SCAL Pro Help

[Positive P 1]

Please help,

We just put together a package from US Cutter and we are new to this industry.

We purchased this setup as a learning experience. The future plan is to learn with this setup then upgrade to other equipment and eventually start a business with this.

 

I grasp the concept of designing a decal and sending it to the plotter.

I'm more hands on in my learning process, and I have yet to find any info on pulling an image into the SCAL Pro software and vectorizing the image in the software and setting it up to cut.

 

Any help with my dilemma would be greatly appreciated. 

 

I'm running SCAL Pro with a US Cutter MH plotter

 

Thank You in advance

Paul

[MZ SKEETER 4,708]

Here is support and tutorials, and their own forum,maybe that will help you out.  I think it shows Scalp 2, but instructions pretty much the same.

 

http://www.surecutsalot.com/support/support.html

[slice&dice 2,450]

Welcome, and congratulations on joining a versatile and exciting industry.

 

Two comments --   one of the people who really understood cutters and their capabilities was a guy named Jerry Bonham.

He was instrumental in the creation of easy-to-use sign-making software called SignBlazer, and even today, years after he passed away, that brilliant application remains available in the download section of USCUTTER (as abandonware).

 

I ran a full-service sign shop for years using just that program.

http://support.uscutter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/GetAttachment/190/24198

 

 

Secondly, vectorizing (tracing paths) from raster graphics can be accomplished within the FREE vector-graphics software inkscape (http://inkscape.org)

Although SignBlazer can do it also, often the quality is better from inkscape.

Also, inkscape is very similar to Adobe Illustrator, and if you want to learn more about doing from-scratch vector designing, that's a good place to start.

[Positive P 1]

Welcome, and congratulations on joining a versatile and exciting industry.

 

Two comments --   one of the people who really understood cutters and their capabilities was a guy named Jerry Bonham.

He was instrumental in the creation of easy-to-use sign-making software called SignBlazer, and even today, years after he passed away, that brilliant application remains available in the download section of USCUTTER (as abandonware).

 

I ran a full-service sign shop for years using just that program.

http://support.uscutter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/GetAttachment/190/24198

 

 

Secondly, vectorizing (tracing paths) from raster graphics can be accomplished within the FREE vector-graphics software inkscape (http://inkscape.org)

Although SignBlazer can do it also, often the quality is better from inkscape.

Also, inkscape is very similar to Adobe Illustrator, and if you want to learn more about doing from-scratch vector designing, that's a good place to start.

Thank You for the help

[GraphxNMore 282]

You can also trace a lot of images with SCALP itself. Not sure what all files it will handle, but find the file you want and save it. Click the trace image button and open your file. You can then adjust the various features to get the desired outcome you want.