On 23 May at 10:00, Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <mpro.llc8fa00003m411s1.tim@xxxxxxxxx> > Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > More of my slow progress in learning Art Works. I have been > > delighted to find that there is a method of combining objects to > > form a single shape, as in the Examples for Intersect, No 5. > > > However I have found that this can leave some small bits behind in > > the final separation of the joined object from the intersect. I > > have made an ArtWorks page showing the steps I took to unite the > > objects and put it here: > > > <http://www.tim.ukpub.net/riscos/Uniting_shapes.zip> > > > Close examination will show two prongs (for want of a better word) > > poking up from the separated bit and missing from the united object. > > I would like the prongs to be on the United object. Can anyone > > advise how this can be done? > > That is easy. Select them and the united shape and choose "Join > shapes". The two "prongs" are not part of the intersection, so they > should not be moved away as per step 5 of the tutorial. Just move away > the shapes that are in the intersection and delete them. There > probably should be a step 6 to tell you to join the remaining shapes > (which was not necessary in the simple example in the tutorial). Been up a pole on other matters for a couple of days so got delayed. Yes, that works excellently. Many thanks. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------