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Design In FrameShop then bring into Trace

This lesson shows how to edit half of an object, delete the unedited half, mirror the object to create a completed object, then offset to create a matching second layer.

Place a one layer #501 Heart template into the FrameShop Design Editor.

Bring into Trace via the Right-Click Menuor from the Cut Preview Screen.

Move Point
Stay on the Trace and Draw Draw tab. Click the Edit radio button.
Move your cursor to the lower right side of the heart until the cursor turns into four arrows.
Click and move the arc toward the left and up. See how the design changes as you move the point left/right and up/down.
Click to place the point.

Draw Line

Draw an axis line to use as the reference to mirror the new heart shape.

Click the Draw radio button.

Click the Line button.

The cursor turns into a cross.

Right-click on the bottom point of the heart to snap to that point.

Right-click on the top point of the heart to snap to that point.

Optionally, you could right-click on the bottom point and hold down the CTRL key to draw in Ortho modeMode.

Click somewhere near the top of the heart to place the end point of the line. This is helpful if your design doesn't have parallel top/bottom points that can be snapped to.

Explode Circuit

The left side of the heart cannot be deleted until the heart is exploded into the individual entities that make up the heart.

Click the Edit radio button.

Click on the heart to select it; it will turn white.

Click the Explode button.

The design will turn gray. The heart is now exploded into the separate entities that can be edited individually.

If you click somewhere on the heart, only the individual arc/spline selected will be highlighted, showing that the heart is no longer a single object.

Delete Object

Select the left side of the heart so we can delete it and replace it with our newly edited version.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on each segment that makes up the left side of the heart.

Click the Delete button.

The left half of the heart is deleted, leaving only the right half behind.

Join Segments

We want to join the segments so when we mirror the design, the whole object is mirrored instead of just the individual arcs.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on each segment that makes up the right side of the heart.

Do not select the line which we will use for reference.

Click the Join button.

The individual arcs are now joined together and will act as a single object.

Mirror Object

Mirror the heart half to create the other half of the heart.

Make sure the heart is still selected.

Click the Mirror button.

Right-click on the top point of the reference line.

Right-click on the bottom point of the reference line.

The heart has been mirrored using the center line as the axis point.

Delete Reference Line

Delete the reference line since we don't need it anymore.

Click on the reference line.

Click the Delete Delete button.

The line is deleted.

Join Segments

Join the two halves together as one object.

Hold down the CTRL key and click the right half then the left half.

Click the Join button.

The two sides are joined and are now one object.

Move Object

We're going to move the heart to make room for the second layer. It doesn't matter where we move it to since we'll be saving it as a CutArt, just as long as there is room on the screen for the second layer.

Make sure the heart is still selected.

Click and drag it to the center of the design bounds.

Take care not to click and drag only one of the segment points of the heart itself which will change the shape of the heart. If you do, just click Undo.

Release the mouse to place it.