Making a flag (help)

[DennisG (Dennis E Groh)]

I cant get past this point i am ready to sell my machine

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

I posted step-by-step instructions above on how to handle this.

You simply need to:

• ungroup anything which is grouped
• select one stripe
• select the outermost outline of the firefighter so that it is the key object (dashed outline)
• Boolean subtract

and repeat

Please post the file you are working on and we will do our best to work through this with you.

Why don’t you just use the file was made for you?

https://community.carbide3d.com/uploads/short-url/pTqv0oPHEJfdvhZ2zE6rbaSdTEX.c2d

[DennisG (Dennis E Groh)]

here is the filefire2.c2d (1.4 MB)

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

Zoom in:

Select the stripes

Shift-click on the outline of the firefighter to add it as the key object (dashed outline):

click on Boolean Subtraction:

Edit:

then repeat with the lower stripes:

[MindlessCorpse]

Looks like the top half stripes are one single line?
Is that intentional ?

[DennisG (Dennis E Groh)]

No I’ve tried and tried to fix it im so frustrated with the whole mess.

[Gerry]

It’s unfortunate you are getting frustrated.

But you did start this topic without even having images or vectors to hand, or a design thought out.

And now you have those and some guidance on how to make it work. So you’re making some progress.

The issues you are having are nothing really to do with the machine, so selling that won’t help at this point. So far it’s all design work and how to use some moderately technical software packages. But you are going to have to put the effort in here and learn how to do it.

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

We have provided several files for you to try to download.

This should be what you are trying to arrive at:

fire2.c2d (1.5 MB)

Have you tried downloading them? If so, what trouble are you having?

Have you reviewed:

Carbide Create Video Tutorial Series

(Note that you need to use shift, not control to add or remove objects from the current selection)

[MindlessCorpse]

Understandable… It is like going to school all over again.
Just step back, re-read the info from willAdams and it will start to come together for you.
fwiw, You are starting out on a fairly complex project, so the learning will be a bit rough …at first, then things will start to make sense, baby steps first.
…part of it is the boolean feature, which I still don’t get, I just have to do over and over until I get it.