by Angel135612 » September 22nd, 2011, 11:44 pm
I have that set of letters also, but haven't used them yet. But playing around with the M and E tonight trying to see if I had the same problem I was able to get rid of it. I just selected the two letters and welded that got rid of the little dot, and then broke them apart, and the bounding box was just around the letter. No need to bring in another shape to weld over that dot.
SVG cuts uses that little dot in a lot of their files, especially when there is more than one file to a design. It helps you to make each file the same size with out having to guess as to what changes to make. If you bring in all the files for the M, they will all be the same width, but the heights will be different based on what is in that particular file. If you get rid of that dot in each file, then want to resize your letter, you will need to know the percentage you want to reduce it, and use that for each file. With that little dot there, you can just type in the width for each of the files, and as long as your aspect ratio is locked, they will all size the same. Once you resize all your files, you can remove that dot to cut your designs, but I wouldn't overwrite the original file, so if you ever need to resize it again, it will be easy to do so.
Diane in Colorado Springs
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