I need help for you inkscape experts

[jancy]

I can't find another layer. I open it in inscape, and click on layers and it doesn't show anything. (the tool thing that comes up on the right.)
Oh, and I have traced this image in inksape, and it just doesn't do a nice job, you can't tlell the flowers are flowers, and of coarse cricut wants to double cut everything. then it tears up the paper, lol

I had to go to object: ungroup twice & then separate the layers.

[shellieh]

I can email you the orginal image.
I wish corel had a way to decrease the size, it doesn't, but it traces nice, lol.

[shellieh]

is there a "seperate layers" tab? I went and ungrouped twice, but the only options I have are raise layer, lower layer, layer to top, layer to bottom. (sorry, this has taken way to much of your time, lol)

[jancy]

I can email you the orginal image.
I wish corel had a way to decrease the size, it doesn't, but it traces nice, lol.

please do email it to me.

I'll take a look at it in the morning. I'm nodding off at the computer, lol.

[HeatherM]

I still think your best option would be to export a good quality image that you can open in Ink and trace. It sounds like you are using an image that has lines rather than a black fill?

When we are saying layers, there aren't separate layers in the file, there are images stacked directly over each other. I got rid of them by selecting a bunch at a time and then deleting them.

The problem is that simplify is dependent on how many nodes are in proximity, and with over 4000, even the lowest setting is too much. There are also a lot of little stray nodes all through the file which are also adding a bit to the node count. the little section I attached is pretty typical of what I saw. Each circle has one or two stray nodes that don't add anything to the image. The only options that I can see are to trace in Ink, or to manually simplify which would take a long time at this node count.

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[jancy]

here's one with it down to 1300 ish nodes. lines are not as crisp & clean, but close.

scallop circle michelle svg.svg

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[shellieh]

no wonder I couldn't find another layer, lol. Thanks so much ladies for the lesson, and the work you did. Thanks Jancy, I think I will cut yours and see how it goes! I think I have used about 10 peices of cardstock trying this design out, lol. I really do love it, I just made a scallopcircle, and filled it in with different flower brushes I had, loved how it turned out, thought it would make a cute background mesh.

[HeatherM]

I looked at one of my files that was intricate. It had about 1500 nodes and I cut it at about 10x1.75 inches. The nodes weren't what caused the longer cut time, the blade carriage needlessly moving up and down the mat did. I think you would be OK cutting this with less simplification. Here is one I did with about 3500 nodes. You could manually reduce that a little without any loss of quality, but I'm not sure it would be worth the time.
BTW, there was definitely something odd about your original file. Every time I pressed 4 for an image zoom to full screen everything disappeared.

[shellieh]

I looked at one of my files that was intricate. It had about 1500 nodes and I cut it at about 10x1.75 inches. The nodes weren't what caused the longer cut time, the blade carriage needlessly moving up and down the mat did. I think you would be OK cutting this with less simplification. Here is one I did with about 3500 nodes. You could manually reduce that a little without any loss of quality, but I'm not sure it would be worth the time.
BTW, there was definitely something odd about your original file. Every time I pressed 4 for an image zoom to full screen everything disappeared.

Thanks Heather!
maybe it has something to do with using corel to trace it rather than inkscape. I am learning alot about corel- it is really kind of cool. Like if I break apart everything, I can combine them back again with one click. I couldn't seem to do that in inkscape (at least on that file) , I would have to manually select each peice. And there is a way but I can't figure out how I did it, to seperate the "layers" (that are not layers, but tiny double cut lines) all in one swoop. I don't know how I did it, but I did it on the bird cage I made. i am going to have to play and figure that out, that could be handy.