Nerdboy 0 Posted March 31, 2010 Huh? Huh? I think we need more help with this topic from someone more familiar with Signblazer elements. Plz school me Tiling. MH871 Refine 34"/PC Vista/USB/SignblazerElements My job is 24" x 13'. When I loaded my vectors as one tile, the cutter tried to dole out 13', and crashed into the opposite side of the cutter. In fact, over 4 ft the same thing happens So I know I can just cut this job in smaller segments and just spend my time lining them up either on application or before. I'd rather not split it up because it'll mean a more difficult install, but I can definitely work around it. My question is about Tiling. There really are no "manual" options to set the tiling on this program. You control the tiling by your workspace, and then if you select a graphic larger than your workspace you can get more than one tile and adjust it that way. However, every time I've tried this, the cutter cuts the first tile, (I have it pause after cutting the first tile) pauses, and then returns to the home position of tile 1 (the one it just cut) and starts to cut tile 2 overtop. Am I supposed to trim it in between? There's no cut line between the tiles- so i don't think it's set up for overlapping. Am I supposed to, during the pause, reset the origin? Thanks in advance for your help!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMopar64 47 Posted April 1, 2010 I guess maybe I don't understand.... But why don't you turn your art work and run your job the other way so your cutter will cut the 24" wide and 13' long MM64 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfought 120 Posted April 1, 2010 zoom out when looking at your image and select everything and see if you have a stray node somewhere i have had this happen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nerdboy 0 Posted April 1, 2010 MrMopar- the piece already is rotated with the x axis being 12ft and the y axis being 2ft. It's just not cutting anything more than a 60" piece. when I try to go further, the cut head slams into the other side and the motor keeps trying to extend the head past the non-origen extremity of the cutter. Not so good for de machine. I'll look for a stray node, but I'm pretty sure that's not it. I design in Illustrator, and then copy/paste into SBE. In Illustrator, I'm always looking at the size of what I've selected so I can size it properly in SBE. So if there was a stray node, it would throw the whole size off. I'm only selecting the vector I want, as well, not ctrl A and then pasting. So I forged through this project anyway- I had to cut the 11.5ft text in 3 sections and assemble them on the truck itself. 5.5 hrs of cutting/weeding/Taping then 8 hours of application. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMopar64 47 Posted April 1, 2010 Well glad to hear you got it done... And yep I didn't understand MM64 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ff958 0 Posted April 12, 2010 Glad you got your job done. If you don't already have one go get a usb to serial port adapter from radio shack. That solved alot of my cutting problems with these machines. Sign Blazer will automatically tile the job for you. You just have to lie to the program. When you are in the cut screen click on the setup button and change the size of the vinyl. So like you had a 13' job that was only cutting 5' then change vinyl length to 55" then you will see the tiles numbered on the cut screen. BTW your workspace size has no effect on the vinyl size in the cut screen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
