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I like the cut of your jib, John. I deal with my customers exactly like that.
There are exceptions, of course. One of my clients is a high-end, very creative sign artist. He has the marked cornered....

Thanks everybody for the kind words and thanks for all the help. It really made a difference.

I created the whole sign on a 15' 11" x 4' high board in Aspire (except the appliques behind which I...

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NICE!! I do much of my work in Illustrator (Mac) and then export to Aspire. An excellent combination as you so clearly show.

That scissor tool did the trick. I'm pretty happy with the results. Thank you.
It was easy to trim the two big pieces after I left enough overlap....

It is a bit like trying to describe a spiral staircase without using your hands.:)

But the "subtract vectors tool" would do the trick! Thanks...and I did understand what you meant by oversizing at...

I hadn't thought of that, but yes, thank you!

(They don't call me a junior member for nuttin' :) )

Indeed a doable workaround. Thank you Russ. But that is cumbersome. Aspire offers that feature for horizontal slicing along the x-y plane, I was hoping to find something to do this along the x-z...

Once I have it machined, the tweaking for the registration wouldn't be hard. All I would have to do is to cut it a smidge over-size.
My dilemma is how to cut the vectors before I create the tool...

The customer needs a 16 ft horizontal v-carved sign with a border. My bed is only 8 feet, so I need to make it in 2 sections.
I have Aspire and made a nice design on a 16 x 4 ft work piece. There...