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I did say yet. Although I use VM for HTV cutting and Inkscape for my other cuts so I leave the mirror option in VM checked all the time. So if I keep my work process unchanged I should be able to avoid the mirror mistake.

There a question here? Having it on the right just means that you will have your gap at the other side, the size of the cutter would still be the same.

I haven't made the mirror mistake yet but I have cut on the wrong side of the vinyl a few times. Took me a while to get use to cutting on the non glossy side.

No, the USB shows up as a Comm port. Nearly all cutters are actually serial devices and they just have a USB to serial convert chip built into them. Right, go to you control panel and Device Manager, then expand out the Ports. You should see your cutter listed and it will tell you what comm port it is on. Once you get that info, you can pretty much use any program to cut with, you just have to tell it which comm port to look at.

I installed and played with Inkcut a little but in the end, for what I do, the built in export/plot function in Inkscape worked just as well.

Yeah, it should work. Jo-Ann Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, and most craft stores will have HTV. Or if you can wait a few days you can also get HTV per foot several places online, and a few of them have free shipping.

Could always ask the people at the tint shop.

If you're just doing a solid color, it'd be easier and faster to just buy some HTV in the desired color.

Only thing I can offer for the .net issue is to reinstall it. Double check which version python is looking for, I do know just because you have the latest version doesn't always mean it will work and you sometimes also have to have an older version installed as well.

installing inkcut is not as bad as it sounds and is a pretty decent free program. You should also be able to cut directly from Inkscape, under the Extensions menu, pick Export, then Plot. From there you'll need to setup your connections and plotter settings then hit apply and inkscape will send the commands to the cutter. If you have the driver and comms setup correctly it should start cutting. This is not a full cutting program like Inkcut but it works well enough for me as a hobby.

I could be wrong, but I don't believe you need a different blade holder for a different blade. Most cutters use a single blade holder and you can then put any blade in it. Some people us multiple blade holders just to make switching between blade types easier.

The MH do not have a registration reader. It's just a "dumb" plotter.

I'd take the mountain design, duplicate it, add an outline to it, convert the outline to a path, select the new path, Break Apart the path, then union it together, then do a difference with it and the flag design. Sounds more complicated than it really is, but once you get the process down this would take about 2 minutes to do it. All the "tools" you need are under the path menu in Inkscape. Try searching for videos that discuss path union/difference and it should get you started down the right path. Feel free to ask questions on here. I use Inkscape for pretty much everything I do and will be happy to help you through it.

on the side in your tools, you should have an icon that looks like a box overlapping another box. If your version has it, that is where it would be. If not, I'd get Inkscape, it's a very powerful free vector editing program. There's not much that it can't do. Regarding the cut itself, I'd suggest making the windows shape a bit larger so that you'll have a little bit of extra that you can trim exactly to fit the window. It's hard to get the exact cut you need on a value cutter so that it matches the window perfect.

Is the image too big and the program is doing some weird tiling that is causing the problems?