Starting with laser cutting acrylic, how to delete these unwanted lines?

[Mcffee]

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I like to remove the overlapping lines that should not be cut by the laser. Tried different buttons (Xara Xtreme) and once managed to remove a part, but can't find back how I did it. The result should be like the right image but outlines only. I guess there is also a fast way to remove all the lines at ones but no idea how.

Thanks!

[Mick]

I don't use that programme, but it's often something like, select the various segments then "Outlines Unite".

[Mcffee]

How to select the segments? Some button combination?

[Mick]

Shift + click on each till all selected or marquee them.

[Mcffee]

shift click only selects the full letter here

[Mick]

If the items you want selected are the only items on the page...select all.

or

Marquee them.

Also, other terms used for Outlines Unite are "Weld" and "Merge".

[Mcffee]

So the laser cutting line +/- 5mm from the image. Those with a steady drawing hand and -tablet can do it manually, but is there a software-matic way to create this line that exactly follows the image, with manual adjustments possible like eg. the upper right corner part here? I tried this via the shadow tool and the bevel tool, but could not figure it out. I would very much like to learn how to do this, if it's possible.

[handrawn]

you probably do this with xara's contour tool assuming the image is vector

[Fred C]

Why did you start a new thread?

[handrawn]

something along the lines of

apply contour to vector image

convert this shape to editable shape and ungroup

to the shape behind your image apply outline and no fill

use shape tool to tweak it

I do not guarantee it would be suitable for task I don't lazer cut