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I need help changing a DWG to something that I can open with Inkscape. I cant even load the darn thing onto the forum, so I will have to email it to someone. If anyone could help me with this it would be awesome. Thanks Darin

So I fought with this and could not change this file at all. It would appear that autocad breaks down a drawing alot ! It kept saying can only convert 3 file in free version, I only had one in the window. I am going to just have the customer have someone convert in illustrator since I do not use it. Thanks for trying. Darin

Cool thank you. I used that and it says completed, but I can not find the file and when I made a folder to put them in it continues to be empty. And it loaded the stupid AVG as my browser page, but that I can fix. I missed the check box for that one.lol

Can someone make this image into something I can use on inkscape. I am having a heck of a time, I even downloaded the font (isl FADE to bla) and I can't get the font to load on inkscape. What a day. http://static.tumblr.com/3911e6eae07f6ab401c92ff0b19e30b0/nmqqihg/8bKmopozi/tumblr_static_logo.png that is the best pic I can find. Customer is out of town or I could just get his files.. Thanks Darin

So i used vector magic for the first time ever. Oh why have I never done that before. I am dumb. Darin

I have just installed my new motherboard on my Pcut 630. Now the LCD buttons are incorrect. the online button doesn't work, instead I hit pause and it goes through the menu. I have no feed roller control or carriage control. HELP PLEASE Darin

So last week I had an issue with the blade holder not going into the vinyl. I searched forums and interweb as usual I had came up with the norm. Static,ground,and adjustments. Static is fixed, ground is fixed and cutter worked great for 2 jobs. This morning I run a job and it goes through all the motions and not one cut into the vinyl. I have tried to email customer service and was told to call. Well guess what they aren't open when I am off work. I need to know how to test the solenoid and how to properly adjust the bar that connects the blade holder to the solenoid. There is an allen set screw that holds the solenoid to the bar and there is one on the bottom that holds the blade holder to the bar. Any help out there would be great. Darin Gray FC Finishes

Awesome so no I have no information going between my computer and my cutter. I have shut down everything, checked the com ports, **^&***^%^%^$%^&$%#%^&%^(&%^&($%%#% I am soo pissed right now. I have 2 huge orders to get out this weekend and cant figure this out. Since i am running off a laptop I use USB I will be taking the cable to radio shack for a test. Other than that I guess its a motherboard. Damn this sucks. Darin

cut the wires? Or is there a place. I have not removed the solenoid.

I have searched and found that most people say this is from static. I will attempt everything I can to ground my machine. I also read that serial port is the way to go, not an option right now. What I can not figure out is this just started today. I have only cut 20 yards of vinyl on this machine and now I get random cuts. Of course this is when I start doing bigger jobs and I seem to waste more than I can get out of a cut. Other than ground straps can anyone tell me what this is and how to cure it. thank you Darin

I think this should be a very simple bitmap to trace, but I seem to loose all the crisp ness and can not even tell what the picture is when I am done. The picture is easy to find. I have tried 10 or 15 different ones from the web and still get the same results. The pic is the mongols (mc ) bros head. It is just the head, not the whole rider on the patch. If anyone can help me with this, I would in debt to you. Here is the version I have been trying to use. Thank you FC Finishes

So I renewed my signcut Pro. Now when I save as an EPS from inkscape, I am missing lines in every graphic. I thought it was an inkscape issue and I posted about missing lines in text. For example using the Impact font I type InLineFabrication.com I combine the image, then save as an EPS. I then open the EPS in signcut and I am missing at least one line in each letter. I thought it may be a font issue, but it is doing it with every font I use. SOME ONE HELP ME. Please. I am really at a loss to what is going on now. Since i paid 98.00 dollars for another year of signcut, I would like to use it. Darin

For some reason when going from Inkscape to signcut I am losing single lines on many of the letters that I am trying to cut. This is what I am doing Font= Impact Italics/oblique InLineFabrication.com Can someone recreate this issue and help me fix it. I need to cut these at .5 or .6 in high. Thank you Darin Gray Full Auto Graphics

