Remove Overlapping Lines

[AZRox (Sonja Dahl)]

I’m trying to remove the line segments that run through the “welcome” on this. I’ve tried the steps suggested for creating line nodes but have been unable to get it to get it to work. I’ve tried all of the weld tools, but it welds too much or too litte. Any help will be appreciated.

[Marcus_Wakefield]

Something like this?

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

Even if @AZRox says no, I am interested in how to do that.

[AZRox (Sonja Dahl)]

EXACTLY! How did you do it?

[Marcus_Wakefield]

1. Select the script text.

2. Duplicate it with Ctrl + D

3. Shift-click the ‘H’ so you have the duplicate and the ‘H’ selected.

4. Ctrl + B to open the Boolean Assistant.

5. Choose “Subtract B-A”

[AZRox (Sonja Dahl)]

It worked! I’ve watched hours of YouTube videos that couldn’t explain this. Many thanks!

[Marcus_Wakefield]

Great, glad I could help.

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

Ha!!! Step #2 is the “trick”. Thanks!

[Marcus_Wakefield]

Yes, the ‘tool’ gets consumed in the process so it needs to be duplicated first. It would be good to have the option to keep the tool after the operation but it’s not a big deal.

[AZRox (Sonja Dahl)]

A couple of tips/lessons learned for other rookies like me:

1. By duplicating it, there is a 2nd Welcome layered on the first. If you recenter it AT ALL after doing these steps, it won’t recenter the Welcome on the base layer and you’ll get shadow cuts.
2. I have my laser cutter set to do 2 passes for cuts on this specific wood. It did 4 passes (since it thinks it’s cutting 2 Welcome words). You’ll need to adjust for this.

[Marcus_Wakefield]

Yes, you’re correct on both counts. The object that’s been cut looks like this:

I wasn’t sure exactly what your end goal was with this so I didn’t want to bog you down with unnecessary extra information

If you don’t want these extraneous parts you can always ungroup, delete and use the Node Edit tool to remove the remaining vectors like this:

Hope this clarifies things.

[AZRox (Sonja Dahl)]

Finished product!