Kristof

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  1. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Sue2 said:

    I have been reading along and don't have any personal experience to offer.

    BUT, you have been give a bounty of excellent advice from helpful experienced people...

    to help you in using your machine to the extent of its advertised limits. 

    You should be thankful for their invaluable FREE advice.

    Good luck with your project...let us all know how it works out for you...we do care!

    Sue2

     

     

    Thank you, Sue! I am grateful for the wealth of posts that were posted here. I guess I have not explained myself well enough and people don't understand what I want :(

  5. Posted

    1 minute ago, Dakotagrafx said:

    sounds like your margin isn't high enough to account for nominal  waste . . . 

    The material is expensive and the market doesn't support high margins, just the way it is.

    Honestly, the prefeed would function perfectly if there were more than two options. If it didn't have that ramp up acceleration it wouldn't trigger an error. I don't see why I can't set the pre feed speed in cm/s.

  6. Posted

    Cutting the material would be a waste of material for subsequent jobs where the cut line would've fell onto the next sheet, which potentially means a loss of 280mm of material. The roll should be kept continuous to not waste the material.

    The geometry of the stock rollers is what causes unnecessary drag, they should be mounted up higher so that the material feeds in a planar manner and not angular (the departure angle of the roll).

    Most jobs would be 560x560 but I may occasionally get odd ball jobs from customers that need to be 560mm in width by whatever length they specify.

    Hopefully you understand..

  7. Posted

    57 minutes ago, Dakotagrafx said:

    more rollers I don't think will affect the weight of the material that causes the error ???           you could possibly set up a plastic table on the input and output side creating in effect a flatbed scenario - or just cutting you material in shorter lengths.  just a suggestion

    I was thinking that more rollers increases the amount of pulling weight and more traction, since the weight is spread out over four rollers. I already built a smooth melamine outfeed table that mounts to the stand and that turned out nice.

  9. Posted

    9 minutes ago, MZ SKEETER said:

    Where do you live?  Besides East coast. 

    WV.

    Do you think having more push rollers would stop the 'media too heavy' error from occurring when I do the pre feed? The error occurs even with the pre feed speed set to slow. It prefeeds fine at first and then as it accelerates it triggers the error; if there were a way to disable that acceleration/ramp up for pre feeding, that would solve my issue.

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, MZ SKEETER said:

    You have never stated, exactly what your doing, what condition, what force, ? But did you ever try the Tangential Emulation, which is for cutting thicker material? 

    As many of us stated. We do not cut magnet material with a vinyl cutter.  This is entirely your experiment.  We cannot answer your questions, or tell you what to do,  because we don't do it.   We will not put our cutters thru that. Most here cut sign vinyl, or some reflective, which they cut in passes.  Graphtec is your tech support for your cutter.  Craftedge is your tech support for your software. 

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Graphtec+FC8600+tangential

     

    The force is currently at 28 and speed set at 2cm/s with acceleration of 1. I've heard that people have problems with tangential emulation, so I didn't think to try using that since it's not a true tangential machine and I don't think I need it, as all of the DXFs have corner radii and never sharp transition corners.

    I uninstalled Sure Cuts a Lot since it's not very good software and am using the Illustrator and Cutting Master 4 plugin, which allows me to use the plotter on the network and is awesome! DXFs seem to be importing fine into Illustrator for now.

    Still curious on how the push roller assemblies are installed so I can keep that as a last resort. None of the service manuals mention it.

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  15. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Wildgoose said:

    I think you would definitely benefit from the extra pinch rollers. I think I mentioned that I once considered an FC machine and they last who was the rep had a 30" model that had been set up to go to a sand blast outfit who would have been cutting blast resist which is similar in thickness to magnet. They had at least one extra roller maybe two and she said it was to help feed the material straight due to the heavy pressure of that thick a cut. I was going to pull them off for what I do and just save them for replacements or something. 

    Does it look hard to install/take off the rollers? The square bar looks like it runs through both sides of the machine and it looks like it needs to be taken out.

  25. Posted

    4 minutes ago, MZ SKEETER said:

    Your showing UNITS as inches in your settings from what I see.  I thought you used Metric.   And you can change the steps resolution.  Calibrate the cutter to the software.    Nothing more I can help with SCALP.     I was given a demo to try.  I didn't like it all.  I use Flexi software. 

    Yes, I changed that to be 25.4mm, but when I reopen it, it reverts back to displaying Inches.