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  2. Posted

    Hope this is correct area.

     

    Bought my SC cutter Christmas 2012, has worked great over the years, my specific XP computer passed away RIP.

     

    I have replaced it but I can not find my software disc after 9 years, noticed on uscutter site the software (Sir cuts alot) is available for download, BUT I need a serial number, I don't remember there being one.

     

    And apparently I have a different email

    It is in storage locker and was going to get it out this weekend and do some cutting

     

    Any help would be appreciated, thanks

  6. Posted

    Waves-black-and-white-simple-wave-clipar

    Wife bought 2 colors and wants me to make graphics for the pontoon boat, I don't have a program or don't know how to use cutsalot

    I need a file like above that is 5 inches tall with 1-1/4 inch dips on a 4 inch spacing with a flat bottom, say 8 feet long (I good then make any length I need from it)

     

    So she will have 2 color "waves" down the sides

    I can then cut them out

    Can someone help or lead me to a tutorial for sir cuts alot to make what I need?

    TIA

  13. Posted

    Ok

    I cut vinyl and it will work just had issues

     

    I attatched screen shots with word

     

    see I have 5 colors

     

    Notice Black shows a solid pc, when selected it cut the entire design

     

    and on the red instead of just the bow it cut the entire design in pink

    so after weeding I had this

     

    2013-02-20191503_zps7f732595.jpg

     

    I invisioned having a black out line,laying white down, then pink and finish with the yellow

     

    what am I doing wrong?

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    Also question on layers, do each page have it's own layers?

    if so what is purpose of multiple pages for the same "job"

     

    Thanks as always

  14. Posted

    Sweet truck.....oops back on topic

    I got the cut by color that will work thank you

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    New problem

     

    I made 2 registration marks ( a couple diamonds) and made them a different color than the rest of the stuff

     

    I went to cut by color, selected first color and then (from searching ;D )  hit control and the registration color to select both colors.........errrrr...Fail

     

    So I sit and ponder, time for wine

     

    and play some more 2morrow night

     

     

    Are registration marks "anything" you make? or is there a drop down window....hidden by some force I have yet to master?

     

     

    Thank you for the help so far!!!!!

     

    I am bound and determined to get this cut this weekend..........only 4 more days LOL

  15. Posted

    Question,

    I have been playing alittle with a picture; I want to do a multi color layup

     

    1) converted and imported to SCALP - check

     

    2) exploded and parts moved to seperate pages, with page 1 having the registration marks and so and so- check

     

    so this is when I realized that the different pages are not actually different layers( I can right click on the pages and see the layers associated with each page, they just don't seem to be linked together)

     

    so now I need to start over and have everything on one page and then layers (i figured out and played with opening and closing the eye to hide layers)

     

    How do I actually move these parts to seperate layers?

     

    I "thought" that just exploding/seperating drawing (unweld) would create the layers that didn't seem to work

     

    The Cad programs I can just click and change layers and continue to draw dependant on which layer is visible

     

    Thank you

     

     

     

  19. Posted

    Thankyou,ugh shadow...saw it and said "I don't want to put a shadow on it" :lol:

    Is there a cutter dictionary?every occupation uses different terms,time to watch more videos

    So little time to divide up projects!

    Thank you again,

  21. Posted

    So have been trying edit by ways I am used to

     

    On my first project The mass Turtle revival,I figured out that by "weld-ing" the turtles together It cut only the outline and left the eyes out of the cut program,exactly what I wanted it to do.

    Now I am messing around with some fonts.
    specifically magneto bold (I like the flowing emblems of the old cars)

    When the font is welded together the cut profile is perfectly smooth and flows just as I want on the outside of the letters.
    BUT It doesn't cut all the inside parts of the letters a,o,d for example.

    when I unweld the text it will cut all lines including inside and all the overlapping lines that were hidden by the "weld" process.

     

    I know what "I" want to do...I want to "trim" all these over-lapping lines like I would in mastercam or auto cadd to create a smooth tool path

     

    So this is what I did, messing with the node things,I couldn't figure out how to add or delete them so I just modified them.
    I am sure there is a better faster way...move,look, crap..move back..etc..

     

     

    I have attatched this to show I did try :lol:

     

    Top is what I started with.

    I will probably import this font to one of my cadd/cam programs and save it as a DXF and go from there so emblem will flow better as one unit

     

     

    motorlodgeq.svg

  24. Posted

    It's been hectic week, but luckily I got sick yesterday and had time to fool around with the cutter :lol:

    As for setup I read the stickied thread and it was a help (thank you CRD)

    I had a couple issues which I will start another thread on.

    So I needed something to cut, Slice and Dice was nice enough and hooked me up with an EPS I was looking at

    I opened SCALP and hit the import button,choice the EPS I wanted and walla it was there.

    I resized it and using the program (at it's most basic form...I have a lot to learn)

    I loaded vinyl and hit cut...poof my sticker was made.


    I had no idea what speed and pressure to use, since I couldn't figure out how to change the plotter from metric

    So I fiddled and wrote down specs and cut a few stickers and compared them.

    So I spent some time manipulating the turtles around and moving and reshaping the legs and had a template of 14

    turtles laid out

    2012-12-27142241.jpg

    I went with a speed of 400 and pressure of 20

     

    After research on this site I went with Oracal 651 in turtle green

    2012-12-27140026.jpg

    A sheet with 14 turtles cut out

    2012-12-26120954.jpg

    cut them apart into seperate decals

    2012-12-26125608.jpg

    applied the medium tack paper to them and squeeged out air bubbles

    and this is what 80-ish turtles look like (only about 60 more to do)

    2012-12-27135824.jpg

    notice on the left I saved abunch of the outlines to use as sandblast masks

    So many thanks to the folks that have helped out a newbie "hobby-ist"

    Now onto another post because I need some help LOL