Easel won't cut holes in svg

Easel
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been working on a project which requires the cutting of an sag file which I have created. However, for some reason, easel has the red “cannot cut” marks on quite a few of my holes, even though they are all identical. It isn’t a rendering issue because the toolpaths show that it won’t cut. Sorry if this has been posted before, I couldn’t find any posts exactly like mine.
Thanks

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It looks like you have those holes set to outline, I would suggest setting them to fill. Also I find sometimes when I get a red warning like that I check my tool paths, if the tool paths get generated, I ignore the red.

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Hi there,
Thanks so much for the quick response, but I’m afraid when I set the easel to fill it cuts out the entire shape like so:

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And as I mentioned before, my tool paths show that they wont cut out the reddened sections. They only go to the blank sections as you can see here:
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Thank you

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You have a compound shape. instead of having a square and 6 circles all as separate shapes, Easel thinks you have 1 shape that has a bunch of holes cut in it.

I know it’s odd because that’s what you want right? But go back to your vector program and break apart that compound path and it should be just fine.

I don’t know what program you’re using, but in Illustrator you would go to

Object–> Compound Path --> Release

or just right-clicking and selecting

Release Compound Path

If you’re having trouble just post your .svg file here and I’ll take a look at it.

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Thanks so much. I’ve had this trouble with a few of my svg files and I couldn’t find anything about it. It seems to be working perfectly now.