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oookaaaay... Did someone say "frustration"? 🙄 I played a bit as suggested by Gene with the parameters of the editing function (I have the menu in Italian, I suspect that this also generates confusion, I have to change it to English) and obtained a clearer picture: the points of the image as they are are objectively many, around 400 so, always following the suggestions received, I tried to simplify with the dedicated command. better, definitely. then I watched some tutorials on how to join the separate lines of the design, finding two systems: select all the parts of the design and use the "weld" (salda, in Italian) function or zoom in and join the individual points two at a time. and here I am stuck: I can't connect the various parts of the drawing. furthermore, having done this, I would like to modify the lines trying to make the curves of the spiral more fluid: zooming in you can see that the curve is not homogeneous but full of jumps which I imagine create confusion for the plotter during the cutting phase. I continue to bombard the keyboard with commands that prove useless, waiting for help. I continue also to ask myself how it is possible that there is not (or that I cannot find) an exhaustive manual of this new to me discipline, since the last century I have been accustomed to reading a manual and applying its indications, not to trying things out... to say that It's frustrating, it's not much! TIA, Paolo

wow, Gene, thank you! 🙏 I hope to re start soon with your inputs, they seems to go straight to the point. I agree that I need to learn to familiarize and take practice with command and drawing tools,, yet I feel I need a guide to them, at least initially!

well, so to speak, I finally unpacked my Silhouette Portrait 3, downloaded and registered the device, searched for and watched several tutorials, but... to start with something simple, I would have decided to create my own masks for the spiral on the spinner and the individual number for the Yak-3 Special Hobby 1/32. I tried scanning the decal sheet and photographing it. I managed to import both files into the dedicated program, but apparently I can't detect the contours of the scanned copy. better with the one photographed, highlighting the contrasts. scanned one and .jpg I managed by trial and error to isolate the spiral and arrive at this point now I would like to join the main points of the curves, eliminating what is unnecessary and disturbing, but I can't find the right command (or sequence of commands). even getting just this far was quite frustrating, the tutorials I found didn't enlighten me, and the site manual doesn't go into detail, I think. Do you kindly have any more detailed tutorials or manuals? TIA, cheers, Paolo

just landed. literally: the courier threw it over the gate of my property in my absence. I hope it hasn't been damaged... for the moment Cigolino (little squeaking) is sitting in his box waiting for me to get my hands on it.

Hi all, considering buying a cutting plotter, which I then did, I'm waiting for it to arrive, I discovered this forum. some of my models with insignia painted via hand cut masks are already on LSP, but I think I've reached my limit with that technique: it's time to learn something new. see you soon, I hope, Paolo