Can any body help with using the Ginsu Knife in SignLab?

[Frank Droog]

Im sure it can be done with the ginsu tool but i would use the Tiling screen or the Page size box.
You could go to Plotter Setup and change the page width to 580 mm.
Signlab will then automaticly cut the botton 580 mm and the top 398 as seperate jobs
Or you could leave you page width as whatever it is, plot as regular but in the plot screen, find the Tiling icon. You can then manually drag tile lines both verticaly and horizontaly wherever you want.
With both methods you can select any or all tiles to cut by putting a X in the tile.
There are also options for space between tiles, overlap between tiles, cutting the edges of tiles for easir weeding.
I think its Tiling you want to look up and not the ginsu tool.
frank at cadlink

[Lee Harris]

Hi Frank

Thanks for that information. In the meantime I think I have sorted it out. I used the ‘Close Path’ option in the Ginsu Knife Tools and it cut the image in half when I put one point on the left of the image & one on the right of the image.

Was able to put weed lines in the two halfs and then cut. It even overlaped by a small amount.

Have used a lot of vinyl to find this out. It would have been a lot better if there were details in the manual or on line at CadLink.

Once again Frank, thanks for the information.

Regards
Lee

PS I haop you can understand what I’m going on about…….

[Frank Droog]

rather than throw a roll of paper in the cutter and use a pen for testing, i usually change my port loaction is signlab to file and ( assuming its a HPGL based cutter) i cut to a file called c:\test.plt
I then go File/Import/HPGL and import the drawing.
You can then see what and how it would have cut.
No waste

[Lee Harris]

Hi Frank

I didn’t mind wasting this vinyl. A vile pink colour which must be at least 2 years old – was on the shelves when we purchased the business in October – and to this date, still can’t find the customer that wanted this colour.

I will take on board what you have said and I’ll give it a go.

Regards
Lee

[Alan Drury]

Easysign has something similar to the ginsu knife called pagination and you can set an overlap – ie basically tiling but the bits remain separate so next time you go to the job you could cut just 1 half exactly as before. Frank is it possible in Signlab? (any version) although tiling works well this feature would be handy, perhaps something for the next revision of V7.
Alan