Overlapping and intersecting paths issue

I have a logo that I've made, however I'm trying to fix this overlapping issue solely in Illustrator instead of having to use Photoshop as well. My issue is a rope that goes under and over an anchor at various points. I'm quite new to Illustrator so I'm resorting to masking out the rope in Photoshop. Below is what I'd like to have:
And this is the furthest I can seem to get in Illustrator:
Any attempts to break the rope path up will change the path alignment which I can't seem to correct. I've tried clipping masks and that seems to make things worse. What would you suggest? I'm using CS6 and I'm fairly new with Illustrator.

Take your original copy of the rope adn send it to back.
Copy a duplicate and paste this in front
Draw rough shapes filled with black for the area you want the rope to be on top of the anchor, and group these elemtns (this will be your mask)
Select the top rope and your mask, in the transparency palette click make mask (Versions older than CS6 this can be found in the flyout menu)
Enable clip and invert mask

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Okay, just had a discovery today about the blend tool.
The difference between closed paths and open paths is critical when you want to modify a blend spine, such as make it curve. Between open paths, there is no spine shown when a blend is created. Ever notice this? Between closed paths, there is a spine, which can be modified, such as making it curved. Now, the trick is how to modify a spine with open paths when there is no spine shown. Found out today that starting with a closed path, segments can be deleted to make the path open, then the spine can be modified and the open path state maintained!
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Hello,
I have been plagued with Profile Manager and Device Manager issues since day one.
I would like to share my experience and to suggest a way how to resolve issues such as device cannot be enrolled or Code Signing Certificate not accepted.
I shall try to be as brief as possible, just giving an overview of the steps that resolved my issues. The individual steps have been described elsewhere in this forum. For users who have purchased commercial SSL certs the following may not apply.
In my view many of these issues are caused by missing or faulty certificates. So let us first touch on the very complex matter of certificates.
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The most straightforward way to resolve the Profile Manaher issues is in my view to reset the server created certicates.
The bad news is that this procedure involves quite a few steps and at least 2 hours of your precious time because it means creating a fresh Direcory Master.
I hope that I have not forgotten to mention an important step. Readers' comments and addenda are welcome.
I shall outline a sensible strategy:
1. Clone your dysfunctional server to an external harddrive (SuperDuper does a reliable job)
2. Start the server fom the clone and shut down ALL services.
3. It may be sensible to set up a root user access.
4. Back-up all user data such as addess book, calendar and other data that you *may* need to set up your server.
5. Open Workgroup Manager and export all user and workgroup accounts to the drive that you using to re-build your server (it may cause problems if you back-up to an external drive).
6. Just in case you may also want to back-up the Profile Manager database and erase user profiles:
In Terminal (this applies to Lion Server - paths may be diferent in Mountain Lion !)
Backup: sudo pg_dump -U _postgres -c device_management > $HOME/device_management.sql
Erase database:
sudo /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeDB.sh
7. Note your Directory (diradmin) password for later if you want to re-use it.
8. Open Open Server Admin and demote OD Master to Standalone Directory.
9. In Terminal delete the old Certificate Authority
sudo rm -R /var/root/Library/Application\ Support/Certificate\ Authority/
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20. Grab one of your (portable) Macs that you want to enrol and go to (yourhostname)/mydevices and install the server's trust profile. The profile's name should read "Trust Profile for...) and underneath in green font "Verified".
21. Re-enrol that device. At this stage keep your finger's crossed and take a deep breath.
22. If the device has been successfully enrolled you may at last want to test if pushing profiles really works. Login to Profile Manager as admin, select the newly enrolled device. Check that Automatic Push is enabled (-> Profile -> General). Create a harmless management profile such as defining the dock's position on the target machine. (Do not forget to click SAVE at the end - this is easily missed here). If all is well Profile Manager will display an active task (sending) and the dock's position on the target will have changed in a few seconds if you are on a LAN (Note: If sending seems to take forever: check on the server machine and/or on your router that the proper ports are open and that incoming data is not intercepted by Little Snitch or similar software).
Note: if you intend to enrol an Apple iPhone you may first need to install the proper Apple Configuration software.
Now enjoy Profile and Device Manager !
Regards,
Twistan

HI
1. In Action profiles, logon to system and recheck correcion are available in action definition as well in condition configuration and the schedule condition is also maintained. but the display is not coming(i.e in the worklist this action is not getting displayed).
You can check the schedule condition for the action and match the status values...or try recreating the action with schedule condition again....for customer specific ....copy the standard aciton with ur zname and make a schedule condition and check the same.
2, In suppport team of incident when i give individual processor it throwing a warning that u r not the processor. but when i give org unit it is working perfectly. Could anyone guide on this.
You need to have the empolyee role for BP ..goto BP and got here dropdown for ur bp and choose role Employee and then enter ur userid
also make sure that u have the message processing role
Hope it clarifies ur doubt and resolve ur prob
Regards
Prakhar

Goods receipt and post goods issue are not updated back from EWM to ECC

Hi Experts,
Would anybody able to tell me the setting to be modified / defined to backward flow of information from EWM to ERP i.e. the goods receipt, goods issue are not being updated back in ECC once the goods receipt and post goods issue are posted in EWM?
It would be great help if i get the response as early as possible.
Chakrapani Das

Hi Chakrapani,
You might want to try checking the customization on the SCM part following this path:
SPRO - Extended Warehouse Management - Interfaces - ERP Integration - General Settings
Pay special attention on the Check of ERP-EWM Configuration transaction.
After you have checked these you should probably check the outbound queue monitor (tx SMQ1) from EWM to ERP. You can use the SMQ1 - Outbound queue and SMQ2 - Inbound Queue both in ERP and SCM to check the communication betweene these two systems.
Also you may want to checkt the SLG1 - Analyse application Log in SCM in order to see if any internal bugs exist.
All the best,
Claudiu Maxim

