Create a dieline and bleed for irregular shapes with gaps in outer border (v11.0)
If a dieline is missing and the outer border of the shape that needs bleed has gaps creating bleed does not easily work.
When the original looks like this:
![](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/002/861/933/original/8b94c028-a24e-4ba7-a62f-1fbb045009da.png)
Normal bleed creation would generate something like
![](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/002/861/935/original/423528b4-dbe8-40e3-8812-b26a18dda202.png)
Nice, but not was is needed.
This Process Plan creates a shape of all objects on a page and adds a line to each single object. The width of the line can be adjusted.
In this example the size of the gaps is roughly 13 mm.
![](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/002/861/937/original/1ab880ce-bd90-4890-a192-e289b62f8aa2.png)
The Process Plan creates lines with a thickness of 4 x size of the gaps as a "HelpShape" on a layer and then creates a dieline 4 x size of the gaps inside of HelpShape. It then switches the HelpShape layer off and creates bleed at the dieline.
![](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/002/861/931/original/09cc9eb4-c723-4615-940c-395d71324cab.png)
You can watch how to 'create a dieline and bleed for irregular shapes with gaps in outer borders' in the video below: