gmnast PTN

[xchief807]

Looking to make a medal holder for my niece and I want to make the top of it look like the picture I posted I need a ptn I just want the 3 gymnast not the beam or anything else I just want to make the shape of them as a cut out the top of my board will be the beam. I tried to just import the picture but when I outline it it outlines the whole carve region. Not just the girls so not sure how to do it.

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[SteveNelson46]

You should be able to clean these up in the Pattern Editor

[bergerud]

How is this? A dxf import could give smoother curves to cut cut.

[xchief807]

Ok these would work perfect. My question now is when I add them to my board 11.25 I place them and I outline them make a cut path then delete the ptn. but how do I get the wood to cut between the girls so that it looks like the picture I posted. and makes it look like they are on the beam.
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[bergerud]

Would you not just make a rectangular carve region for the beam. Overlap the patterns a little and then outline them all at once.

[xchief807]

well that sounded easy but I will be darn if I can get it to work. i am doing it on a 11.25 wide by 24 long board i want this on top and then enough of the board left so i can carve the word gymnast under it and then have enough room to put pegs on the bottom so she can hang her awards if that makes sense. so i am using as much of the board as i can.

[bergerud]

Ok, how about this. I traced the girls and imported as dxf and chopped them up to make one curve. (the original imports are on the rear of the board.) (You could also make them bigger.)

[xchief807]

This is perfect not sure if this is ready to carve or do I need to place this on a 11.25 by 24 board and then add in my text. when I click on it shows on carveright and it will let me add text but it doesn't show the whole board. so I'm not sure if I can just add my text and download to the card and carve or do I have to do something else.

[bergerud]

It is on a 24 by 11.25 board. I have just hidden the cutouts. Select all, right click, and toggle the Hide Cutout.

[xchief807]

Ok thank you very much for doing this,

[xchief807]

Ok I just tried to load the project so I could carve it but it says spline 2,3,and 4 are hidden and has zero carve depth I tried to add the carve depth the board is 3/4 thick but it wont let me.

[bergerud]

The zero carve depth message is because I put the original three traces on the rear of the board. (I did this in case you or someone else might want to try something different.) Just flip over the board in Designer and delete them.

[SteveNelson46]

How's this? If you look closely, the pattern is not flat. You can also see that there is a cutout that is a connected line, not a path. The outline pattern did not work correctly and I had to re-trace it manually with some difficulty in converting the lines to bezier curves (splines).

[xchief807]

Thanks Steve the only problem with this one is I just want a rectangle under the girls like bergerud did and I want to be able to add my own text so I am using a 11.25 by 24" 3/4 thick board and I want to just to cut the girls out like you did and the rest just a rectangle so I can add in my text and I am going to put dowels in so she can hang her medals. so yours is perfect if it can be changed. so it really wouldn't be a carve its just a cutout of the top of the board were the girls are and a centerline text.

Kevin

so just like this but mine will be bigger

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[SteveNelson46]

The text on the previous example was applied using the Designer. You can change it to anything you like. I left this one blank.

[xchief807]

Steve,
Thank you this is perfect she will be very happy thank you for doing it. And thanks again to Bergerud for helping me out.

[xchief807]

Steve,
when I outline the PTN and I make it a cut path when I get to the last girl on the right when I try and make the part between her legs a cut path the cut path tool will not high lite all the other cut paths work fine

[SteveNelson46]

Steve,
when I outline the PTN and I make it a cut path when I get to the last girl on the right when I try and make the part between her legs a cut path the cut path tool will not high lite all the other cut paths work fine

It worked okay for me in the .mpc. It's a problem with the Designer on some outlines. Sometimes it works better if you make the pattern a little larger before outlining. Since it isn't a true vector and cannot be edited, you will have to manually trace the path. Be sure to close it so there are no end points. The cut path tool should work then.

[xchief807]

Ok never mind I played with it and got it to work thanks again