How to remove lines from vector image

[michaelbhunter (Michael Hunter)]

The4runnershow.c2d (212 KB)

I am trying to make a neon sign out of this and I just need to simplify the image a little bit to make some no offeset channels. For instance just a single circle around the outside. How can i remove some of the lines and run a job just the outline of this image?

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

4Runner Zman.c2d (144 KB)

I clicked on the image, everything was selected.

Go to ungroup

Click

Click on a blank space, highlighted image will not be highlighted. Click on the lines you would like to delete press delete key. I did some for you, to show you. Use your file to do it the way you want.

The file I worked is 4Runner Zman.c2d

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

As noted, select everything and ungroup it:

to arrive at:

which then allows selecting specific lines:

and deleting them:

That said, it’s a pretty simple/symmetrical thing — it would be much better to just re-draw the whole thing — let us know if you have difficulties w/ doing that.

See:

Let's draw an "ellipse" with new users

(the title of this post hearkens back to a small book / card which Warren Chappell created, “Let’s make a “B” for Bennet” — I was fortunate to meet Mr. Chappell when he was Artist-in-Residence at UVA on a school field trip when I was young, and he was the author, along with his cousin Oscar Ogg, of a number of books I remember from my youth.) Note that the below is obsoleted in current versions of Carbide Create by the ability to asymmetrically scale a circle into an oval/ellipse. Okay, step-b…

very basic tutorial on drawing with the curve tool — also see:

Let's Make a B (for anyone)

Ages ago, there was an elegant little pamphlet entitled “Let’s Make a B for Bennet” which Warren Chappell wrote and illustrated. Here’s a discussion of how to use Carbide Create’s new curve feature to draw a B. We start with an image of a “B”: https://www.flickr.com/photos/letterformarchive/38372487832/in/album-72157687338823192/ [38372487832_6b4562b0a5_o]

Logo re-creation:

Carbide create help!

I believe that you’ll have better luck w/ this if everything is constructed in the same way. If you’re not familiar w/ Bezier / vector drawing programs, I’d suggest doing some tutorials This should be straight-forward to make — I assume that what you want is: two drilled holes to fasten the piece in place and to allow for a cord to be passed through text which will be V-engraved an outer perimeter which will be cut out to separate the piece from the stock. Okay, assuming the 1/2" x 1/2" in…

Carbide Create re-drawing

If one only has a pixel image: [image003] then one has three options: auto-tracing — EDIT: Carbide Create has since gained this feature: Carbide Create - Image Tracing using the pixel image using a tool such as MeshCAM or Carbide Create Pro’s texture feature re-drawing — this is a tutorial on this: Begin by going to Job Setup and setting the Stock Size and importing the image onto the background: [image]

re-drawing with the curve tool