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  6. Posted

    Looks good!

     

    I have removed lettering and graphics for my sons soccer team they changed the name 3 years in a row!! I used a heat gun just to heat the vinyl a little, just to make is warm then we have a picking party!  After its removed just a mild cleaner. Don't go to hot you don't want to wreck the banner material. I like the idea of a rental B)

  11. Posted

    thanks for the reply's guys.

     

    Really when you have a long wide graphic and you place it on the glass it turns in to a happy face. So I was trying to figure out how to compensate for that. Make it  look straight by shrinking the bottom and enlarging the top so in affect you have a V shape.  Any bit of taper on a glass will do that for sure I'm just being picky B) .

     

    With a graphic I'm not sure how to do this.

     

    I will try the heat. Ill cut the Exaggerated graphic too and see what works the best.

     

    thank you for the help.

  13. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I'm making my son a glass using etching cream and a stencil. I just did a set of 24 with text and a logo for his whole team they worked out great. My issue is the graphic (Scooby Doo's gang) line drawing that I have I'm trying to add curvature to it to match the glass. When I use the arch tool it wont translate in to the outline so I can cut it. So you look in "Preview" and its arched you look "Outline" and its straight. So I'm guessing I'm using the wrong tool in Illy. Funny how the easy jobs you do for free make you work the hardest.  I can't upload the file it is too large its 2mb, Sorry. I added the pdf. I know I still need to do work to the file before it will cut but I'm trying to get the curve first.Thank you for the help..... :huh:

    scooby doo's gang.pdf

  19. Posted

    I spray lines on parking lots and I make my own stencils for the lettering and numbering sequences. The handicap is easy to do. I cut cheap vinyl and apply it to sign board, coroplas then I just cut it by hand with an art knife, Xacto. Takes about 10min to cut it out, just follow the lines. I suppose you could run paper through the cutter and then just trace it on :) They will typically last for about 6months or more. The thing is the paint you apply to the parking lots drys in about 15 min in cool weather. Its just about dry before you take it out of the can on a hot day :thumbsup:

    Don't over think it and there no point wasting your time and money on anything fancy! if you always keep one in stock you can just trace it!

    well hey that's my 2 bits! :thumbsup:

    Keith

  21. Posted

    Hey if anyone is interested I did get signcut working on my mac but just for 3 cuts then I shut down my MacBook Pro started it up the next day and have not been able to cut since then that was Jan 20th. :-

    I really don't think that Sign cut is stable on Mac I have not heard back from Kimon. Really I dont know what to do.

    I spend more time trying to get my cutter working and paying other people to cut my vinyl it really is not work the hassle.

    Also paying for a program that does not work :thumbsup:. I can however cut just fine on a PC with signcut and my cutter no big deal

    I have tried replacing my usb keyspan and updating every driver known to man. If I unplug my usb plug it in to a PC it cuts like a dream

    I emailed Kimon back in January but no luck as I said also I have just recently pulled another ticket from Signcut but know responce from them.

    Anyone know of another cut program for Mac?? I think I'm going have to go that way I really like sign cut but it does not work on Mac so unfortunatly

    another program that is stable seams like the best option.

    Keith

  22. Posted

    Ya so not cutting again :D Just when you think you got things working

    So same setting same 3 foot USB same keyspan cutter won't cut is this a mac issue can some tell me that?

    I fired up my last computer running XP same cable same cutter same keyspan and its working fine 2 seconds apart???

    Just not getting it?  It has to be signcut with mac or keyspan with mac or all together???

    I think it is something with the way keyspan gets slotted as a network although I don't set it up like that it asks every time I plug

    the cable in do you want to bla bla bla this network.

    Anyone willing to guess on this one. I'm getting really sick of this happening!  B)

    Keith