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ShopReady Draft 2D · 1:08 · narrated, with captions

Bringing your work over, part 4 of 5: Weld into one shape

A name is typed in a script font with a bar drawn under it running into the letters' feet. Cut as drawn it would fall into pieces. Explode turns the text into shapes, a window selects letters and bar, and Modify > Weld into one shape leaves one outline round all of it with the letters' holes kept.

Before thisBringing your work over, part 3 of 5: Tidy up for cuttingNextBringing your work over, part 5 of 5: Nest the shapes on a sheet

This is one part of a longer film

Whole project · 4:27

Bringing your work over: the whole project

Work made elsewhere was brought into the program and made ready to cut. The film shows a laser project file opening with its layers and cut settings in the laser job, an SVG dropped on the window with its colors as layers, Tidy up for cutting mending a drawing with doubled lines and an open corner, Weld making overlapping letters one outline, and Nest the selected shapes packing copies onto a sheet the size of a laser's bed.

The rest of this project

Chapter · 1:11

Bringing your work over, part 1 of 5: A laser project file

Chapter · 1:04

Bringing your work over, part 2 of 5: An SVG, colors to layers

Chapter · 54 s

Bringing your work over, part 3 of 5: Tidy up for cutting

Chapter · 55 s

Bringing your work over, part 5 of 5: Nest the shapes on a sheet