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Studio Essentials

Assign fold and cut lines

After importing a die drawing into Illustrator, you have to indicate which lines represent a cut and which lines represent a fold line or “crease”.

A line is indicated to be a cut line by applying the designated ink named “Cut”. A line is indicated to be a crease line by applying the designated ink named “Crease”.

• Select the proper paths, and click the Cut or Crease swatches in the Fold window.

• If you want a single path to be partially a cut path and partially a fold line, select the path, and select Split Paths from the flyout menu in the Fold window. This will split the selected path in different segments, so that the fold lines can be selected apart from the cut lines.

• With some die drawings it is hard to assign cut and crease strokes to the lines because the die drawing consists of rectangles on top of each other. This creates double lines. Remove

Double Lines in the flyout menu of the Fold window will remove the double lines in the selection. This will take all lines in the selection into account, irrespective of the stroke color they have.

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