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Problems Tiling in Signlab 8, advice please?
Hiya
Having a wee problem with tiling in Signlab 8. I want to put 2 inch borders round a 8 by 4 foot sign (4 by 4). When in the the plot menu i click in the tiling box then click on my object in to 4 tiles. But can not get them to nest together to save vinyl.
Hope that makes sense 😕
martin
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just cut a 610 wide 2" strips at what ever length you can manage to join the border together 😀
nik
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Hi Nik
I made the border with rounded corners. I could cut the border up and then put it threw my plotter but thought i mite try tiling as it would be handy for future jobs.
Martin
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Martin, not sure why you would want to nest and tile, as the reason to tile is that the shape will not fit the media in the first place.
If I understand, you want to interlock the two halves of the border, so it pretty simples to chop it up and arrange before sending to plotter, thats how I would do it anyway.Duplicate the border, offset the copy by the ammout of overlap you need then use the ginsue knife to slice each of them into two
Dont forget, if you need to tile future jobs you need to set up the overlap in the tiling options, BEFORE sending the job to the cut preview
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Hi Peter
That’s what i think am going to have to do. As the top and bottom corners are rounded i thought i mite cut them off and put the straights in between them
Thank you anyway
Martin
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I would not separate the corners, leave them connected to the horizontals or verticals that way it will be easier to line up when you apply
Peter
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yeah that’s what Ive done.
Thanks again
Martin
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