RE: Limited Edition Holiday Designs - Catan board sheep filled shape is open

[eflyguy]

Nothing wrong with Inkscape.

1. Open file, accept default import settings.
2. Click on design, Ungroup, Ungroup.
3. Click on any black area, then right-click and “Select same -> stroke color”.
4. Select “Edit -> Make A Bitmap Copy”
5. Select “Edit -> Cut”
6. Repeat step 3, then hit delete, followed by “Edit -> Paste”

If necessary, align the center of the engrave sections with the cut circles in the middle of each tile. Don’t forget to save!

[wesleyjames]

If one feels nervous doing a file edit like this, duplicate the file first and edit the copy or save it under a different name before making the edits. This way you can always go back to the original if the one being worked on gets FUBAR.

[Jules]

No that’s fine, you just need to do some ungrouping. (And I see that @eflyguy already stepped in with the steps quicker than I could puzzle them out, so have at it. It’s pretty quick.)

[rbtdanforth]

Inkscape can close open lines though depending on how big the problem is, it might take a while. In node mode when you select an object all the nodes will show up. If you window select them they will be active. If you click on this command…

… Inkscape will try to close any open lines with the closest possibility. If both sides are connected to other points nothing will happen there, Only those open-ended will act with it.

[eflyguy]

There are over 15,000 nodes in each tile, across hundreds of objects.

In this case, bitmap replica is infinitely faster, and effective.

[rbtdanforth]

This is currently cutting in the Glowforge and has a few nodes as well.

It is a mixed design that was first an image that I modified in Gimp so the space between the uncut parts has an arched surface and the expectation that all those internal high spots would be cut out.

I did turn all four images into one image with Make Bitmap Copy at which it was unnecessary to cut or delete anything though I did freeze the single copies for future use

However, the vector cut bits did not trace precisely and I had to go to each one in node mode and repair it so I have put more than a bit of effort across many works using the commands in the image, and have learned a lot of ways to do many commands at once.

[eflyguy]

Yeah… I spent several hours this weekend simplifying a design with >1800 objects and >150,000 nodes. GF would not even process the file. I’m familiar with node count…

[rbtdanforth]

@eflyguy

GF would not even process the file.

I found that with this so it spent 2+ hours just on the engrave, which I had to go to when it choked on doing the whole thing, to tell the truth I like the pattern and in order to get those parts to cut at all I had to let it run across a crack that can be repaired but that will be a lot harder with all the high parts cut out. So this one will be a pencil holder rather than a lamp,.

[Daniel.R]

Hi @kuthedk,

Thank you so much for the heads up on this! Our team is taking a look at the Catan board file and is hoping to have a resolution shortly. I’ll post an update here as soon as I hear what’s next.