TerribleTim68

Interesting. My cutter is on a stand and the vinyl rolls sit on that same stand as well. It's the stand shown here --> MH Series Cutter With the 50" cutter, the stand will hold 4 rolls of 24" vinyl, two rolls on each shaft. As for the SBD file, I think this should work - 68Graphics.SBD

So I did change the max length to 1999 like you suggested before running any of the cuts. The one worked fine, after that, mayhem. I haven't found a solution to any static issue.

Okay, so I checked the image. There were no stray nodes anywhere. I actually got the cutter to cut one swoosh. Then I changed the vinyl roll to cut a different color swoosh and the cutter started acting up again. It would begin cutting the image, then about half way through, it would just stop. I have another piece of this that will be a checker board. When I tried cutting that part, the cutter begins cutting it and after cutting two of the squares, it just stops. There's still 7 more squares to go. Why is it just stopping mid cut?

Slice&Dice, First let me say thank you for taking the time. Let's see if I can answer your questions - 1 - Are we talking about the "layout" length, or is there another setting I'm missing somewhere? I have the layout (the purple box around your drawing) longer than the artwork. 2 - Yup, my apologies. :-/ 4 - I'll take a look once I get back home. But the entire drawing was created in Adobe Illustrator (because I still haven't figured out how to create shapes such as swooshes in SBE) and then imported into SBE, then adjusted from there. When I select one of the "parts" there does not appear to be any random nodes, it looks the way you'd expect it to. Altho, I am a little worried because on screen some of the curves seem a bit "pixelated" if you will. But I've seen this on some other artwork I've cut and it came out nice and smooth. So not sure what to make of that.

Interesting theory, I never had a manual so I never actually read it, lol. I know one of the tiles was not the full length of the overall image. That color was shorter, but I guess I'd need to check the overall length of it. Maybe I need to look into splitting my image into two halves and printing that way? Just not sure how I'd go about that inside SB Elements.

Hey gang, I've got an issue that is stumping me. I've used SB Elements since getting my cutter (US Cutter MH1351 ), I've cut a lot of smaller stuff without any problem. I've done multicolor stuff, using tiles to do each color, so I get all that. But this latest one has me stumped. I have a very large "shape" I need to cut. It is going to be the graphics down the side of my racecar. So we're talking about a shape that is roughly 23" tall and about 105" long. It's basically just a bunch of Nike swooshes in varying colors, if that helps visualize what I'm trying to cut. When I send a tile to the cutter (each tile is a different color Nike swoosh), one of two things happens. Either nothing at all happens, or it cuts a straight line down the edge of the roll the length of the cut, like when it cuts the outlining square, and then it just stops. Is this size just too large for it to cut? OR am I doing something wrong?

Thanks everybody for your help. With the info provided I was able to set the cutter in the holder to a depth that cut the vinyl while only leaving a small mark on the backing paper, then put it back in the machine and get the correct results. I left the force setting at the 100 it was set at previously and it appears to be working with only having adjusted the blade depth in the holder. Again, many thanks!

Thanks for the info guys. I find it difficult to set the cutter blade depth because I can't adjust my own hand force. So this "credit card" idea sounds good on the surface, but if you're saying "That's way too much" then that doesn't really help either. Do you recommend a way to set the blade depth that does work? Also, what do you recommend as a default force setting? I cut a few things without any problems with the blade set the way it was when I got the cutter (used deal). The force setting was defaulted to 100 and I assumed that was fine so I never changed it. Then suddenly I started having issues with it not cutting all the way through the vinyl. I don't really know what changed, but suddenly it's not happy any more. Also, one other issue I've had from time to time - I have a roll of vinyl (bargain stuff a friend gave me) that is 18" wide. Typically I'm running Oracal 24" wide stuff through this cutter. When I switch to the 18" wide stuff I have to move one of the "rollers" (or what ever they are called) over a bit. On occasion, after doing this, if I hit "reset" to make sure it's feeding correctly it will act like only the one roller that I didn't move is feeding the vinyl through and it tends to basically "turn" the vinyl instead of push it forward. If I release the tension on the rollers (using the little arms on them, flip it up), then reset the tension (flip the arm back down), then hit "reset", it works fine. I don't think it's an issue of not enough pressure on the rollers because I can see a mark in my vinyl after cutting where those rollers have "rolled" it through. Any thoughts on that issue? When I don't check it, I've had it jam up while cutting and the cutter head poke big holes in it. It's kind of sad.

Thank you for the info. So with the cutter blade set to the right depth, what does the "force" control? And how does the adjustment effect it?

I have an MH1351. Suddenly it seems to not be cutting the vinyl all the way through. What gives? I haven't changed any settings and I'm using the same thickness vinyl I have been using. Also, I can't find any information regarding how to install a new cutter blade. Any help with these two issues?