Converting a stroke to outline

[empirenine]

Hi all,

I'm trying to cut a vinyl graphic for my business, and I'm having trouble. I want to have a simple outline behind my main text (there will be 2 layers of vinyl put on the window), but I need to be able to convert a stroke to outlines (the vinyl cutting software needs the outlines to know where to cut). Anybody have an easy way of creating a stroke that can be converted to an outline?

Thanks!

Mike MacDonald
mike@empire9.com

 

[barehug]

go to...
Object>Path>Outline Stroke

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[empirenine]

Hi there,

Thanks for the help, but that doesn't quite solve my problem. That is the first step to my solution as it gives me the outline stroke I need at that point, but I need that outline stroke to be converted to a simple object that's converted to curves. When I export from AI10 to my cutting software, any objects that haven't been converted to outlines disappear completely.

Any other takers?

 

[operamatic]

Have you tried offseting path instead of stroking it? Set the desired outer path and it's basically the same result your after.

 

[operamatic]

Or expand object.