I have read the manual and the help for SCAL (I have v.4 Pro) and I am still having aggravating problems, so hopefully someone can shed some light on what is going wrong, or if it's me that is doing this wrong.
The cutter I have is the series MH, 34" version - but out of the box there is a problem: while the carriage is indeed 34" wide from left to right, the mechanism appears to limit the travel by 3 inches or so. No matter what arrangement, offset, configuration, or ritual I have tried, I can not, for some unfathomable reason, place an object for cutting on the screen and have it cut at that location on the material, or drawn at that location, in any semblance of a sane manner.
Perhaps it is me, with my expectations and understanding of the elements involved. I expect that software that I am sold with hardware that I purchase to be fully capable of understanding the actual hardware's physical constraints, and act accordingly - for example, if I send a job to my Designjet Z3200 that has a 44 inch wide platen, and the job is 60" wide, and I have not specified fit-to-media or have otherwise altered its dimensions to fit my Designjet's width, it DOES NOT PRINT THE JOB.
I obviously am lacking knowledge here about how to align the output width to a mat width in SCAL, or some otherwise elemental and very basic information. Can someone please enlighten me as to how I can achieve this sort of real WYSIWYG instead of what appears to be quasi-WYSIWYG with floating points of origin?
Thanks in advance,
Jake