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  1. Hello everyone. I own a Creation PCUT CTO630 as shown in the picture. I need to replace the cutting strip on the machine. I already flipped it and now it needs to be replaced. My questions: 1. Is the cutting strip 8 mm in width and in teflon? Please confirm if anyone has the cutter or has done it. 2. Will any 8 mm Cutting strip fit on to the cutter or it needs to have a certain profile? 3. If it needs to have a certain profile, wherein I can buy it from? Any ebay link will do. Thanks in advance
  2. Hello everyone I came across this fairly old model of Roland 24 inch vinyl cutter that I was trying to put to use. Its Roland CAMM 1 CM 24. I have a couple of queries: 1. Can this cutter work with Flexi 10? If yes, has anyone got any link to find an appropriate driver for the cutter? 2. The person who used this cutter last was saying that an old version of windows is needed for the cutter to run. Does it need older than Windows 7 32 bit program?? Any inputs 3. Has this cutter also got servo motors for the axis as the newer version of Roland? Any help would be greatly appreciated
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    graphics

    Your machine will cut exactly what you feed into it. In this case, your best bet would be to pass the profile through a third party software which can smoothen the jagged edges. If you feel good, you can share the file here, I will give it a shot
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    Roland BN20A media use questions

    Bummer stickers?????
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    Roland BN-20A End of Roll Error

    Quite possibly as slice and dice mentioned, optical sensor might have malfunctioned or may be the cause of static buildup due to movement of PVC Vinyl that might have caused the tracker to malfunction. As skeeter said, the best suited answer will come from their tech support of forum
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    Need the name of this....

    Alternatively, hit out at free font site, look for decorative fonts or spooky fonts and type the text in the search bar just above the list. It will show you how the text you entered looks in the font
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    Need the name of this....

    Try this one.Not exact but seems a close match Bistern.ttf
  8. May be a picture of the signage will help (including the boards). Obviously, getting a new board in and putting the print.decals on it will be quickest and easiest way
  9. Any reason why you want to keep the old Aluminum board for the factory? The only reason I can think of might be if the aluminum board is hard riveted to the warehouse walls Use heat gun to warm it up and then peel it off. Make sure, it is just warmed up, not cooked as Aluminum will buckle under heat too. For the residue, dab a cloth in turpentine, rub over the board and leave it for about 10 mins. For new substrate, give Maxmetal or Dibond (both trade names for Aluminum Composite panel) used for Cladding a try
  10. You need to figure out what is the standard blade holder shape and size that comes with your plotter from the manufacturer. The holders you have may be the aftermarket ones and you need to play around with the settings and exposure to get your cut right. I own a creation PCUT CT630 (Imitation machine from China) which came with a black plastic blade holder of 28 mm Overall length. However, there were some Aluminum blade holders corresponding to the same shape but with 27.5 mm Overall length. This .5 mm difference made the holder to work fine by exposing the blade a bit more and adjusting the pressure. Sometimes you need to do these tricks with the aftermarket blades. With the pictures you have posted, these results come up with the offset issue. Give it a shot mate. If it doesn't work out, then you can bring back the offset to zero and look for some other cause
  11. So, being a second hand machine, you will be clueless about how it had been handled in the past. A good choice will be to replace the blade holder as well as the bearing inside it might be playing up. Keep adjusting the blade offsets as well till you get nice crisp corners
  12. Quite possible, it might be the vinyl itself. Either it might have gone post its shelf life or exposed to heat or sunlight making it hard to score using vinyl cutter.
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    Punch out from 2 Curves

