Creating a whole from a half

[dopauls]

Good evening. I am trying to make an outline of a simple Christmas tree. I have traced half the image (see attached file) using the drawing tools. I want to take that half trace, duplicate it, mirror it about the Y axis, then join with the initial trace to make a symmetrical Xmas tree that I can then work with. But I am getting lots of warnings about open contours and the copied/flipped image does not match up. This should be something simple, but hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Doug Pauls

[greggph]

Every branch is a single vector and then all the branches are grouped. I think this is causing the problem.

First ungroup the vectors.

Then select the first two vectors (adjacent to each other) and use the join vectors by moving to common point.

Keep doing the join on all the additional vectors until the entire side you want to mirror is one single vector.

Then go ahead and mirror and it should work. At least it does in Aspire. Revised file below. I am not sure if you can open it as it was saved as a Vcarve file from Aspire v 12.010

Note after mirroring, both of the original vector and the mirrored vector was joined at both the top and the bottom.

Xmas Tree Half-revised.crv

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[sharkcutup]

Just beware after ungrouping there is a loop overlap in this set of Vectors!

Sharkcutup

[dopauls]

Thank you very much for the help. I was able to open the modified file and it works just fine.

Doug