Create an outline path from multiple intersecting paths

Despite thinking this should be easy, I can't quite figure it out.
I've drawn some text using a graphics tablet and brought it into illustrator CS6.
This has several "internal" paths whereas all I need is the outline path which can then be filled in with a colour.
I've tried cleaning it up but without any success.
A simple example is an "X" which has the intersecting section as two long rectangles. Slight more complicated in my eyes is the top right corner of the X.
A more complex example is the "a".
How can I tidy this up and end up with just a path representing the outline? In searching on the web, I did notice a new join tool, but it's only in CC whereas I'm still on CS6... Join and trim paths | Adobe Illustrator CC tutorials
Thanks for any suggestions.

tfboy,
As I (mis)understand it, for each letter you may simply select both/all paths and Window>Pathfinder>Unite.
If you have any open paths making trouble, you may select each and Ctrl/Cmd+J to close it first.

Wait events 'direct path write' and 'direct path read'

Hi,
We have a query which is taking more that 2 min. It's a 9.2.0.7 database. We took the trace/tkprof of the query,and identified that there are so manay 'direct path write' and 'direct path read' wait events in the trace file.
WAIT #3: nam='direct path write' ela= 5 p1=201 p2=70710 p3=15
WAIT #3: nam='direct path read' ela= 170 p1=201 p2=71719 p3=15
In the above, "p1=201" is a file_id, but we could not find any data file, temp file, control file with that id# 201.
Can you please let us know what's "p1=201" here, how to identify the file which is causing the issue.
Thanks
Sravan

What does:
show parameter db_filesreturn? My guess, is that it returns 200.
The direct file read and direct file write events are reads and writes to TEMP tablespace. In those wait events, the file# is reported as db_files+temp file id. So, 201 means temp file #1.
Now, as to your actual performance problem.
Without seeing the SQL and the corresponding execution plan, it's impossible to be sure. However, the most common causes of temp writes are sort operations and group by operations.
If you decide to post your SQL and execution plan, please be sure to make it readable by formatting it. Information on how to do so can be found here.
Hope that helps,
-Mark
Edited by: mbobak on May 1, 2011 1:50 AM

How to update this query and avoid performance issue?

Hi, guys:
I wonder how to update the following query to make it weekend day aware. My boss want the query to consider business days only. Below is just a portion of the query:
select count(distinct cmv.invoicekey ) total ,'3' as type, 'VALID CALL DATE' as Category
FROM cbwp_mv2 cmv
where cmv.colresponse=1
And Trunc(cmv.Invdate) Between (Trunc(Sysdate)-1)-39 And (Trunc(Sysdate)-1)-37
And Trunc(cmv.Whendate) Between cmv.Invdate+37 And cmv.Invdate+39the CBWP_MV2 is a materialized view to tune query. This query is written for a data warehouse application, the CBWP_MV2 will be updated every day evening. My boss wants the condition in the query to consider only business days, for example, if (Trunc(Sysdate)-1)-39 falls in weekend, I need to move the range begins from next coming business day, if (Trunc(Sysdate)-1)-37 falls in weekend, I need to move the range ends from next coming business day. but I should always keep the range within 3 business days. If there is overlap on weekend, always push to later business days.
Question: how to implement it and avoid performance issue? I am afraid that if I use a function, it greatly reduce the performance. This view already contains more than 100K rows.
thank you in advance!
Sam
Edited by: lxiscas on Dec 18, 2012 7:55 AM
Edited by: lxiscas on Dec 18, 2012 7:56 AM

You are already using a function, since you're using TRUNC on invdate and whendate.
If you have indexes on those columns, then they will not be used because of the TRUNC.
Consider omitting the TRUNC or testing with Function Based Indexes.
Regarding business days:
If you search this forum, you'll find lots of examples.
Here's another 'golden oldie': http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:185012348071
Regarding performance:
Steps to take are explained from the links you find here: {message:id=9360003}
Read them, they are more than worth it for now and future questions.

WLC 7.4.100.0 Mobility group control and data path down

Hi All,
Today i am facing issue with mobility group. i checked and found control and data path is down on foreign controller.I am able to ping anchor controller. Required ports are open on firewall but mping and eping fails. Any idea whats wrong. On Anchor controller, i have 7 foreign controller configured and among these 3 are working fine. Having problem with 4 foreign controller. Previously all are working fine and there is no changes made on network or firewall.

Post output of "show mobility summary" of your Anchor WLC & a non-working WLC. Also "show sysinfo" of those two controllers.
Regards
Rasika

Air Application URL Path Issue

I am trying to invoke a content of the file which is in shared folder from Air application.
Version : Flash builder 4.5,Flex3.6 sdk and Air 2.7.
for this am using the below code..
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
//request.url = ('file:///c:/params.txt'); - This is working fine
request.url = ('file:///172.20.188.25/Share/chk/Property/params.txt'); // its not working
trace("Unable to load URL: " + request);
var variables:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
variables.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
variables.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
try
variables.load(request);
The same part of code ,I tried in Flex application is working .but in Air application its not working.
Its urgent requirement,If any one know the way to resolve this path issues.
Kindly let us know.
Thanks in Advance !!

I tried in the following URL but no use ..
its throwing ioError and textError and stream error.
1.file:///172.20.188.25/Share/chk/Property/params.txt
2.http://172.20.188.25/Share/chk/Property/params.txt
3. //172.20.188.25/Share/chk/Property/params.txt
Is there any other solution for this issue ?

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