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Thanks darcshadow! There is still double cutting where the stripes meet but I think it's as close as it can get. I appreciate everyone's time and effort in helping me to understand how to properly build a cut.

Since the work piece is clear and painting from the backside, the overspray is just backing the previous color.

Yes I'm a newb! Most of my experience is tracing bitmaps to make vinyl stickers. And I would like to cut exactly what you see in wireframe so the outer circle must be complete. This will be an airbrush paint mask. Once the pattern is cut, the entire thing is stuck to the inside of a clear lexan r/c car body. You airbrush a color and remove a segment and airbrush the next color etc.

Hey darcshadow, I see now that your example is mostly correct. How would I get outer-most circle to cut complete? And my apologies for posting in the Inkscape specific forum. Didn't mean to come off as being rude. I appreciate everyones help!

Yes still unresolved and most likely an inkscape user error (me)

I drew a design using the bezier curve and circle tool in inkscape. I would like my vinyl cutter to trace the pattern one time as viewed in outline display mode...real simple. If I select everything and assign a 1px stroke width, the cutter will make 2 passes (sees the line as having width) If I select everything and assign a fill color, I get 5 extra vertical lines where the stripes meet the circle (cuts what you would see in normal mode) even though the segment there has been deleted. Maybe I'm going about it all the wrong way or missing something obvious. Rsample.svg

What i would like is for the cutter to trace what is in orange in the last photo. Instead, I get 5 vertical lines on the circle from the rectangle pieces. The vertical lines are not visible in wire frame mode. I will try union and weld

Here is the file. It's an airbrush mask for the inside of an r/c car body. The cutter connects the nodes where the pinstripes meet the circle. mask.svg

Thanks darcshadow! It didn't look right when viewing in normal mode but it cut what was in wireframe mode. ETA: Some paths aren't closed and the cutter is connecting the 2 open nodes. So sort of drawing what i see in normal mode instead of wire frame?

Not sure if this should be in the inkscape forum or here,,, I have a custom design I drew in inkscape using the bezier curve and circle tools. I want the cut to be 1 line but somehow SB sees the line as having width and so appears double cut. Varying stroke width helped to a degree but I can't help but feel like i'm missing something basic?

Thanks to both of you! I already discovered signblazer elements and just had the cutter moving a few minutes ago! Can't beat the price but am I supposed to click trial mode very time? Also, do i convert all my svg to eps?

I joined in 2009 when I first got my cutter, now i'm back because I'm getting back into airbrush paint masks and have a software question. Is Vinyl master cut compatible with my old creation pcut vinyl cutter? If not, which software to use?

If I make something using bezier curve or trace bitmap, the cutter wll cut normally. I tried using the star tool and the cutter goes over the same path twice. What am I doing wrong?

Hi all, got my Pcut CT630 yesterday and a copy of Signcut X2 and have a noob problem. The cutter will do the test fine and it seems the computer and cutter can talk to each other. I assume this since when I hit "cutout", the head moves all the way to the right (looking from front) while trying to feed the sheet towards the back. I have set my "arbitrary" origin at the right front corner of the vinyl but I'm thinking the 'absolute" needs to be set somehow? The users manual is a bit hard to follow on doing this. Thanks for any help!!