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After 15hrs
Ok i think i know a bit about artcut …ha
Just bought a bigger cutter and it came with artcut again (i know not the best program)
After spending over 15hrs with it looking at the same thing deleting then installing it over and over just to find out that i hadn’t ticked a box 😕 😳 i think i know a bit about artcut software now
I use coreldraw then export it to artcut, i have my main computer with coreldraw on it and i have a small laptop with artcut and my plotter on it
i hope to get some pictures up here soon..
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Hi Aaron,
Well done with the Artcut – mines exactly the same set up – exporting from Coreldraw and importing into Artcut. It works :lol1:Be sure to keep your discs handy as sometimes it asks you to verify your copy of Artcut by running one of the discs.
Cheers John
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Any reason why you don’t cut direct from Corel???? Would cut out a processing step
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Hi Graeme,
When i first got the plotter and software it was a problem to cut from Coreldraw – drivers were wrong and so on. Now you can get the drivers but I haven’t bothered as i’m an old fart and stuck in my ways :lol1:Cheers John
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Ahhhhh got it………old dog, new tricks etc :lol1: :lol1:
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Got to be honest, i had problems with installation and when I did get it up and running I didn’t want to change anything.
If it ain’t broke – why fix it :lol1:
It works fine exporting/importing but I do know what you mean – it would be easier straight from corel. 😳
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i think its more fiddly from corel draw because you have to set every thing to outline and then set separates colours and then go into the print option and then click the colours that you want to print ….Artcut is a cheap and cheerful way.
Simple just like me :lol1: 😛 😮 😕 😳 😥
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signlab is so cheap now, and you can get a crossgrade from corel,
for £350 quid (you get to keep corel)so thats the way to go I would say,
Peter
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Peter, I second that.
(Topic title could be a bit more informative).
I am always surprised to see so many people using Coreldraw and Illustrator for sign work. It always seems like a second best "make do" when specific sign programs like Signlab are available.
Perhaps because Corel etc have been around longer and people stick with what they have and know.
Yes, a bit dearer being specialist software but with so many posts about problems cutting from straight graphic design programs I have to wonder why.
My number 1 tool for sign making is the software, second is the cutter, so one thing I don’t cut is corners on these two bits of kit. -
i’ve always used corel, about 4yrs now. i simply click the plug-in button for winplot and send off what i need to to the cutter, i really don’t see how it could be any quicker, i mean, from….
manually select item > click winplot plug-in> winplot opens >new roll > send to cutter > ok > cutting. so that’s 7 clicks, about 20 seconds, and 1 2 digit number to write in a box,
i don’t think there’s anything which can’t be done in corel, yet can be in signlab, is there?
i’m not saying it’ better than signlab, but surely both do their thang?
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Corel is a great companion for SL (a gift at £350.00) and just a thought, if you’d spent your 15 hours working and earning you would have earned the extra money for a plotter that didn’t need Artcut. 😀
Alan D -
I’m in the ‘Corel’ camp, again designing in Corel and exporting to signlab to cut.
Corel is a pain in the arse to cut direct from so exporting is way easier, I only use Signlab for that, and some ‘tweaking of design, and sometimes use it’s import filters if I’m in trouble getting something into Corel.
The £350 version is only a vinyl vector program, it does in no way have the full facilities that a £100 version of Corel has.; you would need signlab print & cut for that, several thousand pounds…….
Corel also is a desk top publishing program so flyers, letters, business cards and a host of other stuff can be designed in Corel.
Corel supports many plug-ins that Signlab does not….
Ian :lol1:
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Well if you are a Corel Draw fan I would get SignTools 3. It links Corel Draw perfectly with your plotter, any plotter! Also has a few sign ‘tools’ as well 😀
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Im firmly fixed on Corel Draw and just about to upgrade to X4. Been using Corel since V4…. 😮 so kind of know my way round to do the majority of tasks quite comfortably. Have a few plugins for sign specific tasks and find it dead easy to use.
I also use EngraveLab (a subtle derivative of SignLab) for engraving, and inport ‘ai’ files for cutting. I have tried to draw in it and vectorise, but find the node edit painful to use (then again it is V4 ish). I do need to use it for specific single line engraving fonts and for text based set up is a doddle to use…………
But for now, COREL will remain at the heart of my design and cut software mainly due to cost and productive output……….Its what I know!!!
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I looked into signtools 3 David but since I have already signlab to export to this is easier than signtools if I read the bumph right….
From what I understand about using signtools, sure press a button in Corel and it will move to the cut program but downside is that you first have to first set up a cutting page in Corel THEN place your design in right place, that’s the biggest nuiciance, in signlab just select it anywhereand it will place it at beginning of the vinyl in right place to cut.
Ian :lol1:
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Signlab is a very good programme and the cutting part is very flexible and easy to use.
I am pretty familiar with Corel and what it can do I am also pretty familiar with what it can’t do and that is where I use Signlab. If the version of SL available at £350 contains the advanced welding as well as shadowing and all the other features I would still say it is worth while buy to run alongside Corel Draw.
Alan D
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