested on support… Given a design: [image] we need to offset it to the outside using Offset Vectors: [image] Apply [image] Then shift-click on the outer geometry to remove it from the selection: [image] and delete it: [image] Selecting the stripes: [image] we see that there are seven vectors, so we ungroup them: [image] Select the outer geometry: [image] copy it, move the cursor out of the drawing area, then paste it six times to make a total of 7 instances all sta…

hang on for a step-by-step walk-through with your file…

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

First, import a flag:

Done

Group Vectors

Align Vectors

Ok

Then select the eagle and globe:

Offset Vectors

Apply

which seems a bit much, so delete and retry:

Apply

Shift-click on the surrounding geometry to remove it from the selection:

and delete

However, the .c2d file lacks Layers, so it will be necessary to re-create the file so as to restore layers.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Export all the geometry as an SVG, launch Carbide Create and make a new file and import the SVG:

delete what is not needed:

and re-arrange and re-scale things:

Select the geometry which interacts:

and use Trim Vectors to remove what is not wanted after duplicating:

and moving to a new layer:

and hide the original layer:

and click on what is not wanted, focusing on either the Canton or the Field or the stars:

OK

Yes

Shift-click on the Canton outline which has been adjusted:

and delete everything else:

Then repeat for the other elements:

OK

OK

Yes

Delete the no longer needed geometry:

Where necessary, revisit and adjust things to prep for toolpaths and add geometry :

Then set up toolpaths:

Then adjust the Toolpath order for efficiency:

which previews as:

Adjust the toolpaths as desired.

Attached as a v8 file.

USMC Globe and Anchor Template_11 NOV 2025_v8.c2d (976 KB)

[Magilla122 (James Adamcheck)]

Will,
Thank you so much for all the help with this.

Jim