Deleting a border

[Clive (Clive Norwell)]

Hi all

A little bit of help if you dont mind, I need to etch this image onto glass but I’m struggling to get rid of the border, I would be grateful if you could tell me how I can do it.

Many thanks
Wine glass etch kitchen.lbrn2 (350.4 KB)

[micrololin (Jeff)]

1. Ungroup the project.
2. Select the border and node edit tool. Remove the bottom lines by hovering over and clicking the D button. You can also remove the remaining border at this point.
3. Draw a line between the 2 lines that are the bottom of the glass on each glass.
4. select new line and the sides of the glass and use the auto join feature under the edit tab. Do this for both glass bottoms.
5. Use the nod edit tool again and reshape the new line on the bottom of the glass if required.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Looking into your file, I see the entire shape is grouped, so we start with ungrouping to allow us to edit out the frame. I also notice this frame is connected and a part of the stem path, so we will need to disconnect the frame, then close the stems of the glasses to have things fill as expected.

The tools I used are ‘Ungroup’, ‘Node Edit’, and the ‘Pen’ tool to edit out the frame from your file (edited and attached below).

I first ‘Ungrouped’ to allow edits of just the parts I select. Then select the ‘Node Edit’ tool, to allow me to delete the frame sections from the stems of the wineglass.

With the Node Edit tool selected, hover over the section you want to remove and hit ‘D’ to delete. Repeat to disconnect frame from stem.

Note the pointer change when hovering over the line you intend to delete.

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With the frame not disconnected, select it and delete.

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Now we need to close the stem sections using the Pen tool.

Here I show the results… Is this what you are after?

Wine glass etch kitchen-edited.lbrn2 (373.9 KB)

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Thank you, Jeff. We were on the same track.

[Clive (Clive Norwell)]

Rick & Jeff, Thank you both, I love lightburn, just wish I had the time to “play” and self learn like I normally do. Thank you ;0)