Bigk_54

Fairly new at the illustrator world, please excuse my lack of knowledge. I have 30 piece or so templates I that have one main image they are all cut out of. Due to the fact I need them individual pieces I cannot make a compound then make one big clipping mask. So I have been saving the background as a PDF and then copying/pasting it behind the template and masking it. Well when I have to move pieces the template has to "redraw" the background with all the effects and it takes forever and renders illustrator useless for a minute, 2 or so. Should I be saving/exporting other than a PDF? Getting frustrated! Thanks for the help! Happy New Year all

Sorry yes this is for print. Tooler you understand my pain!!!! That's the problem I'm losing minutes by the hours because of this.

I work on templates in illustrator and transfer to flexi for rip/cut process. How can I transfer and use the nesting feature, or is there? i really need something to next AI/PSD files, any advice?

I've tried opening as an AI file, opening as a PSD file, importing as a AI and PSD..... I dont have the file on me unfortunately, its just a multi piece template I edit in AI

Flexi 12. I know it has nest, but no matter what file I seem to bring over from Illustrator it wont nest it. Looking for some help on that. I have roughly 60-70 pieces in a template but it wont do anything with my illustrator files. If I make a bunch of letters or import a small picture in there I can get it to next no problem, so I understand the process of how it works just can't seem to get it to work with my files which help doesn't do for me

Hello all, im stumped and don’t know where to begin. This problem just randomly started occurring it seems like. I created both items in illustrator, converted to a PSD and imported into flexi v.12. Add contour cut in flexi and print, then I put into graphtec 8600 and right from the first cut it’s off as you can see. I’ve tried to contour 4 different files, all with same outcome In flexi I typed 2 characters, added contour and cut them on 8600 and ts perfectly fine. Thanks in advance

With help of graphtec email support we reset cutter, updated firmware and maraculously it revived. Chalk it up to martians

it’s never not worked properly until just recently, always been spot on

Sorry yes all jobs had the proper registrations marks for the graphtec and were all read by the cutter.

Good day everyone! So looking for some help/advice on which was I should head these days. I use Vinyl Master Pro 4.0 with a US Cutter SC for about 2 years and its time to upgrade to something else. When I bought this it was originally to do 2 projects and has since blossomed from there. I don't do this as a profession more of a side gig and keeping myself busy but I keep doing more and more every summer with race cars, company vehicles, window stickers, etc. It started out as I was looking at the Titan 2 then it went to the Titan 3 ARMS unit and has now went to Graphtec 6000. Originally I said I only wanted to spend roughly a 1000$ but I don't really want to buy another cutter in a couple of years either again. I mainly cut Scotchcal 50, Oracal 651-951, occasionally some Avery 900. Car numbers up to 24" tall, words up to 24-30" long and one customer I cut some small letters (>.5") and occasionally some low grade reflective stuff. Also I started with the base Vinyl Master and believe I upgraded 2 times to the Pro version. I guess I would prefer to stay in that direction but I'm open to a different software package as well, just know I have a few bucks into the Pro version of VM. I anticipate everyone great replies and advice, thank you!

I'm attempting to cut some 3M 1080 Carbon Fiber. It cuts great but I can't weed it out. Question is do I set my blade deeper or do I add more pressure. I've never had this problem with any other material I have cut before. I believe I have my blade set deep enough, but I know someone out there in this great us cutter nation has to have an idea. THANK YOU!

Can someone help me out with the difference between the CB09 and CB15 blade holders? I see both are for sale for this cutter but don't see anything that differentiates the two

Sounds like a winner there, I'll look into that! THANK YOU, YOUR ALWAYS SO HELPFUL!!!!!

Kind of the answers I expected to get but just thought I would get the advice of some other fellow vinyl workers! I really appreciate everyone's thoughts and input! I've looked at a 8600 for a hot minute at a shop and looked very well built. Is it a user friendly cutter? I picked up the SC in about thirty minutes and had a good idea what had to be done, I was a rookie then. Also software…. I believe I can use my vinyl master software, I didn't know any better when I bought my current cutter and I cant say I do now, I know how to use VM pretty good, is there a need to switch? Thanks!

I’m sure it’s still a learning experience but can someone help me out why this looks this way. I cut this same vinyl before, same settings and product came out great, not so much today. Thank you for advice!

y'all are awesome, just needed a bit of reassurance I guess lol. I'm balder after this project. Thanks Dakota I had read that sometime ago and that's how I originally started, I'm gonna go back to square one!

Thanks guys. appreciate the help, frustrated with this vinyl at this point lol any tips on cutting this Avery 900 question, will do mug blade pressure do this?

I was guessing maybe blade issue but before I went crazy thought I’d come to the experts. Thank you, I’ll check blade! Here is page I cut after one prior. 2 totally different outcomes but was Avery 900 (green) vs 3m 50 (white) as well too baffling!!!!!!

Re-doing a friend of mines sticker for the race sleds, I've been searching and playing with multiple checkered flag pattern but cant find one to match this, anyone have anything they can share with me that's close? Thank you!

googled checkered patterns until my eyes have gone cross eyed lol. Just deleted 42 images this morning I tried manipulating to make it work This place is my last resorr

Of course I googled before I wasted anyone's time here. I searched and search there isn't any clipart of a good snowmobile track alone or a track and skis, downloaded and attempted tracing a ton of them, none of them came out very well, maybe being from snow country I was looking for a little more quality of a track than you found lol It was a shot in the dark to contact latitude and come to find out he got back with me! Thank you!

Figured being a script font it would be easy to match, I'm pulling my hair out Thank you!

Did you ever find an imprint? I'm here searching for one myself, there is an imprint of every vehicle in the world on the www but no snowmobile track

So I'm normally an Oracal guy, using 651 and 751 for almost all projects. I recently used some 3M 180mC on a project which I found to be a great vinyl. So my question is to you with diverse knowledge, can you help me with some thoughts and ideas of different kinds of vinyl and some drawbacks/advantages. Thank you in advance for all the help and I'm anxious to see the reply's I get from everyone (FYI I use an SC cutter and most of the stuff I do is truck lettering, window stickers and race car graphics) Oracal 751 Avery 900 Supercast 3M 180mC 3M 7125 ================= Oracal 651 Avery 700 3M 50

Boy that was hell! I normally cut on 70-75 pressure was up to 180 and my blade depth increased drastically! Thanks everyone for the advice, its great having all this knowledge and get quick responses!