    I don't know vinylmaster but this is how I did it in Illustrator. You select everything, then you go to the Shape builder tool then select the area on either side of the curves. It will make the wireframe into three separate shapes separated.ai
  14. Summa D series are old & reliable machines. What I remember from the top of my head are these are one of the few machines along with Creation and Graphtec which have 0.6 inch blades to fit in their holders, rest all have 0.8 largely to suit Roland type Blades and holders. Great in reliability but you need to remember they might have stepper motors for the blade carriage and rollers which are very likely to develop positioning errors over the time. The extent of the errors depends on how roughly the machine has been handled in the past. Give it a shot and it would tell you itself. You need to go slower with these machines and they will look after you. I have a imitation of Creation PCUT CT630 for the last 8 years. Never had an issue except a few positioning errors which are pretty much obviuous keeping in mind the age and the usage of the machine
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    Punch out from 2 Curves

    See the information on the right. It seems it has 3 different nodes/curve. What I believe from the screenshot are it is separate for the body, separate for the legs and separate for the curved joiners. I may be wrong, but we need to have a look at the actual file to suggest what is the issue. Any chance you can share it, then we can have a look if it suits you
  16. Please share a photo of the artwork and a zoomed in cutting line done on the vinyl. Also, I guess it may be beacuse your cuts may not be closing properly. A zoomed in image of the cutting line done for a small shape will clarify
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    Anyone know what model this is????

    See this is what I have. The control panel is the same as yours one. So I confidently beliwve its Creation Pcut CT series or CTO series.
  18. By the way what software are you using for cutting? I use Flexi 10. This file I sent is a Autocad 2000 dxf
  19. Hi Please elaborate what you are trying to achieve. The vinyl cutter blade will cut on the line and it depends whether you need a normal sticker or a skeleton or negative cut sticker that you weed around. However, if your issue is it lifts up at the end of each line, then use PEDIT command in autocad, select any line, press Y for yes then J for join and select everything. It will make all connected objects as one polyline. I always use AutoCAD and Polylines get imported nicely. This PEDIT command converts all individual shapes into one polyline and the cutter software is convinced that the whole polyline is one single shape rather than a number of shapes. Give this file a try. I am pretty confident that you shouldn't have any problem with this file. Alternatively, you can send me your file (dxf) and I will have a look at it. Natasha.dxf
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    Anyone know what model this is????

    It's Creation PCUT CT1200 and will work well on Flexi. I have a PCUT CT630
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    Design software

    Check this thread I found online. Hopefully this helps https://lkc.hp.com/forum/printers/prints-are-printing-out-smaller-than-the-file-size https://support.uscutter.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037959931-Cutter-is-Cutting-Jobs-Too-Big-or-Too-Small-Calibrating-Cutter-Scale-in-VinylMaster
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    Design software

    Most of the softwares are pre programmed to cut with some margin as their default preferences settings. Look out your software, preferable under the setup/preferences sections or directly on the printing dialog box what % of size w.r.t. the nominal size is getting printed. As you said, it is printing smaller than the sizes you enter in the drawing, there should be a figure of less than 100% somewhere under that setting. It can also be though about some deflections during printing but unlikely if the profile you end up getting is what you programmed
  23. Probably he might thinking of producing a decal with outside edge of the vinyl roll to be used for aligning. Or a stencil with vinyl roll's outer edge to be used for aligning. CWS! Please correct if I am wrong
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    MH365 plots a wonky path

    It is to do with the two things: 1. Data transfer type (USB Cable/ Serial Adapter): The serial adapter is much reliable and too less prone to errors and data losses during transmissions. I learnt it the hard way after ruining 40 dollars worth of vinyl about 5 years ago and haven't used USB port since then. My advice is either get a laptop or a desktop with just enough programs and keep it permanently hooked to the plotter using serial cable and not USB cable 2. Security features of the Ubuntu itself: Almost all the cutters are built up to work well on the windows operating system. Ubuntu/Linux being equipped with many more security features finds most of the cutters struggling to go through
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    Recovery

    Look online for some backup files being created for your particular programing software. Almost every software does it by default. It is just the matter of finding it out which file. Hopefully, your software might have some backup file saved somewhere in the temporary files folder. If you happen to find one, just google it on how to retrieve it. Many a times the backup files are retrieved by the same software. Fingers crossed by if it fails, then really tough luck mate