segments become unconnected

[curlyweld]

I have been using cd3 and 4 for years with my plasma table , I do all kinds of cut outs. Sometimes when I'm working with the segment line remover some of my other lines and nodes become unconnected. Sometimes it might be only a couple or it gets worse the more I use the segment line remover, most times it works fine but I have noticed that when I'm in a complicated drawing is when it is more likely to happen. Sometimes I have to go back reconnect them, very time consuming, and then when you fix them some others might become disconnected. Any ideas???? THANKS,,,,,,,CURLY

[SignTorch Vector Art]

you mean this tool?

virtual segment delete.jpg

that's an odd tool, if a curve (or selection) has self-intersecting loops, then it breaks the curve at the intersections and removes the segment between the breaks, it does not connect any remaining adjacent segments (or objects), and can leave a patchwork of open curves

vsd.jpg

in the example above you can tell by the way the fill color runs outside the lines that it is hard to tell what it did

there's probably a better way to do the same thing, but what to do depends on the situation

to join and remove the overlap between two closed shapes, just weld them together

to remove one shape from inside another trim the inner with the outer

to do something like the star above, you'd have to contour to the outside to get a shape with no intersections and no strange fill anomolies, then not create any inersections when editing the tips,

vsd2.jpg

I actually never use any of the tools in that flyout in the top screenshot above, that's the best way to solve that problem...

[curlyweld]

I use it to get rid of intersecting and overlapping lines. What shoul I use instead? I use the weld feature some but never the trim, maybe I need to start. Thanks again for the reply.

[SignTorch Vector Art]

That's hard to answer in the hypothetical, the problem is the intersecting/overlapping lines themselves, not the drawing tools. With intersecting and especially overlapping lines and curve segments comes strange mathematical consequences. It's more about strategy to avoid them than about which tool does what with them.