I'm trying to use Illustrator to make custom rope borders. I found a couple rope brushes on adobe's site that I like and I'm applying the brush to a rounded corner rectangle path. I've got the shape set up like I want it and save it as an .eps, which I imported into Vinyl Master pro. It's giving me the following which I can't figure out how to fix. As in the attached picture, some of the sections are cut and welding in VMP isn't fixing it. I can go in and edit them individually, but prefer to do it right, if possible.
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using Illustrator to make a rope border
- Thread starter Waylon
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johnnysigns
New Member
you can't weld all of it in your vinyl software? you can always add the slightest outline to the illustrator file and see what that does.
Letterbox Mike
New Member
add a very slight stroke, expand the stroke, and then use the unite pathfinder to weld it all together. Should fix it.
Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
Open new window and either copy and paste rope border or make new rope border....
expand (should turn into vector object)
Ungroup...
Remove original shape (usually stuck in the middle of your vector rope border)
select an object in the rope border (try the white first)
On the top menu, go to "SELECT" > "SAME" > "FILL COLOR"
(should select all the white)
Go to your "PATHFINDER" window and hit "UNITE"
Do the same to your black.
If you want 2 colors leave it like that, If you want one color make sure the white is on top of the black, select both the black and the white and go to "PATHFINDER" > "SUBTRACT FROM SHAPE AREA" (top row, second button from the left) the unite and viola...
expand (should turn into vector object)
Ungroup...
Remove original shape (usually stuck in the middle of your vector rope border)
select an object in the rope border (try the white first)
On the top menu, go to "SELECT" > "SAME" > "FILL COLOR"
(should select all the white)
Go to your "PATHFINDER" window and hit "UNITE"
Do the same to your black.
If you want 2 colors leave it like that, If you want one color make sure the white is on top of the black, select both the black and the white and go to "PATHFINDER" > "SUBTRACT FROM SHAPE AREA" (top row, second button from the left) the unite and viola...