Help! How to make thick lines for a stencil/template

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• Crazy_Mr_Zing Member Posts: 3,327

  April 2017

  Did you create this in another application ? If so how did you import it into mtc 
  

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  Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
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• ljmatthews2 Member Posts: 22

  April 2017

  I scanned a paper pattern and then imported into MTC via pixel trace.

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• leslie6111 Member Posts: 2,366

  April 2017

  Have you tried shadowing the lines you want to thicken?
  

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• Di-lite Member Posts: 3,395

  April 2017

  I understand what you want to do - but shadow won't do it as it loses the line breaks.  The only thing I can think of is that you save the part that you want to thicken as a png and then re-trace in which will give you broken lines instead of dash lines and then use the shadow feature to increase their thickness.  A bit long winded but that it is what I would do in these circumstances.  If you want it done for you I'm more then happy to do it but I'm guessing you want to be able to do it yourself.

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• Crazy_Mr_Zing Member Posts: 3,327

  April 2017 edited April 2017

  This is quite a puzzle
  If you pixel traced I wonder why that does not show as a cached image in this file
  tracing line art usually results in double paths
  
  are you able to share the image you scanned ?
  

  Post edited by Crazy_Mr_Zing on April 2017

  I Use Zing Air, Make The Cut - Pop Card Studio, WinXP- Win7 -Win10
  Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
  Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files

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• ljmatthews2 Member Posts: 22

  April 2017

  Hi, Sorry, I should have explained that after I scanned the image, I changed the lines to dashed in MTC.  This is why the lines appear that way in MTC.  I need the space in between so that the whole shape doesn't come apart.   Here are two of the images I scanned.  Thank you so much for your help.
  --Lisa

  Sarah - Block Corner Compass.jpg 526.5K

  Sarah - Block Vine Border - Part 7.jpg 485.7K

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• Crazy_Mr_Zing Member Posts: 3,327

  April 2017 edited April 2017

  As Leslie suggested creating a shadow of a path would effective create a fatter
  But I think when you shadow a dashed line creates shadow of the whole path not one for each dash
  
  I think I would change the line style back to no dashes
  
  make the paths open
  
  Create shadows of the paths and then use the eraser to make the gaps
  
   
  The advantage of shadowing a open path is
  a shadow of a open path surrounds the path like this
  
  
  So you original path will be in the centre of the shadow
  
  you can then hide or discard the original paths
  
  then use the eraser to create the gaps
  
  
  

  I Use Zing Air, Make The Cut - Pop Card Studio, WinXP- Win7 -Win10
  Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
  Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files

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• Di-lite Member Posts: 3,395

  April 2017

  I cheated - I changed your lines in your original MTC into straight lines and exported as an svg and then imported into Serif and thickened the lines of the first star and then dashed them and then exported as a png and traced back into MTC - this was the only way I could see to do this.  If you want the other pages converted I can do it for you but it doesn't solve you for doing it for yourself.

  corner star stencil (4).mtc 59.2K

  Have fun, Di, ID 14610
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• tvoss123 Member Posts: 212

  April 2017

  Wow.  I learn so much from reading what you all do to solve a problem.
  Thank you.
  

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• ljmatthews2 Member Posts: 22

  April 2017

  Hello everyone! Thank you so much for helping me! I am going to try to replicate on my computer this morning how you made the stencils out of the scans. This community is the best! Thank you for this forum.
  
  --Lisa

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