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can anyone help cannot get plotter to work with winplot
I just cannot get started on this. 🙁 .
Designs sent to the plotter will not cut. Material is constantly stated as too small for the design, and winplot hangs – Workstation APC is not responding, and I am constantly sending error reports
Is their a clear tutorial to the use of Winplot and the Summacut D60 and tutorials available? This is now driving me nuts, and beyond a joke. It has been happening over the past 9 months, and, TBH, this has lead our business to be an infrequent user and avoiding vinyl cut because of the problems, concentrating on other aspects.
Thanks
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hello chis
have you spoken to who you purchased the machine of, if it was a dealer they should help, the summas and the soft ware work really well it could be your pc have you tried loading it in another pc,
or feel free to give me a call and i will try to help
regards
alan flynn -
I use Winplot with Corel X3 and it works very well I even prefer it contour cutting with OPUS on the Summa, I would either take up Alan’s offer or try Summa I think there is support from their website.
Alan D -
i use mine with corel 12, no problems there either.
are you exporting from corel to winplot with the ‘corel plug-in’ ? i simply select what i want to export, click the winplot button, and away it goes, winplot opens.
i always click on output > new roll. then tell it that it’s only 20" long (otherwise it chucks out a few metres before cutting, always has done!), it should show the width of the roll in there too.
close that, click output>send to cutter, in the menu box, make sure you’ve clicked ‘auto rotate’, if the design is 3ft long, and you material 2ft wide, it needs to be told to rotate it.
prob best call Mr Flynn though!
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Thanks for your replies. I have contacted the people we bought from, when issues first arose. I then made enquiries, and discovered that the batch of D60’s of which mine was one, was sold by the manufacturer with the wrong driver software, and so deleted, and upgraded directly from their Belgian website.
I have also upgraded and double checked plug ins.
The most annoying thing is that a design drawn with CorelDraw, saved, and then sent to cutter, will not reliably display on the WinPlot Window. It seems an hit and miss affair, TBH.
We have drawn and cut some designs successfully, others have failed. Curiously, at the moment, the size of material is set at around 0.5 cm wide, and will not be edited – maybe I have missed something there.
Yesterday in another attempt to get things moving on, and sending yet another design to the cutter, 16 designs came back, in a pop-up window warning.
Soemthing is wrong somewhere – and I’ll try your helpful suggestions, and double check the re-checks that I have made – in between other jobs and customers we have to attend to!
Many thanks for your help.
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this might sound obvious, but you won’t always see all the lines it needs to cut. but if you drag over them, they’ll be obvious. if you use a design, be it text, etc, and it is yellow, you’ll barely see it in winplot, if it’s blue or black, no problems, before you use the plug-in export to winplot, try changing the colour to see if it shows up. could be as simple as that really.
mine has, on a few occasions in three years, played up too, i had to re-install softwares etc, i have no idea why it did it.
re your width showing as only .5cm, i’m not sure, i’m going t cut some vinyl in a while, so i’ll have a look see if there’s owt i can find that’ll help.
cheers.
Hugh -
Thanks for everyone’s helpful points and support. It is truly appreciated. Kudos to uksignboards.com!
I spent some of Friday, and all day today, going through the hard/software from scratch, and finally, tonight I have got a result.
I am still not sure why cuts/drawings using Summa WinPlot are not originating from screen as a sort of WYSIWYG, but perhaps, at this stage, it has been a long day! We have a functioning D60 and software programs, at last.
I did not use the software that came with the kit, but ensured that I had the latest drivers – I have discovered and confirmed that there have been issues with this, and non-compatibility between some, which I have resolved. The suppliers, and indeed their suppliers and their affiliates were most surprised and concerned about the problems I had flagged, and, TBH, I cannot fault them. They have been, and are, most helpful.
As we run a family business, here, Mrs I, is suitably pleased, and has had the time this evening to play about with heat transferred vinyl cuts on garments, so that we can see the results of using on different materials, for ourselves.
Many thanks to everyone again. You will be hearing a lot more from me here in the future, no doubt. :thumbup2:
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Also have summa d60 and winplot on Vista system.
Often we have to restart winplot, it states that material is to small etc…
Dunno if it is incompatiblity with vista.Recon that we will buy flexi…
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the only time mine tells me the material is too small is if i’ve not checked auto rotate, or have a hair line i haven’t spotted which goes over the allowed width.
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well, my problem is that i cut a graphic lets say 50cm wide 10cm high.
I weed it, its ok, im gonna do one more, BUT now winplot tells me that the material is to small AND nothing has changes. Only restart will force it to get the correct width.Its no big thing, it just 30 secs. to restart, but anyway…..
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When you cut a few designs in winplot from Coral you will notice when you hit the New Roll button winplot tells you the width of the vinyl.
Example: 738 x 12000. Sometimes this will read 738 x -37500. Don’t know why but it does. Turn the cutter off and close winplot then reboot the cutter and winplot.
Now in Coral you have your page size. I have found sometimes the image you are cutting need to be in the page area to be recognised so your always better off to increase the page size to accommodate the design. If you are cutting a white image you won’t see this in winplot.
I always add a black outline to it so I can see the design in winplot.
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