jimcr 0 Posted October 24, 2009 Ran into a little trouble trying to 3D shadow from corel with signit. ran signit added the 3d shadow looked great on screen and paper , but when I went to cut the shadow my cutter went kind of nuts, thinking it was a vibrator instead of cutting some of the lines it vibrated where the line should have been. and cutting smoothly others. Took same graphic into Signblazer shadowed in3d and it worked fine. Anyone else had any problems with corel or signit? I Like cutting much better from Signcut but it wont' do this shadow, any help would be great. Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edge 67 Posted October 24, 2009 I use Corel X3 with SignCut, about a year ago the SignIt feature stopped linking correctly. Now I either contour or just duplicate and then position for shadow prior to trimming (shaping) an object in Corel. Perhaps that's an acceptable solution for you too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kimon 1 Posted October 24, 2009 Could you please post or email a sample file for us to look at? Email to kimon@signcutusa.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimcr 0 Posted October 25, 2009 here are the files .blue is the original bluechrome3dshawded is the file that the cutter had a problem with, "the background color" silver. Also is there any documentation for signit . I have not been able to find any. Not the easyest to understand . How to offset the shadows . Jim blue.zip bluechrome3dshawded.zip blue.zip bluechrome3dshawded.zip Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rodh2 16 Posted October 25, 2009 jimcr, if you look at your design as a wire frame and select the shadow with the shape tool. You will see in the bottom information window, on the left hand side there are 3154 nodes. If you look at the top menu bar and to the right you will see 3 dots to the left of (reduce nodes), select this. To the right of (reduce nodes) key in 8 and hit enter. This will reduce your nodes to 375 nodes without any distortion or you could just hit the (reduce node) and it will reduce them down to 503. Jimcr, I hope this helps you. Rod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimcr 0 Posted October 25, 2009 Thanks Just setup for a test cut, going fishing right now, last nice day for a week , salmon run going on. Let you know how it comes out . Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimcr 0 Posted October 25, 2009 Thanks rodh2 That did it , job done . Customer is installing I will post a picture when he gets them put on . Thanks for the help. Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rodh2 16 Posted October 25, 2009 Thanks rodh2 That did it , job done . Customer is installing I will post a picture when he gets them put on . Thanks for the help. Jim You're welcome happy to help.Rod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimcr 0 Posted October 31, 2009 Posting a picture of the finished graphic, sorry about the quality it was from my cell and was raining . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites