Haya, Im a newbie okay go easy on me mates. I searched for this but couldnt find anything over the internet. So, what Im trying to do, is to put a SINGLE path in between the two paths of the font or change these two to be one. I need this to mill the font to be 6mm wide in plexi. Simply, the font is too thin and I just need the nice line/path in the middle of the letters for miling. Here are some screenshots to visualize what its all about. One is from my graphic where the font is made with two lines, a contour, and on the other sreenshot you can see that this contour, lets say, dissapeared (but not completely), and we got a single path centered between, this is the edited file by someone else most likely in Corel, also, he somehow merged them to be like one thing and as you can see on the last screenshot I can manipulate them freely, they are no connected. So, I need to know how to convert the contour to be a single path like this magician did for miling machine. Drawing freely dosent do the job, when I draw the path it bugs the thing - makes a shape and cuts out the rest of the letters. I know that there is a simple method to do this since the guy did it in like probably 5 mins. For anyone who would tell me to simply ask the guy - its the company that makes these things, not teaching how to do them - I paid like 20$ for his 5 minutes okay. So, any ideas, tips, hints, screenshots ?

Cheers

Mati

If I understand you right you want the letters to be one path which can be done by selecting every part and go Path->Combine.

No, not really, when I select all parts of the sign (except for the plexi outline) it just merges the letters into one leaving the countour as it is.

Mmmh - maybe this?

Yoooooooo man you are a genius ! But I am still totally lost, its literally my second day with digital graphic, could you make some I dont know, screen record of how you do it on the file I attached ?

In your first 3 screenshots the single stroke glyphs are still alive. Where are they gone? Or do you mean you´re left with the shape from a Path->Stroke to Path conversion? I´d say reverse engineering means to draw the glyphs with the Bézier tool manually - which is easier than it sounds:

The first three screenshots are from my base file edited by the graphic designer, the other ones are from this base file I made. So the single strokes are not gone, they are to be made. Anyway he somehow converted it to have this line in the middle and I want to do the same thing. So the file I sent you earlier is base one, and here is the same file but edited by him. I think I know what I could do, I should convert the letter back to just stroke, and then do like you showed me two posts above: Path-stroke to path. Hmmm yeah, I see that Bezier tool, I tried it earlier and it was just messing up everything but now it works good enough. I am still struggling, I did the paths manually with Bezier tool you wrote about but its still not the same as this guy did..

It´s all in the reply#4. Duplicate->Path->Stroke to Path - set the stroke of the other to a thin line width:

Generally, I think I did it, thanks man. Its my first time ever writing a question on some forum and its really wholesome that among x billion people that is living on Earth there is one guy like you somewhere on that planet who replied and helped me to solve this case, much appreciated mate.

You're welcome. Glad I could help.