dismantling someone else's logo into elements

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August 5, 2022
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New to illustrator. Is there a simpler way to seperate elements of a logo other than just cutting out each individual element one at a time?

I have a logo that a friend gave me and it is made up of a number of different elements that need to be seperated in order to insert them into a laser engraving program (lightburn). In the laser engraving program I have to differentiate between filled elements and elements that just need to be traced, so I need to break up the work to make it right.

Any help is appreciated.

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Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

Select all
Shift Command G (do like 10x) to ensure ungrouping of all
Select lasso tool
Command 3 to hide
select anything else you missed in group and Command 3 to hide
Shift Command 3 to unhide
The items wil be selected
Command G to Group

Repeat process, you may also want to use the hollow arrow tool (direct select). You can also option click with the direct select tool before starting to select by groups to inspect if good logical groups already exist. I only suggested ungrouping at first to keep my reply one answer fix all situations.

Mike_Gondek10189183

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Select all
Shift Command G (do like 10x) to ensure ungrouping of all
Select lasso tool
Command 3 to hide
select anything else you missed in group and Command 3 to hide
Shift Command 3 to unhide
The items wil be selected
Command G to Group

Repeat process, you may also want to use the hollow arrow tool (direct select). You can also option click with the direct select tool before starting to select by groups to inspect if good logical groups already exist. I only suggested ungrouping at first to keep my reply one answer fix all situations.