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[David Keeble]

so the base color to go first then the next colour overlaps by like 2mm??
hope this is right, I am using Easysign, suppose i better read the book

[Kevin.Beck]

when I`m creating a shadow on text I do the following.

create text. create shadow. duplicate the text, so you have text on its own and text with a shadow.

make the text with shadow 1 colour and weld.

fit this to the subsrate first then drop the single text on top of it.

[jon vital]

Doesn’t your software do that for you?

[Nigel Fraser]

Hi,

You might be interested to read a similar thread at http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=4902

I personally like to take my original text and outline it with a thin couple of mil outline, then duplicate the text and move bottom right or where ever the shadow is required, then “weld” the outline and the shadow together. Then fit one layer of vinyl over the other, this means you get no loose pointy little bits of shadow to catch on things and makes the finished job look much nicer IMHO anyway.

Nigel

[David Keeble]

Read that post helpful,enough! i think i’ll go for a), and someones maybe c) depending on how i feel, i have seen it both these ways, but then again that could of been screen printing like the telewest vans 😉

got my first machine. blades offset is wrong, manual is hard to understand at first when I not know the lingo.. i’ll get there soon, or do you guys call in an engineer at this point?

[Lee Attewell]

Check that you don’t have the offset set on your machine and your software. Run with one or ‘tother only.

I havent said Hi yet…Hi.

Lee

[David Keeble]

hi Lee, thanks for the intro..

Being a newbie an all that, all what you just said made no sense what so ever.. but I did set my offset and blade depth
This mutoh makes it a bit easy when you read the instructions 😳
I am getting some perfect cuts now.

Now my next task is to learnh easysign (the supplied package), I am finding it annoying at the moment as it hasnt a license to import anything other than eps, ai or .es (easysign) so when I am creating in illustrator and output to eps or ai, when i import the file in easysign, it imports it, then tells me the file is empty (:)

I havent the dollar for signlab yet, and the demo wont let me plot 🙁

[Lee Attewell]

Sorry mate,
What I meant was that you quite often have the option in the cutting software to allow for blade offset. Of course your machine will also have a setting for this too. I just wanted you to make sure only the machine OR the software is set for you offset because if both are set…You’ll be using double the offset required.

Good luck,

I was in Basildon at Christmas seeing a bloke my dad knows…Owns a snooker hall and he’s an ex boxer…Man what a hard looking man he is…Totally scary.

Lee

[Lorraine Buchan]

What version of illustrator are you using??

You will find that many sign design/cutting software is behind the time with regard to receiving files – this is due to the fact the illustrator software you are using is newer than the sign software – try saving your illustrator files down maybe to version 6 then give it a go importing

[David Keeble]

After a long night converting things, recreating things, every bloody things.. to try get this to work, i stumbled accross ‘save as version’.. so i tried version 8, and woohoo!

Doenst help that I have version 11 CS

thanks thou 🙂

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[David Keeble]

hey lee

Most here are ex boxers and own a pub or snooker hall. lol
hope you got out of basildon in one piece with ya car intact 😉

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[Lorraine Buchan]

All you can do is make sure you save everything as version 8 before importing to easy sign.

11cs is pretty new and only the very latest software will import those ai/eps files.