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Roland PNC 1000 CAMM1 running on Autocad
by the way for anyone who wants to try, the CAM1 PNC 1000 will work with Autocad (2000 under XP, at least.)
(I’m still begging for the manual to see what the other setting do, if anybody will send me a link to it.)
install a driver from:
http://dg4.roland.co.jp/en/cutting.html#camm1Set ‘FREE Y’ on the cutter, (I am using the paralell port and an old cable off a dead printer.)
To plot/cut in cad:
select the default page size, 470×1600
set print to Portrait
scale at 1:1.Make up and save a workspace model rectangle at 500w x 1600h heading up your moniter. The bottom of your moniter is the front of the cutter as you face it to turn it on.
offset inside by 10 and keep all your work in that box.
Work from the bottom up, and select what you want to print.For text, use mtext on any truetype font. At the command line type ‘txtexp’ then select the text and you get a vector outline that needs a bit of cleaning. ‘txtfill’ is said to work (I forget who told me this) and the lisp curvetext command gives curved text.
I’ll be using this to cut light sandblast patterns for glass etching and tracings for freehand plasma cutting on steel.
(I guess you could even make a sign, now that I think about it.)
take care,
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Thanks for the user and tech manual Ian!
On the cad scene, I should have mentioned set the Camm1 to ‘Mode 2.’
Beside your cad ‘workspace model’ set notes to yourself on a layer that you can turn off so it doesn’t slow you down. On this layer, start an mtext block and then go through the font list writing down the name of any font you find interesting using each target font. Then txtexp the mtext block and you have an example font list to choose from.
If you do repeats of shapes, like designs, cutting frames or page sizes, stick that off to the side or put that on a separate layer and copy in place as required.
best luck and thanks everybody!
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No problems, Jim!
(actually, I sometimes forget to mention the Mode-2 setting- it’s vital!) -
Yes, I saw another guy with ‘mode 2’ problems at another site and he was told everything but what he needed to know. (Much better site here!)
Even cleaned,some of the cad fonts are a bit of a disappointment, but they work in a pinch. Here’s my first attempt in vinyl. I don’t do signs as a rule, but I do have a hand carved cedar one to my own credit and have done several installs of others work.
jim
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fundyheather/4132899557/
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Hi Guys,
Desperate to get hold of a set of manuals for the PNC-1000 Camm-1
do I understand you might have a link or copy that I can snuffle?
any idea what the ‘ERR:3 bad parameter’ error message could be?
need to get my machine back on line asap…
jobs backing up…
please help
thanks Patric
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