I am not sure how to post a pic of the problem. The letters I am cutting are 1/2 inch. I tried to take a screen shot of signcut, but it would not work. I am using the impact font in inkscape, then hitting combine and that is how I usually cut lettering. This seems that something between inkscape and signcut is going funny with this font. I am at a loss. The worst part is this guy is a good customer. Darin

so after the great computer crash of 2011. I had to re download all my software. after loading SB back on it has changed every one of my inkscape SVG files to PVW files. Is there anything out there that can open these and change them back to a SVG. There is about 600 hours worth of work that I can not use. I can open them in sign blazer, but I'm not as good with that program and Im getting really frustrated. Thank you Darin

I have looked and I can not find them. Even on my external hard drive where I stored they have been changed. Is there a way to open and eps and save it as an SVG. I have all the EPS files. I just need to do some re-work on some of the images before I cut them. Thanks Darin

I can't figure out what is going on. I had this happen about 6 times today alone. While I am touching up items that I want to cut, say for instance I am deleting parts of a design. I get the windows error that inkscape has a problem and has to close. It is getting relaly annoying since I am not smart enough to hit save after every action I do. Any ideas would be great. THanks Darin

I find that for intermediate like green star and 651 I use a pressure setting around 105, but my speed is down around 40. For thicker stuff like oracal 6510 I use about 120 and that seems to get through it enough that I can weed small stuff pretty nicely.

Sorry to it took soo long to get back on here. It would appear that some of the images that I was using had some sort of a "kill your computer" line in the image. When I would pull that specific line out of the image, it would shut down inkscape. This seems to happen more than I realized. There was a hello kitty head that I was trying to amke a sticker for my daughter and it had around 10 spots that I could not change or remove. I actually had to use nodes to remove the lines. I guess it is a trademark thing, but I really didn't know what it was.

JP, I use some what the same procedure. The only thing I do different is that I actually go to the picture file and send it to sign cut instead of opening from sign cut. I find that I have less issues with that procedure. I know it takes time and I have every image saved as a SVG and EPS, but it seems to be the best way for me to use either program.

I actually prefer greenstar over oracal 651. It may be the fact that I am a newB at this, but it seems much easier to weed and it is very flexible when applying it. I don't like 651 because it has a real brittle feeling to it and I can not weed it very well. I really struggle on smaller stickers when using it. I have to use 651 since the bbble gum greenstar has been out for a while. Darin

I seem to have found the problem. It would seem that my step by step cutting length was causing the random lines. I was watching the preview using signcut and whe the cutter moved a long distance for relocation is where I would get the cuts. I played with the step by step length and since the cutter did not have to move so far diagonally I no longer got the random slices. These machines are amazing in what they can do. The simplest of things can throw a big wrench in the gears though. Its the little things like this that I am glad to be a patient person. I get really mad, but since this is not my first income, I can relax and work it out. Darin

No Dakota, I am on a desktop. I had nothing to ground to, so I ran a wire to a ground bar to see if would make a difference. There was no change. I am almost wondering if it is in the file somewhere. I got the graphic off the web and used inkscape to ouline it. The weird part was it was only on the first 6 inches of vinyl that I ended up with random cuts. I did a total of 6 stickers and only the first 2 had cuts through them. They were the first 6 inches of length. The rest of them are just fine. I am also noticing that the cuts do not always go throught the vinyl. They are more like scratches instead of cuts. Darin

Static my foot. I have dryer sheets hanging all over the damn place. I ran a ground strap from the cutter to a actuall ground bar and I still get random drags through my images. I'm really getting burned on how much vinyl this is wasting. I now there are bugs on a few of these machines, but I just can't figure this one out. I also am a little upset that the frame of this cutter is twisted. All four feet do not touch at the same time. I stuffed some post-its under one untill it was level. I happen to work in the fabrication industry, so level is a big deal in my world. Plus my OCD kicks in and it gets really bad..LOL Darin

Its happening to me in signcut. I use it so I can put in my own weeding lines. I haven't tried this image in SB yet but I will today. Darin