I’m trying to overlay the cabin and can’t figure out how to get the backround to disappear under the cabin without deleting all the little lines individually 
foxcabin.lbrn2 (2.8 MB)
I’m interpreting your question to mean you want these lines behind the cabin deleted:
Here are the steps I took to do that:
- Select the cabin image and trace it (Right click > Trace Image)
- Toggle off ‘Show’ on the Image layer in the Cuts/Layers window
- Select and offset the trace at a distance of 1, to create a usable outline to use as a ‘cutting shape’ for the Cut Shapes tool. Enable ‘delete original objects’ when doing this. (Tools > Offset Shapes)
- Ungroup the resulting trace, so the outline alone can be selected (CTRL+U)
- Select the background lines, then select only the outline of the cabin, then go to ‘Tools’ > ‘Cut Shapes’
- Box-drag to select everything- the background lines as well as the remaining interior lines from the offset I created earlier. Then hold CTRL and click the uncut-background lines (the ones that were outside the cabin outline), so they’re de-selected. Then delete the remaining selection- this should be only the parts of the background that were cut out, and the remaining interior lines from the offset.
- Toggle ‘Show’ back on for the Image layer
That may seem like a lot at first, but it took only a couple of minutes.
Here’s the resulting file:
foxcabin2.lbrn2 (2.2 MB)
Here’s our documentation on the tools I used for this:
As an aside, you have the Image layer set to ‘Grayscale’, but for this particular image there is no benefit to that setting. Threshold will work just as well- you could even trace it again and set it to ‘Fill’, deleting the original image.
Yes sir! Thanks so much I will give it go. Or use your file 
I guess I’m doing something wrong. OK till step 5, when selecting backround lines, (I’m assuming the ones inside the cabin but I tried it both ways) only very short sections of the lines will select, this will either take forever or I’m doing something wrong. Thanks so much for taking the time!!
In the file you shared yesterday all of these background lines were grouped together, so selecting any one of them should select all of them (that’s how it worked for me). It sounds like you may have ungrouped them- make sure when you go to ungroup the outline of the cabin you created with the offset tool, that you are only ungrouping the lines that were created from the offset tool, and not all of the background lines as well.
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