martymoe

i've only ever used corel for my plasma machine which uses plt files and my milling machine which uses dxf. i normally push the x (in the colors) which i thought was get rid of fill. if i turnoff outlines i cant see the part anymore.. how do the rest of you who use corel normally send your vector graphics to signblazer?

ok.. here are the steps i took created a new corel 12 doc. drew, drawed, drawen.. .... made a rectangle converted it to curves copied it to the clipboard switched to signblazer pasted it.. cut it.. it cut twice the same as the signs.. i dont know how to upload, here but i put the file up on my server so you can get to it.. goto http://house.martymoe.info/files it's the only file in there (testcut.cdr) thank you.. i hope you can figure out what i'm doing wrong.. m

i have a pcut and signblazer. i use corel 12 for my drawings and just copy and paste them into signblazer as someone suggested. on problem i'm having is the machine is cutting each line twice.. does anybody know why or how to make it stop doing that? what am i doing wrong.. thanks..

after reading that, i get the impression that i was wrong.. so the offset pertains to the distance between the cutting tip and the centerline of the blade holder.. i appreciate you posting that.. i'd been searching around and found a nice long blurb from jerry that was close to that but didnt exactly answer my question.. if i understand correctly, my question just got answered.. thank you.

hi jeff, what are you using to unfold your expansion chambers? i've been making truck bumpers using a similar technique as you are talking about except instead of cutting a pattern in vinyl i'm cutting plate on a plasma table. for my stuff i do the design in rhino and i bought a progam called lamina to unfold, i'm curious to know how you are unfolding.

i may be wrong, even though i am not familiar with vinyl machines i do have a cnc plasma table and a couple of cnc milling machines.. would not the offset be to account for the width of the blade? on the plasma machine there is a kerf setting that you set to make your parts dimentionally correct by correcting for the width of the cut. is that not what cutter offset is? i will play with the blade offset setting this afternoon, but that doesnt sound like the answer to me.. keep in mind i dont really know what i'm talking about here..

i finally got the vinyl i ordered for my new pcut yesterday played with it a while last night and everything works good except for one little issue. when i cut smaller detail the vinyl sticks together at start and stop points, i see refrence to an overcut setting that i cannot find in signblazer, i played with the blade height and pressure. it either doesnt cut the whole piece and leaves the little stuff stuck to the weeding stuff or it tries to cut through the backing.. for bigger stuff it works well, i just have to hold down the pieces i want to leave and when i pull the weeded part up i break the little tab. is there a way in signblazer to make it overcut or go past the start point just to cut that little tab? i may have messed up the terminology i literally have about an hour in this field that's why im asking the same question in 3 or 4 different ways. thanks for your help.

mine would sometimes cut for a little bit then stop.. it eventually got worse.. i finally changed usb cables and that fixed the problem.. the cable that shipped with the plotter was bad..