How To: Fix Double Cut Lines in Adobe Illustrator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2022
- In this video we take a look at double cut lines in Adobe Illustrator, caused when Illustrator converts strokes to outlines. This can cause issues when using a file to cut on your cutting plotter as the printer will see the outlines of the stroke and cut both lines. They will be so close together, it will appear that it is making the same cut twice. It isn't. Watch this video to find out why it is doing it, and how to fix it.
In this video I am using Adobe Illustrator CC (Latest Version), and I cover flattening the transparency of your artwork to ensure that you don't experience the dreaded double cut.
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This has been doing my head in for ages, the phantom double cut! Thanks so much for this, it has worked a treat for me. Absolute legend. Subbed!
thank you so much kind Sir. I communicate with are graphic designer on how i cut things on are wide format. And now i can teach them how to send me the graphics so im not the one only one stuck with this issue. time to teach graphics department to send me correct cut lines
Sir.. this video helped me clean my calligraphy pieces so well.. thank you very much.. it is really annoying to see laser machine or plotter double cutting lines.. I followed your instructions and it worked great.. many thanks..
Life-changing :D, thanks so much!
oh man.. ur great.. thanks so much.. i thought my plotter was nuts... i have the ce7000 with the auto feeder! spent a bomb and this is what i got most of the times.. such a relief i found this video .. subbed.
thank you i ducked up sooo many imes after this video i learned it and i will never forget this thing!!!!!!!
Very helpful - this fixed my issue! thank you :)
Thanks bud i needed this
Thank you so much for this! :D
Thanks Mate!!!
Big thanks, u really helpful. Do u know that I spent the whole day trying to fix this problem! Unfortunately, I can't till I see your video. Really appreciate that 🙏
finally!! THANKS a lot! I was drawing with my brush and I always draw beyond the line and when I hit expand apperance and then divide because I want to delete that tip it makes more cuts and it was double work for me. Im saving this tutorial
thank you man. I got sooooo many problem when i cut small text... it was painfulllll.
If your cutline stroke was being path outlined either side which gives you a double cut which can happen when receiving files from a customer sometimes this can be version compatibility issues which automatically does this or the way the file was saved then select the cutline and go to compound paths and release this will separate the two unfortunately the stroke which was in the middle won't be there but you can select one of them then go to path offset path and either minus or plus the offset to find the center of the original stroke weight delete the other two make that path a clear fill and create a CutContour swatch as discussed below and that will work also because what you are stating in the video won't work if the file was saved in the wrong way and created a double filled stroke if you get me
Solution for drawn paths
This tip will help for print and cut on any wide format printer/cutter from illustrator all you need to do is create two layers one for print and one for your cut have all of your artwork on one layer for print then create a new layer for the cutline always have your artwork layer below the cutline layer the cutline layer fill should be clear but a colored stroke it can be any color the trick is to have the stroke in front of the fill in the color palette then go to the swatches palette click on the 3 lines to the top right then click new swatch which is at the top call the swatch & this is the important bit CutContour exactly as I have typed it no space between the Cut & Contour and the C's must be capital and the rest lower case then below that is the Color Type drop down menu select spot color and that's it...Any wide format printer RIP software should pick this up as a print & cut file
5 YEARS and i still can't figure this out. Didn't fix it for me. The vinyl cutter doesn't register the inside lines of an o and i cant work it out
Even after doing this, still double cutcontour lines. Any more ideas? I only see 1 line when doing ctrl + y.
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