How to make shapes from construction lines?

[MickW_1 (Michael Whitehead)]

Newbie question - apologies if it’s answered elsewhere…

I have a design in LB which is a number of criss-crossing construction lines and I’d like to make some of the enclosed areas into separate objects which can be assigned to particular layers.

For example, in the design below I’d like it so that triangle A is an object on red layer, quadrilateral B is an object on blue layer, and similar for shapes C and D.

Does anyone know a way to achieve this please?

Any advice is welcome - thanks!

[misken (Melvin)]

This doesn’t work like this. If you want to have four of those shapes on different layers, you need to duplicate this layer four times (ok, in this case three times because two are not connected) and remove the overlapping lines (easiest with the scissor-tool).
You can’t create those shapes from the single graphic, because you need to have the “walls” doubled where the shapes are connected.
You might also try the offset-shapes tool, but I guess this won’t work here as well.

[parsec (FerAS)]

I believe it is easier to select all the shapes (ungrouped) then do a small offset, after set it to another Cut/layer.

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Ungroup the obtained offset hit ESC select only the outer offset shape
and delete

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Now you have all the inner shapes separated

[Tilman (Tilman Kommerell)]

Quick and dirty: recostruct using “line”-tool, done in less than 2 minutes

lightburn: How to make shapes from construction lines

[thelmuth (Tim Helmuth)]

Fairly simple. Duplicate the lines that create your desired shape and change to the layer you want. Use the scissors tool to cut away everything not wanted. Repeat for each shape.

[MickW_1 (Michael Whitehead)]

Thanks guys - I had myself just discovered Tilman’s suggested method - manually draw the outline of each shape using the pen tool then delete the constuction lines - but I will also experiment with the offset method as well.

Thanks again to all!

[ednisley]

@MickW_1

make some of the enclosed areas into separate objects

Select the Lines tool and Snap to Object is your friend:

With the line tool active, the cursor changes to an × when it’s over an intersection Click there, move to the next corner, click, and iterate. Put that shape on whatever layer you like and repeat as needed.

(Dang, you guys are fast!)

[MickW_1 (Michael Whitehead)]

Solutions are coming in quicker than I can say thank you - so thanks in advance for any more that arrive while I’m typing this!

[thelmuth (Tim Helmuth)]

One thing you will learn is there is usually more than one way to accomplish something in Lightburn.