Hi there,
I’m trying to create some race medals. The file consists of a shape (“medal”) with variable text inside (name, time etc). The first array works well, but the second array cuts a full sheet of medals, even though there is no variable text to populate it. So we will waste that material. Is there a way to layout the array so that is only creates as many shapes required to finish the variable text?
I have the variable text set to finish at 93, advancing 81, but the medal shapes finish at 162. The variable text and shape are grouped together.
I don’t believe there’s any way to make the shapes conditional.
However, the number of medals you’re working with here is small enough where it’s only a couple of iterations of the design. Is it a problem for you to make 2 baked iterations of the design? Then you could simply cull the second iteration so that you’re not creating empty medals.
ok thanks. Yes, it’s small enough to modify by hand, but curious as we’ve got a larger similar project where that won’t really be feasible-though I guess we would only need to manually modify the last sheet, so maybe it will be ok
Thanks
Yeah. I’d be happy to be wrong about this but I don’t think I’ve seen anything that would imply the ability to have shapes be available only under certain conditions. At least from within the application. You could potentially script the creation of a .lbrn file or SVG file externally but I assume you’re not asking about those possibilities.
I just had a look, and baking seems problematic with variable text (I can only get the first name to pulate 81 times). Instead I flattened the array, saved all of the complete sheets as 1 file, then deleted all the unrequired shapes on the last sheet, and saved it as a separate file. I think that will work
Cheers
