darcshadow

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    Pirate Graphics for my Son

    Just came across this, some old boats that could be made into pirate ships as well as some moden boats. http://all-silhouettes.com/free_vector-sailboats/
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    Etching beer mugs

    Currious as to why you suggest that? Is it something about crystal and sandblasting, or the fact that it's a curved small surface? I've used Armor Etch on some beer mugs. Not bad, my only complaint is I'd the etching to be just a little bit deaper nad occasionally I'll get a small spot that I didn't get cleaned good and the etching cream won't etch it, at least not as well as the surrounding area.
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    Com ports and cutter

    Ok, took a look last night and SB sees my cutter on the USB, no comm port necessary. Lets start from the beginning, what model of cutter do you have?
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    Com ports and cutter

    I forget exactly what it says. I'll take a look tonight when I get home.
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    Com ports and cutter

    I believe mine is COM8 and SB see's it no problem but I don't recal doing anything special to get it to work. One thing you can try, you can go to the device manager on your computer and manually assign comm port numbers so you can force com6 to be called com4 or what ever you want.
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    Oracal 631 Wall Decal not sticking to wall

    Did she peel the backing off? Silly question I know but some people really are that dumb.
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    Bringing a design from Illustrator into Sign Cutter

    What I like to do when doing something like this is to find a font as close as possible to the original and then node edit it to get it to match up. I usually end up with a cleaner, better looking result than a straight trace.
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    derby cars

    Post the eps file and someone can probably help you.
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    Pirate Graphics for my Son

    http://all-free-download.com/free-vector/pirate-ship.html
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    cant figure this out

    If you node edit, and delete the 4 corner nodes of the square it will accomplish what you want I believe.
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    EPS files

    There's another post about this, http://forum.uscutter.com/index.php?/topic/41800-eps-thumnails-in-windows-explorer/
  12. The only way I've found so far is the method I mentioned earlier about grouping, duplicating, merging/welding/union, and expanding.
  13. Could you not also group everything, duplicate it, then weld/merge all the items, send it to bottom layer and expand to the desired size?
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    EPS thumnails in windows explorer

    I just found another program that is open source and does the same thing, although you do need to have GhostScript installed. Also found one for .svg files. SageThumbs http://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/ Dotz Software SVG Explorer Extension https://code.google.com/p/svg-explorer-extension/ You may need to reboot even though the installer doesn't tell you to.
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    Dragonfly

    Here's one that I have. I'd would like to find some other if anyone has anything in a vector format good for cutting. Found tons of vector dragonfly's online but they're more for printing. Dragonfly.svg
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    Cutting a large image

    Has anyone tried the developement version of Inkscape? It's supose to be able to send stuff to a cutter as well as control over cut and offset, thought I might give it a try this weekend. http://www.timewasters-place.com/your-cutting-plotter-and-inkscape/
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    Text to path

    You can always make the design in some other software and then import it into your cutting program. Just be sure to convert text to paths before importing so that there is no question it will come out exactly the way you want.
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    Bridal Party Tumbler Decals

    If you don't mind telling, what did you charge for those?
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    New logo going on business card and vehicle

    The corners of the rope border doesn't look right. Top left is good, top right is ok, but the bottom two don't flow naturally.
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    Help!

    Just pick a font you like, type the letters out individually, resize and arrange as you like. Once happy you'll need to save the file off in a format SCALP can open, eps probably but I do not have SCALP so I don't know for sure.
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    Start up disk for color rip

    nevermind
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    Not a Nerd

    Saw a great shirt last week. Simply said "I'm not a nerd, I'm just smarter than you." Granted the girl wearing the shirt would never of been mistaken for a nerd. lol
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    Was searching the net and found this

    The one looks more like an addoption thing. Little girl and dog but no parents.
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    I need help vectorizing...

    I think your best best is going to be to do it manually. A good bit of work but it can be done. Other option would be to try editing the image in something like photoshop and get a good contrast between the lines and the background, then run it through a trace program like inkscape.
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    New to Inkscape...got a question

    The two ways I do it is from Inkscape save as eps and import to signblazer, or in inkscape to a select all and copy then paste into signblazer. If you're dealing with text and fonts you might need to convert the text to paths prior to importing to signblazer. It also helps to look at your inkscape drawing in line mode.