I am using CorelDraw 12 to drive my Epilog EX laser. I have encountered an odd double cutting thing on some of my pieces.
I have a hairline oval. The oval has no fill – just a hairline outline. When I vector it the machines cuts it twice. I have selected the line and deleted it and there is no line hiding underneath. I have cut and pasted the item to a new CD file and get the same results.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated
I run into this all the time when i import a cad drawing into corel 12. My epilog will sometimes cut several times along the same lines. Now I just redraw it and delete the original. If this is happening when you draw in corel you may need to call Epilog.
I have seen this once before on my LaserPro Explorer when importing Autocad drawings. If this is the source of your oval, you might try checking the “Auto-reduce nodes” box during the import. If the oval is one you drew in Corel, then obviously, this doesn’t apply. If you’d like to narrow down the problem, you can email the Corel and I’ll see how it does on my machine. That should let you narrow it down to being either a Corel problem, or an Epilog driver problem. Hope this helps.
Could you have accidentally pasted a duplicate over the top of the oval and grouped it? Have you redrawn the oval from scratch to see if the problem repeats?
I have ungrouped everything, checked out the line and there is only one of the blinking things there. To be more specific I start by drawing an oval and then ‘convert to object’ to do some manipulation. Even though CD only shows the line as being a single hairline I am guessing there is something left over in the conversion process.
If I do a significant magnification on the line it shows thicker than a hairline I have drawn next to it via the freehand tool.
I think I am going to have to chalk this one up to a strangeness on CorelDraw’s part.
I had a bit of the same and found that somehow I had created a second object that was white so it didn’t show up when looking. Try selecting everything (control A) and then changing the global color to black, see if anything else shows up.
What manipulation are you trying to do, may I ask? Once you’ve drawn anything, you already HAVE an object - so I’m confused about the “convert to object” comment. Are you hitting the “convert outline to object” command, by some chance? Creating an object out of an outline/hairline means making a “fillable” item out of the outline itself, and you’ll have two objects instead. Try this: after you’ve created the object, go to Wireframe mode and zoom in close on the outline. You should now see THREE lines - the original object, PLUS an inner and an outer circle. Select either of those two, and move it — you’ll see that those two move together, while your original piece remains intact. And yes, the filled outline will indeed appear thicker than a newly-created object next to it (because you haven’t made ITS outline a separate, fill-able item all by itself that can even have an outline applied to IT.)
So running a vector cut on an item that’s had its outline converted to an object should indeed have the vectoring run twice, possibly even three times, and the one will be ever-so-slightly offset from the other.
That is exactly what is happening. I would never have gotten there. I was doing the conversion process just to make it easier to erase parts of the oval.
Thank you very much!