How to unweld?

[SusanC]

I want to unweld two word so I can rearrange them.
How do unweld without starting again?

See the Stratford and the butterfly. The two f's are welded and i want the reposition the word butterfly.

[Lucille]

You haven't said what program you are using, in Inkscape you would use Path > Break apart, but welding again might produce some strange results. If you haven't saved the file yet you can use the undo button, but personally I would probably make it again as it is a quick and easy thing to do and faffing about might take longer to do.

[SusanC]

I'm using design master.

[mamaluke]

I don't think you can unweld once you have saved the file.

A USEFUL TIP when designing in DM... if you have created a word or group of objects you want to weld, BEFORE you do it, select all the objects, press CONTROL and D, this creates a replica, move the replica to the side of your virtual workspace, so you have it there in case you ever want to undo anything, or use an element from it, or need to check the sizing etc.
Basically always back up the design by having it at the side.

Hope that makes sense.

[sarabean]

I don't think you can unweld once you have saved the file.

A USEFUL TIP when designing in DM... if you have created a word or group of objects you want to weld, BEFORE you do it, select all the objects, press CONTROL and D, this creates a replica, move the replica to the side of your virtual workspace, so you have it there in case you ever want to undo anything, or use an element from it, or need to check the sizing etc.
Basically always back up the design by having it at the side.

Hope that makes sense.

That's a great idea, i've had the same problem a few times now and was never thinking outside of the box enough to do that. Nice 1

[dozyrosy]

I don't think you can unweld once you have saved the file.

A USEFUL TIP when designing in DM... if you have created a word or group of objects you want to weld, BEFORE you do it, select all the objects, press CONTROL and D, this creates a replica, move the replica to the side of your virtual workspace, so you have it there in case you ever want to undo anything, or use an element from it, or need to check the sizing etc.
Basically always back up the design by having it at the side.

Hope that makes sense.

You're a girl after my own heart! And it doesn't only apply to DM or welding, you can do this with any design software at any stage of work where you are going to make a major and possibly irreversible change.

Rosemary

[ltgrandma]

I have unwelded words in design master by going in and separating the
nodes. You select the node you want and right click the mouse.
5 icons will appear. You click on the bottom icon (two arrows pointing
away from one another.)
When you want to connect them, you click on the top icon.

It is a little work but it does work.

I also make a copy of what I'm working on before I weld it. It
is a good idea.

Linda

[SusanC]

Thanks for all your ideas. I will save the original as suggested. I haven't got to grips with how to use nodes yet. I clic on it and it looked very scary. I just started again with what I was doing, it was farely quick to redo as it wasn't complicated.
Thanks again.

[Lauraine]

Lucille's suggestion for just doing it again is spot on. The amount of time I spend fiddling about doesn't bear thinking about. As I am prone to making mistakes or changing what passes for my mind I got into the habit of copying and pasting a replica and putting on the "desktop" so to speak a long time ago. That has saved my proverbial bacon many a time.

[dozyrosy]

I haven't got to grips with how to use nodes yet. I clic on it and it looked very scary.

Just think of nodes as "dots" you can join or move to make your shapes - remember the "join the numbers" puzzles we had as children? Nodes are just a variation of those and shouldn't be at all scary....

Rosemary

[SusanC]

I loved to do join the numbers as a child. I will try moving nodes soon!