CUT LINE

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May 9, 2023
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I am looking to add a cutline around a letter with a stroke. It seems when I add the cutline around the stroke it finds the letter itself and wants to cut out the letter and the stroke. How do I have it just see to cut out stroke

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Bobby Henderson

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What kind of vinyl cutting software are you using? Is it an Illustrator plugin? Are you doing printing and cutting?

Usually the more common issue I see is the software not wanting to recognize a cut line. But this is usually within print/cut operations in large format printing RIP software. The applications require the user to create a custom-named spot color (typically called "CutContour") and apply that spot color to a stroke on the intended cut paths. The cut paths would have no fill. If the cut paths are properly named they'll be "seen" in the cutting operations.

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defaultyzwsyia80ymrAuthor

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Versaworks

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defaultyzwsyia80ymrAuthor

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Illustrator sees gives me a pink contour cutline and on screen it only shows around the stroker but when I move it to Versaworks it wants to cut both inside stroke and outside stroke.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

defaulty,

You may have a look at this answer by Bobby in a somewhat similar thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/fill-and-stroke-lines-trying-to-cut-when-exported-to-cutter-making-my-design-cut-twice/m-p/13781106#M366506

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Zelish24694771ki9h

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Hey, this link is not working on my side

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/fill-and-stroke-lines-trying-to-cut-when-exported-to-cutter-making-my-design-cut-twice/m-p/13781106#M366506

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Bobby Henderson

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It's a long link. After the "illustrator-discussions/" portion of the link make sure none of this is getting clipped in your browser's address bar:
fill-and-stroke-lines-trying-to-cut-when-exported-to-cutter-making-my-design-cut-twice/m-p/13781106#M366506