Import and CUT out pattern

[freddy12]

Hi Iam new to the forum, purchased a rebuilt machine so I could cut out gears, I have a gear generator, I can get the gear into the designer OK but I cant get the cut path tool to highlight. I searched the forum quite a bit and couldnt find anything that would help me. Can some one please show me the proper procedure, Thank you in advance
Fred

[blhutchens]

Go to the top of the screen in designer under view and toggle non-endpoint to see it is a closed vector. The cut out tool will not work if there are non endpoints in your vector


Brent

[fwharris]

Make sure you are highlighting the gear pattern and outlining it. If done and still no cut path tool the do as Brent stated.

[freddy12]

Thanks for your responses I will give those a try, and report back if I have it figured out!

[freddy12]

OK I tried Those things and still no luck, I believe its something I did wrong in the pattern editor, thats not letting me do a cut path. Here is what I did, meybe someone can help me out. I imported the picture of my gear to paint, then I saved it to my pictures, and then imported it to project designer, I had to invert it to get it to show, but no cut path? Help!

[fwharris]

With out seeing it it is kind of hard to say. Maybe you can post either the project file or the image.

[CW-HAL9000]

if you are trying to do it from a ptn then you need to highlight the ptn and go to tools and then choose outline patterns then when it outlines your gear (it may have more than one outlines) pick the one that fully outlines the gear, then once you choose that one you can then choose the cut path option. If this does not work then you need to post the MPC or the PTN or even the MPW from pattern editor, with any one of these we can see what is happening better, other than that it is all guessing.

[freddy12]

12 inch gear.mpc @ FW Harris I am not sure i got this right, I may have to try several times

[fwharris]

You have to remove the image background so that just the gear is the pattern. When importing the image into designer use the "lower" button in the import window.

[SteveNelson46]

OK I tried Those things and still no luck, I believe its something I did wrong in the pattern editor, thats not letting me do a cut path. Here is what I did, meybe someone can help me out. I imported the picture of my gear to paint, then I saved it to my pictures, and then imported it to project designer, I had to invert it to get it to show, but no cut path? Help!

Here is a link to a short video that I made awhile back. It may help.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0j...ew?usp=sharing