Welding troubles

[jenniferjayne]

I'm a total newbie to scal and I've been reading tutorials etc. I've figured out basic welding, as in a word but I'm wanting to make some lace (like KI memories) and I've designed it, clicked "weld" for everything but when I go to cut it out it only cuts what is outside of the rectangle. For example, it's snowflakes and I let the snowflakes hang over the edge thinking it would just cut the rectangle and what was in it...not so lol. Do I need inkscape to make paper lace?

[HeatherM]

If your snowflakes are completely inside the rectangle, don't use weld. Any part of a welded shape that is inside another shape will not cut. If your snowflakes are partly outside the rectangle you will need to use Inkscape. HTH

[jenniferjayne]

Umm, ok I think I understand but let me ask this then, lets say I'm making the lace and I'm only wanting half of a snowflake along the edge...anyway to do that or it needs to be the whole entire snowflake in there?

[HeatherM]

You can do either half...place the snowflakes along the edge. If you weld them, you will have a solid rectangle with snowflakes sticking out of the edge. If you don't weld them, the entire snowflake will cut and you will have a rectangle with half snowflakes removed from the edge.

[jenniferjayne]

I am having the hardest time wrapping my brain around this lol! Ok, now I tried with the snowflakes touching the edge and that didn't work, so I moved them in...which worked but just looks like a stencil or like a rectangle....maybe lace is better done in inkscape?

[HeatherM]

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to make, but probably so.

[jenniferjayne]

Thank you so much for your help, I'm just trying to make the paper lace like KI Memories makes.
http://kimemories.com/index.cfm?fuseact ... &setid=324

[HeatherM]

You could do those directly in SCAL by just placing your shapes so that they overlap and without using a rectangle, but If you want a full sheet of it I would use Inkscape.

[jenniferjayne]

gotcha, thanks so much!