Outline Spikes

**gwpriester** · 20 April 2008, 08:13 PM

The spikes you are referring to are often the result of a Mitered line join. If you change the line join in the Line Gallery to Round or Beveled, it usually gets rid of the spikes.

**PatentGuy** · 20 April 2008, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by mvpdigital

Can you point out the extraneous lines? I can't see them, even in line view.

Hope the two pics help. For the first one, I just drew a selection box around the spike and saw that something was selected. I used the cursor keys to move it so I could see it.

For the second pic I moved the bottom semicircle shape away so I could see it. Select Break Shapes from the Arrange menu and them move the semicircle shape away from the other two. Remember to unselect the shapes after breaking and then select only the semicircle shape.

It might be almost easier to make a new layer and redo the outline.

Yikes! Seems like there are a bunch of us looking at this all at the same time!

**handrawn** · 20 April 2008, 08:23 PM

...... I'm with Gary on this one

**PatentGuy** · 20 April 2008, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

The spikes you are referring to are often the result of a Mitered line join. If you change the line join in the Line Gallery to Round or Beveled, it usually gets rid of the spikes.

That is true up to a point. (no pun intended!) But the mitered join connection should not change shape and direction for different zoom levels. There is something going on here that is outside the ordinary miter join. I use miter join for many of my line drawings and have never noticed this behavior when I zoom.

**mvpdigital** · 20 April 2008, 08:36 PM

Again, thank you everyone for your expertise and kindness.
I will implement all of your instructions and hopefully, if this is a bug, then some good for all of us may come of all this.
Cheers!

**jwhitham** · 20 April 2008, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

...... I'm with Gary on this one

Extranious lines still present though, and the logo's appearance is changed.

**mvpdigital** · 20 April 2008, 08:43 PM

yes. The round join method changes the look too much.

**handrawn** · 20 April 2008, 08:50 PM

okay it wasn't meant to be a fix - just a demonstration of what Gary said

there are often problems when this sort of thing is brought in from illustrator

**Egg Bramhill** · 21 April 2008, 01:24 AM

I don't think it's a XXP problem, it's just a load of very dirty vector shapes. I'd just use this import to redraw the shape from scratch.

EJ · 21 April 2008, 03:27 AM

I'm with you Egg. The file is a real mess. At high magnification and in wireframe view there are terrible lines everywhere. A complete redo of the logo would take very little time using the import as template.
Erik