Unclosed vectors carbide create

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, and I dont know how to fix it.

I imported a flag using the trace image tool to get a vector, and It traced right, but I couldnt get the sizes correct, so I exported SVG, imported into fusion 360, got the size correct, exported as dxf, tried to bring it into carbide create and have unclosed vectors.

I cannot figure out how to use the join tool to fix it or any other tool, including deleting and redrawing lines, in carbide create, so I’ve gone back into fusion 360 and drew each and every line so they are connected in f360, ive deleted all the lines and made sure they’re not over top of each other (i dont know if fusion has a overkill command like autocad does)

What am I missing or how can I use the tools I have to make it so I can cut this?

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

The fundamental rule about joining vectors is “You cannot join to a closed vector”.

Every vector that you select to join must be open - i.e., colored magenta when not selected.

Screenshots are almost useless, post your C2D file.

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

Heres the file
flagtest.c2d (96 KB)

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

OK, your stripes are slightly different widths, alternating. Is that what you want, or are all the stripes supposed to be the same width?

Regardless, rather than joining vectors, I would just delete them and then copy-paste the rectangles you already have, or draw new ones going node-to-node.

flagtest.c2d (104 KB)

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

Well ideally they’d be the same but it doesn’t matter as long as they’re visually the same

I just wanted to engrave it in colorcore, as a test

But what actually is going wrong, I’m not understanding?

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

On the second to bottom ‘rectangle’ - all you have is the unclosed vectors at each end of the rectangle. There’s nothing to join, because you haven’t defined the long edges of the rectangle.

The other rectangle on each side don’t help here - the vectors in those rectangles can’t be used since they are already closed.

Here’s another screenshot after I deleted all the already closed vectors that you can’t join with:

There’s not enough there to be joining, there are no vectors that together define a closed space.

Since it’s all just simple rectangles, I just drew new rectangles. The edges of the rectangles can overlay each other, what you want to avoid is having the internal areas of the rectangles overlapping.

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

This is probably most easily re-drawn:

First make a new layer:

and make it active and red:

and turn off Snap to Grid:

and draw in the red stripes:

until one arrives at:

Then make a layer for white (we will use light grey) and repeat:

and repeat for blue:

Delete all extraneous elements.

Attached as a v8 file:

flagtest_v8.c2d (96 KB)

Or, see:

Closing open geometry and fixing closed geometry

as requested on support… Given a file: [image] How to ready for cutting out by: closing magenta lines by drawing in additional geometry how to fix geometries which have been doubled back and closed despite not describing a region: [image]

Making closed geometry out of open geometry

as requested on support… Given a mix of open/closed geometry: [image] How does one make closed geometry like to the stack of rectangles in the center? [image] Since one simply needs to make closed ends for the most part, this is quite simple — just edit each closed region so that it is open at the ends, duplicate all the closed interior geometry, draw in the ends, then select the geometry for each region and use Join Vectors to join them, creating a closed region.

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

Long story short, maybe it’s possible tracing it, exporting it, and trying to fix it in fusion 360 compounded an issue?

I’m still reading through what you wrote, and thank you for taking the time

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

Thank you, I think conFusion 360 did it weird, I’m going to try redrawing from scratch in AutoCAD, but I’m also going to work through and try to understand how to fix this

[Quali3d (Nick S)]

Anyway, I don’t know if this is the proper way to give credit, but the two of you that replied tonight helped me a lot, I ended up redrawing it inside carbide create using layers

This is what came out

What did you cut on your Shapeoko/ Nomad today?

After much help from the guys in this thread I have made a flag I’m going to tune and redo the star field tomorrow, but it is almost there! [20250829_233358]

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

Our pleasure! Glad it workd!

Credit is done by using the “Solution” checkbox:

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