Passthrough setting up cutting shapes

[diane (Diane Alstad Garrison)]

how do you get your cuttung shapes to register /work

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Tools > Cut Shapes. The last selected shape is the cutting path, and it is discarded when used.

How To use 'Cut Shapes'

We’ve recently added a new tool, innocently called ‘Cut Shapes’. It will intelligently cut a design in a way that would allow you to run the design in sections. For now, you must manually create the cutting shape, but we’ll be expanding the feature. Imagine your laser is too small to run this design: [image] The Boolean tools could work, but the upper line of text would end up with “joining lines” connecting the parts of the letter e where it cuts. Ideally, those would simply be cut, similar …

Show us what you are wanting to accomplish, and we might be able to offer some suggested workflows to get what you are after.