Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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Sampson Jones
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Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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This is annoying aa hell . I have saved and exported in corel the following dxf,svg,cmg . I have boxed out all around the main object to see if any tiny debis shows up . Nothing but a clean object shows . Object was joined curves , grouped , saved and exported to sheetcam . When in sheetcam all theses horizonial straight lines show up . Ive had this before , but damned if Ive ever figured out what causes it .
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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Try selecting just your object and paste it into a new layer then export from that layer. It would rule out something being on your current drawing.
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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If you can post some simple file where the problem exists then you stand a better chance of someone figuring out what is going on.

Lots of members now seem to either post only a description of the problem or a jpeg image.

I realise you won't want to give your designs away so can you do a "Save As" for your file and then delete the fancy arty bits. Then export and check the ghost lines are still showing up again. If so attach the file here.

I use Coreldraw and the only time I've had such problems are when the file came from somewhere else. It's amazing how much junk can be in some files. Whenever I create the file in Coreldraw myself it usually exports OK.
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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The horizontal lines do not show up on the CorelDRAW work space . When viewing then same file in Inkscape they are clearly visible .
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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Here you go Beefy , The horizontal line at he top left does not show up in the workspace in Corel - not even stretching a box around it to show up the trash around the main object . When viewed in Inkscape the horizontal line . clearly shows up .
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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Hi Sampson,

I don't use Inkscape but what I did notice in Coreldraw is there's several other layers, one of which has a horizontal line in but the layer is set to invisible.

I deleted all those layers and this is the resulting file. Is it any better ?
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Re: Why the ghost lines ? Importing to sheetcam

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Thanks , but I need to know how to find this ? I've been using Corel 10 yrs and never took much time learning or understanding layers .I guess objet properties is where you start ? I f you could give a step by step on how to do this I would be grateful . Thanks
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