darcshadow
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I would say static is more likely than memory. While memory can be an issue, I've cut some very node heaving graphics on an MH with no memory issues.
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What exactly are you meaning when you say "scan"? If you truly mean scan, you need hardware, software alone doesn't scan.
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From what I can find on google the old JD font was custom, however, Forbes Pro Bold is pretty close and with a little editing could be made to work.
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Not sure what the name of the tool is in vinylmaster but you simply need to select all the objects that make up the aircraft and weld/merge/join them together. If the aircraft is already a single object, there should be a tool to break apart an object. Once you do that you can then select all the pieces and weld them together. That should give you the look you are going for.
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Slice, It's a pretty basic car/stick figure drawing.
galaxy, what have you tried and what are you having problems with? An auto trace of the image should give you decent enough results and you can then tweak it with your program of choice node tools. The text you just want to recreate, vectoring text should only be a last resort option.
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What sort of glasses are you etching that have a 6" or greater diameter?
You need to factor in the angle of the glass, assuming flat sides. I noticed over the weekend that the Ozark Trail 20oz cups no longer have a consistent slope, they actually have two slopes and are slightly curved at the top.
For straight sides you need the radius/diameter of the top, the bottom, and the height.
You can also just wrap a piece of paper around, tracing the lip and bottom and then scan it in. I like the math, but the paper method works just as well.
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I'd just like to see the spacing after Location fixed. ha!
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57 minutes ago, jep8fan said:Right at a year. We don't do a lot of work being as we both have jobs. We have spurts where we take in 100 shirt orders and 20 here and there. It just started all of a sudden. Static isn't the issue. I thought maybe the file or that particular font, or even the fact that we're trying under 1/8" text, but even 2" tall text won't finish cuts properly. It even does it with the pen.
What am I missing, out side of the little dot on the left side of the triangle, that pen drawing looks perfect to me. Or is the dot what you are referring to as bad?
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SIgnblazer has an option to minimize vinyl movement, minimize carnage movement, and a 3rd option that I don't recall right now. But I've never noticed it jumping all over the place.
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Also to help with closing the shape, you could also draw the box as four individual lines that extend just slightly past the corners. This way the cutter is simply making four straight lines and the final shape is guaranteed to be closed since all the lines will overlap on the corners.
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Just curious, is it that the software doesn't run, or that you can't control your cutter? There are actually very few programs that won't run under windows 10, it's the drivers to control the hardware that is usually the problem, in which case doesn't matter what software you have unless you have the drivers, or the software happens to have the drivers built in you'll still be out of luck. Another option, if you cutter uses a serial connection you can control it that way without the need for a driver.
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To me personally, $25 per hour is a little low, and $75 per hour is pretty steep. If you're trying to do this for a living I would say around $50-$60 per hour would be a reasonable rate. But there is always the fudge factor. Customers expect a certain price and if it's too low they think the product is cheap, if it's too high, they go some place else. I always look at it as what would I pay for this, and then bump it up a little cause I'm a cheap bastard.
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Just pealing it from the backing will stretch it some. I've used this technique for small decals that I'm using as stencils so the un tapped area doesn't matter, but even on small decals the vinyl stretches a little while pealing it off the backing.
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There is not a direct way to do this in SB, but it can be done. Create the text and the image. Duplicate the text and combine the text and the image. You'll get what you have above, now draw a box around the new image, make sure the box is below the image and select both and do a punch through. Delete the image used to punch through and you should have the inverse of it inside your box. Now select this image and do a Split Objects then manually delete the portions of the bear that are outside of the letters. Once done, combine the remaining parts back to a single image and move it onto the top of your original text.
This can be done much easier in Inkscape, by simply using the Intersection tool.
As slide&dice pointed out in the other thread, if it's being done with cut vinyl you can simply weed out what you don't want.
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There is not a direct way to do this in SB, but it can be done. Create the text and the image. Duplicate the text and combine the text and the image. You'll get what you have above, now draw a box around the new image, make sure the box is below the image and select both and do a punch through. Delete the image used to punch through and you should have the inverse of it inside your box. Now select this image and do a Split Objects then manually delete the portions of the bear that are outside of the letters. Once done, combine the remaining parts back to a single image and move it onto the top of your original text.
This can be done much easier in Inkscape, by simply using the Intersection tool.
As slide&dice pointed out though, if it's being done with cut vinyl you can simply weed out what you don't want.
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Yeah, that's what the extension in Inkscape does, don't know how machine specific it is though. G-Code is a programing language, not a simple file type. It's the base language that most CNC software programs use to control the CNC. Your buddy with the CNC, I would assume has some software that he uses, I can't image he writes the G-Code every time he wants to make something. Find out what his software is and what file types it supports. Inkscape can export to a wide range of file types, it should be able to export to something that he can open with his software.
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This would be a simple enough image to get your feet wet on doing a manual trace as suggested. Another option if you are more comfortable working with raster images, edit the image cleaning it up much as possible and make it a simple black and white image, then import it into VM to be vectored. Will likely still need to do some node editing, but the better the source image, the better the trace will be.
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Inkscape has an extension that can do this, although I've not played around with it to know any more than the fact that it exist.
I have created shapes in Inkscape and exported them as .dxf files that a buddy of mine then opened in his CNC software and cut the object for me.
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Yeah, ideally I'd like to find the base font the font designer used to created the distressed font.
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Anyone know of a font similar to VTKS Expert only not distressed.
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Downloading fonts is simple. Most web pages you download a zip file. Inside that zip file is the font file, just double click on it and it will install automatically. Then just start what ever program you are using and the new font should now be in your list of fonts.
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Something else to try, have you played with Inkscape at all? I keep finding references that GreatCut 3 can cut directly from Inkscape, although I have not been able to find instructions on how to do this.
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Have you tried picking random cutters from the signblazer menu? Even if the cutter isn't listed, there is a good chance one of the others in the list will work with your cutter.
What version of autocad do you have? A quick google searched showed several results on how to export an EPS from autocad.
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2 minutes ago, Jhamelton said:Amazing advice. I'm really liking this forum. You all provide a ton of help. Hopefully one day I'll be able to rattle off all that stuff you just told me :-) Right now I'm starting to think I will never understand this stuff and I wasted my money LOL. I will give it a shot. On a sidenote, what is a good way to match fonts? Besides looking through every font, is there anyway to match up a font?
There are a few font matching free web pages and if you get real serious there is some even better software you can buy. If all else fails you can post an image here asking for help. Someone can usually identify it pretty quickly.
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That would give you a ruff guess, but the data format that is being sent to the machine is different than the vector file in question. If you save the file off as an HPGL, that would give you a closer estimate on actual memory size needed by the machine.