Tracing and Ungrouping

Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for using Sure Cuts A Lot
Post Reply
Sweetness4713
Posts: 4918
Joined: Sun May 24, 2009 5:35 pm
Location: Timmins Ontario Canada Shania Twains hometown.. SCAL 1,2,3,4 Silhouette, Inkscape.47 Vista

Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by Sweetness4713 »

Afterplace the traced item on my mat is it possible to ungroup after it's been traced?? I've tried and having no success..
GrammyKrausse
Posts: 858
Joined: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:33 am

Re: Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by GrammyKrausse »

are you refering to a break apart to make different layers for paper piecing? It wont do that but if you have grouped objects they will ungroup them.
Grammy
ScrappyDew
Posts: 192
Joined: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:47 pm
Location: Fort Rucker, AL
Contact:

Re: Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by ScrappyDew »

Sweetness4713 wrote:Afterplace the traced item on my mat is it possible to ungroup after it's been traced?? I've tried and having no success..
The autotrace seems to work best with silhouette photos.. If you're looking for the break apart and color cutting you'll most likely be better off hitting up good ole inkscape.

Ungroup seems to work with.......
If you created Text/Shapes within SCAL
If you created a group within SCAL
If you import a SVG that was saved with Layers


there may be more but that's just off the top of my head...
http://classroom.scrappydew.com/courses ... r-training - SCAL Classroom over 40+ Videos geared towards beginners.
Tingha Treasures
Posts: 706
Joined: Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:34 pm
Location: SCAL! XP desktop SCAL2 VISTA in XP mode laptop

Re: Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by Tingha Treasures »

Okay since updating to 2.01 I found I can trace and if you tick Break Apart Outlines, when you have the traced image on your mat go to ungroup and you can actually select parts of the shape.
See pic I traced a jpg showing a nativity font you can get.
I found I could ungroup it
dbnativitytext.jpg
dbnativitytext.jpg (19.48 KiB) Viewed 2460 times
nav.jpg
nav.jpg (40.52 KiB) Viewed 2460 times
nav2.jpg
nav2.jpg (37.1 KiB) Viewed 2459 times
HeatherM
Posts: 3913
Joined: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:16 am
Location: Michigan, SCAL1; SCAL2; eCAL; Windows7 64 bit; eCAL Mavericks
Contact:

Re: Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by HeatherM »

I put a post on the SCAL 2.0 trace settings on my blog here.
Sweetness4713
Posts: 4918
Joined: Sun May 24, 2009 5:35 pm
Location: Timmins Ontario Canada Shania Twains hometown.. SCAL 1,2,3,4 Silhouette, Inkscape.47 Vista

Re: Tracing and Ungrouping

Post by Sweetness4713 »

Thanks so much peeps.. :D
Post Reply