ONE 4 THE PROS - Contour Cutting / Corel Draw to cutting in Flexi sign

[discountdecals]

Hello,
I am looking for some advise. i have knowledge of flexi and in the process of learning corel,
I am opening templates I had purchased in coreldraw format for atv decals.
When i contour cut or outline the design, it sees also objects that are invisible. I have tried powerclipping inside but this is proving to be hard trying to find the object to powerclip to.
I cannot find an easy way to contour cut only the visible objects.
My cutting software is flexi, so i export the file from corel draw, import it to flexi and then i create the contour cut... is this the best way???
Please help me as this is so doing my head in, thank you in advance,
p.s

 

[XtremeXccessories]

Can you just delete the invisible objects? Ctrl + F for the Find Wizard > go to the Fills tab > check the No Fills box > Next > Finish > Find All then delete?

Edit:

Or if other, needed objects have no fill then you can do the same with No Outline, or both.

 

[discountdecals]

Hello, if you look at the fenders where there are black and then whote ob=ver the top clusters you'll see the patterns I'm talking about. it's the white 'spray' is actually over the edge of the cut line if u know what i mean. Also on another decal i had been working on, the cut line went through the main graphic itself.
I should have put a coloured background to show you but i'm away from pc at the minute.
would i be best to to trace around the fender decal needing cut, eg create new outline for powerclipping or is there a handier way?
Thanks and apologies for being a little thick on this, I appreciate it

Can you just delete the invisible objects? Ctrl + F for the Find Wizard > go to the Fills tab > check the No Fills box > Next > Finish > Find All then delete?

Edit:

Or if other, needed objects have no fill then you can do the same with No Outline, or both.

 

[GAC05]

I am not too sharp today but if someone sent me that file and I wanted to quickly set up a contour cut I would:
Drop a new layer on top, copy and paste everything onto the new layer
Turn off the original layer.
Select and delete all the logos & fills until I was left with just the green(?) panels.
With all of them selected combine them into a single path.
Use the contour tool to offset the cut line I want (inside contour subtracted from what the original designer added in for bleed).
Delete the path the contour was generated from so I am left with a single compound path on one layer and the original layout on the second.
Export it out as an eps file into Flexi - use the layer with the contour path as the cut file and the original as the print.

wayne k
guam usa

 

[discountdecals]

sounds like what i need

Thanks so much for this quote, it sounds spot on, ideal for what i need as because I'm still mostly working flexi i can add details to the design, it's just the *plt that was bugging me, thank you so much. Now I just need to know how to copy a new layer and save the contour layer as a contour or *plt... thanks again, i find you tube brilliant but it is hard to beat experienced experts like yourselves, I hope you have a lovely weekend and if anyone wishes to advise, thank you so much

I am not too sharp today but if someone sent me that file and I wanted to quickly set up a contour cut I would:
Drop a new layer on top, copy and paste everything onto the new layer
Turn off the original layer.
Select and delete all the logos & fills until I was left with just the green(?) panels.
With all of them selected combine them into a single path.
Use the contour tool to offset the cut line I want (inside contour subtracted from what the original designer added in for bleed).
Delete the path the contour was generated from so I am left with a single compound path on one layer and the original layout on the second.
Export it out as an eps file into Flexi - use the layer with the contour path as the cut file and the original as the print.

wayne k
guam usa