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First, we want to open the Object Manager. Click on the Tools menu in the toolbar at the top of the screen.
Next, click on Object Manager in the drop-down list under Tools.
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The Object Manager shows up as a docker window at the right side of your screen.
The objects we have on screen are all currently on Layer 1, so click the plus sign next to Layer 1 to expand it and show each object's cutting order. |
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By expanding Layer 1, the four objects that are on screen will be displayed in the object manager. The objects will cut in the order that they show up in the object manager from bottom to top. For our sample drawing, the star, which shows up as "Perfect Shape" will cut first.
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Above the Perfect Shape in the object manager list are two rectangles, but we can't tell which is which. We need to know which is the inner rectangle and which is the outer rectangle so that the inner rectangle will cut before the outer rectangle.
When we select the bottom rectangle in the object manager, we can see in Corel's work area that the outer rectangle is selected. Now we know that the outer rectangle will cut before the inner rectangle because it is below the inner rectangle in the object manager. If that happens, the outer rectangle will drop out of our material before the inner rectangle can be cut. |
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Let's rename the two rectangle layers so that they are easier to keep track of. Double click on each layer name in the object manager and type in the new name.
We renamed these two layers "inner rectangle" and "outer rectangle." You can do the same to the Perfect Shape and Artistic Text layers as well, changing them to "star" and "vector cutting." |
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Since we want the outer rectangle to cut last, it needs to be above the inner rectangle in the object manager. We clicked on the Outer Rectangle layer and dragged it above the Inner Rectangle layer to change the cutting order.
Now our objects will cut in the correct order that we need so that the outer rectangle won't fall through before the inner rectangle can be cut.
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Next, we're going to look at how we can reorder our objects to make them cut in a more efficient way.
For this example, we have a piece of material that we're cutting four evenly spaced rectangles out of. We want to cut these out from the left side of the page to the right.
First, we need to see what order they are set up to cut out in the object manager, so we click on each item in the object manager to see the corresponding rectangle.
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We renamed each of the four layers to match their order they appear in the work area. The rectangle that is the furthest to the left is renamed "1", the second rectangle is renamed "2", etc.
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By dragging each of the items in the object manager so that they are in the order of 1 to 4 (bottom to top), we now know that our rectangles will be cut in the correct order. This will cut down on the time the laser takes to cut out the project because the laser optics won't need to move back and forth across the table between rectangles.
You can use these same techniques on your own projects to better order your vector lines and save time and effort on setting up your next project! |
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