Design Question with Line

Hi All - (hopefully) and easy design question. How do I get rid of that little line that’s connecting the two lines. I want it open. I hope I’m explaing this correctly. I’ve tried all kinds of things, but can’t seem to get it done.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

If they intersect, you can use the Trim Vector tool & select that short section. Then Join the remaining curves if needed. If they don’t intersect, (looks like the line to the right doesn’t), you can drag both nodes down & left to make them intersect. Or you can edit nodes & cut the vector at those to points & deleted the short section.

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Use the trim vectors tool, you will get two blue dots at each point, click on the line you want to erase. you will need to click twice because there appears to be 2 lines there.

You will need to:

  • draw geometry to define the intersection
  • use Trim Vectors to remove the line section from the longer horizontal line
  • use Node Editing to cut the bottom from the diagonal and delete the bottom line
  • select both and use Join Vectors to connect things

hang on, while I re-draw this so that we can walk through it…

Start with:

First, draw geometry to define the intersection:

Then use Trim Vectors:

OK

Then select the diagonal:

and use Node Editing:

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Select the Begin/End nodes:

Delete

Done

Select and delete the drawn geometry used to trim the longer horizontal line:

Select the modified geometry:

and use Join Vectors:

Yes

Thank you everyone for taking the time to help me out!!! I did it!

Besides getting it done, I kind of get the whole having to add vectors to take them away!

Thanks everyone! The Carbide community and Will and all of the Carbide people are the best!

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again…I chose Shapeoko specifically for their customer serfice and I’ve never been disappointed!!!

Thank you gentleman!

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@Yeslek In the future, if you upload your C2D file as well, it’s a lot easier for others to look at the problem and give suggestions.

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